No. I do not want to be forced to be tortured every day I go to school in the name of “happiness”. It would NOT make me happy. I’d leave school on the spot. Exercise yourself don’t force others to do this type of thing. Do it your damn self
It was only done in some schools of the country ( about 200) in order to get extra funding from the government. Most schools did not train their girls and boys like this.
Hello Delta Mike. The early-1960’s were a spike on the radar. Meaningful fitness training slowly faded as the WWII generation retired. They had the knowledge. Military physical training eroded also. The methods, materials, and motivators they used are a sleeping giant that could awaken us again. Here are a few more links. 1. ua-cam.com/video/QRzFJJ55HZk/v-deo.html 2. ua-cam.com/video/Tkb1XSpU66Q/v-deo.html 3. ua-cam.com/video/sRHWpqZe1Qw/v-deo.html
@@viamilitaris hello to you. As an veteran, I share your views. I was born in 81. Served from 2001 -2011 and I can say from experience my school days were nowhere near the standards to the schools of the 60s with regards to physical exercise. I wish they were, but I had nothing to compare to. My army days were a bit of a shock to the system at first, but I relished them. The fittest i have been before or since, which is due to my discipline. Thank you for the links, keep up the good work
@@mongoose621 Almost 75 now. Fitness was not a popular subject with most physical educators during my high school days in the early 1960’s. Can only think of one in my world then who was truly fit and capable of teaching the old methods. He was also my trampoline instructor. The rest played games. Weight training was generally condemned by the mainstream. When the University of Chicago put a primitive Universal weight machine in their gymnasium in 1968, it was newsworthy enough to be reported in the Chicago Sun Times. We saw movies in our health classes telling us that weight training would lead to homosexuality, which was considered a mental illness by the AMA and APA back then. Muscle mags like Bob Hoffman’s “Strength and Health” were often found on news racks next to homosexual muscle mags. Fortunately, some communities still gave access to the older European systems that included weight training and conditioning. My hometown was settled by Germans and still had a Turner Hall with a weight room in my boyhood. We had plenty of old instructors alive and teaching then until it faded away in the mid-1960's. The Army (67-69) still held on to some of the WWII methods, and provided a glimpse of serious, organized and meaningful physical training fueled by responsibility to be a good soldier/leader. Spent most of the 1990's at Fort Benning as a DOD Civ working to reshape Army physical readiness training. ua-cam.com/video/1oUFE-D7O9g/v-deo.html. Unfortunately, current doctrine has morphed into the same familiar methods we use in our commercial gyms and fitness centers today. In 1965, COL. George Walton (USAR) Ret. wrote a book called us "The Wasted Generation." He wrote of my generation: "More than half of the young men called up by Selective Service are son fat, maladjusted, or illiterate that they are rejected for military service. Out of every four youths summoned for the draft, two will pass--mostly because the standards have been lowered enough to accommodate their flabby bodies and unlettered minds. Only 1 in 3 can serve today, and the bar is lower than ever."
lack of processed foods and way more fiber with less saturated fat - all it takes. This is also a special school running a special program and was used as the model to show off the program .. these are not the average kids but the higher eschelon of children.
A teacher in my country, put his students to run 10 min yeah only 10, 3 pas out, several vomited, and he has sued for like 20 parents. It was a nacional joke and shame that our kids (13 to 15 years old) cant run 10 min
@Channel You can do exactly this. But the rest of society will still be affected by the weakness of the average person. Besides it is a gradual change not necessarily a couple of generations.
“Eventually 60% make the blue team”. That means 60% of the boys are capable of 14 pull ups, running 2 miles (3.2km) in 13 mins, carrying a classmate on their backs for 3/4 mile (1.2km), running a mile (1.6km) in 6mins 15 seconds. Those are some pretty impressive numbers and for so many boys to achieve them is incredible.
The crazy thing is that the running requirements are what was required of us when I joined the Army in 1998, and only about 10% if that could do it when they first entered basic training.
Wouldn’t be to crazy they for sure wouldn’t have a D or O line since they’re too lean and frame doesn’t support it. They would only be good at track or xc lol
This school has the best high school football program ever. They won over 1000 games in a row. They even made a movie about then when they lost. They also have the best basketball program in California's history.
uhhh my high school gym class is weak stretching followed by 1 MINUTE of jogging around the gym, followed by maybe some half assed pickup basketball game where half the kids sit out and the teachers are ok with it
Long before JFK, in 1956, LeProtti started a rigorous exercise program at LaSierra High. Everyone started out wearing white trunks and only after passing a serious of physical tests could they move up to a higher color, red, blue, purple, and the ultimate gold. I didn't see many gold trunks, maybe 5%, but most who wore them were well built, with a few exceptions, like me. I looked like a concentration camp victim, weighing about 90 lbs. But I didn't have to compete with anyone except myself. At first, I could do one pull up, chin up, bar dip. It was embarrassing. I stayed after school every day to practice. In my freshman year I made gold. I remember being the only person training to pass the test except for a guy named Ed. The hardest test for me was the shuttle run. I failed miserably which surprised me because I was superior at running. No one could come close to me in the mile. One day the coach testing me noticed I was holding my breath the whole test. He simply told me to remember to breath. I did and passed easily. I remember photo shoots being held for various articles. They called over all the "gold" students except me. My skinny frame didn't fit.
My guess is that your nutrition wasn't good nor sufficient enough. I'm sure most of these children/students did not intake enough protein in their diets for example. Nutrition is still above 70% of the actual work, you can't fuel or grow your body without having a proper, stable diet. The excercises you were going through were great, the issue was most likely your nutrition.
@@Thisispow Completely correct. Nutrition is the key to gains, hard work only pays off with proper nutrition to back it up. Otherwise working out is useless, detrimental even.
@@yosaures umm, I don't have the same experience as the OC, but I would assume this program boosted confidence! From what he explained it sounded very healthy! They weren't competing against others but doing self improvement and instead of giving up they could try harder and problem solve with the help of the coaches. The only negative is kinda nutrition like comments here have said but that has less to do with it I suppose. But from my exp of this generation ppl generally lack confidence because they feel bad about themselves and instead of fixing the issue it's enabled this toxic culture of lazy being trendy and cool to make ppl feel better. And then when ppl (especially youth) are rightfully insecure, because being lazy has no real benefits, there is this fake confidence media praises to hide low self esteem and pretend. As someone who had to uncondition myself from these mindsets, and suffered a boring gym class where we did more paperwork than physical excercise, I would've loved this system so much. I feel this would build positive self esteem & character and give ppl a challenge !
Isabel Rodríguez I am fit myself but even I know that only 200 schools in the country adopted this method and that they were preparing for war, not society. It’s a propaganda film, though it’s disappointing that not all schools are like this.
