Fitness and Health

This course is designed to assist the student in developing positive attitudes toward physical activity and a healthy lifestyle. This course includes Pilates, step aerobics, yoga, cardio tennis, fitness stations, and stationary cycling as well as other aerobic activities. Emphasis on muscular strength, flexibility, and muscular and cardiorespiratory endurance. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

Year one course contains sections on American Citizenship; Techniques of Communication; Leadership; Leadership Laboratory; Cadet Challenge; First Aid and Hygiene; and American Military History. Graduation Credit: CTE or .5 PE

Year one course contains sections on American Citizenship; Techniques of Communication; Leadership; Leadership Laboratory; Cadet Challenge; First Aid and Hygiene; and American Military History. Graduation Credit: CTE or .5 PE

Family Health is designed to prepare students for life-long decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, and management skills related to health and wellness issues impacting families. The primary focus is enabling students to actively participate in developing healthy lifestyles for themselves and others. Integrating the Washington Health and Fitness essential learnings with standards and competencies from the National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education, this course curriculum encompasses the interrelationships of healthy choices for a productive, satisfying life. Graduation Credit: 9th Grade Health, CTE

This course is required for all incoming freshmen. This course is designed for students to develop and improve their physical fitness and to obtain basic knowledge and skills in individual and team sports and weight training, aerobics/conditioning and swimming. Students learn how to swim or improve swim skills in six strokes, learn basic diving and basic water safety. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

These Red Cross sanctioned classes are designed to teach students how to teach and supervise swim programs. Both courses have minimum requirements to begin each course: age (LG 15/WSI 17), swim distance, stroke expertise; strength, endurance and breath holding. Students refine swimming skills, learn rules of water safety, and learn techniques of teaching swimming. Teacher approval required. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

Nutrition and Wellness focuses on understanding wellness, examining principles of nutrition, the use and effects of science and technology in our food system, ensuring food safety, nutritional food preparation, and exploring careers in the field of nutrition and wellness. This course highlights an understanding of today’s food and eating trends giving students the capacity to intelligently evaluate available sources of nutrition information in order to make lifelong decisions. DUAL CREDIT: CPTC REST122—4 CREDITS* Graduation Credit: CTE, Fitness

This course is designed to expand the concepts and skills learned in Freshman P.E. Emphasis is on physical fitness, promoting self-esteem, weight management, nutrition, aerobic activity and improving personal fitness. Individual skill development is offered in field sports, racquet sports, court sports, and fitness-related activities. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This course is designed to expand the concepts and skills learned in Freshman P.E. Emphasis is on physical fitness, promoting self-esteem, weight management, nutrition, aerobic activity and improving personal fitness. Individual skill development is offered in field sports, racquet sports, court sports, and fitness-related activities. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This course is designed to expand the concepts and skills learned in Freshman P.E. Emphasis is on physical fitness, promoting self-esteem, weight management, nutrition, aerobic activity and improving personal fitness. Individual skill development is offered in field sports, racquet sports, court sports, and fitness-related activities. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This course will concentrate on providing swimming students with the opportunity for additional skill training in competitive strokes or diving. Emphasis will be on advanced conditioning work, aerobic and anaerobic training, nutrition and weight management, and related fitness training. The diving aspect will focus on all five dive groups. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This class will concentrate on Level 4 and higher Red Cross strokes and skills and aerobic conditioning in the water. This course also teaches the fun and enjoyment of water sports and games. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This course is designed to assist the student in developing positive attitudes towards physical activity and a healthy lifestyle, specifically, the lifetime benefits of walking. Emphasis is on self-esteem, weight management, nutrition, aerobic exercise, improving personal fitness, and total wellness for the whole person. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This semester long course will help students explore, practice, and learn to enjoy weight training and various conditioning exercises to promote their individual fitness goals. Students will learn how to prepare their bodies and minds of exercise, safe weight room conduct, anatomy and physiology of exercise, as well as weight training myths. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This semester long course will help students expand on knowledge and skills learned from Weight Training and Conditioning I. Students will learn through active participation in various strength-training programs. The students will be able to develop developmentally appropriate fitness programs for themselves and others. Teacher approval required. Credit for Graduation: Fitness

This course focuses on the fundamental poses, posture and routines of Yoga. These poses and routines are designed to condition the physical body including flexibility, muscular strength, endurance, body composition, and cardiovascular capacity. There is an emphasis on breathing and relaxation techniques to enhance student’s concentration and to reduce stress. This course in no way embodies the spiritual or practical aspects of religion. Credit for Graduation: Fitness