"Physical Conditioning For a Purpose" (LaSierra High PE Program)

[@stevent4955]

As a nation we need to get back to these values of fitness

[@TheLeanBerets]

Could not agree more. We are in obvious trouble that will never be solved without a foundation of health. -Ron Jones, MS

[@igdlackbig]

*as a species

[@bruhbro1181]

@@TheLeanBerets yea

[@maverickrod2443]

Yeah but programs want to pull kids out of pe any chance they get because they don’t see it as valuable. Parents will call and email for literally any problem. Parents have made they generations soft.

[@Daniel-ll2cl]

You will never america is in decline and its too late

[@dingusdangus1790]

4:00 This absolute unit of a kid is having a conversation, without breaking his stride and without sounding winded, while running. He's the entire team in one human.

[@TheLeanBerets]

It's fascinating to watch the running form of the LaSierra boys because most of them were not distance runners yet ran with better form than most of the elite XC runners in high school today! The gravity work they did off the ground really helped to align their bodies, and the well-balanced physical training they did in PE set them up for balance of movement whether running or doing anything else physical too. This is a graphic portrayal of the values or "real PE" and why we should be doing it now too. -RJ

[@tm5267]

Like 'Swede' Johannson from Heartbreak Ridge

[@dingusdangus1790]

Do you know anywhere that has the complete routine for each level. Finding the warmup is easy enough but I can't find anything beyond that.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@dingusdangus1790 They all did the same calisthenic warm up drills, but you can access the PE handbook and training videos on our film website here: motivationmovie.com/ls-student-manual/

[@vitordanieleal]

@@TheLeanBerets The website went down :/

[@midasfa]

This is something our academy is bringing back into the American fitness system

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@midasfa Make sure to check out the official training videos I created with film maker Doug Orchard. -Ron Jones

[@MrGerrards23]

We need this worldwide. People are wondering why they are depressed or not feeling confident and ready for the day etc. This teaches you many things and gets you ready for life with this habit uk needs it for definite

[@TheLeanBerets]

So many have lost their way because they lost control of their bodies and thus cannot control their minds.

[@SuperWagner23]

Coach Ted Monica, the narrator for the football drills just passed away in March at age 90. He was person friends with Vince Lombardi and Belichick. Monica was scout for the Browns in the 1980s

[@TheLeanBerets]

david wagner Thanks for this information.

[@SuperWagner23]

@@TheLeanBerets Coach Monica was a Physical Educator and HC at Madison HS, NJ from 1954 thru 1981. He was 177-50-4. A 38 game undefeated streak. 9 time state champion. A state champion in 4 decades. He was a Korean War veteran. He graduated Montclair St, NJ in 1950. Enlisted in the USMC. Was wounded in 1953. He maintained a regimented physical fitness practice for himself through out his life.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@SuperWagner23 WOW. This is absolutely an amazing legacy of leading by example. We need this again with current PE teachers and coaches! Staying FIT...for LIFE!

[@SuperWagner23]

Well that was a trip down memory lane. I graduated HS in 1990. I remember doing all those drills in football. My HS coach did not believe in weight training, bulked the muscles up he said. So we pulled tractor tires, semi truck tires wire harnesses he made. We flipped tractor tires. We did farmer walked with what are called suitcase tractor weights, they fit on the front of a tractor to add weight. We put bags of sand in a wheelbarrow and pushed it up a hill. He believed the body is to be worked as a unit. We did do thise isometric neck drills, pullups and dips. The only weight lifting we were allowed to do was power cleans, power snatches and power clean to overhead press.

[@SuperWagner23]

@@DavidMgBrown in 3 years on varsity, 24 W vs 3L during regular season with a 9-0 season. Different game back then.. if we threw the ball more than 5 times a game, we were behind. Double dive wishbone from an unbalanced set.