@@beyondredemption8179 Hello Isabel Rodríguez. In those years, the USA was facing war with the Soviet Union. Viet-Nam was not discussed much yet. Our elders lived through WWII and the Korean War. Suppose it was somewhere in the back of our minds, but, in my case, I and many of my peers simply loved the training. In the early-1960's, proponents of getting fit to play games were aligned with the philosophy of physical education embraced by pioneers in the field during the late-1800's. Physical Education was created in the USA to insure homeland security, national productivity and cultural evolution. All three were equally important. The principles applied in this video can be traced to the methods, materials and motivators developed in the late-1800's, and those methods can be traced through Europe to the Ancient Greeks. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (sound mind in sound body) was commonly used to describe the philosophy. Each generation interprets these principles according to its depth of understanding. We have never equaled the Turn-of-the-Century methods. It is called our "Golden Age of Physical Training." Physical Educator Mabel Lee's book "Body Mechanics and Conditioning" is worth the effort if you can find it. It is an inspiring, educational, and practical guide to quality physical training/education with much to offer as we face an uncertain and demanding future.
Powers that be want us to be weak in body, mind, and most of all, will. To endlessly consoooom, having only the attention to work as a wagie and to buy whatever they can convince us will bring us contentment & fulfillment.
This is hardcore. The requirements for the Navy shorts are: -34 Pull-ups; -carry a person within 10 lbs of your weight 5 miles. I'm going to train and see if I can do this by the end of quarantine, though finding someone within 10 lbs of my weight willing to let me carry them for a few miles might be also be difficult...
Gotta remember this is before the explosion of processed foods, sugars, and fast food restaurants were as uncommon an occasion as going to a family diner
actually mcdonalds already made fast food somewhat acceptable by the 1950s. but of course eating out was (and still is ) for people with lots of disposable money.
We need this now more than ever. Students are depressed, lacking focus, and have no motivation and view schools as nothing but a problem. This could help that can improve self image and confidence in students and give them tangible goals with physical results
If I were under 20 it would trouble me to know that my grandparents were fitter, better looking, more educated, better trained, better paid, had more sex, listened to better music, better read about the world, and had more to look forward to than I have. The peace corps, post war Eisenhower/Kennedy generation were about the BEST American youth offering. Animate yourselves young Americans! Asian and European youth went forward..
It's true Fryed. When I was born in 1945, forty-four high quality pullups was the top score for Iowa high school boys. My generation grew up much less fit.
Very cool video. I went to a school in the same district just a few miles away (Del Campo) but in the late 60's and graduated 1970. We had the colored trunks system, but each class had its own color that stayed with you in each year. Then there was white and gold above your class color. I made white the second half of my sophomore year and remained white until I graduated. Couldn't quite make gold as all my strengths were upper body stuff. Running was my nemesis for gold. But there were only 2 or 3 golds in the entire school. I have to admit, we didn't have quite as intensive a program as it looks like La Sierra did. That was an impressive video.
Grew up in a crowded city, stuck in a small apartment for most of the day, while my mother worked. No backyard, no space, no exercise. I was chubby and extremely out of shape for the majority of my childhood and teens. I wish my school's PE class would've motivated me more, as it was the only place and time I'd do any physical activities. Instead I grew to hate it. I was always criticized for not doing well enough or for not being able to complete exercises. If only it were a little more comprehensive, more about the student and less about the letter grade, maybe I wouldn't be struggling right now to get myself into decent shape. :/
@@DrWoog You're absolutely right. When I wrote that comment 2 years ago, I never imagined I could achieve the level of fitness I am at today. So if even someone like me can do it, anyone can. All it takes is the right mindset, persistence, and consistency. Cheers!
@@evelynsaungikar3553 Absolutely! But all of these exercises were impossible for me to do for most of my life as I could barely push myself off the ground. No gym teacher ever considered teaching alternatives that I could do to build me up to the exercises you've mentioned. I was given a C for my attempt and that was good enough for them. Thankfully, I've changed my lifestyle and now I'm able to do almost all of those exercises (still working on getting my first pistol squat lol). But I still wish I had been given the guidance and motivation from an early age.
These stats ARE MINDBLOWING. I coach high level amateur boxing and consider myself a peak athlete. These kids were atleast matching us or surpassing us in every category
I’m a girl and I’d much rather do the workout the boys are doing at a lower rate or even the same (even if I couldn’t be as physically strong) because it seems they push the boys very hard more with strength and cardio and develop and sculpt their body’s with swimming,pull ups,push ups,body weight activity’s etc...while the girls do like 20% of what the guys do gymnastics,spinning hoola-hoops and archery.If I was there I’d want to push my body and achieve what the guys can get but as a girl(obviously at a different and maybe lower standard but boy I would keep up as well as I could) If you re-watch there’s not one over weight boy their and not comparing a girls and boys body as they develop completely different at different rates and times but a few of the girls are over weight and if you push them hard enough or if they want to achieve their goals they will not by doing archery and stuff.The boys are pushed harder with time and numbers and they are all one cohesive unit in sync.I know guys are naturally stronger but that doesn’t mean girls can’t reach their physical fitness peak and be equally as fit in their own way.
v rego I did gymnastics for 5-6 years when I was younger I know how tough it can be physically and mentally that’s why I never mentioned it that’s why I said archery and stuff all things that are stationary idk personally for me I liked to be pushed to my limit(safely) and attempt to push myself when I work out.Girls can be pushed equally as hard in their own way if they want it and could be up there with the boys in the blue shorts obviously probably not gold and navy blue etc...but the standards would change for them,do ya get me ?
v rego oh sorry I realised I mentioned gymnastics in my comment above.Well from the clip of the girl she seemed like she does gymnastics out of school(possibly from her level and technique) i mean maybe their team was good in school and their teacher was serious but she definitely has the gymnasts body all ya have to do is look at their legs and ya know 😂😂
Hello Emma Smith. Mabel Lee's book "Fundamentals of Body Mechanics and Conditioning" is an illustrated teaching manual that specifically addresses women's classical physical training. Sometimes found on Ebay, and usually available at local library through inter-library loan. She was a pioneering women's physical educator here in the USA, and one of the primary architects of WWII Women's Army Corp (WAC) physical training doctrine. The first WAC PT manual was call "You Must Be Fit." It is also worth finding.
Girls do physical exercise to "look more attractive". That line hurt. Also, they get a 25 second mention, only the boys get basically any mention. I know this is old, but this is humiliating.
@I hate Sprinkled minerals lol. girls weren't less interested in sports, they were just told sports were a "manly thing" and as for them not building muscle, lots of them do, but others, once again, are called "manly" or 'unattractive" for being muscular because its a "manly" trait to have muscles.
In high school I would skip gym class to smoke weed and when I didn’t skip it was either basketball or pitching in the bullpen. Such a different experience school must have been in the 1960’s
I feel like for p.e to be successful it should be fun and not the same thing, i would sprint in my gym because everybody else was just playing basketball or just chilling.
I graduated from La Sierra in 1972 and loved the PE program. Sadly, they closed La Sierra in the early 80’s. La Sierra does have an active Facebook page if interested.
And today PE is 6 kids trying their best and the other 24 wandering around aimlessly. Then they go inside to teachers who have had their pay cut countless times while their classrooms keep getting fuller.
