1960’s Teens Were Ripped Chads

[@MingWar_BalGlo]

2 things that came to mind watching the kids from the 60s; 1 is that this was like right before fast food and hyper convenient pre packed foods really started to take off in America. Yes they were around but not at the scale and level of consumption that it would hit a little over a decade later. And 2, while I won't say it happened, it wouldn't surprise me if these kids were the most fit in their school and were compiled together into one class in order to produce this video; this was during the height of the cold war so it wouldn't be shocking if this were made and put out as propaganda like "look at our future troops, the reds don't stand a chance." Still tho, awesome stuff..

[@zerohero6602]

Thought something similar to this too. Good point about fast food

[@codyzumr4040]

To add, they didn't have all the convenience of technology, yes telephones and tvs existed but even then those kids spent majority of their time outside moving

[@basicmeme1040]

Fast food got people bigger. Those kids were more muscular than most of today's kids.

[@Itstime1231]

You have to look at how big the school grounds were and the affluent neighborhood, they're all white and in a nice part of california, so they have the funds, kids are well fed, presumably, and this was definitely not implemented at every school. Would have been super cool to have this as a kid.

[@imitatsiya]

yeah, readily-available zogchow really took a toll on this country...

[@kellensailors2200]

In high school we had an old school PE teacher who loved running. Our final for the semester was infamously called the, "20 Minute Run", where we had to run laps for 20 minutes without stopping. This rule was strictly enforced and your grade depended on it. It did not matter how far you went or how slow you ran, you just had to keep running. He slowly worked us up to the 20 minutes mark with 5, 10, and 15 minute runs over weeks. The success rate was extremely high. I remember watching an overweight girl trudging along for the 20 successfully. His point was we all had the potential to do this if we tried, and he was right. We also had to do pegboards and other old school shit like in the video. I had him his last year of teaching at 65. The dude could still do a pegboard no problem.

[@jsplit9716]

In Germany it's mandatory for it's mandatory for high school students from a certain grade on to do the cooper test,. That's a 12 minute run where you will get scored based on how far you ran.

[@mario8833]

Yes the infamous Cooper test, we do that in Italy and the average student hates it. Instead, I really love PE class because they made us do stuff like hurdles, dashes, long jump, and throws (with medical ball). I mean, during that time I was having fun and having an hour of physical activity beside all that hours (both in school and at home) sitting on a chair studying

[@grifgriffin6738]

I had the same kind of PE Teacher in elementary school. Back in the early 90s.

[@LatimusChadimus]

That lawyer sounds like he lives the majority of his life as sedentary which explains why his own back and his own knees will hate him because they get no stimulation which means they don't get to adapt and become more resilient

[@jimmierustler5607]

For real. the amount of times i see people in their EARLY THIRTIES "Blowing out their back" or knees by picking up a box or even just sleeping badly. They are never athletic in any way. If you don't prepare your body at all for your entire life you end up so suceptible to injury SO YOUNG.

[@obi-wankenobi9871]

Seems like you lot dont know too many blue collar workers, especially from the old days. Exercise is about controlled overload to stimulate, hard labour lacks this control. For many their job is basicly the same as over training. Not for a mesocycle, but for decades. By your theory masons, blacksmiths, fettlers and butchers should be the definition of health, yet the reality is, that their joints are often worn out as early as 45 years old. You and Zack both didnt even try to construct a proper argument aginst the claim. You just went straight for the ad hominem fallcy. Outside of an echo chamber it really only makes you look like the stupid one. And now dont come at me trying some retarded comment like: Uh, you must be promoting a sedentary life style and have bad joints.

[@jsplit9716]

@@obi-wankenobi9871 Thank you. This is the reason people in physically demanding jobs want their children to get an education so they don't have to do physical labour later on.