[@SuperWagner23]

@@DavidMgBrown My HS FB Coach/Physical Educator was a disciple of the Gemanic/Swedish philosophies of movement. My Coach through donations and volunteers built series a pull up bars and dip bars. 20 students could be doing pull ups, 20 doing dips. If you could do 10 or more pullups, the person behind you added more resistance by holding on as you performed the up portion of the pull up. If you could not do 10, the person behind you help you do the pullup and you slowly lowered yourself down. If you could not do a single pullup, you would do flexed arm hangs and slowly lowered. The great thing was everyone was there to support each other.

[@InvisibleHotdog]

Sounds like weight training under a different name

[@SuperWagner23]

@@InvisibleHotdog when I say weight training, I mean body building which is isolation exercises. The body is meant to be worked as a full unit, dips and pulls are considered compound exercises like Olympic weightlifting. In our weight room at school there were non of what you would call body building equipment. Just weight lifting platform for Olympic weightlifting and some portable squat stands.

[@abrahemsamander3967]

Ah! That makes more sense. So, you guys lifted weights, but no body building. That sounds good. That’s what I want. Tire flips sound like great exercises. I want to try practical weight lifting.

[@swalterstennis]

I agree. One commenter said when we abandoned our commitment to our kids’ fitness, we betrayed them. I’m a professional athletic coach and I can’t believe how many kids aren’t doing anything but video games.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Agree. I also work with pro sports and military-they all are saying we have serious movement problems, yet we continue to disregard proper PE and health education. -RJ

[@nofurtherwest3474]

@@TheLeanBerets I was not too far from Carmichael at an event and couldn't help but notice how there were a lot of overweight people. It's the norm now.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@nofurtherwest3474 Tragic “progress.” They went from the best to mediocrity and don’t even know it. :(

[@youraveragechad1948]

thats why i run, swim, and do calisthenics. But i also do video games, you can't say that, that's not fair.

[@Uruz2012]

Car centric culture. There's no place for the majority of city/suburban kids to do anything outside their home without the parents driving them there. Both parents work 40 hrs a week. They get off work, go home, prepare dinner, eat, clean up and watch tv/scroll social media because by then it's already 8pm. If there was a spouse at home, food could be consumed by 5 or 6pm and dishes could wait until the next day. There might be time for evening activities if we all didn't have to work part time after work and drive 30 minutes to get anywhere. House work is work after all. Unions fought to get a 40 hour work week and we all gave it up in the name of "freeing" women from work by having them work for money without acknowledging that they were already working a full time job.

[@RobRoyLad]

The irony of being shown a fast food ad just before this video started.

[@TheLeanBerets]

I am totally disgusted with KZbin and their invasive ads plus they demonetized my channel saying it violated standards and cited some crap about their education standards. My channel provides quality content. -Ron Jones

[@gordonpobar-gk3kz]

You don’t have to ask if there’s a fitness program..just look at the boy. Love it.

[@larryledeboer7801]

Build a foundation of fitness habits. That is a key concept.

[@2xSundays]

How was this not a bigger deal! I live around the corner from La Sierra. No one ever mentioned this when I was growing up!

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@2xSundays It was a very big deal in 1960s. People visited from all over the world to see and learn.

[@ryanmilton2643]

Holy sh*t!! America needs this now!!!

[@TheLeanBerets]

Agree.

[@caucasian_asian2380]

It sucks that they quit doing this now you have to do it on your own time and learn it on your own. It's all fucked up now they molded the pychical training to where everybody can do it but in this they had levels that showed where you were at.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Caucasian_ Asian Agree. We stopped teaching proper PE over 50 years ago and ripped our kids off in the process. -RJ

[@batyrkhanalimzhanov8342]

@@TheLeanBerets For me Phys Ed is such a waste of time as it is right now. I wished I had something like La Sierras program at our school, but instead of becoming better in school, I have to do it on my own at home.