I don't recall the actual metrics per color. But, among the tasks/skills were pull-ups, bar dips, timed shuttle run, timed distance running, timed bar hang, numbers of full trips on the pegboard, trips on overhead bars, trips (hops) on parallel camel bars, etc. There was serious personal motivation to get yourself out of reds (second tier after whites) and into blues (third tier and deemed base level of respectability). Purple and gold followed and awarded to seriously fit athletes. And finally navy blue - A Navy SEAL type test attained by only a couple dozen super athletes during the life of the program (Longhorns, feel free to correct/mock me for my memory here).
Hmm, so I wonder why this was never pushed throughout the rest of the country. My PE classes throughout my 12 years of public schooling were actually very poor. I remember in Highschool that at the end of the semester we had a physical test that included running a mile in at least 9 minutes, doing pull ups, and climbing a rope. The mile was easy because I already ran cross-country, but I did poorly on the pull-Ups though I did climb the rope. The thing that bothered me most about the test was that for the majority of time during PE, we never did any pull-ups or rope climbing. Indeed, outside of that involved in recreational kick-ball, we never even ran consistently or intently. It didn’t make sense to test a range of skills which were never even built upon during the class throughout the year. However, that’s how it’s always been in PE class in my experience during public education.
I’m so fit and I eat healthy but I’m disappointed with people right now that aren’t taking care of there health remember with out health we are failing … not good for the future generations
More in regard to Maybe's inquiry. Stan Leprotti did publish his own book called The Motivation factor; As Emphasized in the LaSierra High School Boys' Physical Education Program in 1973, but don't recall a comprehensive history of its birth and death. Perhaps it will come into focus if growing interest in La Sierra leads to more visual and written artifacts, as well as first-hand accounts of those who were there. Many LaSierra High students would be perhaps in their 70's. Still time to seek their knowledge, insights and wisdom. The La Sierra archives were only rediscovered perhaps ten years or less ago, so it takes time for it to filter out to the masses and start lighting fires. Naturally, activity will stir and muddy the water for a while until everybody starts swimming at an agreed pace, direction, and intent. Mediocrity pulls hard toward the middle, so it could all lead to nothing of eternal note. Knowing as much about the La Sierra program as possible will help dedicated seekers compare what they see and hear to what they already know. The more they already know, the more prepared they will be to improve upon the La Sierra methods, material and motivators. We can be sure that Mr. LeProtti would want us to do exactly that. He was, from what I have read, a WWII-Era Marine. Your question certainly fans the flame. The Ancients advised that we measure a man's worth not by his answers, but by his questions. Your question, in my opinion is on the mark. Five years ago, a Google search of Stan Leprotti yielded very little. Try it today, and see for yourself what is happening. The 1960's looked back to WWII for inspiration, and the WWII generation looked to European immigrants who brought highly evolved physical training systems to the USA beginning perhaps in the 1850's. The Golden Era of American physical training is from around 1885-1920. WWII brought us to life, and we saw light until JFK was assassinated. Rediscovering the methods, materials and motivators those immigrants and their juniors used, comparing them to LaSierra, empowering it with our technologies, music, and other force multipliers, and personally experiencing the spirit of those times is what future historians would call a cultural rebirth. As we know from the struggles of great men like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Per Heinrich Ling, Ignatious De Loyola, Martin Luther, Hieronymous Mercurialis, Plato, Michel De Montaigne, Jean Jaques Rouseau, Friedrich Froebel, John Sweet, Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths, Franz Nachtegall, Dudley Allen Sargent, Nils Posse, Robert Tait McKenzie, William Gilbert Anderson, Charles H. McCloy, Stan Leprotti and countless forgotten others who heard the trumpets and followed the sound, it is not attainable without total and unwavering humility, humanity and nobility.
The snowflake generation, the marshmallow generation, the hippy generation this just showed me that old people complain all the time about the new generation.
Right? If the adults are complaining that the new generation (aka children/teenagers) are soft then they should be the ones demanding change for their kids
When I was a teen in the 80’s we did about the same as those girls did too, i aways chose weight lifting class as one of my electives in PE were given 3 activities per semester..
Bring this back, while we couldn't expect these kinds of results immediately would it be too much to expect that all high school seniors 10 years from the implementation date be able to perform like this?
We have to make this again... in all the world. This will be benefical on all aspects of the world has we knew. Not joking Improve phisically Improve Spiritually Improve Psicology +Healthier+happier+social
1. The reason why this was recorded was because it was not the norm. 2. No, you sitting on your ass watching this and dreaming "I wish they had this in my school" wouldn't want this. If you really wanted to get big then you'd do it, instead of wishing someone forced you to. 3. You cant miss a time you didnt exist in. Also talk to any vietnam vet and see how good they enjoyed losing a pointless war that left them damaged.
Have never seen a book, but don’t know for certain. Fitness oriented high school boys like I in the early-1960’s saw 16mil movies, television reports and written articles such as one in Life Magazine. My hometown in Eastern Iowa was known for its German gymnastics culture, which employed the same principles, so many of us were alert and attentive to learn about La Sierra, but the general public was ambivalent or critical of such programs. Critics warned that such highly structured physical education was militaristic and would turn us into mindless robots. Same arguments still persist in mainstream physical education today. In fact, the training methods are not easily understood, and require deep understanding of past systems from which Mr. LeProtti and others built their own curriculums. Modern military training is primitive compared to the WWII doctrine from which Mr. LeProtti created his approach. To understand the big picture, perhaps begin with Dr. Thomas Cureton from the U of Illinois, a WWII generation fitness pioneer known as the father of physical fitness in physical education. One of his workbooks is at play.google.com/store/books/details/Thomas_Kirk_Cureton_Physical_Fitness_Workbook?id=TC8MAAAAYAAJ. Any of the Navy V-5 manuals can also shine light. Another great source is 1943 Physical Training Program, United States Navy Training Center. The 1946 Army FM21-20 will also provide clues to Mr. LeProtti’s methods. He was a Marine vet and was mentored by Frank Griffin who also studied military physical training. It all only lasted for a few years under John F. Kennedy, and quickly faded after his assassination. President Johnson sided with the majority and returned to a primary focus on sports and games. JFK's Secret Doctor: The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus by Susan E.B. Schwartz is another important book. Kraus is known as the father of sports medicine and advised JFK in those years. If you are looking for the mother load, go back to the sources of American military physical training at books.google.com/books?id=pSUAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false and books.google.com/books?id=k3YMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. It will be time well invested if you are interested in how we arrived where we are today. Finally, Body Mechanics and Conditioning by Mabel Lee offers insights into women’s physical training offered nowhere else.
@@jonahanderson2663 Thanks Jonah, did you find the handbook containing the philosophy, concept, and physical tests or another handbook containing the exact program and routine of each group (white, red, blue,...) ? I know they were doing back then a 12 min daily routine but they were for sure not doing only that, it would be amazing to have their bars and calisthenics programs as well.
