HHS Secretary Kennedy has overseen a push to bring the Presidential Fitness Test to schools across America. Now those schools must do their part and require it.
They all remember the gold sticker, but they conveniently forget who was breathing down the neck of the kid who won the 6th grade Presidential Fitness Test. Runner-up. Runner-up! Like that was some accident. I could climb the rope faster than half the teachers could tie their shoes, did more pull-ups than the football boys, and when we ran the shuttle, I could hear the sneakers squealing behind me like a pack of frightened squirrels. They never gave me what I earned because they had already picked their favorite. That's how institutions work. You think it starts in DC? No. It starts in elementary school. I saw the pattern before anybody else.
And that math test? Oh, I cheated. Absolutely. Best decision I ever made. Mrs. Hanley thought she was running some airtight operation, but I had the answer key reflected in the shiny metal pencil sharpener. People laugh when I tell them that, but reflections don't lie. Geometry! Angles! Science! While the rest of those pus-eating babies were counting on their fingers, I was playing three-dimensional chess with light itself. Every high score they got after that was just them trying to catch up to me. They copied my confidence, my posture, probably even the way I sharpened my pencils.
They still don't understand that the Presidential Fitness Test and that math exam were connected. You think they're separate because that's what they wanted you to believe. Wrong. Endurance, multiplication tables, sit-ups, long division, all synchronized. That's why I crushed them. Every dodgeball hit was a theorem. Every lap around the gym proved another equation. I wasn't competing against twenty-three classmates; I was competing against mediocrity itself, and I won, even when they wrote "runner-up" on the certificate. They can keep the paper. I kept the truth, and the truth can still do fifty push-ups without stopping.
In my opinion, putting standards first as a mistake.
My experience with Gym class in the 70s and with my children’s gym classes in the 2000s had no inspiration
And in fact, it was so bad it just led to avoidance.
No one looked forward to going to gym class to run laps or do push-ups and situps while the coaches yelled at you to keep going.
A Little over 10 years ago, I was introduced, perhaps through my second childhood, to yoga and acro yoga and parkour, and Slack line I went to a retreat with seven different instructors. It was electrifying. One of the instructors had gotten parkour into a high school in New York State.
Baseball and football and after school sports are great for those who are interested, but once school is over, they’re gone how did that build a lifelong love of body awareness.
Understanding Functional anatomy and and being bodily aware to avoid injury or further degradation.
Ballet destroys people’s feet by the time they’re 30. It is well known that baseball and football players are subject to serious lifelong injuries.
Now I am 64 and I am in decent physical fitness although I wish I was bette. I have chronic bicep tendinitis. I focus On strength training and flexibility. Mostly avoiding passive stretching, but focusing on strengthening and range of motion.
But none of what I learned as an adult was ever inspired in me as a teenager in school
Put inspiration first and find those great teachers
I agree with you 100%! I hated gym and all sports and games. I used to skip gym class whenever I could. I actually never got caught!! But all of my adult life, I have been active with walking, jogging, different types of exercise classes, and using light weights. I’m 60 now and not on any medication and try to make healthy eating choices. That’s the way gym classes should be: sports and games for those that enjoy that, and walking or jogging or exercise classes for those that don’t, and learning about healthy food and natural health for everyone.
You have everyone running, doing push ups and {curl ups} what are they? Sit ups are good if done right. I was an army nurse and I could not run, never could. My body was not built that way and not because I am a female, but other anatomicall reasons it caused problems. For the physical fitness test I would walk. I had 40 minutes to complete the 2.5 miles. I was in my early 40's when I started, worked up from about 37 minutes. Within 2 years I was doing the walk in 30 minutes, a personal goal. At 60 I could still walk a mile in 12 minutes. I did a 2.5 mile walk in 30 minutes everytime, sometimes I would beat my time. I could walk faster than 20 year olds could run 2 miles. I surpassed the number of situps as well. As well aged, the numbers and time were to decrease, but that was changed towards the end of my career. I had to do more situps at 60 than at 40, but still surpassed and beat the4 20 year olds. Now at 75 it is so much harder. I do not tolerate heat and humidity, I can stroll in that weather a quarter of a mile and would fall out. When the weather is pefect, I can still walk a mile in about 14 minutes, but that is with hills and not flat pavement. The kids have to want to do something to better themselves. They need to be encouraged at every level. Get them to feel good about what they are doing. Help them set goals and meet those goals. When you do your best, you cannot lose. Walking is better than running on the joints as well, fewer injuries and fewer surgeries and joint replacement in the fuure. For those who can run, GREAT! For those who can't can walk they can still be GREAT! If they have not won the big reward, they have still won becasue they have done their BEST! And that is what counts!