[@jahnwarnermedia]

and with the africans dominating football and basketball...where can the other students participate? I notice most of the athletes at this time and at La Sierra were white~

[@wuamiller]

@John Warner Media… Jesus fuckin Christ dude

[@EdwardM-t8p]

They did that at about the time the offspring of Baby Boomers entered middle school which was junior high in my day. Parents wanted everyone to be a winner so you ended up with participation trophies, and this was probably because most kids growing up in the 1960s and 70s got a poorly executed version of La Sierra's program where the coaches clearly had favorites or didn't bother or succeed with instilling the all for one, one for all ethos. Now it shows with everyone on the verge of fighting each other like starving rats. 😢

[@jusadude7162]

Kids today just couldn’t do this. Too many chemicals in our foods especially hormones like soy and seed oils. Sad.

[@theholyjosh5384]

I mean back then is when they really started pushing seed oils so call it their own doing

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Don't forget it's compulsory, almost mandatory for parents to drive their kids everywhere, supposedly because of stranger danger but in reality walking to school is not safe due to high-speed traffic and bad drivers on the way there!

[@manojveerasamy1120]

You doing exercise?

[@kevinorr328]

I have been looking for the stick or wand exercises that you are so very fond of. Really excited to institute these and the tea cup to our work training. Great information.

[@TheLeanBerets]

There are so many benefits to the restorative arts found in classical PE methods. The wands are great examples. The Indian Clubs are nice tools too, and yes, you can take a simple stick and use the classical philosophy to make it quite restorative too. -RJ

[@FactorianEra]

Where would one find the wands? I can barely find monkey bars at parks anymore.

[@keanumaikekais2202]

I started P90X when I got out of high school. It help me realize i need a fitness routine to stick to. Looking back I really wish my high school would of had a calisthenics routine like this. Our P.E. program was more designed around getting our football players in shape and it meant weightlifting, football drils ect. It was better than nothing but knowing your own body was capable of doing these feats of strength would have been something!

[@TheLeanBerets]

There is definitely much room for improvement with American PE classes!

[@barron8180]

Modivation like this is why I pressure people to take my dance classes it’s tuff but fun and you feel great once you’re done

[@halilmulic2609]

Wonderful.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

As a nation we need to fully educate the whole person of each of our youths, and not just teach to the test which most schools are doing. Obviously this kind of physical education is necessary, now more than ever since Putin has already started World War 3 in Ukraine.

[@Jbessette]

How can people go about to get this program revived

[@TheLeanBerets]

I'm currently working nationally and with organizations to promote PE with a classical approach. At the community level, the first step is having people watch our documentary film which is in the video note section above under "The Motivation Factor." The film lays out the history and philosophy, and without these things, it's just a bunch of mindless exercises that will fail like most of American fitness programs. We have to get our heads around the history and get off the brand marketing BS and money first aspects of physical fitness. -Ron Jones, MS

[@jahnwarnermedia]

@@TheLeanBerets I've watched it multiple times...can't find anyone who's interested in incorporating this in our Government Schools..perhaps it needs to be 3rd party for HomeSchools and afterschool training for students..

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@jahnwarnermedia I have spent years “talking” to schools and groups about PE, yet in the end, Americans return to entertainment and technology. Not sure what it will take to wake up America…maybe WWIII? ☠️

[@Loganreeder26]

If I was dictator PE would look just like this and everything will be earned. You dont make the team if you dont make the trials. Also, mental health tests will be done. Just because its important. But when comes the physical fitness, the mental fitness usually follows.

[@BTScriviner]

If you were a dictator? Wow. I bet you call yourself a "patriotic" American.

[@gael.7593]

It's easier said than done. It would be great if someone actually managed to bring this kind of PE though.

[@TriviaWQ]

does anyone have a full copy of this program or a pdf that contains all of these exercises to apply for my daily routine?

[@TheLeanBerets]

Not the full program, but after their calisthenics warm up, it was a regular PE program circa 1960s with exception to last five minutes of class where they did off ground apparatus.

