Yes, it was raining. And your point is? Even so, 2 Pax were present and accounted for at #TheSword this morning for PE Class. We took the old school Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Here’s the summary:

Welcome/Disclaimer

Warmarama (IC):

-Mosey to get blocks. Carry blocks to the shelter to use for LBC’s later.

Begin the:

PRESIDENTIAL PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST

-1 mile run (3 laps)

-‘Mericans (AMRAP until exceed 3 seconds between reps)

-LBCs (AMRAP until exceed 3 seconds between reps)

-V-sit reach (modified by WWI v-sit reach ups x20)

-Pull-ups (AMRAP until exceed 3 seconds between reps or hang until dropping)

-Shuttle run (Suicides 30 ft down and back)

Results for a 17 YO Male (85th percentile):

-1 mile run=under 6:06 min (7:04 is 50%)

-Push-ups=53 or more (30 is 50%)

-Sit-ups=55 or more (44 is 50%)/66 and 42 if partial

-V Sit and reach past your toes =8.7 inches or more (3 inches is 50%)

-Pull ups (underhand or over hand)=13 or more or 53 sec hang (8 or hang for 30 sec is 50%)

-60 ft Shuttle run (30 yds down and back) 8.7 sec (9.4 sec is 50%)

Type of Award Issued (depending on your scores):

• The Presidential Physical Fitness Award – which recognizes students who achieve an outstanding level of physical fitness (> 85th percentile).
• The National Physical Fitness Award – for students who demonstrating a basic level of physical fitness (> 50th percentile).
• The Participant Physical Fitness Award – to recognize the participation of other students (< 50th percentile on one or more events).

After completing the challenge, there was still time, so we did:

-Mobility Moment

Mosey back to base

Recover, Recover

Moleskin:

Ping helped YHC avoid a sad clown event this morning. Today we came to make our gym teacher(s) proud by doing the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. 

It was great posting with Ping and learning more about him. YHC enjoyed spending time with you in the gloom bro! Ping is also at it Qing. YHC thinks he said he’s around 6 Q’s now. Way to dive in bro!

The rain must have kept others away (or perhaps it was the test administration, or even YHC Qing, that was a deterrence). Regardless, two Pax left better this morning.

History:

During and after World War I, and throughout the Vietnam era, fitness testing and physical training for children was conducted in schools by governmental agencies, linked to preparedness for combat.

The impetus for the style of physical testing developed into the Presidential Fitness Test. It began as a research study conducted in the early 1950s to determine minimum fitness levels consisting of 6 basic exercises. One of their experiments involved conducting the fitness test on 4,000 children on the East Coast, which showed that 56.6% of them between age 6 and 16 failed the test. The high rate of failure caused alarm among politicians, leading to expand testing to 3,000 rural, urban, and suburban children in Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. On average, they found that only 8.2 European children failed the test.

In July 1956, President Eisenhower “officially” launched the President’s Council on Youth Fitness by Executive Order. Before John F. Kennedy’s presidency, he advocated for youth physical fitness in his article “The Soft American,” published in Sports Illustrated, noting “The harsh fact of the matter is that there is also an increasingly large number of young Americans who are neglecting their bodies – whose physical fitness is not what it should be – who are getting soft. And such softness on the part of the individual citizen can help to strip and destroy the vitality of a nation.”

The test had some modifications over the years, began to dwindle during the Clinton and Bush eras, and ended with the Obama administration. It is now called the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, In place of the Presidential Fitness Test, the Program “emphasizes individual progress over exceptionalism”. The test has a new form of calculations, placing students within ranges and removing the Award for achieving the highest category. Instead, students are provided with individual assessments and goals, with the structure of how to achieve the goal.

Oh, to be 17 again…

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Always great to start the day with my F3 brothers. Until next time…

Toby

(aka Tobra Commander, Tobra Kai, Tobi-Wan, Teletoby, Tobias, Tobadia, “Toe”bee, TobyMac, Tob-lerone, etc.)