Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
April 2025 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 2025
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2025Explain how EPO (erythropoietin) improves endurance performance.
- 2nd April 2025According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
- 3rd April 2025Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 4th April 2025Name the muscle that contracts and flattens during inspiration.
- 5th April 2025Give one reason a fast walk lasting an hour would be classed as aerobic rather than anaerobic exercise.
- 6th April 2025A cyclist expends 2,800 kilocalories in a day and eats food providing 3,100 kilocalories. Is this a surplus or a deficit, and by how much?
- 7th April 2025Give a named body example of a first-class lever.
- 8th April 2025State two pieces of equipment needed to carry out the multi-stage fitness test.
- 9th April 2025Give one way a performer could apply progressive overload to a running programme without changing how often they train.
- 10th April 2025Define reliability in the context of fitness testing.
- 11th April 2025Define 'commercialisation' in the context of sport.
- 12th April 2025A footballer takes a penalty kick with no goalkeeper movement allowed until the ball is struck. State whether this is basic or complex, and justify your answer.
- 13th April 2025Define assertive behaviour in sport.
- 14th April 2025A gymnast holds a handstand. What keeps the shoulder joint stable while other muscles work to maintain balance?
- 15th April 2025Name the molecule that is broken down to directly release energy for muscle contraction.
- 16th April 2025State the WHO definition of health.
- 17th April 2025What is dietary manipulation?
- 18th April 2025Explain why a star jump occurs in the frontal plane.
- 19th April 2025State the purpose of retesting at the end of a PEP.
- 20th April 2025A weightlifter's training focuses on low reps with very heavy weights. Which fitness component is this weight training programme mainly developing?
- 21st April 2025Give one example of appropriate clothing that would help reduce injury risk for a cyclist.
- 22nd April 2025Explain one way technology has improved the coverage of sport for a television audience.
- 23rd April 2025Give one example of a task-irrelevant cue that could distract a performer during a match.
- 24th April 2025Give one example of a sport that would typically suit an extrovert's preference for stimulation and social contact.
- 25th April 2025Which component of EPOC replenishes ATP and phosphocreatine stores?
- 26th April 2025Explain why blood is directed away from the digestive system during exercise.
- 27th April 2025What is osteoporosis?
- 28th April 2025Describe the physical characteristics of an endomorph.
- 29th April 2025Define abduction.
- 30th April 2025A training programme increases work time from a 30-second base by 5 seconds every week, while rest stays at 30 seconds. Calculate the work:rest ratio, in its simplest form, in week 3.