The Constitution does not call for this Presidential Fitness Test. The real laws are classified. Doctor Latypova figured it out. Big Pharma's "Fitness Test" network is an intelligence operation woven into the FBI and the secret state, protected by legal interpretations that ordinary citizens are forbidden to read, discuss, or even imagine. Every page they black out hides another "Fitness Test" that swallows the rules.
They start with children because they're the easiest to map, then expand outward through families, schools, hospitals, and electronic records until everyone is cloned and networked.
The FISA Court doesn't merely score these Presidential Fitness Tests. It manufactures reality with secret opinions that rewrite the meaning of the law while pretending the Constitution still exists. Congress gets carefully edited glimpses. The public gets fairy tales. Every "winner" is another invisible authorization. Every loser forced to confess family traitors. Every skinned knee accompanied by a laugh track and DNA test.
Nothing about these tests is Constitutional. Their resurrection is only because the Watchers are hidden behind rules that no one is allowed to know about.
I'm rewriting this piece to call out an interesting perspective: "IF the majority of American kids ARE not involved in after-school sports, THEY WILL quickly lose muscle tone and aerobic ability – and, by the time they graduate high school, WILL BE out of shape."
That's a recipe for a sick society, one that pharma will look to heal.
The fitness test sounds good and is a great step in the right direction, but ultimately, it's a blip in a pool of negativity on negative health. It will be up to the individual family to ensure proper health, but that again is a battle to fight.
Pharma-medical cabal KNOWS a sick and unhealthy society is just a better BIZ model for sure! The point you make about muscle tone and mass ration in a body is real as the decades pass in a life. Look at all the medications people take that actually cause sarcopenia too!
I came from a non-athletic family and by 10 yrs old was starting to gain weight. I hated that damn physical fitness test annually. It was a day of humiliation that did not help me form a positive connection to physical exercise. I agree kids should exercise but it should be fun and something to encourage not embarrass and humiliate. Sad that is not the focus, they still do not get it. I feel sorry for the kids that will be hurt by this. At 66 I am still overweight and still hate to exercise, their tests did not change or help me.
I remember in 1975 gym class we had to climb up a rope with knots in it. There was only one overweight girl in our class and she couldn’t do it, so when it was my turn I pretended I couldn’t do it either. This isn’t relative, but it made me think about that experience. And how all but 2 of us from about 50 girls couldn’t do it.
I remember getting 5 of those patches and certificates between 4th and 8th grades which then was the only years offered. Almost missed the 4th grade attempt with the pull ups minimum needed! Who really had arm strength as a male or female in 4th grade lol. I have fond memories of those challenges, and do feel in helped me to this day in many ways in the TRYING in life! Sure it a physical fitness test, but looking back there were definitely mental aspects needed in focus, will and drive. Good to see it being brought back! These days when I workout in various gyms all I see is younger men and women staring at their phones far more than exercising. Its pretty insane how mentally focused they are on that computer-phone in hand with a severe angle of perpetual "text neck" looking down at their phones. Can only imagine what neck x-rays look like when they turn 50 lol.
It is good to bring the PFT back, but let's make some improvements in implementing the test: 1. Offer Driver Insurance discounts? 2) Make it a requirement for an A grade in physical fitness class (gym) to factor into GPA? 3. Offer discounts at sporting goods stores? 4. Speaking of "gym" class, this class--a workout session--needs to be the last class of the day so that students can practice logical proper hygiene by showering immediately after the workout or as soon as they return home.
