SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2025

As a high school physical education teacher in Normal, IL, I created the curriculum for our current personal fitness course to help meet the needs of our student body. Meanwhile, rates of anxiety, depression and obesity continue to climb. Once we get into our routines, they participate mostly without teacher prompting.

High School

Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Notice the elastic bands in the partner drills, that provide leg resistance exercise, while also providing cardio conditioning. This helps prevent obesity and provide long-term benefits on various health outcomes.” (Lee, Resistance training does not have to include traditional weights or weight machines.

Physical Education

Heartzones

MAY 11, 2022

It also lets us teachers interact more with the kids rather than sitting back and trying to grade them every hour on their performance. . Each of the students followed up with their Doctor and found out that they each had some type of undiagnosed cardio-pulmonary condition. High School PE Teacher Josh Hoehn.

Schooling

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This means that improving your aerobic capacity doesn’t only improve your “cardio” conditioning. Enhancing aerobic capacity can improve blood, oxygen, and nutrient flow to working muscles between sets of resistance training or sprint work. Improving blood flood may also help improve flexibility and mobility.

Physical Fitness