Strategies for Implementing High-Intensity Functional Training into High School Physical Education

High-Intensity Functional Training (HIFT) has become a popular mode of exercise. HIFT is a training style that involves performance of coordinated, whole-body exercises at high relative intensities. Research has shown that there are numerous health benefits from performing HIFT. This article addresses how to incorporate HIFT into a high school physical education program, suggests some HIFT exercises that may be utilized by high school physical education teachers, offers simple program options high school physical education teachers may want to incorporate in their curriculum, provides some HIFT exercises that can be incorporated in high school, and provides practical options to overcome some potential roadblocks.