Gee. If that program had been mandatory when I was in high school. I think most of my confidence problem from today would be less heavy. And to a lot of people I know as well. We absolutely need a PE reform.
I don't even care if they did it "To PrEpArE FoR ThE MiLiTaRy" i want it. In my country (italy) you generally run like 10 mins and *if* your PE teacher is good he will have you doing a few other things, like hiit circuits ecc, otherwise just fooling around with the ball pretending to play volleyball for a total of 2 hours a week, all while girls pretend to be painful from their period
Honestly having something like that in every High School I think would motivate every guy to be the best that they could the problem with my high school growing up was they focused a lot on Athletics so everything was tailored around Sports not necessarily overall physical fitness
It’s funny. I remember having a Physical Education program like this in high school to a much lesser degree. (I live in SoCal) We did not do all of the stuff listed here, but I look back and it’s funny how I was able back then to run a 6-7 minute mile, and do many types of calisthenics with a good amount of ease. We did not do aerobics, though. We mainly did cardio & calisthenics training. 🤘🤘 Edit: Class of 2014, btw. But also, a key difference is that boys and girls did ALL the same workouts. I find it funny that girls were doing a completely different set of workouts back then.
That was expected when I was in the infantry with the 101st Airborne. No more than 13 minutes or those assholes would put you in remedial PT until you got to 13 minutes. However, there’s always that one asshole sergeant who hated you and said that both of your feet didn’t cross at exactly 13 minutes. Guess where you went? Remedial PT. Of course guys like that would get their teeth knocked right out of their face and wonder why. You think Joe Private is gonna give a shit about losing rank when you keep fucking him over? Nope. Seen it happen.
Sad thing is I'm considered in the top 1% of physical fitness for my age based on VO2 max, pull ups and push ups, and I still can't do many of the things in this video
The "marshmallow generation" I think that would be us..
I think marshmallow is too strong 🤔snowflake is more like it
Yeah, I don’t want to be a marshmallow 🤣
Eleni Kyprou YOURE RIGHT TF
@Talkinglegodude okay boomer
@@e.kyprou you can be fat and not some snowflake who gets upset over everything anyone says tho
Even the nerds are jacked
@@tGGgGg-sp9yx bro no one cares lmao
@@tGGgGg-sp9yx waow
lmao!!
@@tGGgGg-sp9yx pics or it didn’t happen lol
Phasor 777 Bruh you are... a clown.
Does anyone else want this in their school
More then anything bro, I’m stealing the beginning “warm up” exercises.
Panoki O
Warm up exercises my ass that’s a full workout for me lmao I’m tryna be healthy tho might start with abs first then legs then arms 🤟👌🏽
No. I do not want to be forced to be tortured every day I go to school in the name of “happiness”. It would NOT make me happy. I’d leave school on the spot. Exercise yourself don’t force others to do this type of thing. Do it your damn self
@@rat7099 funny because everyone at this school seemed to love it and embrace it.
@@rat7099 it’s not further it’s just fitness. You won’t die from working out for 12 minutes
The world now needs this.Every kid being super depressed,sitting in their rooms all day in front of a computer,not moving at all...
The Giga Chad has spoken. Well said my king.
Unless you workout at home
Sad but true.
It was only done in some schools of the country ( about 200) in order to get extra funding from the government.
Most schools did not train their girls and boys like this.
Ehhyy chill man i am not hahahaha
I've never seen so many boys and girls with such healthy hair, skin and bodies.
Physical training 5 days a week, outdoors in the sun.
Proven results
Hello Delta Mike. The early-1960’s were a spike on the radar. Meaningful fitness training slowly faded as the WWII generation retired. They had the knowledge. Military physical training eroded also. The methods, materials, and motivators they used are a sleeping giant that could awaken us again. Here are a few more links.
1. ua-cam.com/video/QRzFJJ55HZk/v-deo.html
2. ua-cam.com/video/Tkb1XSpU66Q/v-deo.html
3. ua-cam.com/video/sRHWpqZe1Qw/v-deo.html
@@viamilitaris hello to you. As an veteran, I share your views. I was born in 81. Served from 2001 -2011 and I can say from experience my school days were nowhere near the standards to the schools of the 60s with regards to physical exercise. I wish they were, but I had nothing to compare to.
My army days were a bit of a shock to the system at first, but I relished them. The fittest i have been before or since, which is due to my discipline. Thank you for the links, keep up the good work
@@mongoose621 Almost 75 now. Fitness was not a popular subject with most physical educators during my high school days in the early 1960’s. Can only think of one in my world then who was truly fit and capable of teaching the old methods. He was also my trampoline instructor. The rest played games. Weight training was generally condemned by the mainstream. When the University of Chicago put a primitive Universal weight machine in their gymnasium in 1968, it was newsworthy enough to be reported in the Chicago Sun Times. We saw movies in our health classes telling us that weight training would lead to homosexuality, which was considered a mental illness by the AMA and APA back then. Muscle mags like Bob Hoffman’s “Strength and Health” were often found on news racks next to homosexual muscle mags. Fortunately, some communities still gave access to the older European systems that included weight training and conditioning. My hometown was settled by Germans and still had a Turner Hall with a weight room in my boyhood. We had plenty of old instructors alive and teaching then until it faded away in the mid-1960's. The Army (67-69) still held on to some of the WWII methods, and provided a glimpse of serious, organized and meaningful physical training fueled by responsibility to be a good soldier/leader. Spent most of the 1990's at Fort Benning as a DOD Civ working to reshape Army physical readiness training. ua-cam.com/video/1oUFE-D7O9g/v-deo.html. Unfortunately, current doctrine has morphed into the same familiar methods we use in our commercial gyms and fitness centers today. In 1965, COL. George Walton (USAR) Ret. wrote a book called us "The Wasted Generation." He wrote of my generation:
"More than half of the young men called up by Selective Service are son fat, maladjusted, or illiterate that they are rejected for military service. Out of every four youths summoned for the draft, two will pass--mostly because the standards have been lowered enough to accommodate their flabby bodies and unlettered minds.
Only 1 in 3 can serve today, and the bar is lower than ever."
Delta Mike thanks for your service man
lack of processed foods and way more fiber with less saturated fat - all it takes.
This is also a special school running a special program and was used as the model to show off the program .. these are not the average kids but the higher eschelon of children.
We should have this in schools now but it would be such a drastic change. Kids would be passing out left and right.
Lorraine it’s okay they’re not gonna die, after a week they’ll be good, I’m a junior and I honestly want this lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfao
A teacher in my country, put his students to run 10 min yeah only 10, 3 pas out, several vomited, and he has sued for like 20 parents. It was a nacional joke and shame that our kids (13 to 15 years old) cant run 10 min
it looks really beneficial but i know for a fact basically nobody would do it. gym coaches have no authority lol
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
David-Julian Wind I hope the next generation with be strong men then.
Strong women create good times
@Channel You can do exactly this. But the rest of society will still be affected by the weakness of the average person. Besides it is a gradual change not necessarily a couple of generations.
