During my Freshman year, I started weightlifting with the football team to prepare for the season. I had never weight lifted before then, so I was able to notice the differences it made right away. In just a couple of months, I was noticeably slimmer and more defined, so I knew it was working. During my junior year I noticed that outside of some sports teams, primarily football and basketball, students didn’t really use our weight room, but I wanted everyone to be able to feel as good as I did about my health. Our school had a policy that a coach or supervisor needed to be in the weight room for students to use it, which limited its use outside of those practices. My friends and I wanted to change that, so we created the weightlifting club at the start of my junior year. The mission of the weightlifting club is to encourage healthy habits and to teach everyone the proper way to exercise. Weightlifting improves both physical health and mental health simultaneously, as the sense of accomplishment that comes with weightlifting helps reduce anxiety. I had experienced this benefit already, so it was easy to get interested. We held daily after-school workouts, and within weeks had about 50 members showing up every day, which is about 15% of our whole school. Making the weight room available encouraged a large amount of our student population to work out for the first time. In fact, 20 out of those consistent members didn’t play any sports, and had never even been in the weight room before. I led one workout each week, where I would create a workout plan, demonstrate each exercise, and go around helping everyone to do them correctly and safely. I formed the plans using a combination of workouts I learned from various football workouts, as well as from exercises that I researched from various fitness blogs, apps, and videos. Once online learning began, we shifted from daily workouts together to creating weeklong body-weight workout plans that everyone would do asynchronously, with Friday follow-up meetings, where I lead a workout, and then we discuss how the weekly plan went. Even at home, I have been able to stay in good physical condition, which has definitely helped with the stress that seems abundant during lockdowns, and I know that I have been able to help many others feel the same way.