In school wieghlifting/football class?

It's easier to sell as an extension of regular gym class than if you call it a "football class."

Every year I ask - every year I get told no...

well played spreadattack, well played...

So you volunteer as in do not get paid, but the kids still get credit?

How does that work?

I have other responsibilities at the school where I work, so I don't teach a full load making this an easy add.  However, in the past we had AM lifting and no one got paid, and no one received credit.  My thought was that if I was going to do it anyway, and having it as a class would increase buy-in and commitment by the players.  I like the Zero Period idea because it forces the kids to be committed.

Our school has what I think is a unique idea and might be an easier sell to admin....We have a class called advanced PE..within advanced PE, you get a choice of 3 classes..weightlifting, yoga/aerobics or outdoor adventure...I don't know the exact specifics, but the lifting class is open to ALL students...I know they really lift in there as I saw a video of a kid FULL squating 500..BTW, the outdoor class sounds really cool, they take the kids on a camping trip, fishing trip, orienteering, archery and a few other things..as with anything, the courses are only as good as the instructor and how seriously they take it

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We do...small school (~150 9-12)...the problem we run into is that it has to be an elective not a PE credit so freshmen cant take it do to the other classes they need. I think they should be the #1 priority as well as 10-11 graders. Seniors almost always take the class but they usually try to lose interest after football season, hwoever, most of them play other sports so I work them just as hard no matter their level of "senioritis".

He's got it worked out that he's going to 'retire' in a few years, but in reality he'll just ditch the regular weightlifting classes and keep the 3 FB classes and HC position.

The moral of the story here is that when you have 5 championship rings, you really can write your own ticket.

we had it at my old school first hour, but by the time i became head coach they had done away with it because students abused it and they didn;t have the head coach in charge of it. Funny no district championships there since they did away with it. Credits were the excuse they gave me for not bringing it back. but that is just bs

Here at my current school we have first hour weightlifing, mainly 8th graders and a few hs girls take it. And we have 6th hour weight lifting, all but 2 football players were in it this year, and all baseball, track , and all but 4 basketball players (Roys) are currently in. We are a small school (240).

It works great. And I have said before on here we lift 5 days a week ALL YEAR, on game day too. But they were so bad when we got here we had to, we had to shock the kids the parents and community do get them back winning.

In-season: All players lift at 7 in the morning in the lockeroom no later then 6:45. And we watch film with the football players 6th hour and the off season basektball, baseball, softnall etc kids lift, the softball and girls basketball coach runs it then.

off-season: back to 6th hour lifting and the basektebll teams then come in at 7 in the morning. Same now that it is baseball season with the baseball players.

Last hour we all run/speed train, then go to our sport. This only takes 30 minutes so we are back in the dressing room bu 2:45 and then out on the field for practice at 3:05-3:20 depending on film, chalk talk, or things like that.

That being said we are about to change to 3 days lifting in the summer. It will be open the other 2 for the kids that want to be great and be winners or if a another sports coach wants them there the other 2 days. In fact our school board just passed if a student wants to be involved in athletics they must lift at Least 3 days a week as this is an extension of their sports practice and conditioning.

This has helped us so much. So much that we were named the 2012 BFS National School of the Year.


hope this helps

We have the same thing.  Zero hour advanced weight training and conditioning.  They get credit, I volunteer.  Next year I might get some compensation for it (I don't care either way, our principal- who will be our Sup. thinks I should receive something for it... more of a CYA measure than anything, I guess).  We are also trying to get another similar class during the day (for freshmen and those who live way out and generally do not drive in).

I am in my first year in this school- prior to this there was no athletic weight lifting class... they have a weights/team sports class.  The guy who does that is not interested in the weights part, so they basically go in and play around on the equipment.

We went from 0 in the weight room to 30 (22 in 0 hour, 8 or so who lift after school).  Now we are also getting in the 8th graders 2 days a week, so we have almost all of our guys getting in.

At every school I've been at, it started this way.  Once we got going, then we were able to get some of those classes in during the regular school day.

Basically we had to: 1) make it available to all athletes- not just FB, 2) have a course description and outline, just as we would with any other course and 3) have a certified (PE) person teach it. 

We basically lift (3 or 4 days) and do speed, agility and plyometric work on the other days.

We have 4. Athletes only. Being a relatively small school and a rural one at that, we have to have most of our best athletes being multi sport. Our school has always done well in that aspect, problem was, these kids were constantly playing/practicing and never lifting....so, these classes got implemented 3 years ago. The best part? Our strength and conditioning football coach is the teacher.

So...after school weights in the offseason is about 85% incoming frosh (who aren't in a spring or winter sport), 10% current frosh (who aren't in other sports) and less than a handful of upperclassmen who couldn't work the weight class into their schedule (every year, a couple of these are usually first time players).

Same here in Arkansas

"Advanced PE" is a better course title than "weight training" and so on because, in my experience, "weight training" will become a dumping ground for kids with issues.