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Show Fitness program offered at summer session A youth fitness Program for boys and girls from 8 to 14 will be offered at Southern Utah State College beginning today, Friday, July 5 and running through August 3. Pat Rippe, of the SUSC Physical Education Department, who is in charge of the program indicated that applications will be accepted as late as July 8 for all those interested. Registration can be accomplished by contacting con-tacting Mr. Rippe at the college, 586-4411 or at his home 586-4623. The four week program will place emphasis on sport skills and fitness and will help children to understand and develop key elements of motor performance. Mr. Rippe points out that it will be necessary for each participant to have written permission of their parents and each will be required to wear a complete gym uniform. Activities included in the program will include weight training, gymnastics and posture training, field athletics and conditioning activities; endurance en-durance events and aquatics. Each participant will be given a comprehensive series of physical fitness test items before the start of the program and at the end of the program. Data will be carefully recorded, scored, plotted and graphed in terms' of individual profiles. Those profile sheets will be made available to parents so they can see the effect of such a program. Individual interpretations in-terpretations will be made to the boys, girls and parents, Rippe pointed out. Classes will be held each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. |