Weight Room PE Teaching Resources

Standalone pedagogical guides for high school physical education teachers delivering weight room and strength and conditioning instruction. Each guide is a self-contained digital download — usable in any secondary PE setting, regardless of your current curriculum. Written by Travis Lombardozzi, M.Ed., CSCS, HSSCC, 2025 OAHPERD Ohio PE Teacher of the Year.

Weight Room Class Management

Establishing safety culture, managing large classes, and building the systems that make weight room instruction viable from Day 1.

WCM-01$20

Running a Safe Weight Room on Day 1

WCM-02$20

Designing Weight Room Rotations for Large Classes

WCM-03$20

Teaching Weight Room Safety: Beyond the Rules Poster

WCM-04$20

Managing Student Behavior in the Weight Room

Movement Pattern Pedagogy

Systematic instructional sequences for the six foundational lifting patterns — cueing progressions, error identification, and observational assessment.

MPP-01$20

Teaching the Hip Hinge Pattern

MPP-02$20

Teaching the Squat Pattern

MPP-03$20

Teaching the Push Pattern

MPP-04$20

Teaching the Pull Pattern

MPP-05$20

Teaching Carry Patterns

MPP-06$20

Teaching Olympic Lift Foundations

Applied Science Pedagogy

Delivering anatomy, physiology, energy systems, and training science content in a PE setting without a textbook or lab.

ASP-01$20

Teaching Basic Anatomy in a PE Setting

ASP-02$20

Teaching Energy Systems to High School Students

ASP-03$20

Teaching Recovery Science in PE

ASP-04$20

Teaching Basic Biomechanics in the Weight Room

ASP-05$20

Teaching Mental Performance Concepts in PE

Assessment Pedagogy

Formative and summative tools built for weight room PE — exit tickets, peer assessment, learning objective writing, and fitness testing protocol design.

AP-01$20

Building Effective Exit Tickets for Weight Room PE

AP-02$20

Teaching Peer Assessment in the Weight Room

Coming soon

AP-03

Writing PE Learning Objectives

AP-04$20

Designing a Fitness Testing Day

Specialized Populations and Settings

Adapting weight room instruction to specific student populations and non-standard facility settings.

SPS-01$20

Teaching Strength Fundamentals to Middle School Students

SPS-02$20

Adapting Instruction for Students with No Prior Training

SPS-03$20

Teaching Strength Training in a Minimal Equipment Setting

SPS-04$20

Off-Season Training Design for Dual-Role PE/Coaches

Instructional Design and Unit Planning

Building coherent, standards-aligned PE units using backward design and structured lesson architecture.

IDP-01$20

Backward Design for PE Unit Planning

IDP-02$20

Teaching with the Spectrum of Teaching Styles

IDP-03$20

Block Schedule Adaptation for PE and Weight Room Units