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she says. “The push from the community, in terms of society wanting to get kids healthy and the life-long learning type of an idea, that’s why that shift is happening.” The home of the Red Knights teaches grade 11s and 12s the basics of physical fitness inclass, but adds a weight-training focus for boys, while the girls concentrate on resistance training, endurance and toning. “With the females the interest in our weight rooms is sometimes waning just because the equipment is more geared towards the males in terms of the facility itself,” Luck says. To accommodate the piqued interest in flexibility and cardio, one trend making a transition into classes is yoga. “It’s always been in the curriculum, basically they have a unit called body management and that’s one of the things that has been in the curriculum for a while,” Luck says. “We incorporate some of poses through the girls program we offer.” When it comes to the boys, well they’re warming to the idea of yoga. “We’ve been getting a little bit better of a response,” Luck says. “It’s just one of those macho habits that are not being broken too quickly here.” At the all-boys St. Mike’s is stretching into it. “No, no we don’t poo-poo that,” Fifield says. “There’s a philosophy with yoga that we don’t really embrace but by the same token the whole concept of stretching is good.” Most of the yoga that’s not covered in Northern’s curriculum is taught bright and early Friday mornings. At 7:15 to be exact. “No rest for the wicked,” Luck says, with a laugh. Originally started as a dry-land practice for the Red Knights’ swimming team, Get Fit Friday moved from the pool to the rugby pitch to a weekly extra gym course taught by teacher-
coach Daniel Gana. “Get Fit is definitely positive,” Luck says of its impact on the students. “They’re interested in that and the boys in the school are responding well to that as well, although it is slower to build up with the boys because of the nature of it.” When all the spotting, reps and sets are done, it’s all about the students taking something with them once they leave high school. “The best success stories are the kids who are small, don’t play sports, and who get caught up in this and start realizing this is not one of those things you play games with,” Fifield says. “This is life-long learning.” Brian Baker
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