 Question is from Fit Nicky. I'm a middle school PE teacher and I'm passionate about lifting. How would you teach a weightlifting class if you were the teacher? Would you start body weight and then teach them lifts? Any ideas on programming would be great. Oh yeah, that'd be awesome. I'd start with prime. Yeah, I mean, correctional exercises would be phenomenal. Basic exercises that are really good that you can teach, because this is a group. So you get a little bit of a challenge, right? You're teaching a group of kids. So it's hard to be individualized, but I would teach a standard lunge. It's easier for somebody to do that than it is for them to do a squat with decent mechanics. You could try push-ups. Push-ups, I know they do those in school, but if you've ever watched kids do push-ups, it's usually pretty terrible the way that they tend to do them. So you could start with just a plank where the kids are just holding themselves up by their arms and you're timing them for 10 seconds or whatever. And then you could do play drills, because here's the thing as a teacher, we can all remember the few teachers that we had that we really enjoyed, right? The ones that really made an impact. And the reason why we remembered them is they made learning really fun. So I think when you're working with kids, because I've trained a lot of kids, it's when I'm training adults, it tends to be more about making sure everything I'm doing is right for them. When I'm teaching kids, I wanna make sure that the experience is right. Does that make sense? Yeah, I think to the middle school is a little bit of an older kid. I think that you can go a little bit further, not much further than that. You know, sort of on the cusp of, I took a weight, a legit weight training class in high school and I totally benefited from it. Like all the mechanics of it, the levers, the technique. And I loved it and that's something that I was glad to have and I know it's not offered at every school and I wish it was. In terms of the middle school, I think it's definitely teaching the movements. So if you do wanna go the body weight route, I think that's smart. I think it's slowing the whole class down and it's really being able to articulate where they are in space. So they're very aware that their knees traveling a certain distance, they're holding their body, like have them freeze at a certain part of the movement and everybody freezes and you kind of are more aware of this. The reason why I brought up Prime is just to have them go through those three movements so they can see, oh wow, my arms can't stay touched to the wall for the wall press. Oh no, I can't twist my body like that with my upper back to be able to produce a windmill. I can't squat with it touching all points. It's just, it's really raising that awareness and then I would think that really focusing the attention on the body weight, exercise, like I said, lunge, push-ups, squats, air squats, basic things, but really like taking your time with it. I'll give you an example of a way to make it kind of fun because just a couple of things I used to do with kids. One thing I would do is to work on balance and strength. I would have a kid balance on one foot and then I'd drop either jacks or pencils or something on the ground around them and it's okay, how many can you pick up without putting your other foot down? And it would be a game, like, oh, you got five or you got six and they're just bending over, picking up all the stand on one foot. Yeah, games are super effective. Yeah, another one that I would do is I would have them stand on one foot and we would hit a balloon back and forth and the goal was for them to miss the balloon but stay on that one foot. So I'd hit it to them and then it hit it back and we'd go back and forth. Making the things fun is just as important as doing the right things with kids because you wanna create a good association with exercise. A lot of kids have a bad association with PE. You know, like, oh, my teacher made me run the mile. Oh, it sucked, everything sucked and they don't wanna do. Then the second, they don't have to be active, they're done. One of the best things you could do is create a good association so they can think back and be like, oh, wow, Mrs. Johnson, she was, that class was great, we did these wonderful stretches, we did these fun games, you know, I really enjoyed it. Now you've potentially created kind of this lifelong associate, a positive association with exercise. Yeah, I love the prime idea that Justin's saying with the assessment tool in there, I think that's a valuable thing. I think that maps anywhere protocol, I think, is phenomenal. There's a lot of great core body weight stuff that's in there that I think you could teach to middle school kids and then to piggyback off of what Sal's saying, you know, I remember teaching like some of my boot camp classes where I had all the kids come and, you know, we do fun things like that where we would do sprints on the lawn and we'd try and make games out of it, you know, I know you can't, you know, steal the bacon is not something we can do anymore in school these days, which is unfortunate, but. You can't steal the bacon? No, you can't do red rover. I thought steal the bacon is gone too. How can you, why? Was it steal the broccoli or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, I would get them in a line too and do like walking lunges and then I would, you know, blow a whistle and they'd have to stop where they're at and stabilize or balance, you know, so they do like walking lunges and align all of them together in a group and then have them pause the top while they're balancing on one leg. Yeah. So there's a lot of things like that that you can do. Red light, green light. Yeah, you can get creative like that. And I think that's true. I think Sal's right. I think you can't over complicate the programming to where you're just, at that age, you're trying to introduce them to exercise. You're trying to make it fun. You want to encourage good movement, but then at the same time too, you don't want to over complicate it so much because teaching someone a squat mechanic is extremely difficult. Teaching them how to dead lift is, at that age it's really, really, and then in a group setting, you're talking about, and then also fun. I mean, to do it well, you'd have to stop the class every minute and break everything down. And kids nowadays are so much less active that you're, I mean, I'm serious. It would be like, and by the time they're in middle school, so you're dealing with what, 12 year old kids? Any movement is great. Yeah, 12, 13 year old. They don't want to sweat, you know. They're looking at the girl over there. The girl's like, I don't want to mess up my hair. And none of them are active because nobody's active anymore. So keep it basic and fun would be the main pieces of advice I could give. And then if you're doing the correctional exercise stuff with that, then you can start to move from kid to kid and help them out. We're all going to get on the floor. We're in a position called 90-90. Here's what I want you guys to do. Then stand up and walk around, tell jokes, have fun with them, show them what they can do with their leg or whatever and try and make it kind of a more positive experience.