Amen
@@gracerose7291 Yes indeed, they do
“Eventually 60% make the blue team”. That means 60% of the boys are capable of 14 pull ups, running 2 miles (3.2km) in 13 mins, carrying a classmate on their backs for 3/4 mile (1.2km), running a mile (1.6km) in 6mins 15 seconds. Those are some pretty impressive numbers and for so many boys to achieve them is incredible.
Exactly like today’s tiktok generation!
I can do most of those
The crazy thing is that the running requirements are what was required of us when I joined the Army in 1998, and only about 10% if that could do it when they first entered basic training.
@@JCole78 I’m not surprised. Without training, only the slenderman types can run a mile in 6 minutes
Imagine their football team
They would destroying the competition
Wouldn’t be to crazy they for sure wouldn’t have a D or O line since they’re too lean and frame doesn’t support it. They would only be good at track or xc lol
Doubt they would be good at football, because they're too lean!
This school has the best high school football program ever. They won over 1000 games in a row. They even made a movie about then when they lost. They also have the best basketball program in California's history.
@@timodjav8214 yeah but everything but football they were probably fantastic. Basketball, soccer, baseball, track, volley ball
uhhh my high school gym class is weak stretching followed by 1 MINUTE of jogging around the gym, followed by maybe some half assed pickup basketball game where half the kids sit out and the teachers are ok with it
Long before JFK, in 1956, LeProtti started a rigorous exercise program at LaSierra High. Everyone started out wearing white trunks and only after passing a serious of physical tests could they move up to a higher color, red, blue, purple, and the ultimate gold. I didn't see many gold trunks, maybe 5%, but most who wore them were well built, with a few exceptions, like me. I looked like a concentration camp victim, weighing about 90 lbs. But I didn't have to compete with anyone except myself. At first, I could do one pull up, chin up, bar dip. It was embarrassing. I stayed after school every day to practice. In my freshman year I made gold. I remember being the only person training to pass the test except for a guy named Ed. The hardest test for me was the shuttle run. I failed miserably which surprised me because I was superior at running. No one could come close to me in the mile. One day the coach testing me noticed I was holding my breath the whole test. He simply told me to remember to breath. I did and passed easily.
I remember photo shoots being held for various articles. They called over all the "gold" students except me. My skinny frame didn't fit.
I’m currently attending high right now, how did the program affect you in terms of confidence? Do you think the program should have kept going today?
My guess is that your nutrition wasn't good nor sufficient enough. I'm sure most of these children/students did not intake enough protein in their diets for example. Nutrition is still above 70% of the actual work, you can't fuel or grow your body without having a proper, stable diet.
The excercises you were going through were great, the issue was most likely your nutrition.
@@Thisispow Completely correct. Nutrition is the key to gains, hard work only pays off with proper nutrition to back it up. Otherwise working out is useless, detrimental even.
@@yosaures umm, I don't have the same experience as the OC, but I would assume this program boosted confidence! From what he explained it sounded very healthy! They weren't competing against others but doing self improvement and instead of giving up they could try harder and problem solve with the help of the coaches. The only negative is kinda nutrition like comments here have said but that has less to do with it I suppose.
But from my exp of this generation ppl generally lack confidence because they feel bad about themselves and instead of fixing the issue it's enabled this toxic culture of lazy being trendy and cool to make ppl feel better. And then when ppl (especially youth) are rightfully insecure, because being lazy has no real benefits, there is this fake confidence media praises to hide low self esteem and pretend.
As someone who had to uncondition myself from these mindsets, and suffered a boring gym class where we did more paperwork than physical excercise, I would've loved this system so much. I feel this would build positive self esteem & character and give ppl a challenge !
🦾🦾🙌 Great testimony brother!
Looks like training everyone to be drafted. Wish they had this starting even earlier.
Even if that's true, physical health still have an enormous effect on your quality of life.
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Robert You have to make fun of them because you know you’ll never be fit and healthy like that
Isabel Rodríguez
I am fit myself but even I know that only 200 schools in the country adopted this method and that they were preparing for war, not society. It’s a propaganda film, though it’s disappointing that not all schools are like this.
@@beyondredemption8179 Hello Isabel Rodríguez. In those years, the USA was facing war with the Soviet Union. Viet-Nam was not discussed much yet. Our elders lived through WWII and the Korean War. Suppose it was somewhere in the back of our minds, but, in my case, I and many of my peers simply loved the training. In the early-1960's, proponents of getting fit to play games were aligned with the philosophy of physical education embraced by pioneers in the field during the late-1800's. Physical Education was created in the USA to insure homeland security, national productivity and cultural evolution. All three were equally important. The principles applied in this video can be traced to the methods, materials and motivators developed in the late-1800's, and those methods can be traced through Europe to the Ancient Greeks. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (sound mind in sound body) was commonly used to describe the philosophy. Each generation interprets these principles according to its depth of understanding. We have never equaled the Turn-of-the-Century methods. It is called our "Golden Age of Physical Training." Physical Educator Mabel Lee's book "Body Mechanics and Conditioning" is worth the effort if you can find it. It is an inspiring, educational, and practical guide to quality physical training/education with much to offer as we face an uncertain and demanding future.
they were tougher back then. they had to be.
That’s what they said back then.
But I’d mostly agree
Well we need to be tougher now more than ever. Look what has happened now because we let one another get weak physically and mentally.
Powers that be want us to be weak in body, mind, and most of all, will. To endlessly consoooom, having only the attention to work as a wagie and to buy whatever they can convince us will bring us contentment & fulfillment.
Blame social justice for harsh language
The marshmallow generation lmaoo 😂
Bruh if that was the marshmallow generation this must be the watery jello generation
Jajajaj vintage snowflakes
Nerea Aw you need to make fun of the teenagers back then being fit because you know you’ll never be that healthy
Bruh this narrator would be shaking today 😂😂😂 (im a Gen Z-er so i can say this lmao)
@@ia7212 he can though if he works hard
This is hardcore. The requirements for the Navy shorts are:
-34 Pull-ups;
-carry a person within 10 lbs of your weight 5 miles.
I'm going to train and see if I can do this by the end of quarantine, though finding someone within 10 lbs of my weight willing to let me carry them for a few miles might be also be difficult...
34 pull ups is insane. A perfect score for the marines is 20
Alpha Delfa
Do you know what the workout at 0:33 is and what it helps you with it looks fun
LIFE SUCKS. I’d imagine it has something to do with the abdominals and core muscles
I used to do 20+ when I was in the US Marines many years ago. I'm not sure I could pull off 34 pull ups without A LOT more training.
So how has it been so far? I hope you did well!
"Nerds“ back then will easily beat up our bullies from today.
Holy crap I wish I lived back then and went to this school. This honestly just seems like a lot of fun
ikr
Gotta remember this is before the explosion of processed foods, sugars, and fast food restaurants were as uncommon an occasion as going to a family diner
actually mcdonalds already made fast food somewhat acceptable by the 1950s. but of course eating out was (and still is ) for people with lots of disposable money.
