LaSierra High PE Program
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2012
- Historic clip from legendary 1960s Physical Education program designed by Mr. Stan LeProtti from LaSierra High School in Carmichael, CA. LeProtti was honored as one of the the Top Three Physical Fitness Experts in America in mid sixties. The LaSierra PE program was featured in the January 1962 issue of Look Magazine as well as Reader's Digest, The Tonight Show, and numerous other publications. The "LaSierra System" was adopted by about 4,000 schools across America and promoted as "THE" program to adopt nationally. The objective was to teach quality movement appropriate to each ability level and each child--it was very instructor driven and had great technical quality. The program also stressed "grades, neatness, grooming, and citizenship." Unfortunately, we stopped doing exercises nationally like this with our youth, but we need to start again!
My Uber driver told me about this and said he went to school here and that this program really helped shape his life and grew his self confidence! He then served 30 years in the navy! Pretty rad! Thanks for your service Jack!
JNHForLife Great story! Great PE program! 💪
30 years in the navy and he has to drive for uber?! WTF
@@jgooo101 Probably he don't like to stay at home enjoying his retirement and sometimes he likes to do something productive.
@@bastianlamb214 Yeah right🤣😭🤚🏾
Girl pls
This kind of programmes are used to make people more dependent to the government and make a soldiers out of them. Everything would be great if politicians and governments wouldn't exsists.
And what with people with disease like an epilepsy? Should they also be forced to do this?
Lol make the kids do this now in America and parents will go crazy and say it causes autism or some shit
You took the words out of my mouth. It's both embarrassing and insulting to the legacy of this program.
As a highschooler i wish they still had this, id sign up right away
Heriberto Dias sane
HoPe Fortruth we don’t need to know that you’re a girl
True, they'll call it bullying or something like that.
This was my school. Excellent program. Great coaches, too.
Yes. It was a great program! 🇺🇸
I ask, sir, how dod the program look like?
Frequency per week? Lenght of each session? Etc.
This is what all PE programmes need to be like around the world! Not forgetting agility, balance and coordination work as well :)
Not every country considers their youngsters to be primarily cannon fodder to be thrown into the meat grinder of war for the benefit of a small elite.
@@DocTomoe812while they were trained for war. The essentials of the fitness programs are far better then being in a sedentary lifestyle
My dad went to La Sierra in the 80’s then went into the Navy for 20 years. He said you start out in white shorts, then go to red shorts, blue shorts, then Navy Blue. He said the shorts meant how good you were doing, and that if you were in Navy Blue you were athletic and fit. Red was the average but my dad stayed in blue. Never got to Navy Blue though.
Even Blue shorts at LaSierra were an elite level! Your Dad must have been in quite excellent condition!
TheLeanBerets Did you go to La Sierra? My dad says he was only 146 pounds when he got his driver’s license so it was easier for him to pick himself up.
@@callmemforbooks12345 No. I did not attend LS, but my high school in CA did use a weaker version of LS color short promotion system. It was nothing close to LS though, but even at a lower quality, I was quite motivated to test up into the next color of shorts!
TheLeanBerets My school doesn’t even do required PE anymore. My Junior year of high school is a joke.
@@callmemforbooks12345 This is sadly the case in many schools. When there is "PE", it's often not even worth doing. Students deserve better. Just remember that. I'll do my part getting the word out and advocating for changes. -RJ
These guys aren't skinny, muscular or athletic, they are normal. We have grown up in a world of fat and lazy sods, but there was a time people were healthy, even in the USA.
You are so spot on to say "even" in the USA. I was lucky enough to visit Sydney, Australia, 5 times (BEAUTIFUL, terrific city) and I very seldom saw anyone obese--and when I did, they had the unmistakable look of "American tourist" about them. Here in the U.S. unless you're at a gym every 2 out of 3 persons you see are noticeably overweight or even obese. There's a small minority of people who work out a lot and look fantastic--and there's everybody else. It's staggering!
@@rayyblon4 I'd say sickening rather than staggering.
@Blake Chi Town Beast Berrios Yes, and the UK, and just about every other English-speaking country has now been junkfoodized.
Yeah, and they also smoked in planes and theaters and right in front of their fucking babies in the 60s.
@esketit spaghetti123 who? Spetznas? Ffl? Gurkha's? Sas?
peg boards - the greatest thing ever
All I do during gym class is walk around and bring my phone. My teacher does not make us do any physical activity besides walk in a circle. Lmaoooo
Sadly, this is what far too many PE classes have become. Tell your teacher to watch our film on LaSierra and classical PE then get off his/her butt and start teaching for a change because you deserve better. -Ron Jones, MS, Historical Kinesiologist, Physical Educator motivationmovie.com/
What the hell happened to the United States?
