Where did the Education Disappear from Physical Education? Dr Risto Marttinen (Pt1)

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Part 1. Dr Risto Marttinen - Physical education | Lifelong participation | Student centricity   Dr Risto Marttinen is an assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A. The increasing focus of PA in school Physical Education (forgetting the E in PE) The impossibility of PE (in the USA at least) to meet the MVPA goals through prescriptive PE due to time restrictions (obesity, MVPA) Check excellent podcast from Risto's team: Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education. You can find it for example here.   Timestamps: 5:00 Why wrestling teaches a lot of life skills? 10:00 Where did the education disappear from the PE? 15:30 What is role of motor competence for lifelong participation? 18:00 How to be student-centric in PE? 20:00 Does PE need to be fun? 23:00 Simple put clever: informal sports! 24:00 What are constituents of meaningful experiences in PE? 29:00 Lifelong participation – goal of PE? 33:00 Why PE teachers do not need to study more exercise physiology? --- This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring Learn more about Fibion: fibion.com/research --- Collect, store and manage SB and PA data easily and remotely - Discover new Fibion SENS Motion: https://sens.fibion.com/ ---