WARM-UP AND COORDINATION

PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS: WARM-UP AND COORDINATION (Inés)
First of all we have to do a warm-up, to prepare our body for the activity and to avoid injuries. We run for 5 or 10 minutes, and later we stretch. We’re doing the following exercises:
• Rotating the ankles: clockwise and anticlockwise.
• Stretching calves.
• Rotating knees: always together.
• Stretching thigh: the anterior, posterior and the inner thigh.
• Rotating the hips
• Rotating the trunk.
• Stretching the back.
• Rotating shoulders.
• Stretching arms.
• Rotating and stretching the neck.
We’re working today coordination, so you have to know what it’s this. Anybody knows the definition? Ok, it’s the ability to synchronize the muscular action, in the correct order, with adequate speed and intensity, to get effective movements.
Now we try to move the right arm in circles in our stomach and the left up-down over the head. We have to separate the movement of each arm, that it’s different. We change the arm.
Ok, we change the movement, now the right hand has a hammer and the left has a saw, you have to get the correct movement with each hand. And later we change the object to the other hand.
More difficult maybe, now your arm makes circles in one direction, and your leg in the opposite. Try not to confuse the movement, and not to do it in the same direction. Try with your right and with your left side.
We’re trying to aisle the movement of only one part of our face: try to move only your eyebrows, your nose, your ears…
And finally, we have to coordinate the movement of our fingers. This is an exercise for children, to get control and coordination. You have to move your thumbs to each finger, first of all in the same direction in each hand, try to do it quickly. Ok, and now much more difficult, in a different direction in each hand, you start in the opposite side, and finish in the opposite too, very quickly and not changing direction.
Ok, that’s all for today, thank you very much and see you on Wednesday. Bye!!

Inés Parra Martín
PALE B1, Talavera de la Reina
3/Mayo/2010