001Welcome to the May Roaming with Rhoda. This will be a little bit of a different Roaming with Rhoda. Today I'm at Frankfort High School and we're getting a new weight room at the high school. We're really excited about it. And today I'm going to visit the uh high school APC, the advanced physical conditioning class. And I'm going to ask them they've been reading a book, bunch of athletes here are reading a book with Coach Dudley and it's called Chop Wood Carry Water by Josh Medcalf. And uh I'm going to ask them what that means to them and get their reflections on what it means to chop wood, carry water. So, enjoy this session of Roaming with Rhoda. Xavier, what does it mean to you to chop wood, carry water? It means like do the difficult
002things out of the way first and then like make time for what you got. All right. Keep it up. Keep up the hard work. Thank you. Uh to me uh what chop wood, carry water means is um you got to do the difficult things to like get better results and stuff, you know what I mean? That's what you do. Yeah. Cuz like a lot of people see like the big things, but they don't appreciate the little things that you have to do before you become the big thing. You know what I mean? They don't see what's going on behind the Yeah. What you're doing today. Yeah. All right. Keep it up. Uh I think it means just work hard, you know, like get the work done before you like start like any like main events
003like football games, you know. You got to work hard, put in the work, you know, lift weights, do some sprints, you know, like football drills. Just like you're doing Just Just like you're doing today. What do you think about the new weight room that you're going to be getting here pretty soon? Uh I I think it's going to be great. I only seen like the format, but I think it'll be great great weight room. >> All right. Go go chop some wood. All right, yes sir. Keep working every day. Just not giving up. Not giving up. Okay, just doing the little things right. >> When no one's watching. >> That's the key, isn't it? Little things right. Focus on the things in front of you and then as you're focusing on those you worry about
004the outcome later. All right, that's exactly right. Uh just do the small things, not focus so much on the future. That's right. Uh I feel like it means like doing all the little things, working hard like how we are now in the weight room. >> All right, yeah. What are you guys working on today? Uh we're working on our max bench today. Are your max bench, all right. Go chop wood. It just means doing the little things when no one's watching, first of all. All right. >> Making sure that you focus on the basics. Yep. Do what you can control and not worry about anything else. That's awesome. >> Uh focus on what you got to do right now, 100% of your ability. Don't dwell on the past and don't look too far in the
005future. All right, go chop wood. Thank you. Yep. It means to do the little things every day so you can get better and better. All right, go chop some wood. Uh do things slowly and keep a steady pace. I think that Chop wood, carry water means to do the little things right when no one's looking. And like work hard every single day. All right, keep it up. Go chop wood, carry water. Yeah, thank you. >> Yep. >> [laughter] >> There you go. I hope you enjoyed that roaming with Rhoda, the final one of the year here at the Frankfort High School weight room. These guys are chopping wood, carrying water. I even had an opportunity They inspired me today to lift my max today. So, great group of kids here, Frankfort High School. Hope you
006enjoy this session. Thank you.