Movement Competency Training (PathFit)
1. Physical Fitness - refers to the ability of your body systems to work together efficiently to allow you to
be healthy and perform activities of daily living.
2. Movement Education – A strand of teaching or education which aims to educate individuals to
develop their motor skills though physical movement.
3. 1800’s – Creators of a New Idea: Movement Education in the __________ to early 1900’s.
4. Health Related Fitness Test - a series of exercises that help evaluate your overall health and physical
status.
5. Muscular Endurance – Your muscle’s ability to exert force repeatedly or for an extended period of
time.
6. Francois Delsarte – A Frenchman who developed what he termed applied aesthetics & focused his
word in the arts.
- Contributed critical ideas of connections among the Mind, body and Spirit.
- He begun to study how human moved, behaved and respond to various emotional and real-life
situations.
- Also saw movements as a union of time, space and motion.
- Believe that expressive movement should relate to the emotion that inspired that movement.
- Introduced the idea of Parallelism in movement – the simultaneous motion of two body parts in
the same direction and in succession.
9 Laws of Motion:
1. Altitude – height
2. Force – Strength or energy
3. Move – process of being moving
4. Sequence – particular order
5. Direction – path that something takes
6. Form – combine to create something
7. Velocity – speed of something in a given direction
8. Reaction - response
9. Extension – a movement that increases the angle between 2 body parts
7. Liselott Diem
- She and her husband founded an internationally known college in Germany, Deutsche
Sporthochschule Koln, to train teachers and physical education.
- The college taught a “natural approach to teaching children to move effectively in all kinds of
situation.”
- The teacher’s role was to provide an env’nt that would encourage children to explore movement
freely in their own way.
- Teachers were encouraged to challenge children by asking questions such as "Who can do this?"
and "How can this be done differently?"
8. Rudolf Von Laban
- Considered by most as the true pioneer of movement education.
Critical contribution:
- Theory of Movement - Focusing specifically on the concept of effort.
- He believed that the body was an instrument of expression.
Made a distinction between:
Expressive Movement – communicates ideas in dance or other forms of artistic expression.
Functional Movement – movement that serve as a purpose in everyday life
*Such as sport and games.
Identified 4 factors of movement:
Weight is the effort exerted to apply the right amount of pressure.
Space is the effort exerted to aim and orient movement.
Time is the effort exerted to pace the movement adroitly.
Flow is the effort exerted to control movement.
* Became the bedrock of movement education.
9. Francois Delsarte
10. Liselott Diem
11. Rudolf von Laban
12. Early 2000 – In th late 1990s and early _______, the development of national content standards for
physical educ. Brought back the essence of movement educ.
13. …….
14. Flexibility – your muscles and joint’s ability to move and through their full range of motion.
15. Power – the ability to combine both speed and force in movements and actions.
16. Speed – the ability to perform actions pr cover distance quickly.
17. Coordination – The ability to use your senses in combination w/ your actions when in movements.
18. Agility – the ability to quickly change direction w/o losing speed or power.
19. Balance – The ability to stabilize the body both in movement and when maintaining stillness.
20. Cardiovascular Endurance - how well your heart and lungs can supply the oxygen you need while you
exercise at medium to high intensity.
21. Muscular strength - the amount of force you can put out or the amount of weight you can lift.
22. W (kg) / h (m) -BMI formula
23. Underweight - < 18.5
24. Normal – 18.5 – 22.9
25. Risk to OW – 23 – 24.9
26. OW – 25 – 29.9
27. Obese – 30
28. Specificity - This principle states that training should be specific to the goals you want to achieve.
29. Individuality - Individuals have unique fitness, goals, and responses to exercise.
30. Overload – Refers to gradually increasing the intensity, duration, or frequency of your workouts to
continually challenge your body.
31. Progression – Involves systematically advancing your workouts as your body adapts to the current
workload.
32. Rest and Recovery – Involves systematically advancing your workouts as your body adapts to the
current workload.
33. Variety – Involves systematically advancing your workouts as your body adapts to the current
workload.
34. Maintenance – Involves systematically advancing your workouts as your body adapts to the current
workload.
35. Frequency – This refers to how often you engage in physical activity.
36. Intensity – intensity relates to the level of effort exerted during exercise.
37. Type – type refers to the specific mode of exercise you choose, such as running, cycling, weightlifting,
or yoga.
38. Frequency –
39. Intensity
40. Time - Time indicate the duration of each exercise session.
41. Type
42. Francois Delsarte
43. Motion - a movement that results from a force. Has 9 law.
44. Francois Delsarte - Introduced the idea of Parallelism in movement
45. Parallelism in Movement - the simultaneous motion of two body parts in the same direction and in
succession.
46. Liselott Diem
FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Type, Time)
PHYSCIAL FITNESS TEST ASSESMENT - A physical fitness test assessment is a systematic
evaluation of an individual's physical abilities, including strength, endurance, flexibility, agility,
and aerobic capacity.