Standard 4: Develop and implement a personal fitness program to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

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Number: PE.8.L.4
Title: Develop and implement a personal fitness program to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
Type: Standard
Subject: Physical Education
Grade: 8
Strand: Lifetime Fitness

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Independent

PE.8.L.4.In.a
Create and implement a personal fitness program in collaboration with a teacher.
PE.8.L.4.In.b
Select goals and identify strategies for a personal physical-activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.In.c
Use a variety of resources, including available technology, to design and assess their personal physical-activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.In.d
Identify a variety of physical activities in developing a personal fitness program.
PE.8.L.4.In.e
Recognize health-related problems associated with low levels of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.
PE.8.L.4.In.f
Identify the training principles, such as overload and specificity, appropriate for enhancing cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility.

Supported

PE.8.L.4.Su.a
Create a personal fitness program in collaboration with a teacher.
PE.8.L.4.Su.b
Select goals and recognize strategies for a personal physical-activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.Su.c
Use a variety of resources, including available technology, to assess a personal activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.Su.d
Identify a variety of selected physical activities in developing a personal fitness program.
PE.8.L.4.Su.e
Recognize health-related problems associated with low levels of cardiorespiratory endurance, and muscular strength and endurance.
PE.8.L.4.Su.f
Recognize selected training principles, such as overload and specificity, appropriate for enhancing cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility.

Participatory

PE.8.L.4.Pa.a
Actively participate in a personal fitness program in collaboration with a teacher.
PE.8.L.4.Pa.b
Select a goal for a personal physical-activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.Pa.c
Use resources, including available technology, to recognize the effect of a personal activity plan.
PE.8.L.4.Pa.d
Recognize a variety of physical activities in developing a personal fitness program.
PE.8.L.4.Pa.e
Recognize a health-related problem associated with low levels of physical activity.
PE.8.L.4.Pa.f
Associate selected training principles, such as overload and specificity, with enhancing cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance and flexibility.

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