• Classes Offered at HRHS:

     

    Freshman Health & Physical Education

    **Requirement for Graduation in North Carolina**

    Health Emphasizes the importance of understanding:

    • Physical, mental, social, and emotional elements of the body
    • The responsibility of each person in maintaining and promoting good health and safety individually and as a group
    • The development of desirable relationships with others.

    Physical Education Emphasizes the importance of:

    • Cardiovascular Endurance
    • Muscular Endurance
    • Muscular Strength
    • Flexibility
    • Body Composition
    • Skill Development

     

    Strength & Conditioning

    **Our program is derived from giving each individual a chance to become the best athlete they can be.  Not a “lifter”, but an athlete.

    Athlete versus “Strength” Athlete

    Components:

    • Complex Movements
    • Multiple Joint Actions
    • Functional Strength
    • Free Weight Dominant Approach

     

    Advance Physical Education

    **9th Grade Health & PE is a prerequisite**

    The Course Stresses:

    • Physical Fitness
    • Body Shaping
    • Flexibility
    • Muscular Development

    The Course Emphasizes:

    • Rules and techniques of various sports

     

    Men’s Weight Training

    **9th Grade Health & PE is a prerequisite**

    This Course Emphasizes:

    • A progressive weight training program for males
    • Improvement in speed and agility
    • Body shaping

    Male-Based class

     

    Modern Fitness 

    **9th Grade Health & PE is a prerequisite**

    This Course Promotes and Encourages:

    • High levels of health and wellness in the students.

     

    This Course Emphasizes:

    • Increased levels of fitness through the 5 components of fitness
    • Skills and knowledge of life-long fitness activities and goals

    Female-Based class

     

    Women’s Weight Training

    **9th Grade Health & PE is a prerequisite**

    This Course Emphasizes:

    • A progressive weight training program for females
    • Improvement in speed and agility
    • Body Shaping

    Female-Based class

     

    Sports Medicine I & II

    This Course Emphasizes:

    • Organizational and administrative considerations
    • Legal responsibilities
    • Prevention of athletic injuries
    • Recognition of lower extremity injuries
    • Recognition of upper extremity injuries
    • Environmental concerns
    • General medical
    • Pharmacology
    • Rehabilitation and management skills
    • General fitness
    • Nutrition
    • Sports psychology
    • Human anatomy and physiology
    • Therapeutic modalities and therapeutic exercise
    • Athletics and special populations
Last Modified on January 31, 2022