[@jamesjameson7635]

This should be the standard.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@jamesjameson7635 Agree

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

I know there's a documentary, Motivation Factor I've watched it. However Lean Berets is there any chance you could write a book on the training philosophy and maybe even diet philosophy of this program? Would be a shame to let this information die out of existence. Most of the info I can find online is basic at best with zero way to put it all together no picture examples etc. I'm also aware the full program as more than that. We need people who went through this to tell us what the program was fully written out in a logical and progressive manner.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@JesusChrist2000BC Great thoughts. There was no diet philosophy with this program, but kids ate far better in the 1960s. I have enough pieces to put some sort of training manual together; however, there is simply not enough interest to warrant the work and expense. Sad but true. -Ron Jones, MS

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

@@TheLeanBerets I think you have enough interest my friend. I don't think the book would be a Smash Hit or anything, but I think it would be a lot bigger than your thinking. La Sierra seems to have blown up and popular media I think that alone would sell a lot of copies. Of course, if you think it won't then I will not push you to pursue it, however, the topic of real physical fitness is something I think it's getting more popular what would people looking for more Organic Solutions other than doctors big Pharma etcetera. You could argue that the topic is trending more and more, I'm getting fit without the gym culture of the 70s and 80s has also never been so popular. So don't think it won't do well, something tells me it will do much better than you think today then it would have say when motivation Factor came out 6 or 7 years ago.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@JesusChrist2000BC Thank you for sharing these updates.

[@lamomano]

you know, usually nowadays theres like a couple (3-4) really athletic kids in each class that just dominate in every sport. imagine playing dodgeball with a class full of athletic freaks that can easily run a couple miles like these guys XD

[@drillosophy1012]

These look like grown men. If you look at high schoolers nowadays, you can see how stunted their development is in comparison.

[@TheLeanBerets]

This is a fascinating yet disturbing observation! I would have to agree! -RJ

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Oh, definitely. Even the freshmen looked like they were 18! 😮

[@sirgeoh]

Look at how fit and strong our men were back then.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Indeed. Not now.

[@jamesmurray2015]

These boys are super fit, disciplined and co- ordinated. I wonder what was discipline like in the school? As it appears each boy from freshman onwards had to tog out for PE.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Five days per week all four years for ALL boys. That’s what it takes to raise healthy young men and women.

[@TheTkrum]

Both my kids, and my wife, squat clean their body weight on the bar, or more, better than 9/10 of the weight lifters at any gym I’ve ever step foot in.

[@markusbourne7699]

What the hell, they dont even do alot of this stuff in professional athlete training. OMG, who failed to incorporate this in our country?!

[@TheLeanBerets]

Great question and very deep answers that crosses decades of dysfunction and demise. -RJ

[@Trancefreak12]

The reason is that professional athletes are specialized. Incorporating this into a professional's training would be detrimental to their specific performance requirements. I'd be mad if I were to waste energy on irrelevant training while trying to be my best in my sport.

[@jahnwarnermedia]

@@Trancefreak12 that's a small percentage...the athletes don't have to participate..PE is for the rest of the student body ~ 80%

[@drats1279]

I would think this guy, in his position, would know the progression of the color for the boy's shorts. White, red, blue, purple, gold, and navy blue was the correct progression.

[@complexblackness]

I wonder how many were drafted and fought in Vietnam. I'm sure a few went to Special operations.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Yes. They flew through basic training. One went very high up in Black Ops too.

[@bruhbro1181]

such a shame though, even vietnamese can beat them

[@phillyphilhouse79]

@@bruhbro1181 Not the LRRPs, Marine Recon, Army Special Forces or SEALs. Recondo Rangers we’re some bad asses. They out guerrillaed the VC guerrilla.

[@opqwd]

It’s video s very use full u live long life my heartily pride

[@BTScriviner]

Dang. I wonder what happened to the "Bama" runner.

[@youlovechika]

5 miles carrying your friend is wild

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@youlovechika Agree. They wanted to do it too.

[@analogjames3429]

5 miles is 20 laps around the track carrying well over 135lbs. I deeply respect the training. At 2mph that would be over 2 1/2 hours nonstop. Sorry I believe 5 laps. Delta does not even have that long of a man carry. And I thought the "long walk" was bad lol.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@analogjames3429 And they wanted to do it too. Yeah, those kinds of young MEN.

