Edexcel AS Physical Education Student Unit Guide: Unit 1 Participation in Sport and Recreation

Summary:
Student Unit Guides are perfect for revision. Each guide is written by an examiner and explains the unit requirements, summarises the relevant unit content and includes a series of specimen questions and answers.

There are three sections to each guide:

Introduction - includes advice on how to use the guide, an explanation of the skills being tested by the assessment objectives, an outline of the unit or module and, depending on the unit, suggestions for how to revise effectively and prepare for the examination questions.

Content Guidance - provides an examiner's overview of the module's key terms and concepts and identifies opportunities to exhibit the skills required by the unit. It is designed to help students to structure their revision and make them aware of the concepts they need to understand the exam and how they might analyse and evaluate topics.

Question and Answers - sample questions and with graded answers which have been carefully written to reflect the style of the unit. All responses are accompanied by commentaries which highlight their respective strengths and weaknesses, giving students an insight into the mind of the examiner.

• A revision guide specifically written to meet the requirements of the unit
  

• Written by an examiner with commentary on key points and concepts 
  

• Features specimen questions and answers, together with examiner's comments
  

Table of Contents:
Introduction
About this guide
The specification
Study skills and revision strategies
Approaching the unit examination
The unit examination
Content Guidance
About this section
Healthy and active lifestyles
Development of active leisure and recreation
Healthy lifestyle
Effects of exercise: responses and adaptations of the body systems
Fitness, training and fitness assessment
Opportunities and pathways
Development of competitive sport
Performance pathways
Lifelong involvement
Long-term athlete development
Questions and Answers
About this section
Q1 Plyometric training
Q2 Muscle fibre types and sports activities
Q3 Effects of over-training
Q4 Flexibility training
Q5 Fitness components
Q6 Fitness testing
Q7 Muscular–skeletal adaptations to aerobic training
Q8 Fartlek training
Q9 Combat sports in pre-industrial Britain
Q10 Sport in nineteenth-century public schools
Q11 Factors affecting participation
Q12 Amateurism at the Olympics