 Next question is from Kat Il Est. My nephew is seven and is showing interest in weightlifting. Where is a good place to start? What exercises or routines would you recommend? Gymnastics. That's right, at seven years old, what you're looking to develop is coordination. Body awareness. And body awareness. And they can get it with weights. It's gonna be really, really hard. Here's a problem with weights and seven. I've trained kids that are real young. I've even trained kids as young as seven or eight years old. And it's literally 10 minutes. That's about as long as you can keep their attention. And it turns into games, which gymnastics is a lot of. You know, when you see seven year olds engage in gymnastics, it's games, it's tumbling, it's fun. Plus they're maneuvering their own bodies and they're getting more body awareness. Weights will help do that as well, but it doesn't do it nearly as well as gymnastics will. Especially not for a seven year old. And trying to get a seven year old to handle a weight above their head, it's not gonna work. It's hard to find dumbbells small enough. It just doesn't work as well. Typically with weights, I start around 12 or 13. But before that, it's like, you know, it's body weight stuff, you know, lunges and squats and push-ups and tumbling and handstands and planks and. Climbing. Climbing is great. Games where they're, they don't even. Balancing. Oh my God, I did this with my daughter. So she's 10 and I go out in the garage and I'm gonna train my son who's 15. So I can train him straight up. We're gonna do exercises. Sometimes with her, I gotta trick her a little bit. So what I did with her is I had her come out and she's like, I don't wanna work out. I'm like, no problem. You don't need to work out. Just hang out with us. And then I got the physio ball down and I said, hey, I bet you can't sit on this imbalance without your feet touching the floor. She's like, yeah, I can. I said, I bet you can. If you do it for 30 seconds, I'll give you 20 bucks. So she, for literally 45 minutes, she sat on the physio ball and tried to balance. About 45 minutes later, she stops and she goes, my core is really sore. She goes, did you trick me into working out my core? No, you're just playing. Gymnastics does a really, really good job of doing this for young kids. Yeah, I definitely, that's 100%. And that's why I enrolled my kids in like a parkour and gymnastic. And it's just so good for them to learn how their body moves, how to adjust, how to react when they're opposing all these different forces from different angles. I think that's just like essential to build off of that body awareness because then they're in their body and you can really teach them now how to utilize and shuttle the right amount of force in certain directions so they're efficient in what they're doing with their body. And one thing that I do apply with my kids that we talk about all the time on the show is to provide opportunities for them when they see something that they just see like a pull-up bar or they see hanging rings like in my house and they just go and do a pull-up, maybe it's one, maybe it's three, but it's always there. And every time they walk past it, they do it. And it's been really fascinating to watch. My oldest now can do like 10 pull-ups in a row. He couldn't even barely do one. And it's those concepts we talk about, it works. And it works with young kids like that. It doesn't have to be complicated. You don't have to teach them all the mechanics of the perfect squat just yet, especially at seven. You can model that for them so they start to watch dad or mom do these exercises. But honestly, it's providing the environment and the structure for them to express their body the way it needs to. And they learn for themselves which then promotes like excitement and energy towards building on that. So I hated training kids. So I'll tell you what not to do. So the things not to do, the mistakes that I made early on trying to train young kids. So even though I say with tongue in cheek that I hated training kids, I trained a lot of kids and I didn't enjoy it a lot at the beginning because I think I over-complicated the process. I was trying to get these kids to focus for like to Sal's point for 60 minutes of a workout, you know what I'm saying? Or to Justin's point, I was really trying to get them to do a squat perfect or a bicep curl perfect and really get them to understand the form and hold their body there. And I would get frustrated because they would get impatient with it. They wouldn't like doing it. And it just felt like I was wasting their time in my time. And I think when I kind of let go of all of that and stopped looking at the way I would train a beginner client and training kids is different. And just if I could get them to do stuff that I would know would promote a good body awareness, good strength, good balance. I started doing different things. In fact, I was just playing with my niece who's eight years old and my niece was eight year old niece and then I have a nephew who's 13 and she has the ability to sit down in a squat really well. And so we were all sitting in my squat and scroll position and I was with her and I was like, can you get down here with me? And she's like, okay, so she can do it. And then I'm like, okay, can you kick your leg out from down here? And so then I would have her and she'd like fall over a couple of times. I'm like, you could, and she'd almost feel it. And she kept practicing it, then she could get it. And I got her to be able to do that. I said, okay, can you now take one leg while you're balancing and then bring it back in and then now switch to the other leg? And then I was, so we messed around with that. That took like 10, 15 minutes for her to get that down. Then she got that down and said, okay, now can you kick the leg out, balance and stand up from that position? And then it took us another 10 to 15 minutes for her to get that. Before you know it, her and I are fooling around for 30 minutes trying to do an exercise. Meanwhile, working on her stability, working on her strength is overall going to make her better at squatting and she's having fun. We're playing with it, we're enjoying it. When I started thinking more like that, right? And I think, Sal, you've alluded to one that I've done similar, I didn't use pencils but I think you've used a pencil one where you throw a bunch of pencils on the ground and you try and see, how many can they pick up without tipping over or falling over? Can they get all 25 or 30 pencils on the ground? Yeah, while balancing on one leg. While balancing on one leg and then you make them switch to the other side which you'll see there'll be a discrepancy most kids right away will have one side they have good stability on, the other side they won't so much. And so playing games like that or having them jump to a single leg balance, right? Jump from one spot and then try and balance on one leg. So doing exercises and movements like that body weight pushups and like Justin alluded to pullups and even just hangs. How long can you hang for? Grabbing rings or grabbing a bar and I bet you can't hold this for 30 seconds. If you can, I'll give you this and I'll challenge you to that. And so I think when I started to piece that together that I'm never gonna get this kid to do three sets of 15 bicep curls and then five sets of squats, you know, like I let go of all that shit and just said, hey, if I could just get this kid to work on their balance and stability a little bit and their proprioception, their body awareness, that's a great foundation. And you said it perfect. I think Sal said this that, you know, gymnastics, I for sure, I think two years old is when I can first enroll Max in that. And 100%, I will put them in gymnastics just because I think just for that reason, it's not that I hope that it becomes some, you know, major gymnast one day. I just, I understand that that's probably one of the best things that you could take a kid through to lay the foundation for any and all other sports pursuits, including weightlifting. Totally.