WJEC/Eduqas GCSE PE Personal Fitness Programme: Student Companion

Choosing your major activity 1 You will be assessed in three different activities as a performer : • at least one activity as an individual performer • one activity within a team sport • one other activity from the approved activities lists. You need to choose one of these as your ‘major activity’ (the other two will be ‘minor’ activities). This can be either a team activity or an individual activity. Once you have decided upon your major activity, you can start to design a ‘personal fitness programme’ (PFP). Note: This may also be called a ‘personal training programme’. WJEC: The name used is ‘Personal fitness programme’. Eduqas: The name used is ‘Personal training programme’. By the end of this chapter: • you will be able to choose your major activity so that you can begin to plan your PFP. What to do and why • You will design a personal tness programme which will help to improve tness and performance in your major activity. • From your practical pro le choose one activity to be your major activity to be linked to your PFP. How to do it From the lists below, choose three activities which will form your practical pro le. If you are following the WJEC speci cation, choose from the list in the table below: Table 1.1 WJEC GCSE Physical Education activity list Throughout this book you will see ‘PFP’, which is the same as a personal training programme! Team activities Activities which can be undertaken as a team or individual activity 1 Individual activities Association football 2 Badminton Amateur boxing Baseball Dance 7 Athletics (including cross-country) 10, 11 Basketball Mountain walking 18 Canoeing 9 Camogie/hurling Orienteering 18 Cycling 11, 12, 13 Cricket Rock climbing 8 Diving 14 Gaelic football Sailing 20 Equestrian 15 Hockey 3 Sculling 9 Golf Ice hockey 3 Table tennis Gymnastics 4 Lacrosse Tennis Judo Netball Lifesaving 19 Karate 17 Make sure you know which specification you are following as there are some differences! Check the latest specifications online for updates. WJEC CBAC 8