[@dianaverano7878]

And i cant even do handstand! I wish I could that. On the otherhand even at 40's I started exercise last 3 months ago. stairs: 1 hr ( 20 mins walking, the rest running) Dumbells: 1 hr Warm up & Taekwondo: 1 hr & 30 mins Almost everyday. I just stop when I feel sore

[@davidc4408]

We can work out together ❤

[@TheLeanBerets]

You are doing more than most! Give it time. Stay steady.

[@andic1973]

Any way to watch the movie outside US?

[@TheLeanBerets]

I am not sure what the current restrictions are for our film, but you can ask filmmaker Doug Orchard directly: [e-mail]

[@jrbr549]

But were their FEEEEEELINGS addressed? That's the most important thing.

[@Rh-sl2kt]

You know they were trained to go to war and die right?

[@jrbr549]

@@Rh-sl2kt I don't think you understand. I'm not mocking that era, I'm mocking this era.

[@analogjames3429]

@@Rh-sl2kt Your arrogance is only eclipsed by your ignorance

[@Uruz2012]

Sounds like your feelings are hurt.😂

[@emils00]

What were those exercises after the 11 minute mark? I can’t find them anywhere in the La Sierra PE fitness routines or anywhere else. I’d like to do all of this with my kids. If only I could find an actual routine mapped out that I could start out with them…

[@TheLeanBerets]

The inverted push ups were progressions of the regular push ups. The seated agility drills are variations to their agility routine. The info is in our training videos on the film’s website. Links are provided under film clip notes. -Ron Jones

[@Man_of_TheWay]

I 100% blame video games, hollywood and the left for the loss of this mindset in many places.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@Man_of_TheWay Valid points plus some more

[@HUVideoer]

If you added some kettlebells and barbellls it looks a LOT like the early crossfit. Super interesting

[@complexblackness]

3:34 BUDS'esque

[@TheLeanBerets]

Look up the FSSF Black Devil cold weather commandos in WWII. They were the best of the best. Combined US and Canadian forces.

[@TheLeanBerets]

theleanberets.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/FSSF-V-42.pdf

[@ccvv9446]

Is there a pdf of these workouts that i can get?

[@TheLeanBerets]

LaSierra was not a workout. It was a program driven by philosophy of quality movement. It was never just one workout program. Watch the full film listed in notes to learn more.

[@robertrock8778]

Wonder what LaSierra's football record was during these years?

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@robertrock8778 All the male sport teams were impressive. None did pre-season conditioning. They were already fit.

[@RebelEngel]

What happened to this program? My son needs it 😂

[@TheLeanBerets]

School closed due to boundary and enrollment issues. Americans got lazy and undisciplined. -RJ

[@andrewstoebig8749]

These people are nuts.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Correction. People today are nuts.

[@naithngr81-jh2bb]

You realize that there are actually plenty of people in the active duty U.S. military, including the Army and possibly also the Marines, which are two of the most physical branches of the military, who can't do all of these exercises that these high school teenagers were doing in this video.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@naithngr81-jh2bb Yes. I do realize. It’s beyond ridiculous. -RJ

[@danthedon8764]

5 mile hike with that much weight ?? No way

[@TheLeanBerets]

It was not a hike but rather a man, lift, and carry test of strength endurance that came out of military training requirements to carry a wounded comrade out of battle--or just to carry a hurt child or person as needed. I used this technique when my son had an ankle injury playing basketball to safety carry him to the car. -RJ

[@user-zy9yg2eu5t]

@@TheLeanBerets why were you parked 5 miles away? No wonder your son pretended to be injured.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@user-zy9yg2eu5t I do not really understand your question and comment. Please clarify.

[@complexblackness]

@@TheLeanBerets he was joking.

[@jahnwarnermedia]

@@TheLeanBerets hesheit's just being a douche...very cool that you can carry your son..

[@koolkidz9193]

I wonder was just for the football team or for the whole school?

