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Presidential Fitness Test Standards
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:10 pm
Posted on the H&F board for serious answers, but wanted to hear from the legends of the OT.
Can you pass this now?? Not when in high school, now?!!
So I have been training my kids and started to do some research on the old presidential fitness test we use to take as a kid. I was shocked at what they need to be able to do get in the top 85%, hell even top 50%. How many of yall could pass(50%) much less score in the top 85% for lets say a 12 year old.
Curl-ups=situps
Events-
-Situps
-Shuttle Run
-V-Sit Reach
-One Mile Run
-Pull Ups
-Pushups
I could do the pullups, pushups, situps and prolly the shuttle run. Big no on the mile and very iffy on the V-Sit reach.
Can you pass this now?? Not when in high school, now?!!
So I have been training my kids and started to do some research on the old presidential fitness test we use to take as a kid. I was shocked at what they need to be able to do get in the top 85%, hell even top 50%. How many of yall could pass(50%) much less score in the top 85% for lets say a 12 year old.
Curl-ups=situps
Events-
-Situps
-Shuttle Run
-V-Sit Reach
-One Mile Run
-Pull Ups
-Pushups
I could do the pullups, pushups, situps and prolly the shuttle run. Big no on the mile and very iffy on the V-Sit reach.
This post was edited on 10/26/20 at 2:22 pm
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Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:13 pm to lsu777
I'd bet 80% of the fatties on this board can't do A pull-up, let alone 7
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:13 pm to lsu777
quote:
Presidential Fitness Test Standards
I'm in better shape than that fat arse.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:13 pm to lsu777
I got that award in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Coach had to let me do shuttle run a few times to qualify.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:14 pm to lsu777
is situps turning into curlups some PC shite or something?
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:16 pm to lsu777
That V-Sit reach always fricked me up. I have absurdly long legs and poor flexibility. I'd completely frick up the mile run at this point, due to a decade of blasting cowboy killers.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:16 pm to lsu777
Man I hated those PFTs in high school... 
I could do everything but pull-ups...
I could do everything but pull-ups...
This post was edited on 10/26/20 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:16 pm to BlackAdam
quote:
I got that award in 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Coach had to let me do shuttle run a few times to qualify.
you arent in 7th/8th or 9th grade anymore.
Question is if you can do it now?
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:17 pm to lsu777
Is this where we come to brag about our younger selves?
I got that award every year we did it 2-8th grade
ETA: just looked at the list, I’m pretty positive I could do the 12 yr old test. Only thing I’m not sure about is the 50 curl ups in a minutes, seems like a lot. Everything else I’m 100% positive I could do
I got that award every year we did it 2-8th grade
ETA: just looked at the list, I’m pretty positive I could do the 12 yr old test. Only thing I’m not sure about is the 50 curl ups in a minutes, seems like a lot. Everything else I’m 100% positive I could do
This post was edited on 10/26/20 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:17 pm to lsu777
I was a grade-A nerd at that age and the only muscles I had were gained by pulling myself out of the trash cans after being stuffed in there by the bigger kids. 50% would have been hard for me.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:17 pm to lsu777
quote:
Question is if you can do it now?
Everything but the 6:06 mile, because, frick running.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:18 pm to lsu777
quote:
V-Sit Reach
This always screwed me over.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:19 pm to Displaced
quote:
I'd bet 80% of the fatties on this board can't do A pull-up, let alone 7
I see about 2 people (other than me) in my gym who regularly do pull ups. It's one of the best upper body strength exercises you can do. But damn, some baws will bench press, delt raise, tricep cable, and curl the shite out of an upper body workout.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:20 pm to Hangover Haven
quote:
I could do everything but pullups...
Until I understood gender differences, I was always pissed that girls got to do a hang time instead of pull-ups.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:20 pm to lsu777
I don’t remember doing any of this in grammar school. Our lesbian PE coach used this time for her girls teams to scrimmage the boys teams.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:20 pm to Ed Osteen
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is situps turning into curlups some PC shite or something?
I doubt it. They cut the program I believe in like 2012 or something, so kind of pre-PC BS.
So stupid they stopped this, its needs to come back. The countries overall fitness, especially among males, is a danger to society and makes us weak.
Need to implement a strict PFT training program in elementary and implement LA Sierra program in middle and high school kids.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:22 pm to lsu777
I could do all, but the run would be a pita.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:22 pm to HempHead
quote:
That V-Sit reach always fricked me up.
Shuttle run was always my downfall. Didn't have much problem with the rest of them.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:23 pm to lsu777
I made presidential twice and national the other 5 or 6 times, but that was hilariously easy.
Posted on 10/26/20 at 2:24 pm to LSUAlum2001
quote:
quote:
Question is if you can do it now?
Everything but the 6:06 mile, because, frick running.
This.
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