[@ayylmao541]

@@obi-wankenobi9871 agreed. just shows how sheltered and out of touch with reality some people are. most older blue collar workers i know are absolute fucked with all kinds of joint issues while the ones in best shape are the ones with cushy sedentary jobs but the ability to workout a specific amount of time in a week. if you think blue collar work is good for your joints you havent done blue collar work. im so happy i stopped doing it and went back to school and got a degree and now have a cushy sedentary job. in the best shape of my life right now. working 6 days a week 10 hours a day is just too much for the human body.

[@toomuch9762]

Sorry but he’s telling the truth. I’ve known people who worked like this all their lives. And they are banged up fairly bad. Old farmers and builders. And I’m talking about farmers who used ploughs and cut hay with a scythe. The human body is not made out of iron. And this idea it can adapt to everything is bullshit. Otherwise no one would get injured ever

[@baldo19724]

My son, who is in high school, has shown some interest in lifting so I started him doing some basic stuff like weighted carries, bearhug squats with a sandbag, chin-ups, push-ups, etc. Basic stuff. I asked him what their Phys Ed class was like and was dumbfounded by his answer. They walk around the gym for 15 minutes and the remaining 45 minutes is free time. I almost wish I didn't ask.

[@basicmeme1040]

So for the first 15mins they waste calories

[@ynghuch]

Is that how bad America has become!!! Jesus, at least British kids are still moving around.

[@basicmeme1040]

@@ynghuch huh wdym.

[@basicmeme1040]

@@ynghuch at least ukranian and Russian kids are still moving around oh wait

[@AndreasFunnell]

@@basicmeme1040 Okay dude.

[@RamseyDewey]

Yeah man, physical culture in schools is huge- whether through PE classes or sports. It’s something I didn’t understand or appreciate back then because I was the skinny kid who got picked last for teams. A friend of mine here in Shanghai managed to get BJJ instated as a mandatory subject for all students K-12 at one of the big private schools here. The PE curriculum before was the basic Chinese revolutionary jumping jacks (I should send you a video of that to review!) the difference is amazing.

[@BuckyBoBo]

Not expecting to see you here 😂

[@RamseyDewey]

@@BuckyBoBo Why not?

[@BuckyBoBo]

@@RamseyDewey not entirely sure why, but you generally don't see a lot of martial arts guys watching weight lifting content

[@RamseyDewey]

@@BuckyBoBo Zack and I did a podcast discussing that exact issue. You can listen to the whole thing longform on my channel, and some great clips of the conversation here on Zack’s channel. Yep, most martial artists don’t lift, and they and hate, fear, and resent strong people- which is incredibly silly since combat sports have incredibly high athletic demands. So, to put it bluntly, we end up with some of the dumbest, weakest preparation for some of the toughest sports.

[@BuckyBoBo]

@@RamseyDewey exactly! I started with weightlifting about a year or two before I began Muay Thai. It's honestly surprising, especially during clinch work. How weak everyone else in the class is when it comes to arm and back strength. I am by no means a large person, 5'8 and anywhere between 135 and 140 lb. Strength training is vastly more important in martial arts than the culture would have you believe.

[@handeggchan1057]

That clip is from La Sierra High School and was part of a program and more or less marketing campaign by Stan LeProtti to try and have similar programs implemented all over the US. It was by no means a typical program, and the video itself included the best of the best kids in the program, many who went to that school specifically for it, not just the average teenage boy. It would be akin to looking at footage of a conditioning and lifting session at a top-tier Highschool football program in Texas or Florida nowadays (and the kids playing football are way stronger and more athletic now).

[@handeggchan1057]

Like,, the 80 or so kids on my football team in HS would have smoked those kids in everything besides like, bodyweight stuff, since we didn't all weigh 150lbs.

[@GoldenChildBH]

Another example of the importance of fact checking.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

What the Army means when it says "not fit for service" doesn't mean literally too weak to do military stuff. Basic training is designed to gradually take a new private from the couch to a fitness level sufficient to handle the demands of service. Instead "fit for service" refers to a potential recruit who is: 1) Free of serious criminal convictions/charges 2) Free of medical issues (this includes depression, anxiety, asthma, diabetes) 3) Free of face and hand tattoos 4) BMI under 27.1 for males and 5) Have a high school diploma and pass the ASVAB.

