Warming up, cooling down and staying safe
The boring bit at the start is the part that keeps you playing all season.
Part of your national curriculum
- Health and fitness: Understand warming up, cooling down and safe practice when taking part in physical activity
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Understand warming up, cooling down and safe practice when taking part in physical activity
Key learning points
- • What a warm-up does
- • Dynamic before, static after
- • Cooling down
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
- 16 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Visual introductionPicture this
Warming up, cooling down and staying safe
The boring bit at the start is the part that keeps you playing all season.
In a nutshell
Understand warming up, cooling down and safe practice when taking part in physical activity
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · What a warm-up does
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
What a warm-up does
Gentle activity raises heart rate and muscle temperature, so muscles stretch further before tearing and joints release fluid. Five to ten minutes is enough.
Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Dynamic before, static after
Before activity use movement-based stretches such as leg swings. Long held stretches are better afterwards, when muscles are warm and you are returning to rest.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 · Cooling down
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Cooling down
Easy movement for a few minutes clears waste products and lets heart rate fall gradually rather than suddenly, which reduces dizziness and next-day stiffness.
Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
That's sitting 3 of 4 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
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Game · Recall cards
Which is the correct order for a warm-up?
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Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Warming up, cooling down and staying safe
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Which is the correct order for a warm-up?
2. A cool-down mainly helps by:
3. A stretched ligament in the ankle is a:
4. What does the C in PRICE stand for?
Lesson round-up
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Lesson round-up
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Understand warming up, cooling down and safe practice when taking part in physical activity