COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Lesson Plan Template

School: Antonine College, Pascoe Vale
Topic:
UNIT: Fitness Components and Training
Methods
Lesson: Training Principles

Class: Year 9 Health (Boys)

Aims
Students will have an understanding of
what constitutes a good training
program by knowing the principles of
training and the methods of training.

Lesson Number: 7
VELS
Health and Physical Education
AusVELS:
Identification of various training
methods used to improve fitness
(Progression Point 8.5)
Selection of appropriate training
methods for improving fitness for
specific activities (Progression Point 9)

Location / Setting

Organisation / Student Groups

Health Classroom

24 Male Students
Separate into groups of six to allow for
discussions

Classroom management strategy

Assign students to groups separating
potentially troublesome pairings

Key Vocabulary

Materials, Resources and Equipment

References/Sources

Specificity
Overload
Duration
Frequency
Intensity

Slides
YouTube Videos
4x Large Sheets of Paper and Markers

www.youtube.com

INTRODUCTION
Connecting, Engaging and Modelling Inquiry
Fitness Recap. (5 minutes)
With closed workbooks,
ask students to in their
own words describe the
Fitness Components
from last week. This will
also allow for students
to catch up who missed
out on the content.
Lesson Introduction (1
minute)
Outline what will be
doing in the class
Explain learning aims
Training Principles & Methods
Introduction (5 minutes)
Students must
understand that
training is not one-sizefits-all. Training should
suit the desired
outcome of training. To
know how to tailor a
training program,
principles and methods
need to be taken into
account.
Give students a few
minutes, to come up
with a brief single
training session for

MAIN BODY
Guiding Inquiry and Practise

CONCLUSION
Sharing, Explaining and Reviewing Inquiry

Training Principles
Applying Training Principles (10
Class opens their work books and
minutes)
takes notes of each specific
Assign each table groups a sport
principle.
and give them 10 minutes to
Go through each of the Training
apply their knowledge of training
Principles using the slides and
principles to create a single
YouTube videos.
training session
Read definition of each, play
Assign Shotput, 100m Sprint,
YouTube video to enhance
Australian Rules Football &
description
Marathon
Between each principle choose
Each group gets a large sheet of
students to present to the class
paper and markers to collaborate
the training session they created,
then as a class discuss how it
Presentation (5 minutes)
can be enhanced in respect to
Allow each table group to present
that principle
their training session addressing
Use key points below to guide
each principle and how it relates
discussion
to their specific sport
(Slides 21-25)
If any time permits briefly introduce
Specificity: (8 minutes)
next weeks topic.
- Fitness Components
- Muscle Groups
- Energy System

Intensity: (5 Minutes)
- Calculate students max HR
- Energy System specific
Duration: (3 minutes)
- Skill/Sport specific
- Energy System

their desired sport.

(Slide 20)

Frequency (3 minutes)
- Recovery Time
- Energy System
Progressive Overload (5 minutes)
- F.I.T.T Principle
- Show graph