[@tanngrisnr5076]

Zack to your point about fitness in schooling. The video is of course a very limited example, essentially a piece of marketing. But regardless I think the biggest reason a P.E regimen like that isn't possible anymore has more to do with the defunding and increased privatization of the American school system. Considering that for at least white Americans the 60s where a period where the country had seen some of it's most extensive spending to improve it's welfare it makes sense that a school could have resources to actually put a program like that in place. Oh also I thought it important to note that the school in question seems like a non-intigrated all-white school I wonder what the P.E program for schools that weren't looked like in that same town

[@cows543]

That thrower, Payton Otterdahl isn’t even a top 4 shot putter in America right now either, just goes to show how absurd throwers are

[@camboyrdee]

The issue with kids too is that they always want what they don’t have. If this was the class, they would hate it and wish you rolled out the ball. If you roll out the ball, they think you’re lazy and wish you ran it like this.

[@ronnieplumper6047]

Thanks for these videos Zach. I come home from a shitty long day where my job has me wanting to end it all and this just levels me out. On the one hand these little videos are such a small thing, but the humour, self deprecation and common sense just give me hope that the world hasn’t completely lose the plot. Keep it coming bro

[@motorlearningaddiction6284]

"We can't just fail a student because they can't do some sort of physical task." I disagree and I think we should be failing students for not being able to complete a physical standardized test, which includes modified tests for disabled students. PE teachers need to be held accountable like any other subject in school to ensure students are receiving both a physical education and an adequate amount of physical activity that supports them in their journey of becoming an adult. In my experience throughout grade school, I was never given an actual education about fitness, how to maintain the chassis that carries the head on my shoulders, and how it relates to my health. Carrying this education into adulthood wasn't even available as an option - it didn't exist. There are a lot of good PE teachers out there that genuinely care, but there's also a lack of emphasis on preventative education, lack of funding for schools and teachers, and a lack of consequences for failure that filters out many of the good ones. As a result, like you said, kids just don't give a sht. Most of us watching this video would agree that the world needs more exercise and physical activity, but unlike eating and sleeping, the majority of those that are not active participants don't see the point in participation until their chassis starts to break down and affects their ADLs. It's never too late, but it's kind of late. - PS I enjoy hearing your thoughts and opinions on topics in fitness. Thank you for your content!

[@sewwhat6525]

You’re right about lack of fitness but some of it is due to taking the gym & recess time to spend further instruction on book subjects which have also deteriorated due to “enlightened” teaching concepts

[@basicmeme1040]

Northern Europe education>teaching me about igneous rocks and reading shakespeare for 80 times over

[@christopherroberts2500]

@@basicmeme1040 Ah yes, let's take lessons from the Nordic nations overrun by sandal rapists. How many no-go zones you guys got over there now?

[@GratefulNPC]

I graduated from a small private school 4 years ago and now help my friend lead an afterschool weightlifting "class". Really fun to see kids get into lifting earlier than I did

[@paoloh885]

I think we might be overglorifying the 60s here. That video was most likely made for propaganda purposes during the cold war. This could have been a way of the US trying to show them how much fitter their future soldiers were. So because of that, I'm sure they only filmed the fittest kids and left out the unfit. However, I still think they should adopt systems like these at all schools in the world. I only had PE once a week and although it wasn't as bad as in some of the comments here, it still could have been made a lot better.

[@BanjoBitty]

I was thinking similarly.

