CYCLING SMARTS
Cycling as Alternative Physical Education in NYC Public High Schools
Cycling Smarts is offered as an elective physical education class at 4 different NYC public high schools in the fall and spring semesters. Training rides range from 15-70 miles after school and on weekends during warm months. Students spend the winter months building their strength through our unique resistance training program. They also conceive one project to encourage healthy activities in their communities.
Cycling Smarts is a sports-based youth development program that takes high school physical education out of the gym and onto the streets of New York City! Our classes in the Lower East Side, Washington Heights, Brooklyn, and the South Bronx offer students the opportunity to ride throughout all 5 boroughs, maintain their bike, gain cycling skills, develop their strength and endurance, set goals, and grow their knowledge of nutrition and physiology. Every semester ends with a culminating challenge that all Cycling Smarts students take part in together.
MIND-CRAFTING: GRIT, PERSEVERANCE, AND DETERMINATION
We believe determination is a muscle that every individual can train and strengthen. Students spend each semester setting and tracking cycling, fitness, and leadership goals. Our growth mindset-based curriculum encourages students to see obstacles and set-backs as steps on the road to success.
THE I CHALLENGE MYSELF CENTURY RIDE