Great question. We decided to make a whole film around the above one minute newsreel clip. Watch the rest of the story at: motivationmovie.com -Ron Jones, MS, Historical Kinesiologist
@@historicalsignificance4183 cultural marxism
Outdated education system that's why
@@historicalsignificance4183 rip credit score
@@historicalsignificance4183 cmon bruh
The youth of the United state went from
1960: Fit , discipline , accomplishing goals, strong mentally , strong character
To
2021: Overweight, lazy, delicate , gamers, mumble rappers etc etc ...
Why is no one fighting for this program again ..... because they always finding something wrong with something good man I hate how people think these days
Indeed. I cannot disagree with the overall statement. I can tell you that I have been fighting for this type of classical PE at a national level and that's it is gaining attention especially considering our pathetic levels of mental and physical fitness with our youth today. Hopefully--you will hear more about this soon. -Ron Jones, MS
Yeah it's intentional. Part of the kalergi plan aka white genocide via mass migration
The last thing the elites want is the kind of young men this programme churns out.
Interestingly enough my father was part of the Sequoia High School Alumni in Redwood City and my brother went to La Sierra High School. I went to a rival school down the street from La Sierra. I am currently a PE teacher and remember the old La Sierra program.
Frank Griffin was the PE great at Sequoia HS where LeProtti was mentored. LaSierra is just a ramped up version of Sequoia who was doing it in the 1940s.
The good era
Please put me there! That was the time when America was truly at it's greatest!
And then came videogames and instant ramen.
For the full supporting research on La Sierra High PE and Coach LeProtti, please visit The Lean Berets dot com blog post section. The real learning here is NOT the fitness component--it's the psychological motivation facilitated by Coach LeProtti. The how and why these kids trained at home to excel in school PE is the real value and why we posted.
I LOVE this video!!
Amazing!
Id for sure join thisss program
Awesome! And he should narrate my life.
Fond memories. Stan Leproti, Jack Herron, Ed Souza, and Dick Cristofani were men who encouraged us to be men. They challenged you and pushed you till you made it. 1962: 2 pull ups...1966: 40+ and so forth.
Don't forget coach Dick Turner if he was still there when you went.
Dick Smith LS 1963
JB, please visit igg.me/at/jfkchallenge/x/10061593 and donate a dollar toward getting this program back into today's schools!
My alma mater in the early 80's!!! the fitness program went from white shorts indicating barely/not passable fitness up through Red, Blue, Purple, Gold and Navy Blue. I made it to Blues, many made purple, some made gold and only a dozen or so campus heroes ever made navy blues due to ever-increasing test requirements. (one Navy Blue test was a 5-minute mile, another was 1-mile firemans carry of another person. also lots of pegboard climbs, pull ups, pushups, bar dips and shuttle sprints. no weight training...all calisthenics). No girls made gold or navy while I was there, and few ever made purple. And yes, it was embarrassing and socially harmful back then for any kids stuck at the white shorts fitness level mostly through lack of effort. thats when standards and performance meant more than self-esteem and the 24/7/365 coddling of today's public school snowflake or morbidly obese emo. Sadly, La Sierra closed in 1983 because of bureaucratic stupidity and progressive lefty lunacy of the San Juan School District board.
What city was this high school in?
Thanks for your story. It was quite a program. There was a lot of good there that is still good today. People historically thrive on a physical challenge with a chance of hope. LaSierra did just that. -Ron Jones, MS, Historical Kinesiologist
I have a question, do you think the fitness of the students contributed to a better social climate / less bullying?
@@mspixiedust100 Sacramento, California
Also an alum. Not wanting to be stuck in the lowest class (white shorts) is what motivated me to reach blue, which for a scrawny non-athletic type was quite an accomplishment. But all of the motivation from coaches and other students was positive, which made it attainable.
Philippines have like that especially highschool first to fourth years train like military others gone but others school still exist ,
Sorry for bad grammar
La Sierra High School was in Carmichael, California.
Whats amazing to me is how thin everyone is. If you was to take a picture of an average high school today, 80% of them will be overweight and the other 20% would be obese.
Pretty much. They were “lean” at LaSierra not just thin. They had optimal strength-to-weight. Now we have excessive weight with significant weakness. I would rather have a LaSierra body and health over today’s insanity. -RJ
If my school did this instead of forcing everyone to play sports I wouldn't have skipped PE
does anyone know where one could actually find their workout/curriculum that they used? I would love to get into something like this but i can't find any information as to what they actually did. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
+Austin Green Really hard to come by in the modern age. Tough Mudder is probably the only similar thing you'll find.
