In the teaching process, our PE teachers generally find that students' strength and quality are poor, especially the strength of upper limbs is insufficient. The methods of exercising upper limb strength include push-ups, lifting dumbbells, barbell snatch, pull-ups, swinging on parallel bars, throwing solid balls and so on. Combined with the actual situation of our school, the majority of teachers choose simple push-ups as a method to strengthen students' upper limb strength. The reason for choosing "push-ups" is that this sport does not need venues, professional preparation and safety inspection. It is a civilian movement that can be carried out at home and school at any time.
Push-ups are often used in physical education, training and personal exercise. This kind of exercise has certain universality and effectiveness. Its main function is to develop human upper limb strength and abdominal muscle strength, which can improve the quality of human static and dynamic strength. It can improve the physiological function of human body, play an important role in developing balance and supporting ability, and also improve the central nervous system, which is beneficial to the firmness of bones, the flexibility of joints, the firmness of ligaments and the firmness and elasticity of muscles. At the same time, it can accelerate blood circulation, increase vital capacity, promote growth and development, and improve exercise ability.
In order to practice the fitness concept of "exercise for one hour every day and live a healthy life for a lifetime", our school takes push-ups as a fixed project of Sunshine Sports Alliance. I am currently a PE teacher in Class 3 and Class 4, Grade 1. Through a semester, push-ups and group exercises were combined to teach students in two classes. Use 5 to 10 minutes in each class to do push-ups: 25 boys in each group do two groups; 20 girls in each group, make two groups. Half a class conducts group demonstration and evaluation activities once a month: the students in the class are grouped according to "gender and ability", and the students in the class form a "study group", taking the form of "teaching with troops", taking push-ups suitable for students with different difficulties and gradually advancing.
In the teaching process of one semester, students' upper limb strength has been generally improved by adopting individualized and phased requirements, from the initial "supporting action" suitable for junior middle school age to "leaning push-ups", "kneeling push-ups", "one knee push-ups" and "standard push-ups". For example, for fat students, we can first reduce the difficulty of movements, use parallel bars to bend arms instead of standard push-ups, encourage students in the practice process, help students build up their self-confidence, and gradually increase the difficulty so that they can complete the prescribed movements and quantities; For girls with poor upper limb strength, we should adopt the way of "teaching soldiers with soldiers", overcome the shyness of girls with good use, establish a correct awareness of exercise, and finally achieve common progress; For boys with good upper limb strength, you can appropriately increase the difficulty of practice, such as doing high-five push-ups and ten-finger push-ups. At the same time, it also increases the fun of practice and cultivates students' sense of self-challenge.
After a semester of teaching, the completion rate of push-ups for boys increased from 58% at the beginning of the semester to 89% at the end of the semester, and for girls from 43% at the beginning of the semester to 78% at the end of the semester. Push-up exercises have laid a solid foundation for the development of students' sports such as bars, mats and throwing solid balls, and have played a positive role in promoting the improvement of students' physique. In addition, in practice, teachers choose different rhythms of music and slogans, which improves students' enthusiasm for participation, enhances students' interest in learning and achieves good results. At the same time, the group display appraisal also cultivates students' team consciousness, cooperation spirit and collective sense of honor, and forms a good learning and exercise atmosphere.
Although one semester's push-up exercise has obviously improved students' upper limb strength, there is no relevant "standard" for the evaluation of middle school students' push-ups at present. How far and how many times students can achieve "excellent, good and average" and how to formulate and formulate "standards" in the future are difficult problems that plague us. Secondly, students' awareness of self-exercise is still relatively weak, especially after class and in winter and summer vacations, and teachers can't grasp the students' exercise situation. Therefore, how to cultivate students' self-cultivation awareness and form a long-term model of home-school interaction requires the joint efforts of teachers, students and parents to explore better ways and methods, so that push-ups can become a systematic, long-term and effective upper limb exercise method.
How to effectively promote the extensive development of students' sunshine sports, attract young students to the playground, nature and sunshine, actively participate in physical exercise, and set off a wave of mass physical exercise? Our physical education teachers should be good at summing up and reflecting, patiently teaching students, mobilizing their enthusiasm, exerting their imagination, developing their creativity, and welcoming and creating their future.