Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
February 2026 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2026State one long-term adaptation of the respiratory system to endurance training.
- 2nd February 2026Give one example of a complex carbohydrate food source.
- 3rd February 2026Explain why a performer should not wait until they feel thirsty before drinking fluid during exercise.
- 4th February 2026Define agonist.
- 5th February 2026Why should an injured limb be elevated above the level of the heart?
- 6th February 2026Explain why a cool-down begins with light continuous exercise rather than going straight into stretching.
- 7th February 2026Give one physical reason why participation in contact sport often falls as people get older.
- 8th February 2026State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 9th February 2026A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 10th February 2026Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 11th February 2026State the formula for cardiac output.
- 12th February 2026Give one reason blood volume or red blood cell count might increase after a period of altitude training.
- 13th February 2026What is a micronutrient?
- 14th February 2026Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 15th February 2026Which model, the lever model or the planes and axes model, is more suited to analysing a rotational movement such as a hip turn in a golf swing, and why?
- 16th February 2026State the equipment needed for the Illinois agility run.
- 17th February 2026Explain why distance runners are more at risk of stress fractures than sprinters.
- 18th February 2026Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 19th February 2026Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 20th February 2026According to the inverted-U theory, what happens to performance once arousal rises past the optimal point?
- 21st February 2026Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 22nd February 2026State the gas that moves out of the blood and into the alveoli to be exhaled.
- 23rd February 2026State one physical sign that a performer is exercising anaerobically.
- 24th February 2026Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 25th February 2026State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 26th February 2026A 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.
- 27th February 2026Explain why a swimming coach would apply the principle of specificity when designing a training programme for a 200m breaststroke swimmer.
- 28th February 2026Explain why motivation can affect the reliability of the multi-stage fitness test.