I am the curator of the archives. It's not about the volume with classical methods. Even in ancient Greece--the volume was downplayed in order to promote the quality and beauty of the movements. To begin, focus on the basics or fundamentals. It's always about that really. -Ron Jones, MS
I went to this school. This program was real and 100% of guys were relatively active and enthusiastic participants; even stoners (girls had just started a similar regimen by the time I entered the school). Meaning, it was a social litmus test to get yourself out of whites (initial color all frosh started with and you wanted/needed to get out of that status, post-haste), into reds (next level and relatively mild tests), to blues (first level of respectability). Purple and gold were elite athletes like you see in the video. Navy blue was the ultimate, Navy Seal type tests, and only a couple dozen achieved this level during the entire history of the school. If I recall correctly, one could tell coach he wanted to test for the next color at any time and the coach would arrange the testing. Usually there were many that were testing for the same color at the same time, at their respective own requests. There was a battery of common tests that each color-level had; then the next level would introduce new, unique test(s) that your present color didn't require. Regular tests would be certain number of pullups, bar-dips, two-hand hang, timed mile, shuttle run, number of trips on the peg board, etc. As you progressed, tests became progressively more difficult and new apparatus were added. Example, timed trips up and down a heavy, 30' rope in the gym (example, number of trips in a minute. You could use your feet to help but it slowed you down. Purps and golds would fly up and down the rope like circus performers, hands-only). There is a PDF handbook available somewhere, I've heard. Owner of this channel, fellow Longhorn I'm guessing, my apologies if I jacked up any of this description. Best of my recollection, decades later.
realtoast thanks for writing this! Do you think that going through this program changed your life for the better? I’m thinking of doing something similar myself
@@westons9735 I would say Yes. But not necessarily from just the fitness part. I'm no great athletic talent. But, at 14 and 15 years old, I - like all young men that age - had opportunity to go in many directions, socially; most of them not good. The PE regimen was such a part of the school experience that I do think it provided needed alternatives in the areas of motivation and personal goals for me and everyone. When every guy was in the program, and you'd suit up in the gym with your red shorts on, you have an hour-ten-minutes of motivation to nervously ask, "Dammit! What do I have to do, training wise, to get out of these damn embarrassing red shorts??". You figured it out and actually worked during lunch periods on your weak areas; say, pull-ups, pegboard, standing long jump, or bar dips (an initial weakness for me - where I turned it around and actually had the class record for a short period). It took me only a couple months to get in to blues, where I stayed for the remainder of school. Not for lack of trying - purples where just out of reach for me in a couple tests. Blues were no cakewalk, BTW.
I don’t know why but this all looks so familiar.
love it! Delicate people today who 'have a love for soft living' stay away from my kids.
Education reform!!!!!!
Vegetables, pulses, chicken, fish and rice mixed with this PE system produces fit and healthy people.
Real fitness focuses on fundamentals. It does not need to be fancy. Analog is quite effective when you know how to use it. :)
And that's what a natural physique looks like. Then, genetics play their role, but that's what a healthy human being is supposed to look like. It's sad to be living in a world where 200 pounds lean is considered skinny.
"Normal" is NOT "natural." Yes, people no longer even know what it looks like or feels like to age naturally at a natural weight for their frame. -RJ
@@TheLeanBerets Absolutely!
My high school was nothing like this! If it were I'd probably be stuck in white shorts or red shorts. Only.
I am from the Netherlands. Here I guess there are way less obese people than in the US. But fat people are getting more and more. I'm skinny and I'm thankful for it. I try to work on my calistenics movements to get fit. This just make me sad ti realize how bad the world nowadays is.
Indeed. There are far less obese people in Europe and most countries than here in the US, and yes, it is quite sad. Glad you are taking care of yourself! -Ron Jones
For all the LaSierra PE Film Project links, go here: theleanberets.com/lasierra-high-pe
This plus a better diet would be such a benefit to our public health.
Agree
@@TheLeanBerets everyone is too damn soft to even begin to implement. Gender and Social Justice indoctrination are way more important than health and fitness. Making the boys weaker is even part of the agenda to having a genderless society. Tell that to our next enemy we face in a battlefield.
