Course Description
HEALTH/PE BOYS/GIRLS
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: None
CA: 9th Grade
The purpose of health and physical education is to provide appropriate instruction for building a healthy body, mind, and character in each student. Health/PE is required for graduation. Dress out is required.
LIFETIME FITNESS
Credit: 1 Unit
Prerequisite: Health/PE
CA: 10th – 12th Grade
Lifetime Fitness is a personal fitness course with a focus on lifelong physical activity and fitness. The Pisgah Fitness Center used in this course will help create a new level of fitness and enjoyment for the physical education student. The fitness center is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with treadmills, cross-trainers, elliptical, recumbent and stationary bikes, and rowers. The center also has a variety of aerobic and group fitness equipment such as bosu trainers, plyo boxes, yoga mats, stability balls, medicine balls, aerobic bars, pull-up bars, resistance cords, and circuit step trainers. In this class students will learn how to use technology to benefit fitness, overcome barriers to regular physical activity and how to plan and implement their own lifetime activity plan. Dress out is required.
HONORS FITNESS AND NUTRITION I
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite:
For students having previously taken 2 units of PE: A on PE exam OR 90 or > in both PE courses.
For students having previously taken Health/PE and ONE of the following: Biology, Allied Heath or Foods: A on H/PE and “other” exam OR 90 or > in H/PE and “other” class.
CA: 10th – 12th Grade
Honors Fitness and Nutrition is a combination classroom study, weight training, cardiovascular fitness activities, and nutrition activities. Students will take part in activities that will enhance cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition. The benefits of exercise and its effect on the systems of the body will be introduced. The primary objectives of this course are to improve the health-related components of fitness and to enable the student to make intelligent decisions regarding fitness program design and application. Nutrition components will cover the foundations of nutrition science including nutrient digestion and metabolism, with special focus on areas relevant to high school students, such as dietary supplements, analyzing creatine, negative effects of steroids, legal versus illegal supplements, nutrition for athletes and links between nutrition and disease.
HONORS FITNESS AND NUTRITION II
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: A on Honors Fitness I exam OR 85 or > in Honors Fitness I.
CA: 11th & 12th Grade
Honors Fitness and Nutrition II will be a class designed to extend knowledge and techniques for maintaining a healthy body and mind. This section will focus on personal exercise and eating programs designed to fit the individual. It will also allow learners to create realistic goals for long-term fitness.
ATHLETIC CONDITIONING I (FALL ATHLETIC WEIGHTS)
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: Health/PE, Beginning Weights, or a member of a PHS athletic team.
CA: 10th – 12th Grade
Interest in development and maintenance of strength and muscle for fitness. Dress-out required. Students wishing to take year long weights should sign up for both Athletic Conditioning I and II.
ATHLETIC CONDITIONING II (SPRING ATHLETIC WEIGHTS)
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: Health/PE, Beginning Weights, or a member of a PHS athletic team.
CA: 10th – 12th Grade
Interest in development and maintenance of strength and muscle for fitness. Dress-out required. Students wishing to take year long weights should sign up for both Athletic Conditioning I and II.
BEGINNING WEIGHTS
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: Health/PE
CA: 10th – 12th Grade
Interest in development and maintenance of overall fitness through weight training and conditioning. Dress-out required.
ADVANCED WEIGHTS
Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: Health/PE AND Beginning Weights or Played a Sport at Pisgah
CA: 10th – 12th Grade (with Teacher approval)
Development of muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, speed and agility. Dress-out required. Participation in sports is recommended. This course will be pre-scheduled for those recommended for this course.