Fitness & Conditioning

Grounded in NCS’s mission and core values of excellence, courage, service, and conscience, our fitness and conditioning program seeks to maximize the potential of each individual student-athlete to build a strong body, mind, and spirit.

Strength and Conditioning

Our NCS Strength and Conditioning Department seeks to support our sports teams by:

Improving athletic performance by developing programs specific to each of our sports teams through gradual progression of training intensity;
Decreasing the potential for injury through evidence-based team workouts, dynamic warm-ups, and cool down stretching routines; and
Providing a variety of nutritional information and guidance to improve physical and mental preparation for our students.

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Individualized Fitness

At NCS, we believe students benefit when they engage in both study and exercise. Physical activity helps to develop neural pathways, while reducing stress and building physical strength, so every day our students are moving: playing, exercising, having fun, and learning in the process.

Our physical education curriculum includes several non-competitive, non-team athletics options:

Personal fitness classes;
Running classes,
Climbing and paddling through the Voyageur Program; and
Hip-hop dance, Cathedral dance, Broadway dance, Pilates, and yoga through our Dance Department.

In these classes, students learn to understand their bodies while pushing physical limits and adapting to challenges. This type of training helps them to build resilience, harness their individual power and strength, and learn how physical exploration will help them with their mental health and well-being.

Individualized fitness is a life skill, and we are proud of the hundreds of alumni who have discovered a love of exercise at NCS and have made it a positive part of their daily lives.

Programs

Upper School Personal Fitness

This program promotes the importance of physical activity, nutrition, and healthy cognitive function for our students.

Middle School Personal Fitness

This program implements fun and creative exercise programs to promote health and fitness for our students. We integrate sports skills, movement based training, and fitness exercises.

Middle and Upper School Strength and Conditioning

This program helps our athletes to reach their optimal strength, movement, and cardiovascular level for their specific sports.

Lower School Long-Term Athletic Development

This program teaches our students the importance of athletic position, core strength, and movement technique to improve their athletic ability.

Faculty/Staff Strength Exercise Programs

This program promotes healthy lifestyles through group strength training and nutrition talks for our faculty and staff.

Frances-Merrick Fitness & Weight Room

Our France-Merrick Fitness & Weight Room is a 4,000-square-foot facility that has over 5,000 pounds of free weights, 30 training stations, and a full line of variable resistance machines. Our cardiovascular equipment includes treadmills, bicycles, rowers, and elliptical machines. The fitness and weight room also has a 10-yard stretching area and is equipped with speed-development and plyometric equipment, including medicine balls, boxes, and resistance bands.

Through these non-competitive athletics offerings, our students work together and build a strong body, mind, and spirit. You belong here. Come and discover NCS for yourself.