@@wr1791 Indeed. My sources tell me this effort started after WWI. Real war doesn’t give a damn about gender or your other special interest. -RJ
@@TheLeanBerets early feminism and suffrage, I could support. The second and third waves which timed closer to the sexual revolution, I cannot. This war on masculinity has considerably weakened our country and western civilization in general
Damn. Where’d our society go wrong?
John Kim nah it’s people trying to normalize being fat
when companies got greedy
liberals
These boys were Gladiators!!!
Looks like spartan training for the teens
Do you know if there's currently any communityvor support group online for people attempting to recreate this in their current daily lives outside of HS?
The Color method is in my opinion very motivating and rewarding.
I have had numerous people over the years contact me, but it is not something you recreate through a video or chat group. No one wants to take it seriously enough to bring me into their school district to provide the proper training AND philosophy behind it because LaSierra is not just a bunch of exercises. One needs to understand the history and nuances behind it, and until we realize and admit as a nation what we do not know-nothing will change. Building quality and classical PE programs is hard work and intellectually challenging. LeProtti used to tour the country personally to teach PE teachers how to teach properly and explain the supporting philosophy. That is how it is done. I traveled around the country for years to learn from older PE mentors. People need to be in the same room together and develop together on a far deeper level than quick on-line hit and miss interacting. This is what I have learned…so far. -Ron Jones, MS 💡
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
There are many lessons in history about hardship polishing stone and character. To "live easy" is not to live at all, so as we go through hardships, what are the lessons and how can we use them to improve the human condition and our own lives too? These are the deeper questions and issues. In the PE context, we have softened our children by removing the physical and mental challenges in PE. Many children today confuse "exertion" with an "injurious activity." I have had to explain to them that just because your legs or lungs burn a little bit after a lap does not mean you are injured. We do in fact need people to become resilient and stronger, and this was accomplished historically through proper PE and physical challenge activities. This type of challenge also created mental stability in children, so once again, PE has many benefits beyond just physical fitness. -Ron Jones, MS
@@TheLeanBerets i couldnt agree more
@@d.j.wind97 Sadly, it's often overlooked today, yet this was a huge part of history both in and out of physical education!
@@TheLeanBerets As a practitioner of Wushu, a pretty physically demanding performance sport, I have felt how intense physical training teaches you how to relax and how important it is to relax mentally when exerting oneself physically. As for injuries, I find that injuries occur when you are training in such a way that you can't relax during exertion. If you feel a burn in a muscle or in your lungs but you can still relax your mind and body through that uncomfortable feeling while lifting/running/jumping, it is not injury. But if the pain feels "tense", it is better to take a break and try again later.
It is really important for people to learn these things and I wish this, along with nutrition, were taught in school.
@@Bj-yf3im I would have to agree that today's youth need to be learning a lot more about health and physical fitness than they are currently learning which is most schools is virtually nothing of importance. Sadly. Why are we allowing such poor education to continue? Why are we not demanding changes? Why do we ignore both science and history when it comes to health and PE in schools? -RJ
Carmichael, CA during the early 1960s. Coach LaProtti was influenced by another instructor back in the 1940s in Redwood City, CA. Ironically, LaSierra was just a "watered down" version of Redwood City!!!
Does anyone have any further information about the routine that these guys used or something similar? This is the exact type of routine I've been looking for.
For all the LaSierra PE Film Project links, go here: theleanberets.com/lasierra-high-pe
@@TheLeanBerets thank you! Really enjoying your videos!
What I want to know is what the actual program was. Everyone seems to reference the standards, but I'd rather see what they DID since it seems like it might be a good foundation for a workout routine....
It was a PE program backed by philosophy-not a workout. It was based on a lot of WWII methods. -RJ
@@TheLeanBerets While I get that, philosophy isn't really something I can sit down and do to get in shape, exactly. :)
To give you a bit (since you were nice enough to reply), I'm prior military (Navy), got out right before covid, so needless to say, transitioning to "the civilian world" has been...abnormal. But, I do live in the country, which means I wasn't impacted too hard by lockdowns other than jobs and a semblance of normalcy.
Anyway, pushing 4 decades and been thinking I'm getting more of a pudge than I'd like (while everyone insists to me I'm not at all, I am from what I was, and that's what's relevant to me). While aging is inevitable, giving into it is not. I do try to jog some along the highway here, but the Texas heat here kinda killed that for a bit (but fall's coming on...), and stress and other things has had be doing a lot less than I should.
Finally got myself registered with the VA and went for my first visit. They say I'm healthy with no problems other than a smidge low on vitamin D. So I guess there's hope for me yet.
