Designing a Fitness-Based Physical Education Programme: School Interventions Raise Aerobic Fitness by a Small Amount (SMD 0.28) and Lesson-Embedded Fitness Work Adds Small, Low-Certainty Gains
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A fitness-based physical education programme swaps the traditional sports-skills lesson for one organised around measurable fitness: test the class, set targets, train the components, and test again. Schools adopt it because it promises fitter pupils and, in some accounts, better learners. The structure is easy to describe; the harder question is how much fitness a school lesson can actually build, and the two newest syntheses give a measured answer.
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