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Physical Education

Welcome to the Physical Education/Health Department Home Page!

The Physical Education / Health Department faculty are: 
  • Joshua Knight- Athletic Director
  • Shannon Szepan- Unified Arts Curriculum Facilitator
  • Harrison Urda 

Course Offerings 2023-2024

Exercise Walking

Exercise Walking is designed to fit the individual needs of each student. Individual programs will be developed to help students obtain the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the course. Emphasis will be placed on learning healthy lifestyles through nutrition, exercise, and weight management.

Fit for Life

In this course, the emphasis is on fostering students’ potential to be fit for life. Participants will be involved in motor skill development and will learn rules/strategies in a variety of individual and team sports. The emphasis is on the development of lifetime fitness skills.

Functional Training

This course is intended to help students continue to build the fitness and skills attained in Intro to Strength Training in the concepts of functional training. In this class, students will be capable of more challenging and complex training techniques with regard to muscular strength, flexibility, and movement. Student development will be assessed based upon the individual student’s current level of fitness and skill through a variety of testing modalities. Students will be expected to learn, develop and implement workout plans for themselves and their classmates.

Self Defense Men

This self defense course will allow male students to be introduced to basic and advanced self defense techniques.  Students will develop basic striking skills and implement striking techniques along with de escalation  strategies  in a variety of situations.  Students will learn various training principles such as but not limited to: torque, travel, leverage, and confrontation de escalation to allow them to better understand what and how they will react in a real life situation.  This program is based on using the four phases of training to ensure a viable option if someone is attacked. 

Self Defense Women

This is a comprehensive women-only course. The self-defense class is not a martial arts program; rather a program that empowers female students to combat various types of assaults by providing them with realistic self- defense tactics and techniques. This course begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction, and risk avoidance while moving onto basic and advanced hands-on defense training. Students will learn new principles such as torque, travel, leverage, and confrontation to allow them to better understand what and how they will react in a real life situation.  This program is based on using the four phases of training to ensure a viable option if a woman is attacked.

Sport Training

This course is a continuation of Intro. To Strength Training with a focus on sport specific lifting and training techniques.  Students will explore different modalities of training that include but are not limited to power and explosive plyometrics movements to increase strength.  Student development will be assessed based upon the individual student’s current level of fitness and skill through a variety of testing modalities. Physiology and anatomy will be covered to ensure all students have a better understanding of why specific movements are done. Students will be expected to learn, develop and implement workout plans for themselves and their classmates.

Strength Training Intro

This course is designed for students that are highly motivated and have a strong desire to improve their fitness and strength training skills. It will be a high intensity class with the goal of individual improvement. There will most likely be a great disparity in the strength and skill level of the students, so best effort will be assessed individually. Topics that will be covered include flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, plyometrics, linear speed development, agility, and change of direction. Students will develop a working knowledge of the muscular system and how to create a personal exercise prescription that will meet their needs at various stages of life. Related concepts that will be addressed include nutrition, body composition, and supplementation.

Wellness

This is a full year course that  is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between physical activity and overall health. Students will engage in a variety of physical activities while also exploring various health topics such as but not limited to: substance abuse, nutrition, mental health, and disease prevention.  

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