Cosmetics Cameo
Mc Donald’s and other restaurants back then actually had quality food. Nowadays they are all just pure garbage.
@@cosmeticscameo8277 back then mcdonalds used healthier ingredients
We need this now more than ever. Students are depressed, lacking focus, and have no motivation and view schools as nothing but a problem. This could help that can improve self image and confidence in students and give them tangible goals with physical results
They didnt have the distractions that we have today.
I love how he says the activities are meant to make girls more attractive.people would shit themselves if you said that today 😆
Are you kidding me? Overstuffed and soft in 1960? Just look at us now.
Yep the fat acceptance movement is killing us, PE coaches have no business teaching gym and the obese out number the fit people 3 to 1.
@@onemorerep6597 its also sad how alot of those coaches are also very unfit. (From what I've seen.)
Was thinking the same!
@@onemorerep6597 there is hope, people are becoming more aware of this.
And the generation calling them marshmallows was probably called something similar. And us snowflakes will call the next generation something similar
Schools across the country needs this.
The whole world needs this
Or a new version, a 2.0 with the council of physical therapist, sport scientists and personal trainers.
They were literally Spartans.
If I were under 20 it would trouble me to know that my grandparents were fitter, better looking, more educated, better trained, better paid, had more sex, listened to better music, better read about the world, and had more to look forward to than I have. The peace corps, post war Eisenhower/Kennedy generation were about the BEST American youth offering. Animate yourselves young Americans! Asian and European youth went forward..
actually this happened b/c of war stuff soo... I dont think they had anything good to read
This was for the draft so I wouldn’t exactly say they were looking forward to anything
Bro I thought the mile was bad
It's true Fryed. When I was born in 1945, forty-four high quality pullups was the top score for Iowa high school boys. My generation grew up much less fit.
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viamilitaris HAPPY BIRTHDAY :b
@@viamilitaris hope your birthday was good!
"The Marshmallow generation"? In the 60s? They havent seen nothin yet
Very cool video. I went to a school in the same district just a few miles away (Del Campo) but in the late 60's and graduated 1970. We had the colored trunks system, but each class had its own color that stayed with you in each year. Then there was white and gold above your class color. I made white the second half of my sophomore year and remained white until I graduated. Couldn't quite make gold as all my strengths were upper body stuff. Running was my nemesis for gold. But there were only 2 or 3 golds in the entire school. I have to admit, we didn't have quite as intensive a program as it looks like La Sierra did. That was an impressive video.
Physical fitness is the key to a healthy society. A mentally healthy society.
im 16 at not gone lie this looks sick i would love this
Forget the physical fitness, Nate, you really need to brush up on your readin and writin...
This makes me wanna exercise now because I’m a marshmallow
Grew up in a crowded city, stuck in a small apartment for most of the day, while my mother worked. No backyard, no space, no exercise. I was chubby and extremely out of shape for the majority of my childhood and teens. I wish my school's PE class would've motivated me more, as it was the only place and time I'd do any physical activities. Instead I grew to hate it. I was always criticized for not doing well enough or for not being able to complete exercises. If only it were a little more comprehensive, more about the student and less about the letter grade, maybe I wouldn't be struggling right now to get myself into decent shape. :/
Never to late to change your habits
You can do push ups, sit ups, mountain climbers and pistol squats anywhere.
I hear ya!
@@DrWoog You're absolutely right. When I wrote that comment 2 years ago, I never imagined I could achieve the level of fitness I am at today. So if even someone like me can do it, anyone can. All it takes is the right mindset, persistence, and consistency. Cheers!
@@evelynsaungikar3553 Absolutely! But all of these exercises were impossible for me to do for most of my life as I could barely push myself off the ground. No gym teacher ever considered teaching alternatives that I could do to build me up to the exercises you've mentioned. I was given a C for my attempt and that was good enough for them.
Thankfully, I've changed my lifestyle and now I'm able to do almost all of those exercises (still working on getting my first pistol squat lol). But I still wish I had been given the guidance and motivation from an early age.
These stats ARE MINDBLOWING. I coach high level amateur boxing and consider myself a peak athlete. These kids were atleast matching us or surpassing us in every category
I’m a girl and I’d much rather do the workout the boys are doing at a lower rate or even the same (even if I couldn’t be as physically strong) because it seems they push the boys very hard more with strength and cardio and develop and sculpt their body’s with swimming,pull ups,push ups,body weight activity’s etc...while the girls do like 20% of what the guys do gymnastics,spinning hoola-hoops and archery.If I was there I’d want to push my body and achieve what the guys can get but as a girl(obviously at a different and maybe lower standard but boy I would keep up as well as I could) If you re-watch there’s not one over weight boy their and not comparing a girls and boys body as they develop completely different at different rates and times but a few of the girls are over weight and if you push them hard enough or if they want to achieve their goals they will not by doing archery and stuff.The boys are pushed harder with time and numbers and they are all one cohesive unit in sync.I know guys are naturally stronger but that doesn’t mean girls can’t reach their physical fitness peak and be equally as fit in their own way.
Don’t be silly. You ca go learn how to dance and sew. 😝
v rego I did gymnastics for 5-6 years when I was younger I know how tough it can be physically and mentally that’s why I never mentioned it that’s why I said archery and stuff all things that are stationary idk personally for me I liked to be pushed to my limit(safely) and attempt to push myself when I work out.Girls can be pushed equally as hard in their own way if they want it and could be up there with the boys in the blue shorts obviously probably not gold and navy blue etc...but the standards would change for them,do ya get me ?
Cameron I mean you can if ya want I’m all good,dancing ain’t too bad if it’s a workout but nah you can go away with sewing 😂😂
v rego oh sorry I realised I mentioned gymnastics in my comment above.Well from the clip of the girl she seemed like she does gymnastics out of school(possibly from her level and technique) i mean maybe their team was good in school and their teacher was serious but she definitely has the gymnasts body all ya have to do is look at their legs and ya know 😂😂
Hello Emma Smith. Mabel Lee's book "Fundamentals of Body Mechanics and Conditioning" is an illustrated teaching manual that specifically addresses women's classical physical training. Sometimes found on Ebay, and usually available at local library through inter-library loan. She was a pioneering women's physical educator here in the USA, and one of the primary architects of WWII Women's Army Corp (WAC) physical training doctrine. The first WAC PT manual was call "You Must Be Fit." It is also worth finding.
God I hate how lazy most people are now a days
too much extra forms of entertainment + increased automation.
Gee
Goggins
this did not age well
armyrunt01 how so?
@@jasongts look up calisthenicmovement on yt
This did age well
Girls do physical exercise to "look more attractive". That line hurt. Also, they get a 25 second mention, only the boys get basically any mention. I know this is old, but this is humiliating.
@I hate Sprinkled minerals lol. girls weren't less interested in sports, they were just told sports were a "manly thing" and as for them not building muscle, lots of them do, but others, once again, are called "manly" or 'unattractive" for being muscular because its a "manly" trait to have muscles.
