The 身体发育 Program strives to provide an opportunity for each student to develop optimum health and 身体健康 for his or her age and developmental level. 这个系帮助每个学生获得知识, 通过体育健身活动获得自信和自尊. 该部门提倡体育精神和公平竞争的理想. Each course is designed to respect the individual differences and skill levels for all students.
学生需要参加两个学期的体育发展课程. The first semester is PD 1 or PD 1: Sports Performance: Football and is taken during the freshman year. The second semester (PD 2, or Sports Performance courses) is to be taken in subsequent years. 学生 are not restricted to two semesters of 身体发育 and are encouraged to take as many classes as they desire. 所有PD2选修课可以重复.
All courses are non-academic and do not count toward the total number of academic courses required in a semester.
PD I课程是所有大一新生的必修课. 它旨在推广健康和健身理念. PD 1 stresses cardio vascular training with different modalities such as dynamic range of motion warm-ups, 有氧训练, 和电路. 这门课程包括营养学教学, 身体健康, 以及各种团队运动和活动的基本技能. Every freshman goes through a 4-week swim program highlighting swim fundamentals especially body alignment and hydrodynamic orientation in the water.
This course is designed to help students develop physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. 课程中呈现的经验旨在发展知识, 自信, 积极的自我形象, 良好的体育精神, 合作与理想是保持身心健康的必要条件. 涵盖了健身、训练和营养的概念.
身体发育 I: Football is the introductory football conditioning course combined with the 身体发育 1 curriculum designed to improve the core 强度 and cardio-vascular fitness, 敏捷性, and 灵活性 and basic skills and concepts of students playing football and meet the requirements of the 9th grade physical education standards. This course will focus on development of the major muscle groups through free weight training as related to sport specific 运动s 以及 speed and 敏捷性 development. 学生们将了解训练强度和训练量, 训练区, 奥运会举重, 壶铃, plyometric培训, 基本的速度, 敏捷性工作以及运动营养和使用促人体运动的辅助工具. This is a first semester course open to freshmen playing interscholastic football. 满足身体发育要求.
Prerequisite: Interscholastic Freshman Football or Head Football Coach and 系主任 approval
This course emphasizes individual personal fitness and attitudes to keep students involved in the learning process and to promote ongoing health and 身体健康. Core Fusion is a total body fitness course designed to improve individual fitness levels. This is a medium to high intensity workout designed to increase muscle endurance and 强度, 灵活性, 心血管耐力, 身体成分. The students will learn the authentic Pilates mat program; different styles of yoga, 包括:动态瑜珈, power and yin; breathing and relaxation techniques; the mind-body connection; and how basic anatomy connects to each exercise or posture. 学生们还将接触到竞走, 他们将在哪里建立耐力，以正确的姿势和核心参与走路. 学生们将评估他们的灵活性, 强度, 这是整个课程的核心联系. 学生 will acquire the necessary tools needed to design and implement their own wellness program. 符合体能发展II的要求.
前提条件:身体发育
This course emphasizes individual personal fitness and attitudes to keep students involved in the learning process and to promote ongoing health and 身体健康. Non-Traditional Games is a total body fitness course designed to improve individual fitness levels. This is a medium to high intensity work out designed to increase muscle endurance and 强度, 灵活性, 心血管耐力, 身体成分. The students will learn to use free weights, jump ropes, and body weight as forms of resistance. 学生们还将接触非传统的游戏，如金球, 魁地奇, 快速度球类运动, 林格, 板球和瑜伽一样, 有氧训练, 以及重量训练来改善他们的整体状态. The students will evaluate their body-type and what can be done to achieve a desired fitness level. 学生 will acquire the necessary tools needed to design and implement their own wellness program. 符合体能发展II的要求.
前提条件:身体发育
Team Sports is is designed to improve individual fitness levels through traditional team sports. 除了团队合作, 学生们将通过瑜伽体式了解自己和自己的身体, 基本的生物力学, 以及连接身心的全身呼吸技巧. This is a medium to high intensity workout designed to increase muscle endurance and 强度, 灵活性, 心血管耐力和身体成分. 学生 will experience the following psychosocial concepts in sports; emotional self-control, 团队合作, 风度, 与合作. 学生将积极参与健康的基本要素, 营养, 运动, 真实的社会意识, 和休息. 符合体能发展II的要求.
前提条件:身体发育
Sports Performance I is a course designed to improve the core 强度 and cardio-vascular fitness, 敏捷性, 学生参加校际运动的灵活性. This course will focus on development of the major muscle groups through free weight training as related to sport specific 运动s 以及 speed and 敏捷性 development. 学生们将了解训练强度和训练量, 训练区, 奥运会举重, 壶铃, plyometric培训, 基本的速度和敏捷性训练, 以及, 运动营养和使用经氧助剂. 符合体能发展2的要求.
前提条件:体育发展1和系主任批准.
Sports Performance II is a high-level athletic performance class building on the principals learned in Sports Performance I. 旨在提高每个运动员的技术和表现水平, 课程将侧重于核心力量和心血管健身, 敏捷性, and 灵活性 以及 the development of the major muscle groups through free weight training as related to sport specific 运动s and speed and 敏捷性 development. 学生将了解训练强度和量, 训练区, 混合举重, 奥林匹克的变化, 壶铃, plyometric培训, 基本的速度和敏捷性训练, 以及, 运动心理学.
符合体能发展II的要求.
Prerequisite: Sports Performance I or 身体发育 I: Sports Performance: Football and 系主任 Approval.
Sports Performance: Football is a course for AMHS interscholastic football players and is designed to take sports training to the next level. 它将建立在身体发展1:足球基础, 利用先进的核心力量和心血管健康, 敏捷性和灵活性, 以及学生踢足球的基本技巧. This course will focus increased volume and time under tension to development of the major muscle groups through free weight training as related to sport specific football 运动s 以及 speed and 敏捷性 development. 学生们将继续学习训练强度和训练量, 训练区, 奥运会举重, 壶铃, plyometric培训, 基本的速度, 敏捷性工作. 强调运动营养和适当的身体再生. 这是第二学期的课程，对大一到大三的学生开放. 符合体能发展2的要求.
前提条件:身体发展I:足球和足球主教练批准.
参加两个学期英语课程的高年级学生, 社会研究, and 宗教研究 and two semesters of three additional academic courses (usually math, 科学, 和世界语言或同时注册数学, 科学, 世界通用语言, 社会研究, 或英文)，共修六门学术课程, 可以申请一个学期的体能发展豁免.
Please note that (with the exception of AP Music Theory and AP Studio Art) a yearlong art course does not qualify as one of the six classes required for a waiver.
辅导员必须批准所有PD豁免请求.
Sophomores who anticipate a full academic load of classes their senior year are encouraged to take PD in the sophomore year. Participation in an extra-curricular sport does not meet 身体发育 requirements for graduation.
系主任
布莱恩Yocke