[@TeTraRaVen1]

You are easily my favorite KZbinr next to the boogz. Your style is so fun to watch

[@justinmund7704]

Zack my man just be honest u got these compliments cause ur god damn handsome 😌 Have a nice day y'all 🙏

[@danaaxelson6200]

I will be 70 next year. During grades 1-12 there were only two fat kids through all the grades. We walked everywhere. Always playing and active. My parents would say after supper. Get outside and don’t come home til street lights come on. Always playing and making up competitions. On field days only got medals for first, second and third. Fitness was last thing on our minds, only fun. No participation ribbons. If you wanted a medal you worked hard to earn one.

[@benjamindover2601]

The 1960's might've been the single greatest time to be a teenager/young person in American history, everything was cheap, jobs paid well and everyone was having sex and doing drugs. Now everyone is doing a different kind of drugs.

[@basicmeme1040]

What kind of drugs back then? Also if those kids were having sex and doing drugs they'd be way skinnier

[@gsp4prez]

Except if you were anything else than a white male.

[@escapegulag4317]

fitness back in the day. I remember my dad and my uncles telling me how fit they were in their teens and that they didnt need to lift weights to get strong and that in fact they were stronger back then than we are today (keep in mind this was 10 years ago or more), at first I thought that they were trying to bring me down or something because I was making gains in the gym like crazy and people were noticing but today, in 2022 I realize they are right. Looking at the young dudes in the clips I can 100% say I cant do some of that stuff without injuring myself, sure I can outlift them but their athleticism back then trumps mine by a lot.

[@muhammadsubhanalzibrah9147]

10 reps of "Kelapa sawit" push press🤣

[@y0gokvlt]

Chad Palm Kuli vs Virgin Lawyer

[@nicksulham12]

I'm a parent, teacher, and I have been highly physically active since I was 6. I have to say this about the PE part of things (I'm not a PE teacher by the way) - it starts at home. Your kids need to see you active. You need to instill in your kids that it is important to be physically active. The kids that are the most active in PE at my school are those that are on sports teams and are active on their own. The kids that do not participate in PE are the ones that go home and play 8 hours of video games with parents that do nothing about it. Some kids may have a disability that prevents them from participating, but we have plenty that do not have a disability and simply decide not to take part. PE is not a class that would be considered for summer school. We have students that know they can fail PE and still move on to the next grade. It's a shame to see because we have some great PE teachers at my school.

[@DanielSt444]

As soon as I saw the title I knew it was gonna be La Sierra. That seems like such a neat program to be a part of but I can also see the complaints people had

[@awdabstracts7030]

Please do a video on throwers, use to be one and your description of throwers is spot on, has me laughing everytime.

[@mrcinderblock987]

I’ve never seen such a strange squat rack as the thrower was using

[@ryanreviews8566]

it's not impossible. it's just that nobody in the education department cares ENOUGH to re-implement the La Sierra program and make it better today.

[@michaelrogowski62]

The man in the beginning did a bazooka lift! 😂😂 impressive lift

[@Vamavid]

9:20 There are interviews of those kids (now elderly) on KZbin.

[@Red_Rem]

It’s pretty funny/sad that P.E. is the only “class” that doesn’t have to educate you at all. In every high school I knew growing up; you would pass or fail based solely on attendance. That’s the first area we’d have to change imo. Make P.E. an actual class. Educate kids on healthy habits & physical activity. Don’t just let them have the option to play. P.E. right now is not a class, it’s just recess with an attendance requirement.

[@freakied0550]

Anime plot: A chad from the 1960s is sent to the future to take on evil corporations plaguing modern American society. His name: Paris Butler aka Bald Omni Man

[@5wisher5weet]

Jordan Harbinger had the video on loop and thought he was actually lifting it up every 15 seconds

[@utgardkraft1412]

Agree that PE when I was in school sucked. We played some team sport and ran... Not even regular pushups, air squats or pullups. A disgrace. Hoping to keep my kids fit and healthy despite the total collapse of fitness in school.

