Upper School Fitness
The Upper School Fitness course is a Physical Education class that focuses primarily on strength training. The course introduces students to resistance training and proper lifting techniques. Various weight training concepts and their projected outcomes will bewill be examined. The goal for each student is to improve flexibility, body composition, upper and lower body strength and athletic performance. The class will make use of the MPH exercise facility as well as the Pioneer Health club in East Syracuse.
For Women Only Fitness
A fitness course designed just for Women!
For Women Only is an individualized, concepts-based, one-semester course designed to give students the knowledge and skills necessary to self-assess, create, conduct, evaluate, and design personal fitness programs. It is a "total body experience" that combines strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, core training and flexibility. Each workout session will be designed to increase muscular endurance, muscle tone, overall strength, flexibility and balance. This total body fitness class will increase your level of fitness as your body becomes more finely tuned and shaped as you develop leaner, stronger muscles.
Introduction to Exercise Physiology
Exercise Physiology is the study of the body’s physical responses and adaptations to exercise. The systems of the body will be studied to increase understanding of the ways in which the body responds to physical activity. Emphasis will be placed on strength training and various strength training protocols will be examined in detail. Each student will learn how to develop their own conditioning program for a specific sport. The goal of the course is for each student to understand how the body and its’ systems respond to exercise and how to develop a successful fitness program for an athlete as well as for themselves. The class will take advantage of the MPH exercise facility along with weekly trips to the Pioneer Health Club in East Syracuse.
Physical Education Independent Study
The Independent Study Program is an option for those students not involved in a sport or the MPH dance program and fulfills the requirements for Physical Education. This program requires each student to participate in some form of physical activity for a minimum of two hours per week. An activity log sheet is required stating the dates and times of the activities performed along with the signature of the adult supervising the activity.
How often, how long and how hard you exercise, and what kinds of exercises you do should be determined by what you are trying to accomplish. Your goals, your present fitness level, age, health, skills, interest and convenience are among the factors you should consider. For example, an athlete training for high-level competition would follow a different program than a person whose goals are good health and the ability to meet work and recreational needs.