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Velocity-Willowbrook Teams up with Hinsdale School District 181 Foundation
By VSP-WillowbrookJune 01, 2009
DATES AND TIMES
Fitness Expo:
Friday October 23 and Friday November 6
Session 1: 6-7:15pm
Session 2: 7:45-9pm
Sports Performance Expo: (grades 3-8 only)
Saturday October 24 and Saturday November 7
Session 1: 8:30-9:45am
Session 2: 1:45-3pm
- Enrollment: $20/student per session
- Enroll for the Fitness Expo, Sports Performance Expo or BOTH!
- Enrollment fee, paid directly to Hinsdale School District 181 Foundation for the benefit of the students.
Register TODAY to Guarantee Your Preferred Time(s)!
PROGRAMMING DESCRIPTIONS:
FITNESS EXPOS:
Following 4 of the 5 areas of Fitness--Muscular Strength, Flexibility, Cardiovascular Endurance, and Muscular Endurance. [Body fat not included]
Muscular Strength:
Students will learn the proper technique for a number of basic lower body and upper body exercises, using some light free weights, medicine balls, as well as their own bodyweight. These exercises will help build strength throughout the body to ensure proper posture, proper joint functioning as well as proper muscular balance.
Mobility and Flexibility:
Students will participate in both active-dynamic mobility exercises as well as static flexibility exercises. The mobility exercises will be movement-oriented to improve their range of motion when moving. The static flexibility exercises will aim to teach proper technique, avoiding the common faults that limit their effectiveness. Both types of exercises will work to increase ranges of motion at all the major joints of the body.
Coordination and Cardio:
Students will engage and re-learn some of the seemingly lost physical education basic loco motor movement patterns. They will learn proper joint position and coordination patterns for drills like skips, gallops, and shuffles in both linear and lateral planes of movement. The exercises will be performed in rapid succession, thereby raising the students’ heart rates, and engaging both their aerobic and anaerobic energy systems.
Endurance Circuit:
Students will be challenged with muscular endurance drills as well as core strengthening exercises. The endurance drills will focus on repeated-effort lower body exercises. The core exercises will work to improve strength, endurance, and stability in the abdominal and lower back muscles that surround the torso.
SPORTS PERFORMANCE EXPOS:
Stations will follow our model of “Speed, Power and Agility.”
Power Station:
Athletes will learn the proper exercises and proper technique to develop explosive power in the hips and torso. Both plyometric as well as medicine ball tosses will be used to teach the triple extension of the knees, hips and ankles that is paramount to so many athletic movements.
Acceleration Station:
Athletes will learn the proper body and joint positioning for the acceleration phase of linear running, as well as the proper technique for starting off the line. Utilizing a ground-based approach, athletes will be taught the proper knee punch and drive as well as the “powerline” body position that makes athletes have a quicker first step.
Lateral Movement Station:
Athletes will utilize the Nike SPARQ agility hurdles, training their lateral quickness and change of direction. They will learn various marches, skips and runs in the agility hurdles, while utilizing the proper joint positioning for optimal lateral movement. In addition, athletes will learn the proper technique for changing directions as well as how to transition from the lateral to a linear run.
Coordination and Quickness Station:
Athletes will learn coordination, foot speed and proper joint position on the Nike SPARQ agility ladder. Not only will the athletes work on the traditional development of foot speed and quickness on the ladder, they will first lay a foundation of proper foot placement and coordination.