 All right. Thanks, AJ. Well over 150 Brainerd students from eighth grade and up were in the weight room today getting in a great workout for a great cause. On this week's Northwoods adventure, Anthony Scott explains why today's workout was extra special. Lifting weights to raise money. That's why the Brainerd High School weight room was packed today as the 29th annual Sertoma liftathon was taking place. A lot of these kids have been working hard for this event and it's great to see so many kids that want to help raise money for local charities and as well as helping themselves and their team with their strength game. Students found family members and friends who would pledge money for them to lift weights and then a member of the Sertoma club would reach out to that person to collect donations and each year the liftathon raises about $15,000. It goes right to Sertoma and then they divvied up. They have commitments with the soup kitchen, kinship partners, camp confidence, growing county united way to name a few. At the Sertoma liftathon students had six attempts to complete a bench press, a squat and a clean. I was I was expecting it to be kind of hard and scary but it was really easy at the end you know they made it really fun. Students were competing to see who could have the most pounds per ounces which takes your best lifts from the three events and divides the total weight lifted by your total body weight to get your final score. It's not just the person who has the biggest bench press or the biggest person, it's the person who's the most athletic and well-rounded for their size. And the top male and female are awarded an $800 scholarship in Steve Nunnick's name, the man who started the strength program at Brainerd almost 50 years ago. I think raising the money for charity is awesome for all the things in Brainerd and then the scholarships are there but I do it just to lift and to do my best and I'll perform myself and lift everyone so. The kids that have been working hard to get ready they have tremendous gains especially in strength and also in their confidence so we just want to keep it going for them. The liftathon was another huge success with more students participating this year than in the past five years and that only raises the bar for the next liftathon. Reporting from Brainerd for this week's Northwoods adventure, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News. Good event they've got going on there. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.