Course topics.

Try this with Physical Education Studies

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Skeletal muscle structure and the sliding filament theory
• Force–velocity and force–length relationships
• Motor neuron structure and the pathway from brain to motor unit
• 'All or none' law, motor units, recruitment and impulse frequency
• Type I, IIa and IIb fibres and performance
• Macronutrients and glycaemic index pre-, during and post-competition
• Hydration strategies pre-, during and post-competition
• Thermoregulation and physiological changes in heat, humidity, cold and altitude
• Acclimatisation, adaptations and strategies for environmental conditions
• Risks and benefits of protein powders, steroids, caffeine, creatine, EPO and blood doping
• Micro, meso and macro cycles and the pre-, in- and off-season phases
• Peaking, tapering, recovery strategies, maintenance and overtraining
• Categories and effects of transfer of learning
• The Knudson and Morrison model of qualitative analysis
• Shaping, chaining, static-dynamic and leadership styles
• Video analysis, checklists, feedback sources and questionnaires
• Impulse–momentum, coefficient of restitution and angular momentum
• Third-class levers, balance, summation of forces and optimal projection
• Flow, drag types, Bernoulli's principle and the Magnus effect
• Psychological strategies, group cohesion and social loafing