Fitness Electives

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Physical Education I

Description: This course combines movements from yoga and pilates. The focus of this class is on motor learning strategies, body awareness, stress reduction, breath work, balance, and functional movement. The student gains muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility. Areas of study include, but are not limited to, movement forms, movement concepts and principles, physically active lifestyle, physical fitness, personal and social behaviors, cultural awareness, and personal enjoyment. Reading, writing, speaking, and research strategies are integrated throughout the course.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Physical Education I

Materials Fee: $15, Fees for field trips may be charged.

Description: Emphasis is placed on learning and improving techniques, skills, and strategies in lifetime sports: bowling, golf, badminton, angling, racquet handball, archery, table tennis, tennis as well as some team activities. This class uses a variety of trips to expose the student to a number of lifetime activities. Trips to the golf course, archery lanes, rock climbing gym, and bowling alley allow the students to improve their skills and strategies in those activities. Units in mountaineering, fishing, and orienteering expose the students to a number of non-traditional physical education activities they can utilize after they have graduated.

Weight Training I

Prerequisites: Successful Completion of Foundations of Physical Education

Materials Fee: $15

Description: Weight Training I is a basic weight training course investigating strength training principles, routines, fundamental techniques and methods of lifting for the development of major muscle groups, and nutrition and diet information for health and fitness. Safety techniques and proper spotting are emphasized. Literacy strategies are integrated throughout the course.

Weight Training II

Prerequisites: Successful Completion of Foundations of P.E. and Weight Training I

Materials Fee: $15

Description: Weight Training II is an advanced weight-training course. The student investigates physical fitness, health maintenance, powerlifting, and Olympic-style lifting techniques and methods and implements safety techniques and proper spotting in all activities and practices. Emphasis is placed on steroid and other supplement use and abuse. Literacy strategies are integrated throughout the course.

Weight Training III

Prerequisites: Successful Completion of Weight Training II

Materials Fee: $15

Description: Weight Training III is designed for the student who is earnest about strength development. The student continues investigation of physical fitness, health maintenance, powerlifting, Olympic-style lifting techniques, and methods and implements safety techniques and proper spotting in all activities and practices. Emphasis is placed on steroid and other supplement use and abuse. In addition, the student develop s an individualized weight-lifting program and demonstrates and participates in fitness testing techniques. Literacy strategies are integrated throughout the course.

Nutrition is a great course to take with Weight Training, Lifetime Sports and/or Yoga & Pilates.