I didn't see any fat in this video
You should've turned front camera on...😂😂 Just kidding
I saw about 12-14%
In high school I would skip gym class to smoke weed and when I didn’t skip it was either basketball or pitching in the bullpen. Such a different experience school must have been in the 1960’s
I feel like for p.e to be successful it should be fun and not the same thing, i would sprint in my gym because everybody else was just playing basketball or just chilling.
The children of the WORLD need this!
I graduated from La Sierra in 1972 and loved the PE program. Sadly, they closed La Sierra in the early 80’s. La Sierra does have an active Facebook page if interested.
And today PE is 6 kids trying their best and the other 24 wandering around aimlessly. Then they go inside to teachers who have had their pay cut countless times while their classrooms keep getting fuller.
this is true statement
7:48 Prophetic
Imagine being allowed to train shirtless in school dreams would come true
Wow, actual men and women working hard to stay fit! Now we celebrate obesity and sit in front of a pc/tv all day thinking it’s normal.
"Advancement depends exclusively on PERFORMANCE; not on SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENTS by a teacher." What a concept!
I wish we still had something like this
Nowadays nobody can run an entire lap or do 5 pushups. It’s sad.
As a D1 lineman im like damn. Where are the linemen?
I imagine back then linemen were 5'10 170lbs in high school. I was 6'5, 260lbs in hs.
their warm ups are our actual work outs
The world needs this now! Someone please implement this to every country.
Does anyone know the physical requirments for each of the colors?
I don't recall the actual metrics per color. But, among the tasks/skills were pull-ups, bar dips, timed shuttle run, timed distance running, timed bar hang, numbers of full trips on the pegboard, trips on overhead bars, trips (hops) on parallel camel bars, etc. There was serious personal motivation to get yourself out of reds (second tier after whites) and into blues (third tier and deemed base level of respectability). Purple and gold followed and awarded to seriously fit athletes. And finally navy blue - A Navy SEAL type test attained by only a couple dozen super athletes during the life of the program (Longhorns, feel free to correct/mock me for my memory here).
Bring this back!
Now we have an obesity epidemic in many countries world wide. The "marshmallow generation" comment aged extremely well.
I miss that time... And I wasn't even born yet.
Where can we get the fitness program? Awesome
If you look up la Sierra fitness program and look around a little you can find it
If you can't put in the energy to find the fitness program I'd question if you'd have the energy to actually complete it...
I don't have the La Sierra one but I have this one drive.google.com/file/d/1-4-T7W9MYk1FlGhw93KPV9aglFJJa3UX/view?usp=drivesdk
Hmm, so I wonder why this was never pushed throughout the rest of the country. My PE classes throughout my 12 years of public schooling were actually very poor. I remember in Highschool that at the end of the semester we had a physical test that included running a mile in at least 9 minutes, doing pull ups, and climbing a rope. The mile was easy because I already ran cross-country, but I did poorly on the pull-Ups though I did climb the rope. The thing that bothered me most about the test was that for the majority of time during PE, we never did any pull-ups or rope climbing. Indeed, outside of that involved in recreational kick-ball, we never even ran consistently or intently. It didn’t make sense to test a range of skills which were never even built upon during the class throughout the year. However, that’s how it’s always been in PE class in my experience during public education.
This is how it should be!
I’m so fit and I eat healthy but I’m disappointed with people right now that aren’t taking care of there health remember with out health we are failing … not good for the future generations
Looks fun and actually makes school have meaning then it does today.
That first sentence cannot be more true than EVER
And to think in the last decade many schools have removed physical fitness altogether
Today's parents would be like: why is my kid still wearing white shorts? You are traumatizing him.
More in regard to Maybe's inquiry. Stan Leprotti did publish his own book called The Motivation factor; As Emphasized in the LaSierra High School Boys' Physical Education Program in 1973, but don't recall a comprehensive history of its birth and death. Perhaps it will come into focus if growing interest in La Sierra leads to more visual and written artifacts, as well as first-hand accounts of those who were there. Many LaSierra High students would be perhaps in their 70's. Still time to seek their knowledge, insights and wisdom. The La Sierra archives were only rediscovered perhaps ten years or less ago, so it takes time for it to filter out to the masses and start lighting fires. Naturally, activity will stir and muddy the water for a while until everybody starts swimming at an agreed pace, direction, and intent. Mediocrity pulls hard toward the middle, so it could all lead to nothing of eternal note. Knowing as much about the La Sierra program as possible will help dedicated seekers compare what they see and hear to what they already know. The more they already know, the more prepared they will be to improve upon the La Sierra methods, material and motivators. We can be sure that Mr. LeProtti would want us to do exactly that. He was, from what I have read, a WWII-Era Marine. Your question certainly fans the flame. The Ancients advised that we measure a man's worth not by his answers, but by his questions. Your question, in my opinion is on the mark. Five years ago, a Google search of Stan Leprotti yielded very little. Try it today, and see for yourself what is happening. The 1960's looked back to WWII for inspiration, and the WWII generation looked to European immigrants who brought highly evolved physical training systems to the USA beginning perhaps in the 1850's. The Golden Era of American physical training is from around 1885-1920. WWII brought us to life, and we saw light until JFK was assassinated. Rediscovering the methods, materials and motivators those immigrants and their juniors used, comparing them to LaSierra, empowering it with our technologies, music, and other force multipliers, and personally experiencing the spirit of those times is what future historians would call a cultural rebirth. As we know from the struggles of great men like Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Per Heinrich Ling, Ignatious De Loyola, Martin Luther, Hieronymous Mercurialis, Plato, Michel De Montaigne, Jean Jaques Rouseau, Friedrich Froebel, John Sweet, Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths, Franz Nachtegall, Dudley Allen Sargent, Nils Posse, Robert Tait McKenzie, William Gilbert Anderson, Charles H. McCloy, Stan Leprotti and countless forgotten others who heard the trumpets and followed the sound, it is not attainable without total and unwavering humility, humanity and nobility.
I’m sorry but the girls class looks so much less appealing. I’d rather do an obstacle course then tossing a hula hoop
You should see the full version of it. They didn't just doing hulahoop
@@trevorjames7490 what else did they do, can you tell?
@@dreamyanon5151 they did archery
Well ya they seen girls for looking good and boys being good a sports and being fit both have a bad stereotype sadly
@@mariaconiglio6582 lol what? from what i can see the girls in this school are much more fit than girls nowadays
that is so amazing,, they did exercise very very hard, i have not even pulled up once up to now
The snowflake generation, the marshmallow generation, the hippy generation this just showed me that old people complain all the time about the new generation.
My generation will probably complain
It's true tho
Right? If the adults are complaining that the new generation (aka children/teenagers) are soft then they should be the ones demanding change for their kids
Yeah, every generation complains about the past ones. Vsauce made a great video about it.
They keep getting worse
We really need this again. Like really.