So, been trying to get more active, adjust what I eat, etc. I'm a volunteer fireman, but volunteer in a little country department. So while I get a bit of a workout on calls, we don't have routines and most of the members are nearly twice my age. : )
So in any case, I'm looking for practical workouts I can watch and follow along with. Just found one "La Sierra High PE 12-Minute Strength and Endurance Daily Routine! (2020 Version!)" here on RUclips and did, and I actually rather like it (even though the Navy is the least physical of the branches, the push-ups were the easy part for me, though the rest didn't give me much trouble).
I've never been a competitive type, more a nerd than a jock (I was a nuke in the Navy), but I do believe in being able to move and act, to be able to run and carry (I can toss a 50 lb bag of chicken feed over each shoulder and still walk a hundred yards to the coup from my car, or jog a mile with a 50 lb vest from the department), and I don't know what the future holds, but I always want to be ready to stand up if called on to do so.
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So, does it make sense now when I ask about routines to do? Though I did find that video, and will be doing that, any others you might recommend I'd be appreciative for.
I already think I have the philosophy, and I know I have the capacity for discipline - have before, can again. All I need is something practical to do, cycle through, or try to build up to.
That make sense at all?
Thanks,
-Matt
@@SubduedRadical There are thousands of fitness routines. America is still fat and unfit. Why? They don’t understand or care about the philosophy behind the movement. 💡-RJ
Any idea what the program is? I would love to try it.
Does anybody know why it stopped?
We go into this in our documentary film about LaSierra and PE “The Motivation Factor”
Hypies
Metally we have fallen just as far in our educational system....Don't let cultural marxists take over your education system....
Speaking directly to the mental stability part, yes, our children are not nearly as mentally stable as during this era at LaSierra. -RJ
Hard to do that stuff holding a cell phone
😂
what city was La Sierra High?
Carmichael, CA near Sacramento
+TheLeanBerets wow, my sister in law went there
riverside
+Kevin Scott there must have been two of them?
No. Not that LaSierra. This one was from Carmichael, CA near Sacramento
why did this end
Mfbsmd sifsai LaSierra closed due to a change in district population requiring one school to close and combine with another.
can you make a video about how the program trained students. how did students upgrade to different color shorts. what were the standards and exercises.
@@jorgedominguez2256 We made an award-winning documentary film about it. motivationmovie.com/
What is the workout regimen? Cannot find it anywhere.
+Alex Coulter Alex its basically just a supercharged version of PE class. at the lower levels you only had to achieve basics, but as you move up the color ladder through reds/blues/purple/gold and up to the rarified air of navy blues (at LSHS from about 1955 to 1983 only a dozen or so guys ever made navy blues) you had to do more reps of everything and run faster.
Nationally?
USA. LaSierra was located in California.
@@TheLeanBerets then took place in two spots only
Uze Lon No. It was duplicated at some level by about 4,000 schools both in and out of the USA.
@@TheLeanBerets and now? They continue somewhere?
why do they look 30?
Exactly most kids now are pudgy therefore have baby faces. These kids were ripped as fuark
Because they are expected to mature.
Because they are held back until they can do 50 pullups
'Twas a nation of hungry skellies.
Where is this heaven???????
Preparing kids for the vietnam war so the army doesn't need to.
Only a few of the boys went to war. Good PE is good PE whether there is a war or not. ALL youth deserve proper PE and health.
Bringing back this program would end the obesity epidemic really quick
Well...kind of until you factor that obese people simply cannot perform these movements with significant modifications. We are so far off the mark now that changes have to be made to simplify and regress in order to give people a fighting chance without excessive risk for injury. It can be done though, but it will take smart and educated PE professionals who are willing to work hard with our schools. -RJ
@@TheLeanBerets
That makes sense it will take alot of modification but it will be doable but unfortunately its easier said than done to find smart and qualified PE professionals who can do it
@@Jbessette As a fully-credentialed PE teacher, I agree. Very few PE "teachers" know the first thing about true physical education today. -RJ
@@TheLeanBerets Also this is very upper body intensive and would be out of reach for most girls/women who need hard training every bit as much as guys.
@@missano3856 Yes. Sadly, most young men in America cannot not do a single proper pull up or push up now.
Leta see Trump make America healthy again😂😂😂
Prepare for Vietnam……
Correction. Prepare for life.
Training them for the Vietnam war, I see.
colossus No. They were trained to be good citizens whether civilian or military. Make a note of it. -RJ
TheLeanBerets Also Kennedy was against going to war in Vietnam too bad he got killed that event changed America history
@@hornydolphin7953 Follow the money...JFK was killed by his own. PE died with JFK too. -RJ