Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

February 2013 5-a-day

Every sheet in February 2013

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2013Why should an injured limb be elevated above the level of the heart?
  2. 2nd February 2013Explain why a cool-down begins with light continuous exercise rather than going straight into stretching.
  3. 3rd February 2013Explain one attitudinal barrier that can affect disabled people's participation in sport.
  4. 4th February 2013What sanction might an official give a performer during a match for a serious rule violation?
  5. 5th February 2013A swimming coach physically moves a young swimmer's arm through the correct front crawl pull. Name this type of guidance.
  6. 6th February 2013Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
  7. 7th February 2013State the formula for cardiac output.
  8. 8th February 2013Give one reason blood volume or red blood cell count might increase after a period of altitude training.
  9. 9th February 2013Name one mineral and state one of its functions.
  10. 10th February 2013In which plane does a cartwheel occur?
  11. 11th February 2013Why is it important to state which phase of a skill (e.g. preparation, action, follow-through) your analysis of a joint refers to?
  12. 12th February 2013State the equipment needed for the Illinois agility run.
  13. 13th February 2013Explain why distance runners are more at risk of stress fractures than sprinters.
  14. 14th February 2013Give one situational factor that can increase the likelihood of spectator disorder at a match.
  15. 15th February 2013Which category of PED increases muscle mass and speeds up recovery from training?
  16. 16th February 2013Give one physical sign that a performer may be under-aroused before a competition.
  17. 17th February 2013Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
  18. 18th February 2013State the gas that moves out of the blood and into the alveoli to be exhaled.
  19. 19th February 2013State one physical sign that a performer is exercising anaerobically.
  20. 20th February 2013Give one performance risk of a performer regularly eating too little to fuel their training.
  21. 21st February 2013State the equation for mechanical advantage.
  22. 22nd February 2013A performer's Cooper run distance is 2680 metres. Using VO2 max = (distance - 504.9) / 44.73, calculate their estimated VO2 max to one decimal place.
  23. 23rd February 2013Explain why a swimming coach would apply the principle of specificity when designing a training programme for a 200m breaststroke swimmer.
  24. 24th February 2013Explain why motivation can affect the reliability of the multi-stage fitness test.
  25. 25th February 2013Give one negative effect of commercialisation on officials.
  26. 26th February 2013Classify a trampolining routine on the self-paced/externally paced continuum, and give one reason.
  27. 27th February 2013Give one strategy a coach could use to reduce a team's use of indirect aggression during matches.
  28. 28th February 2013Name the bone found in the lower leg, on the outside (lateral side) of the tibia.