 Next question is from fat husband. What is a good progression for introducing weightlifting to kids and teens? Oh yeah, great question. Now this is true for anybody. This is true for anybody who's being introduced for weight training, but especially for kids. You want to work on body awareness and control first. It's very important for everybody, but with kids what you'll find is when you have them balance even a lightweight overhead, you'll notice that they have poor controls. Like they want to drop the dumbbell on their head. So that's the number one thing that you focus on. And the way you start with is body weight stuff. So you start with regular squats and push-ups and body rows and things where they're balancing their whole body. And then from there, the first things that I do with weights are static holds. So I would have my kid grab a couple dumbbells. I'll help them put it in position above their head and then I'll have them hold it up there real tight and real strong for 10 seconds. Or I'll have them, you know, hold dumbbells and walk nice and tall. Or I'll have them go down to a squat and have them go maybe halfway down and hold that position for 10 seconds. Because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get them connected to their body and get good control because once you get the control, then the rest becomes easier. Now you can do the traditional exercises and build them up. And by the way, that control portion builds a lot of strength as well. You're building a lot of central nervous system strength in your kid. So now as far as sports, if you want something organized, gymnastics is an excellent way to introduce kids to resistance training because it's all body awareness. Yeah, no, I totally agree. I'm glad you brought up the static holds. I think I got the most. I had my kids like we're trying to do overhead presses and they were trying to emulate a lot of the workouts and movements and things that I was doing in the gym and they'd watch. But then wanting to know more and like going through those movements, I found it way more valuable to just slow down and hold the positions first. So they really can understand where they need to tighten in their body, what they need to do to organize things so that they had good control, good understanding of how to hold the weight in an overhead extended position as well because that's an opportunity for me to educate too. Like how this could then affect their back if they do it wrong and all these things. It's just slowing down. I think that transition from body weight exercises and moving and understanding how to react when they get a good understanding through gymnastics, parkour, something like that where they're going through all these rotational things and all kinds of different planes of motion. Once they get through that and then they do the body weight exercises, now to load it. It's one of those essential things I've found is to stop and to hold weight to get really comfortable with that. And then we can kind of move into how you're going to organize moving that weight up and down. I picked this question because it had so many likes. So there's obviously a lot of people that want to hear this and the main reason why I wanted to bring it up is so I could actually point towards the interview that we did with Chad Wesley. Is Wesley his last name? Chad Wesley Smith maybe? Yeah, I believe it's Chad Wesley and we did it a long time ago and every once in a while we have someone on this show that's another fitness professional that kind of blows my mind or really opens my eyes to something and that interview was that. So if you're not interested in this topic, it's not the most amazing interview but if you are interested in topic, I think it's phenomenal. After talking to him, I've made plans. Chad Wesley Smith. Yeah, Chad Wesley, right? So I've made plans for how I will take max through sports and so swimming in gymnastics is the first thing right away after listening to that. So if you're looking for something very prescriptive, like at what ages, what types of play they should be doing, what types of exercise, like he breaks all of that down by their years. Like, okay, so ages here to here, they should be doing so many seasons of general play. They should be doing this much of a specific sport they're into. I think that episode is phenomenal for that and I know Sal already mentioned the gymnastic thing. Like that's a for sure place and that really what that is, that's the body awareness. I mean, they're honing in on how to move in space and gymnastics does that better than any other sport. And so even if you like, you know, I told my friends, like I was going to get max and they're like gymnast, you want him to be a gymnast and I'm like, no, I don't really care if he's a gymnast. I just want him to learn that practice early because for all sports pursuits, that's like the best foundation. The great base. Yes, if they if he ends up falling in love with baseball, soccer, basketball, football, tennis, any of these gymnastics would be a phenomenal foundation for all those pursuits. Plus, you're less likely to get the overuse injury factor. Like if you introduce them too much, you specialize them too early. For instance, there's only so many pitches if you're a pitcher, you know, there's only so many of these repetitive type movements that until it becomes an issue for them later on in their career. So it's like you're shortening the window of their career when in fact if you just introduce them to more sports and then kind of make that into like you're honing in towards a specialty, much better approach. Dude, you just reminded me of a conversation. This would have been better in the intro, but I have to bring it up because you just reminded me. So I was with my PTA best friend, right? So he's a physical therapist assistant. So rehabbing people all the time. You want to know what is a rising major rehab that he has to do right now? What? So, you know, he's used to seeing people that are like advanced age and had hip surgery and knee surgery, but he's starting to get like kids in their 20s and stuff. Wow. Guess what it is? Is it forward neck and shoulder? Video game thumbs. Oh, wow. Nintendo thumb? You say about how you only have so many throws. Well, you have only so many freaking, you know, thumb flicks and rotations because the kids are playing it so excessively now at such a young age. Like an arthritis and everything? Yes. Oh, wow. I forgot what he actually called the name of what it's called, but it's got a name for it. That's an embarrassing intro. I know, right? Well, but you know, to your point, I mean, all these joints, they only have, they do, they have a shelf life in a sense, dude. You can only do them repetitively so much. Without balance? Yes. Yeah. If they're balanced, they can move, they can move a lot, but if they're not balanced, you're just a big problem. Yeah. And if you're a kid who's doing four hours of video gaming every single day, like that's not, there's nothing balanced about that. No, that's crazy. Isn't that wild? That's alarming. Well, you know, here's something we didn't touch upon. I have trained a lot of kids and I will say this, okay, you definitely need to know what you're doing and, you know, do what we just said. But here's another factor that is very important. The workouts need to be short and very enjoyable for kids. Otherwise, you're not, it's just not going to happen. If it's like, come to the workout, do what I say. It's going to be very difficult to build that relationship with exercise. Now, sometimes you do have to tell your kids, sorry, we got to go work out and they have to listen to you. But then when you're doing it, put on fun music, have great conversations, play games in between. Don't treat it super, super seriously because if it's super unenjoyable, they're not going to want to continue to do it on their own. And of course, you can't always be there to train your kids. So try to create a fun environment and you can make exercise. Play heavy and then, you know, when they have questions, that's an opportunity for you to educate. Exactly.