[@TheLeanBerets]

No. It was for all the boys. It was LaSierra's PE philosophy to treat each boy like they were a varsity athlete even if they were not playing school sports.

[@scorpionenergy6256]

What can of workout was this

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Just the boys? Why not the girls?

[@TheLeanBerets]

This was pre Title IV, so girls had a completely different program.

[@gboyfu6136]

Just imagine how disappointed they would be seeing today's students being fat, obse, and overweight 😢

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@gboyfu6136 beyond disappointed

[@dekulevi936]

Back when ADHD, and Learning Disability didn't exist.

[@DoctorDewgong]

How can I become as wise in the ways of science as you are?

[@dekulevi936]

@@DoctorDewgong exercise, and read lots of books.

[@tigerboy4516]

bad food and vaccines werent around much

[@fludblud]

Those things did exist, but back then those kids would simply drop out of school and get a job and live off that. Instead of now where society demands you to fully fail the entire school curriculum or loan a kidney to go to college for any chance of securing a roof over your head.

[@dekulevi936]

@@fludblud I was in school and they told me I have a Learning Disability, but as I graduated, I try to get a job because of my LD, the only job I got offer was a Carwash Attendant which I dislike, and pay less; after it went out of business, I have become unemployed, and still wouldn't get hired. Because of the school told me I have LD, and I listen, I have been struggling, now I regret listening to them which I would have gotten a better job, with a higher salary.

[@andseraf8544]

This died with jfk ..

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@andseraf8544 I have stated this for years. They killed the man who wanted us physically fit and vigorous. Why? Follow the money.

[@cameronwilliams8230]

Today's kids wouldn't last 5 minutes in this program, so sad

[@TheLeanBerets]

Even worse, most would not even try.

[@cameronwilliams8230]

@TheLeanBerets hate to say it but yes

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@cameronwilliams8230 Americans have been systematically conditioned to be UNfit and UNhealthy. The plot was successful.

[@andrzejherdzik6986]

to teraz wiemy za co zamordowali kenediego

[@tpolerex7282]

Real athletes, not TikTok posers.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Agree

[@Jim-oo7dk]

Feminism was not compatible with strong men. I'd have to guess this is more strenuous than today's Army training.

[@TheLeanBerets]

@@Jim-oo7dk Correct. LS in their era was already exceeding some military standards.

[@juliemama]

Did girls really not have physical education back then??

[@keeganbridwell9556]

they did it was just at a different level compared to the boys

[@quinnlaya331]

Keegan Bridwell Yep but they also didnt do it shirtless.

[@Labyrinth6000]

Yeah, physical training like this was heavily promoted so that men could get drafted into Vietnam and possibly die.

[@TheLeanBerets]

Physical training like this has been promoted since ancient Greece to strength both mind and body, and yes, sometimes it's needed to defend one's nation as well. However, this was not the driving force behind the whole PE system at LaSierra High School. -Ron Jones, MS

[@Trancefreak12]

My argument for why this kind of PE should not be implemented again is that students who participate in sports should be allowed to focus on their sport instead of throwing off their training and spending energy on this PE. I'm only on board if students had a choice in what kind of PE they took, or if they could waive it in favor of their sport.

[@TheLeanBerets]

When you run this kind of classical PE, it enhances sport performance in athletes--it does not detract from it. One of the biggest problems today in America is the irrational youth sports programs that prioritize year-round single sport participation at higher levels than D1 or pro athletes in the same sport. It's producing imbalanced athletes both physically and mentally with soaring injury rates. These types of sports programs are abusive. Having worked with professional sports teams and D1 and Olympic athletes, they all had the same concerns of which included correcting an imbalance of training from a single sport focus along with other improper conditioning methods. True classical PE restores a body to its natural state. Since most American PE programs are not really PE anyway and are essentially worthless--I would not necessarily disagree that they are not helping the youth athlete; however, if we are talking about "real" PE like LaSierra or other classical PE programs, the opposite is true as I explained. -Ron Jones, MS