How to introduce farmer, suitcase, and overhead carries as legitimate strength content in secondary PE. Low technical barrier, works in minimal-equipment rooms, and scaffolds cleanly for a class setting.

What's included:
• Carry taxonomy and the rationale for carries in secondary PE
• Equipment substitution guide (dumbbells, kettlebells, trap bar, alternatives)
• Cueing system for each carry variation
• Station design recommendations for class settings

Who it's for: PE teachers who want accessible strength content that works with limited equipment.

How to teach bodyweight row progressions and chin-up and pull-up development across varied strength levels, without needing a full rack. Includes cueing maps, spotter protocols, and technique tracking.

What's included:
• Pull pattern progression ladder from inverted row to strict pull-up
• Band-assisted modification protocols
• Peer spotter training guide for pull-up instruction
• Technique observation form

Who it's for: PE teachers managing mixed strength levels who need a structured pull-pattern system.

A coherent instructional arc for push movements, from push-up fundamentals through standing and overhead press variations, with attention to shoulder mechanics and the errors students make most.

What’s included:

• Push pattern taxonomy with progression rationale

• Shoulder mechanics primer written for non-credentialed educators

• Cueing language guide organized by movement stage

• Modification and regression library

Who it’s for: PE teachers who want a clear teaching sequence for horizontal and vertical pushing.

A complete pedagogical sequence for progressing students from the bodyweight hinge to the Romanian deadlift. Built around instruction, not programming, so it fits any class regardless of the model you teach from.

What’s included:

• Cueing map from bodyweight to loaded hinge, organized by instructional phase

• Error identification checklist with matched correction protocols

• Observational assessment template for technique tracking

• Common student failure modes with specific teacher responses

Who it’s for: PE teachers who introduce deadlift-pattern movements and want a structured way to teach them.

How to identify faulty squat mechanics, choose the right corrective cue, and sequence progressions from the air squat through the goblet squat to barbell variations, with tools to document technique over time.

What’s included:

• Progressive cueing hierarchy for setup, descent, bottom position, and ascent

• 20-item error identification guide with correction notes

• Technique observation checklist in student and teacher formats

• Practice-station design recommendations for class settings

Who it’s for: PE teachers teaching squat instruction for the first time, or anyone who wants a more structured cueing system.

A practical guide for designing station rotations, managing transitions, and maintaining supervision in high school weight room classes of 20 to 35 students. By Travis Lombardozzi, M.Ed., CSCS, HSSCC.

Written for the teacher with more students than racks: at semester start, after a schedule change, or any time the roster outgrows the equipment.

A systematic guide for PE teachers on delivering safety instruction that produces competent student behavior, not passive rule compliance. Includes spotter training protocol, emergency action plan instruction, and documentation tools. By Travis Lombardozzi, CSCS.

Written for the teacher who already posts the rules and can see the rules are not doing the work.

This is a complete sample lesson from Weight Lifting 1 (WL1), the introductory course in the Dozzi Performance Education Systems two-course secondary strength and conditioning sequence.

Lesson 1.2, Weight Room Safety and Spotting, delivers a full 50-minute period of instruction: a phase-by-phase lesson sequence, explicit spotter-technique protocols, a formative and summative assessment plan, and Bronze Tier, IEP/504, and ELL differentiation notes. It is mapped indicator-by-indicator to SHAPE America 2024 National Standards (1.12.6, 3.12.3, 3.12.6) and aligned to NSCA Stage 2 (Technique Development).

The lesson demonstrates the RETA-Gated Loading architecture that governs the full WL1 course: no student advances to barbell loading until a documented safety-clearance sequence is completed. It shows exactly how DPES embeds safety, standards alignment, and differentiation into a single class period.

Developed by Travis Lombardozzi, M.Ed., CSCS, HSSCC, 2025 OAHPERD Physical Education Teacher of the Year, from more than a decade of daily weight room implementation at Brunswick High School.

This free sample provides PE department chairs, athletic directors, and curriculum directors a direct look at the instructional quality and district-adoption readiness of the full WL1 curriculum. For the complete six-unit course or district licensing, visit DPESEDU.com.