 This question is from Chris DJ if you had one hour with a high school gym class in a weight room What would you do with them? Hmm? This is a Challenging one because I was I saw this up there and I was already kind of thinking about it like what would I do? I know what I would do, but the problem with what I would do is I don't know How well this would do in a high school class. I'm so disconnected from that age group And I don't know the intention spent like in my this would if I was like a high school gym teacher Like I would love to be like, you know all month long. We're talking the squat. I know I was just thinking one exercise Yes, maybe two max right. That's it. That's it like all month It would be like this month is the squat and so we would learn the squat We would practice the skill I would show the difference between students and what's going on with each one like oh He's he's limited here because of his ankle mobility Oh, she's limited here because of her hip mobility and like pointing out all these things and teaching them Like you could teach the squat obviously you teach the squat for a whole year And but I mean I would I would focus on a a movement, especially the big compound lifts, right? So for the first five or six months, I'm going through, you know squat month next month out of that deadleth month and overhead press Right and and then trying to break down all the things that are important to you know to getting better at it now Geez, I don't know how many kids would love like hey, guess what we're doing today again squatting with mr. Schaefer, you know Yeah, like fucking like that exciting yeah, but I mean CrossFit what's going on right in a perfect world though I mean at that age those kids are really starting to starting to figure out that working out. It's important Most of them don't have very good mechanics So I think what they would benefit the most from would be taking a Single exercise you have to change you have to completely change their focus, right because in high school when you're lifting weights Especially when it's a bunch of guys lifting weights It quickly becomes strong. Yeah, who's the strongest to see who can lift the most weight, right? That's what you value the most So you'd have to really sell hard and make the case that it's about technique practice inform and Practice these exercises and we're gonna use weight that is you know, that's light and we're gonna do today We're gonna do you know three exercises and we're gonna practice these until we get really really good You have to sell the shit out of that because naturally you just want to see who's the strongest It's interesting that somebody brought this go. I don't know who brought this question today But you know, I have someone a good old client of mine who I used to train for many years Is a high school teacher at one of the local high schools and she's actually They put together a whole presentation that I guess they used our Bunch of our YouTube videos to all the gym classes. So I think a couple hundred students Or it was watching mind pump TV on I don't even remember which ones they were using But I saw that she'd shared it with me and I said, you know, let me know When would be a good time I said, you know, maybe we can get down there and talk and I'd really like to start to make our way into high school So this question makes me try and think of like how we would go in there and I think that's what we would do Sal's I think we would go in and really make the case. That's it sell that sell the idea of why Good mechanics and not just being you know being able to lift a lot away is is more important And then and try and challenge the kids to not only get stronger But also work on improve the improving the movement itself and how the kids would be receptive to it I mean, I was in a they had a weight training specific class that wasn't like an elective that I took in high school and You know on top of already doing like team workouts and things Where they kind of got a little bit into the mechanics of it But it was very like all over the place like I would have loved to have very specific You know cues and techniques, you know revolving around just a squat or just an overhead press so I could master those things and you could you could really dive into posture you could dive into like why You know, there's discrepancies and how to address those things as you go through the process Yeah, those those are the two exercises that I'd really love to focus on the squat and the overhead press I think those are kids Yeah, absolutely Just a bit mechanics in the form and then slowly getting them better and because at that age just Practicing actually this at any age, but especially at that age just practicing form and technique and getting better You're gonna get stronger. You're gonna get a lot strong a lot of the reason why a 24 year old is so much stronger than a than a 17 year old isn't because a 24 year old is bigger A lot of it's just to have more control over their body more time under the boat And that's another one you could that's maybe one of the ways you could sell it to the kids and say look you're 15 16 years old trust me you have way more strength than you know you do You just don't have no to access it because you don't have the control over it Just like a dog when it's a puppy and it's you know Year and a half old this as big as it's gonna be but it's all clumsy and it moves That's that's you guys you guys are a bunch of clumsy pups eat puppies And I'm gonna teach you guys how to move better and really learn how to harness your strength So you can have that old man strength like your dad So your dad beats you up and you know when he wrestles with you all the time Yeah, you know you have to kind of sell that to the kids so they kind of get it because otherwise they don't value I didn't value that at all when I was in high school lifting weights I don't give a shit man as long as I there's a couple parameters. Did it touch your chest? Yeah, did you get the bar up cool? You did the lift you're the strongest. I can bench more than you I'm winning. That's it