Life-smart

Lesson 3 – 25 minutes

Learning outcomes

• Recognise that staying fit and healthy is important as a lifesaver.
• Identify ways to stay fit and healthy during junior activities.
  

Preparation

• Worksheet: Food Pyramid.
• Whiteboard and markers (optional).
  

IMPORTANT

If you are not confident discussing the personal safety topics in this lesson, identify and bring in somebody who can help, i.e. teacher, club captain, club president, police officer etc.

Discuss

Ways you can stay fit and healthy as a lifesaver – write these up on a whiteboard or piece of butchers paper.

• Pick out single ideas from the list of answers and focus on them individually.

Ensure you focus on the following:

Nutrition

• Discuss the food pyramid (Good foods and bad foods, energy foods etc).
• What kind of meal should you have for breakfast before coming to juniors to ensure you can participate to the full extent? (large meals, carbohydrates).
• What can you do during a session to remain energized? (stay hydrated, eat small energy snacks, etc).

Warm up/down and stretching

• Discuss the value of warming up, warming down and stretching, gets blood flowing and raises body temperature.
• Desirable to have muscles, ligaments and joints experience the functional range of motion of the activities.
• Helps get you mentally ready for exercise.
• Demonstrate a number of stretches participants can do before exercise and discuss what muscles the stretches are working.

Regular exercise

• Discuss the value of keeping fit outside of juniors (keeps you healthy in your personal lives, makes you feel better etc).
• Discuss the different ways in which you can exercise to keep fit and healthy (sports, running, swimming, games, being outside more, less video games etc)

Activity 1

• Finish this lesson by playing a non-surf life saving game/activity for 10min, i.e. beach soccer