[@basicmeme1040]

Not lifting is fine

[@leonelmartinez2486]

When I have time I take the majority of my nieces and nephews (im a bachelor) and we do a little circuit of jumping Jack's push ups and squatting and then we do 2 laps of short distance running 1 walking for 10 minutes. I love them so much so I try my best

[@shalami_lifts9176]

zack youve never done hard manual labor and it shows. doing that type of work destroys your body. i used to work for an agriculture company and it makes training impossible and your lower back and knees are always sore

[@thomaslink9020]

Just 15. minutes a day of competing physically against their peers must of had a huge positive influence on those kids mental health.

[@Yahweh42069]

those boys were being prepared for conscription

[@Polack-ml9fh]

Well part of the problem is the gym teachers are typically the most out shape teacher in the building.

[@SlightlyTarded]

I work in the California education system, what makes things worse is how schools have made PE optional by offering classes to replace it (elective health classes).

[@Tee468]

And 9:45 that's what's wrong with the US school system. Class was always too slow for me and PE was a joke

[@Rick-se5qm]

I was in HS around this time..64-68. PE would have been fun with equipment like that. We just ran around the campus. There was a temporary setup for pull ups and parallel bars but for those of us who would have benefited from strength training there was no program available.

[@kevinchitsaz9447]

Bro he was kidding when he said squat. Did that joke really fly over ZT's head?

[@scottessery100]

Wonder what those chads in 1962 would think of the class of 22

[@basicmeme1040]

Skinny feed them more

[@Bjorn_R]

12:14 If the lawyer actually puts in a couple of hours of training a week he is going to much better off. The worker is impressive, but heavy repetitive work will absolutely leave your body with injuries from wear and tear. Just look at regular workers, they have bad backs and knees and so forth. There even is research on this kind of stuff.

[@canIshouldI]

We have traditional over-head press, behind-the-neck press, and now "in-the-neck press".

[@trevorkenny]

That blue check should stick to what he knows.

[@jamesmichael7448]

Well said about the ego with CrossFit. I know CrossFitters who strong AF and very good athletes, and others who are not and get themselves hurt all the time because of their ego.

[@matthew.88]

Chads where we at 💪

[@thepainfultruth2863]

My dad was born in the 60's I can never give him the affirmation of seeing this video

[@TW-fs3fj]

That is the La Sierra High School fitness program. It was not standard across the nation

[@luiscalderon7383]

My middle school had and still has the color shorts system

[@cryptid4064]

3:32 The face hugger

[@andrewgirod]

Mastering the lunchtime content

[@ukaszbartodziejski3662]

Truth be told Zack part of my family is farmers and i do see that heavy toll from continous hard physical work. Its not like there is no drawbacks. I still thing tho its better then sit at the desk and do nothing. But just to keep that in mind. If you work for years in hard physical enviroment it the pain and injuries gonna catch u up eventually :/

[@Theo-ul8qm]

95% of what I did in high school PE was play soccer. Loved every minute 😁

[@CAPTAINLEGZ]

if that one guy who did the 505 behind the neck press trained the arthur lift im sure he could beat the world record of 386 lbs

[@mikeandridge9641]

Great documentary on La Sierra HS.....Very cool to watch--highly recommend.

[@jeffcowen2140]

Great vid

[@TStizzle19]

HE DID THAT IN FLIP FLOPS

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

6:41 (In flaffy voiceover accent) "These fine young men will make great cannon fodder in South Vietnam fighting for Military Industrial Complex profits". You have to keep in mind that this is what these programs were for. Tim Kennedy is a supreme soldier, and yet he was fighting in two wars no US soldier should have been sent to fight in. How many hundreds of thousands died in Iraq and Afghanistan and all we got out of it was ISIS and a reborn Taliban. What a joke. No kid should aspire to that. So yes, I would much rather everyone be stronger, fitter, tougher and more capable. But I would rather kids aspire to be that guy who shot their Draft Officer in Russia than to fight in some bulls**t war for some war profiteer.

[@coach_jerem]

Really cool video as usual ! You are looking bigger than before man !

