PE Strength and Conditioning

Prerequisites: None

In this elective course students are taught basic exercise movements and rhythmic fundamentals to enhance all body parts. This course emphasizes developing and improving cardiovascular fitness, body composition and flexibility, and increasing muscular strength and endurance.

These activities may include but are not limited to the following:

Movement Focus

• • Identify and apply characteristics and critical elements of conditioning/strength activities.

  • Apply previously learned movement concepts for successful participation.

  • Identify and apply biomechanical principles.

  • List, describe and demonstrate use of safety equipment.

  • Demonstrate independent learning.

Fitness Focus

Participate in conditioning/strength activities to improve health-related fitness; analyze the effect of these activities on personal fitness; improve or maintain physical fitness levels to meet the principles of exercise; explain the relationship between participation in conditioning/strength activities and health.

Social Focus

• • Self-responsibility: Independently engage in conditioning/strength activities; compare and contrast effective leadership skills used in conditioning/strength activities and those in other physical activities used in course-related physical activities; develop personal goals for improvement; identify and analyze activities that enhance personal enjoyment; evaluate the risks and safety factors in conditioning/strength activities throughout a lifetime.

  • Social interaction: Modify an activity for a child, an elderly person or an individual with disabilities; analyze the role of social interaction in the successful participation in and enjoyment of conditioning/strength activities.

  • Group dynamics: Accept and perform planned and spontaneous leadership assignments and roles; analyze the role that cooperation and leadership play; engage in conditioning/strength activities both in school and outside school.