A new BHS class called Athletic Development was created by PE teacher Jon Collum, a new teacher and football coach that loves coaching athletes at BHS.
“I decided to create athletic development really just to give our student athletes more options as far as the type of training they can get involved in,” Collum said. “There are a lot of different training styles and I just wanted to do something a little bit different.”
Athletic development provides a different variety of workouts and focuses more on becoming a better athlete with more explosive movements.
“Athletic development focuses more on explosive movements,” junior Cooper Carr said. “It’s more than just working on powerlifting.”
A typical workout in athletic development is a little bit different than most weights classes at BHS.
“So usually we just start off with our warmup and then we do some plyometrics and box jumps,” senior Garret McLaughlin said. “After all that we just finish up with our core lifts.”
In Athletic Development they test many different types of exercises, they have a few different exercises they test which makes the class different.
“So we test a lot of things, we test squat, we test deadlift, pullups, bench press, and vertical jump,” freshman Braxsten Heck said. “We usually test our maxes once every 3 or 4 weeks.”
During school athletic development is a great way to stay in shape and get stronger in a way that benefits athletes, no matter how strong students are, Athletic Development will get students stronger and more athletic.