[@jeungbou]

Shows random black-white video with no context. Gets to conclusion that the population was fitter in the days... Sorry but that is not how it works. These kids are now in their 70s, but we don't see that many ripped and fit 70-year olds. If that really was PE class in the 60s they did a pretty bad job, because they were not able to promote an active life-style after high-school. I bet the current generation will on average age better than the kids in the video. Also there are no females in the video. People back in the 60s even believed that physical exercise is bad for females. When I grew up many sports were still banning women.

[@dmanzawsome]

6:03 In shorts/tictoc ppl with title a lift with an easier movement so when they do the harder movement it is more impressive!

[@davidcraig9540]

I never really thought of 1960s people as having fun haha that was kinda cool to see

[@markbreidenbaugh6033]

I have only ever tried doing power cleans and I am sure my form was awful and I worked up to 175lbs which was easy, but every rep I would get light headed and by the time I worked up to 175lbs I almost passed out, had to sit down, had major stars in my vision. I think I was low bar back skwaating close to 400lbs at the time. Not really sure what was going on. Can anyone explain this to me? Oh and I have terrible shoulder mobility and cannot actually get a front rack position either which is awful I know.

[@zachemorgan]

IDK i really didn't start developing muscles untill after high school around 25 even though I was in wrestling and worked out my body just didn't respond to it much. maybe I was eating a much worse diet not getting enough protein. But I think some people just develop there strength later than others as well.

[@Zombiewasabi]

HALLOW THANK YOU FOR NEW VIDEO I AM LADY! That 60s video wreaks of propaganda, I’m not sure that’s how it was normally. The main problem is definitely the amount of sugar, salt, and fat they put in our food. The restrictions for the amount of shit they put in our food is next to nothing in the us.

[@stuartbramwell7731]

Love the Deus Ex Human Revolution background!

[@TheFriNightDelight]

I’m pretty late to this, but I think you missed some context on the 60s video. The US was not long off the heels of the Korean War and the Vietnam conflict was ramping up. The draft for Vietnam started in ‘64 so it would make sense for the president/fed gov to, most likely, incentivize training boys to make them as easily as possible to draft/recruit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy that created the program was a Vet that rolled over a lot of physical training he learned in his service.

[@strengthcoachn8299]

So Juji just dropped a song. Seems like you've got some competition Zack.

[@royshambo]

The problem with the standardized tests isn’t with the actual tests, it’s the fact that passing standardized tests is taught as the goal of education. Passing standardized testing should be the bare minimum, with education giving ALL students the tools and opportunity to exceed the standard.

[@cavemanjoe79]

With the kid trying to do the powerclean, maybe start with just the bar and get technique down first.

[@danaaxelson6200]

This was good forum.

[@cheeks7050]

Wear and Tear doesn't matter because our bodies fucking regenerate. Yes not every single tissue type regenerates, but even when tissues fail the body is extremely good at finding new ways to move.

[@HechanovaArkitektura]

American Ninja Warrior = 1962 PE class

[@JerichoLindsey]

That style of Phys Ed is totally posisble. start earlier and provide nutritious meals like france, japan, or finland.

[@blackedmirror5073]

Competition makes greatness.

[@petrinafilip96]

In US public schools if you fail kids you lose funding, so schools have to make kids pass, so standards get lower and lower (other option is closing down schools, which is even worse in the end). And Its happening with reading skills, maths AND physical education. It's the "no child left behind" policy. Ironically, one of the seasons of "The Wire" explores this issue in depth.

[@basicmeme1040]

Reading skills? Every kid ik can read and has been writing boring English "short responses with evidence" for ages

[@petrinafilip96]

@@basicmeme1040 Reading is not just going through the letters on the page, it also consists of critically going through the material and coming to logical conclusions. I assume it would be fair to call it reading comprehension skills. But even the basic reading skills are at like 8th grade level on average nowadays. Thats why there is so much face value media consumption that leads to misinterpretations of artists intent. Reading comprehension translates a lot to media consumption in general.

