With football stadiums and tennis courts going up at every turn of the shoulder, Har-Ber has become some type of beacon for athletic facility profoundness. No signs of halt in the future, we plan to carry on this tradition with the addition of our very own fitness room.
The fitness room will be located right behind the stage in the cafeteria and is supposed to be open and in motion sometime during this, 2014-2015, school year.
This substantial opportunity is in complete thanks to Dr. Robert Ferguson and Martha Wilf, Physical Education Coordinator. The school was given a PEP grant to cover the financials of the new fitness room. The PEP (Physical Education Program) grant is created to donate money to certain local educational agencies and is federally funded. The money is used to purchase physical education equipment.
“A wide variety of equipment such as ellipticals, kettlebells, treadmills, dumbbells, and many others,” said Coach Wright.
The fitness room is expected to be filled to the brim with new machines that provide training and education to students and teachers.
“It’s going to be top of the line! It will be just like if you would go into a paid gym,” said Wright.
Unlike many schools that just stick a couple treadmills in a closet and call it a fitness room, Har-Ber’s will be just like going to real gym that you pay an ungodly amount for each month. Fortunately, these generosities will come to teachers and students with no cost at all.
The fitness room will host mostly Physical Education students, students involved in athletics, and faculty.
“It’s going to be beneficial to our sports teams and a nice addition to our school,” said, senior and soccer player Evie Cannon.
Active students will profit greatly from the added opportunities the fitness room will allow. Sports teams will be able to prosper, and at the least be given a convenience to prosper.
“It will benefit us because it will give us a place to practice without having distractions like we have where we practice now,” says junior Kimble Jennings.
Kimble is a state champion wrestler who currently spends his team practices in the cafeteria due to the overflow of other school sports. The fitness room will provide a place for teams that had limited spacing before.
“Hopefully we will get to use it a lot, hopefully everyday,” says Jennings.