Topic: How Sports Aids Personal Development
General Purpose: To Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about how playing a sport can be beneficial for personal growth.
Thesis: Playing sports helps establish teamwork, confidence, and a healthy lifestyle.
I. Introduction
a. Attention Getter: How many of you have played a sport here?
b. Reason to Listen: Sports is a relatable topic that most people have at their time, played at least once.
c. Thesis Statement: Playing sports helps establish teamwork, confidence, and a healthy lifestyle.
d. Credibility Statement:
i. I have been involved in after school sport related programs all the way to high school. ii. I have read and researched on the benefits that playing sports has on the individual.
e. Preview of Main Points:
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If you keep practicing you will improve and gain confidence
i. Like anything else in life if you keep practicing and trust into the process you will eventually improve. ii. Once achieving those set of goals like winning
c. Pre-workouts can help boost confidence before games or events.
i. According to online article professional ski instructor Anne Anderson and trained yoga trainer added yoga breathing techniques to her skiing classes. ii. She noticed that her students were more confident when approaching slopes. iii. She would later term the method “snowga” where students do 15 minutes of mediation and yoga poses. iv. As a result, students were calmer and less prone to injury.
Transition: While finishing on the topic of confidence I will articulate how playing sports helps us maintain a healthy lifestyle.
IV. C. Playing a sport is a form of exercising that helps us maintain a healthy lifestyle.
a. Sports help us keeps a healthy.
i. According to an online article called organic facts, playing sports helps reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and help weight management. ii. Being physically active controls hypertension or high blood pressure. High blood pressure may result in stroke or heart
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Central Idea: Exercise and physical activity are a great way to feel better, gain health benefits and have fun.
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Transition: Now that we have explore the negatives of our current physical education system lets
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