[@basicmeme1040]

@@petrinafilip96 that stuff repeats after 5th grade tbh

[@shikharnegi8793]

Training regular actually makes my body recover faster.

[@BulkBrogan.]

The physical fitness program like that of that high school in the 60s is possible they'll just have to start gently and more game-like with the youngest kids and apply the program to every year after that until they have it for every year Jim Wendler's 50minute talk about how he coaches strength and conditioning for his high school football team really fits how I see the unfit youth problem Why tf would you blame the kids, the older generations who raised them are the ones who have failed And most of the time the parents straight up just didn't know any better So there's no one to blame just some work to be done But it's way easier to bitch in some comment section about perceived glory days than it is to actually help others and fight back against decaying systems

[@fluffmallow1159]

I should like a link to the me and the boys meme

[@MicrophoneAssassin13]

Re: the kids, I suspect that there are similar examples of especially apt students being given (though less demonstrably) a vastly superior education in mathematics and science. Might an elite mathematician (or math coach, to keep the metaphorical symmetry) express dismay over our systems inability to produce quality students at such a rate? More broadly, this segment highlights the problem with uniform expectations for large populations. Having a fixed standard of mathematical competence for every single student would be like requiring every student to bench 225 for 10 reps - easy for some, impossible for others.

[@ernstfall967]

I was born in the mid 1950s in Sweden. Almost no young persons were fat at that time and the few we considered fat then would probably not have been viewed that way today. Of course we moved around much more then than young people do today, but I believe the main reason we were ripped were the way we ate. My sister and I shared one small soda once every week. We didn’t snack, three meals a day, very seldom fast food or highly processed food. And only sailors and criminals were tattooed back then...

[@LatimusChadimus]

5:29 😂

[@arthurdayne1297]

Let’s be honest, all of ours knees elbows backs and etc. Will be fucked up in the elderly ages and of course training and maxing out would affect that, but what the reason to be absolutely healthy when your are old and can’t do anything like this anymore anyways?

[@buffetline2605]

Kid in line for the peg board was balding. Oh the 1960s.

[@MrEazyE357]

Wtf is dude loading into the truck in the 1st clip?

[@Benaddicted11trkfbal]

I saw that video of teens being super fit not too long ago. some days went by and a political dude came to my door asking about issues he wished I could express or see my congressman take action for. I said fitness, I said people are too unhealthy, they are not fit and it isn't good. he tried to say good point but brought up some stuff about ppl don't want to be 'fatphobic' I kid you not. I said it isn't good, so idk maybe someone may hear this sentiment, but its unlikely.

[@basicmeme1040]

Squat was a joke they expected him to squat it he obliterated it

[@basicmeme1040]

This was a military camp

[@spartakos3178]

One more reason to home school .... PE is personalized instruction father to son.

[@kane6529]

Christ $150 Khakis they better give me a 10% increase in strength 😂

[@ubermenschbrent]

Deus Ex: HR background wtf lol

[@Paroex]

Paint it Black is a good song, but I do appreciate some Yoshi's Island tunes, too.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

Lol you know that was a magnet school for athletes, don't you? It's not just some random high school. Lmfao dude

[@frankb5728]

That palm lift isn't super heavy, it's cumbersome because of the shape/size. I see a lot of those types of comments on image sharing sites like imgur, along with horrible lifting infographics. The casual doesn't know their knee from their elbows.

[@anaussie213]

High rep technical movements for reps for time is a terrible methodology. Encourages poor technique to get the most amount of reps on lifts that require high technique.

[@Linkous12]

Love the Deus Ex background.

[@noosphericaltarzan]

Most men back then were thin but not that strong. I’d argue the men who did train actually looked better, though. I mean.. look at footage of Woodstock pr and early Beatles concert. Most young men were thin and not strong.

[@benmalloch]

That generation of kids ended up being one of the most overweight generations in the world in the middle age.

[@danaaxelson6200]

Sheaf toss in highland games