Putting together your own workout can enhance your motivation to complete exercise each day and give you an added sense of achievement. By designing your own workout you can decide which areas of the body you want to target and the intensity you want to exercise at. Remember, to see the best improvements you will …
Each week one of the teachers from the SJB PE Department will be taking part in a different physical or sporting challenge. Your task is to compete the same task, to the same standards, but better! Can you beat your PE teachers at their own game? How many times can you keep the sock up?
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a fantastic way to get a full body workout, targeting a variety of muscle groups while burning large amounts of energy. HIIT workouts when completed correctly can give the same effects as long distance endurance training over a much shorter period of time. An effective HIIT workout involves raising …
Cycling is a really good low impact form of exercise that gets you out into the fresh air and builds your cardiovascular and muscular endurance. Why not download Strava to track your rides to see how far and fast you are going and you can choose to share with your friends if you want to …
Running is a fantastic way if improving and maintaining cardiovascular endurance, speed and muscular endurance. Running helps to strengthen joints, burns lots of energy and can lift your mood as you run through the woods, fields or along local roads. Running is a great way of improving the efficiency of your cardiorespiratory system and can …
Dance is a FUN way to get your body moving, raise the heart rate and burn some calories. It requires you to use lots of different parts of your body. Often your upper body and arms are moving in one direction, while your lower body and legs are doing something completely different. This can really …
Yoga is more than just stretching, when done correctly it will strengthen and tone your muscles as well as improving flexibility. Yoga will also focus on breathing and this adds a relaxing element that can make you feel calm and centered. We have carefully selected a range of yoga sessions which would be suitable to …
Welcome to the SJB Student Health and Wellbeing microsite. Here you can view information and resources on a whole host of exercises and sports. Use the list on the left or click on one of the links below to view the content.