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re: High school fitness, 1962

Posted on 2/15/23 at 3:44 pm to
Posted by Areddishfish
The Wild West
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 3:44 pm to
HIT before it became a commercial gym fad
Posted by andouille
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 3:45 pm to
Our PE in '63 wasn't this demanding or close, but we were pretty fit from what we had to do. I started in baseball and basketball and after PE I was pretty beat down, the PE teacher was big on laps and flexibility.
Posted by Purplehaze
spring, tx
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 3:47 pm to
1967, Kaplan High School. PE classes consisted of peg board, rope climbing, basketball, dodge ball and medicine ball volleyball. You had 3 throws and catches to get the medicine ball over the net.

We also had a coach writing a paper on teaching boys how to shoot free throws by using smaller rims with regulation basketballs.
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 3:50 pm to
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It’s a fact that men 18-35 today have faaar less testosterone on average than 18-35 year old men from the 70s-2000s


Another (probably fact) that there are maybe 20x more unhealthy food options that are a fraction of the price of eating healthy. More to it than just going to a PE class.
Posted by lsu777
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:04 pm to
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medicine ball volleyball. You had 3 throws and catches to get the medicine ball over the net.


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peg board, rope climbing


your coach in 1967 was ahead of half the current S&C coaches with impementing those alone
Posted by NOFOX
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:07 pm to
Willing to bet the average OT kids eat like shite and are overweight. People are lazy and indulge in shite food and alcohol way too frequently. It trickles down to the kids.

Damn shame seeing fat little fricks everywhere these days.
Posted by gumbeaux
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:18 pm to
Back in the day during PE class…..we had fitness training similar to the video and then had to pass a fitness test. I didn’t care for the rope climb to the gym ceiling.
This post was edited on 2/15/23 at 4:20 pm
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:21 pm to
did you not listen to the video... thats an add for one guys program. Who knows if any school actually did that.
Posted by BigD43
Member since Jun 2016
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:22 pm to
Why is testosterone so much lower than just 20 years ago?
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
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31436 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:23 pm to
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did you not listen to the video... thats an add for one guys program. Who knows if any school actually did that


i have and LaSierra HS did. thats where this program is from. google it.

he essentially is trying to get the program implemented across the nation. it wont work
This post was edited on 2/15/23 at 4:24 pm
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
57472 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:27 pm to
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he essentially is trying to get the program implemented across the nation. it wont work

well obviously.... you got a different color pair of shorts based on your grade. Hell nowadays you dont get different grades if you do good or bad.
Posted by Clark14
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Member since Dec 2014
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:29 pm to
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I’d also argue in the 60s was peak Vietnam war so I bet the govt was pressuring public schools to make sure young men were fit for the draft


I thought this as well.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
34488 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:32 pm to
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1985 Presidential Physical Fitness Standards


I need this circa 199-99. I got the PPF award four times. Didn't realize these were tested for high schoolers, ours stopped at 8th grade.
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:34 pm to
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fact that men 18-35 today have faaar less testosterone 
Whew! I just turned 36 a couple of months ago.
Posted by High C
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:22 pm to
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did you not listen to the video... thats an add for one guys program. Who knows if any school actually did that.


I did. The point of the thread is that high schools today wouldn’t even be ALLOWED to implement a fitness program like this. Your subsequent post about the color of the shorts is even further proof. As little as five years ago, we would give wall jumps or up/downs as punishment for misbehaving at school. Take a guess as to whether we can still do that.

Those who continue to interpret this as some kind of “flex” are also missing the point.
Posted by tgrmeat
Member since Sep 2020
4357 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:26 pm to
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D3 athletes are built better than these guys.


Those kids are 15-17. D3 athletes are 18-22.
Posted by vidtiger23
Member since Feb 2012
4862 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:27 pm to
You can find kids like that every where now a days as well. Graduated in 11 and we had plenty of physically fit people in school. Y’all are exaggerating or need to go to a different school.
Posted by jafari rastaman
Member since Nov 2015
1841 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:43 pm to
Was this PE coach racist? Where are all the black kids?
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15838 posts
Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:48 pm to
Physical Education is not even required in some places.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
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Posted on 2/15/23 at 6:54 pm to
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Gonna be a whole bunch of fatass 40 and 50 year olds acting like they did this shin the 90's in high school.
we did the Jane Fonda step aerobics videos at my high school bc the teacher wanted to do them
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