If you want to work out based on an individual journey toward growth and potential, you should consider taking weight training. 

Weight training is a class that is a semester long and many students have benefitted from the class, even opting to take it again. You don’t have to be an athlete to sign up. 

“We have fun while doing hard things,” P.E. teacher Mrs. Hall said. “(Students) come in jittery and nervous sometimes but leave with our heads up with big pretty smiles.”

Students seem enjoy the positive environment that the class portrays.

“My favorite thing about the class is that everybody is encouraging to each other,” sophomore Mariah Mhandu said. 

Janet Musangali, a junior, believes that the instructor is a large reason for the class’s popularity. “I really like Mrs. Hall. She’s encouraging and nice to us and understands that we aren’t all experienced and she tries to help us learn more.”

Weightlifting has recently adopted a new program that they use, and according to Ms. Hall, “there is a lot of energy around that.”

The program uses the triphasic training model which is a systematic approach to elite and explosive strength performance. 

“The meat of the workout focuses on a combination of the following lifts depending on the day: back and front squats, bench press, clean progressions including the deadlift. The program we are using this year also includes a couple of dynamic axillaries that increase power and speed,” Hall said.