Abstract

In the context of the "Healthy China 2030" strategy, university physical education (PE) shoulders the important mission of fostering students' lifelong sports awareness and cultivating healthy lifestyles. However, traditional PE teaching models often suffer from a significant disconnect between in-class instruction and extracurricular exercise, which undermines the continuity and effectiveness of physical education. To address this issue, this study developed and validated a table tennis teaching model centered on an "intra- and extra-curricular integration" club system. Conducted in universities in western Guangdong, China, the study employed a one-semester teaching experiment, utilizing a mixed-methods approach that included questionnaire surveys, expert interviews, comparative analysis, and mathematical statistics. The results demonstrated that, compared with the traditional teaching model, the integrated approach had significant effects on students' skill performance, physical health, exercise regularity, sportsmanship, and course satisfaction. The findings confirm that this model, through a systematic design incorporating "management, curriculum, activities, and evaluation," effectively achieves an organic closed loop of "teaching, learning, practicing, competing, and evaluating." Consequently, this study offers a replicable framework for stimulating students' internal motivation and fostering lifelong sports awareness, providing valuable insights for deepening the reform of university physical education.