One Circuit, Grades 3 to 12: Strength Training That Scales
Pedagogy & Curriculum
Wellness
Sports & Coaching
Hanoi 2026
Kids in Grade 3 can do strength and conditioning safely, and it doesn’t need to look much different from what high schoolers or school sports teams do. This hands-on session is built on that claim.
Participants rotate through six stations three times. In round one, they do each station as we run it with high school students. In round two, they do the same stations as we run them with Grade 3, with the modifications that make them work. In round three, the focus shifts to athletics: each group rebuilds its station as part of a practice for a specific school team, such as a U10 soccer squad on a haze day or a varsity basketball team the day before a game, and then demos it for the room.
Between rounds we cover three things. First, the safety system that lets one adult run a weight room with 25 eight-year-olds or a full team: circuits, numbered station cards, and one rotation direction. Second, what the research says about strength training and injury in children. Third, the two mistakes most schools make: assuming young kids can’t train, and training high schoolers like adults.
Teachers and coaches leave having run the same circuit three ways, in high school PE, in Grade 3 PE, and in a team practice, with every other group’s version to steal.
Conference Edition:
Hanoi 2026
Hanoi 2026
Job Role Applicability:
- Primary Years
- Middle Years
- Secondary Years
- Coaches
Tags:
- Curriculum Planning
- Fundamental Motor Skills
- Health & Wellness
- Movement
- Physical Literacy
Type of Session:
Presentation
Presentation
Most applicable to educators working in the following areas:
- Upper Elementary [Age 8 - 10]
- Middle School [Age 11 - 13]
- High School [Age 14 - 17]
