Physical Training | Edexcel GCSE Physical Education (1PE0)

Physical Training

170 questions
10 subtopics
Component 1
Component 1

Physical Training is examined in Component 1, Fitness and Body Systems.

It covers health, fitness, exercise and performance, components of fitness, the purpose and value of fitness testing, fitness tests and normative data, principles of training, training methods and fitness classes, long-term effects of training, PARQ, sports injuries and RICE, performance-enhancing drugs and warm up and cool down.

Sample questions from Physical Training

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

Health, fitness, exercise and performance

How does regular exercise affect health and fitness?

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Regular exercise improves fitness by developing the components of fitness. Exercise also improves health by lowering the risk of illnesses such as heart disease.
Components of fitness

Define agility.

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Agility is the ability to change direction quickly while staying in control. A netball player uses agility to dodge a defender.
The purpose and value of fitness testing

Why must a fitness test protocol be followed exactly every time?

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Following the same protocol makes results fair to compare. A change in method could alter the score even though fitness has not changed.
Fitness tests and normative data

Describe the Illinois agility run test.

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The performer starts lying face down and sprints round a cone course 10 m long and 5 m wide. The course includes weaving through four cones down the middle. The time taken measures agility.
Principles of training

In FITT, what is the difference between frequency and intensity?

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Frequency is how often a person trains, such as three times a week. Intensity is how hard the person works, such as a percentage of maximum heart rate.
Training methods and fitness classes

What is circuit training?

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Circuit training is a series of exercises performed at stations, with rest between them. Each station can target a different component of fitness.
Long-term effects of training

What could happen if a performer trained hard every day with no recovery time?

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The body would not have time to adapt and would become fatigued. Performance would fall and the risk of overuse injury would rise.
PARQ, sports injuries and RICE

Give examples of protective equipment that reduces injury in sport.

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Shin pads protect footballers' shins, and gum shields protect the teeth of hockey and rugby players. Cricket batters wear helmets, pads and gloves.

The 10 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
Health, fitness, exercise and performance	What health, fitness, exercise and performance mean, how they are linked, and why a person can be fit but unhealthy or healthy but unfit.	14
Components of fitness	Cardiovascular fitness, strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition, agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time and speed, and which matter most in different sports.	17
The purpose and value of fitness testing	Why performers test their fitness, test protocols, reliability and validity, choosing the right test for a sport, and the limitations of fitness testing.	16
Fitness tests and normative data	The protocols of the Cooper, Harvard Step, Illinois agility, grip dynamometer, sit-up, press-up, sprint, vertical jump and sit and reach tests, and rating results against normative data.	18
Principles of training	Individual needs, specificity, progressive overload, FITT, overtraining and reversibility, and the aerobic and anaerobic training zones with worked calculations.	18
Training methods and fitness classes	Continuous, Fartlek, circuit, interval, plyometric and weight training with their advantages and disadvantages, and fitness classes such as body pump, aerobics, Pilates, yoga and spinning.	19
Long-term effects of training	Increased bone density, stronger ligaments and tendons, muscle hypertrophy, a lower resting heart rate, higher stroke volume, capillarisation and faster recovery, and why rest matters.	17
PARQ, sports injuries and RICE	The PARQ, preventing injury through training, rules, protective equipment and checks, concussion, fractures, dislocations, sprains, strains and other injuries, and RICE.	18
Performance-enhancing drugs	Anabolic steroids, beta blockers, diuretics, narcotic analgesics, EPO, growth hormone, stimulants and blood doping, with their effects on performance and their risks.	17
Warm up and cool down	The purpose and three phases of a warm-up, static and dynamic stretching, warm-ups for particular sports, and what a cool down includes and why.	16

Physical Training is 170 of the 678 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £7

How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

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