Health & Physical Education: Focus on Weight Training

The purpose of the Health & Physical Education program is to develop the correlation between a healthy mind and body. The department makes a great effort to provide our students with many activities and opportunities so they can begin to develop a positive attitude towards healthy living.

At this juncture of the academic calendar and curriculum, our Health & PE program is focusing on daily and bi-weekly physical instruction for 8th and 9th-grade students in the weight room as well as specific health classes for 9th-grade students.

Our purpose in this training is to enable students to acquire a basic comfort level and knowledge of how to achieve and maintain a standard of physical fitness for lifelong health and/or athletic performance while demonstrating knowledge of fitness concepts, principles, and strategies:

• The student will improve their muscle strength and endurance through weight training exercises.
• The student will gain knowledge of equipment and safety procedures with free weights and other body weight exercises.
• The student will recognize the benefits of regular physical activity and see the effects on themselves through class participation.
• The student will gain knowledge of developing a weight-training program and training principles.
• The student will develop a basic understanding of the three energy systems and understand how the human body adapts to weight training.

In closing, our 9th-grade Health courses are devoting time to learning how to research communicable diseases. Health education provides for a level of understanding using the media, technology, culture, and the ability to interpret health resources. This knowledge gives the students the tools to assume responsibility for their lifelong physical, social, and emotional well-being. The Librarians are instructing the students on how to access and cite information from Brother Martin’s print and virtual science collections. Not only are the students learning through research, but are also being instructed on how to locate current information from reputable experts that rely on medical research.