When I was a teen in the 80’s we did about the same as those girls did too, i aways chose weight lifting class as one of my electives in PE were given 3 activities per semester..
Bring this back, while we couldn't expect these kinds of results immediately would it be too much to expect that all high school seniors 10 years from the implementation date be able to perform like this?
We had PE every year and I graduated in 76.
Wait! We're NOT currently the best version of ourselves we could be?
Now you win for coming last and not trying
Beautiful
So why did these ideas and practices for P.E., fall out?
We have to make this again... in all the world. This will be benefical on all aspects of the world has we knew. Not joking
Improve phisically
Improve Spiritually
Improve Psicology
+Healthier+happier+social
I know a lot of people say this but I’m actually kind of inspired to work out from watching this, even if my gym is shut down.
this is more motivation to be fit then any "motivational video" (for me personally) I thought I am pretty fit but I think I would be just average then
1. The reason why this was recorded was because it was not the norm.
2. No, you sitting on your ass watching this and dreaming "I wish they had this in my school" wouldn't want this. If you really wanted to get big then you'd do it, instead of wishing someone forced you to.
3. You cant miss a time you didnt exist in. Also talk to any vietnam vet and see how good they enjoyed losing a pointless war that left them damaged.
Very interesting video. Do you know if the La Sierra program was ever documented in a published book?
Have never seen a book, but don’t know for certain. Fitness oriented high school boys like I in the early-1960’s saw 16mil movies, television reports and written articles such as one in Life Magazine. My hometown in Eastern Iowa was known for its German gymnastics culture, which employed the same principles, so many of us were alert and attentive to learn about La Sierra, but the general public was ambivalent or critical of such programs. Critics warned that such highly structured physical education was militaristic and would turn us into mindless
robots. Same arguments still persist in mainstream physical education today. In fact, the training methods are not easily understood, and require deep understanding of past systems from which Mr. LeProtti and others built their own curriculums. Modern military training is primitive compared to the WWII doctrine from which Mr. LeProtti created his approach. To understand the big picture, perhaps begin with Dr. Thomas Cureton from the U of Illinois, a WWII generation fitness pioneer known as the father of physical fitness in physical education. One of his workbooks is at play.google.com/store/books/details/Thomas_Kirk_Cureton_Physical_Fitness_Workbook?id=TC8MAAAAYAAJ. Any of the Navy V-5 manuals can also shine light. Another great source is 1943 Physical Training Program, United States Navy Training Center. The 1946 Army FM21-20 will also provide clues to Mr. LeProtti’s methods. He was a Marine vet and was mentored by Frank Griffin who also studied military physical training. It all only lasted for a few years under John F. Kennedy, and quickly faded after his assassination. President Johnson sided with the majority and returned to a primary focus on sports and games. JFK's Secret Doctor: The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus by Susan E.B. Schwartz is another important book. Kraus is known as the father of sports medicine and advised JFK in those years. If you are looking for the mother load, go back to the sources of American military physical training at books.google.com/books?id=pSUAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
and books.google.com/books?id=k3YMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. It will be time well invested if you are interested in how we arrived where we are today. Finally, Body Mechanics and Conditioning by
Mabel Lee offers insights into women’s physical training offered nowhere else.
I have the La Sierra fitness handbook that I downloaded as a PDF onto my iphones book app, just google it and you’ll find it
@@jonahanderson2663 Thanks Jonah, did you find the handbook containing the philosophy, concept, and physical tests or another handbook containing the exact program and routine of each group (white, red, blue,...) ? I know they were doing back then a 12 min daily routine but they were for sure not doing only that, it would be amazing to have their bars and calisthenics programs as well.
@@ITHAK0001 if you find it please post it here so we can all see :) thank you
@@citrxn5459 I believe this is just the boy's handbook motivationmovie.com/ls-student-manual/
I wish they had this now but if you were allowed to skip one or two things
Gee. If that program had been mandatory when I was in high school. I think most of my confidence problem from today would be less heavy. And to a lot of people I know as well. We absolutely need a PE reform.
Alot of our insecurities would be vanished and our confidence & self-esteem would bypass any of them that are left
We're the nutella marshmellow spread over oreo cake with fudgies on the side............
I wish my schoollife would have been like this, i feel like i wouldve deserved to have the chance to have it.
They were making spartan IIs at this school
This would be considered “abuse” in todays world 😂😂
All natty too!!
I don't even care if they did it "To PrEpArE FoR ThE MiLiTaRy" i want it. In my country (italy) you generally run like 10 mins and *if* your PE teacher is good he will have you doing a few other things, like hiit circuits ecc, otherwise just fooling around with the ball pretending to play volleyball for a total of 2 hours a week, all while girls pretend to be painful from their period
someone on the net
Those girls may be fit but they run slow as hell
Most of time we don't pretend that our period is painful, we just use it as an excuse.
Honestly having something like that in every High School I think would motivate every guy to be the best that they could the problem with my high school growing up was they focused a lot on Athletics so everything was tailored around Sports not necessarily overall physical fitness
Don’t play to get fit
Get fit to play
That’s sound advice
We had something similar to this in Jr High. It was a good program. I don't know why they discontinued it. I held the school record in jump rope.
back when schools cared about teens’ health. Sleep, exercise, knowledge, food, i wish 😫
I would have loved this at my school, sport was my favourite activity probably because it was the only thing I was really good at
It’s funny. I remember having a Physical Education program like this in high school to a much lesser degree. (I live in SoCal) We did not do all of the stuff listed here, but I look back and it’s funny how I was able back then to run a 6-7 minute mile, and do many types of calisthenics with a good amount of ease. We did not do aerobics, though. We mainly did cardio & calisthenics training. 🤘🤘
Edit: Class of 2014, btw. But also, a key difference is that boys and girls did ALL the same workouts. I find it funny that girls were doing a completely different set of workouts back then.
5:40 Running 2 miles in 13 minutes is a pace equal to 9.2mph (14.7 kph) for 13 minutes!
That's not even the highest level. Thats just the 3rd rank. Gold standards were even way higher than that.
That was expected when I was in the infantry with the 101st Airborne. No more than 13 minutes or those assholes would put you in remedial PT until you got to 13 minutes. However, there’s always that one asshole sergeant who hated you and said that both of your feet didn’t cross at exactly 13 minutes. Guess where you went? Remedial PT. Of course guys like that would get their teeth knocked right out of their face and wonder why. You think Joe Private is gonna give a shit about losing rank when you keep fucking him over? Nope. Seen it happen.
@@phillyphilhouse79 Yes, but it's physically impossible to do for 99% people
Today this would be considered child abuse. 🤣
If they’re the marshmallow generation then this must be the melted jello generation
9:08 Woah!! Even the nerd is fit 🤣🤣🤣
Very impressive
Sad thing is I'm considered in the top 1% of physical fitness for my age based on VO2 max, pull ups and push ups, and I still can't do many of the things in this video
Imagine all the boys at school having six packs lmao
There's no way the US will ever be that fit again 🤣. No way!
Or the UK. Or the EU.