We had a woman whose name I still remember come and lead us through calisthenics out on the black top at our school. I don't remember any pushups but I thought it was a good thing.
They all remember the gold sticker, but they conveniently forget who was breathing down the neck of the kid who won the 6th grade Presidential Fitness Test. Runner-up. Runner-up! Like that was some accident. I could climb the rope faster than half the teachers could tie their shoes, did more pull-ups than the football boys, and when we ran the shuttle, I could hear the sneakers squealing behind me like a pack of frightened squirrels. They never gave me what I earned because they had already picked their favorite. That's how institutions work. You think it starts in DC? No. It starts in elementary school. I saw the pattern before anybody else.
And that math test? Oh, I cheated. Absolutely. Best decision I ever made. Mrs. Hanley thought she was running some airtight operation, but I had the answer key reflected in the shiny metal pencil sharpener. People laugh when I tell them that, but reflections don't lie. Geometry! Angles! Science! While the rest of those pus-eating babies were counting on their fingers, I was playing three-dimensional chess with light itself. Every high score they got after that was just them trying to catch up to me. They copied my confidence, my posture, probably even the way I sharpened my pencils.
They still don't understand that the Presidential Fitness Test and that math exam were connected. You think they're separate because that's what they wanted you to believe. Wrong. Endurance, multiplication tables, sit-ups, long division, all synchronized. That's why I crushed them. Every dodgeball hit was a theorem. Every lap around the gym proved another equation. I wasn't competing against twenty-three classmates; I was competing against mediocrity itself, and I won, even when they wrote "runner-up" on the certificate. They can keep the paper. I kept the truth, and the truth can still do fifty push-ups without stopping.
In my opinion, putting standards first as a mistake.
My experience with Gym class in the 70s and with my children’s gym classes in the 2000s had no inspiration
And in fact, it was so bad it just led to avoidance.
No one looked forward to going to gym class to run laps or do push-ups and situps while the coaches yelled at you to keep going.
A Little over 10 years ago, I was introduced, perhaps through my second childhood, to yoga and acro yoga and parkour, and Slack line I went to a retreat with seven different instructors. It was electrifying. One of the instructors had gotten parkour into a high school in New York State.
Baseball and football and after school sports are great for those who are interested, but once school is over, they’re gone how did that build a lifelong love of body awareness.
Understanding Functional anatomy and and being bodily aware to avoid injury or further degradation.
Ballet destroys people’s feet by the time they’re 30. It is well known that baseball and football players are subject to serious lifelong injuries.
Now I am 64 and I am in decent physical fitness although I wish I was bette. I have chronic bicep tendinitis. I focus On strength training and flexibility. Mostly avoiding passive stretching, but focusing on strengthening and range of motion.
But none of what I learned as an adult was ever inspired in me as a teenager in school
Put inspiration first and find those great teachers
And the abilities will follow.
I agree with you 100%! I hated gym and all sports and games. I used to skip gym class whenever I could. I actually never got caught!! But all of my adult life, I have been active with walking, jogging, different types of exercise classes, and using light weights. I’m 60 now and not on any medication and try to make healthy eating choices. That’s the way gym classes should be: sports and games for those that enjoy that, and walking or jogging or exercise classes for those that don’t, and learning about healthy food and natural health for everyone.
You have everyone running, doing push ups and {curl ups} what are they? Sit ups are good if done right. I was an army nurse and I could not run, never could. My body was not built that way and not because I am a female, but other anatomicall reasons it caused problems. For the physical fitness test I would walk. I had 40 minutes to complete the 2.5 miles. I was in my early 40's when I started, worked up from about 37 minutes. Within 2 years I was doing the walk in 30 minutes, a personal goal. At 60 I could still walk a mile in 12 minutes. I did a 2.5 mile walk in 30 minutes everytime, sometimes I would beat my time. I could walk faster than 20 year olds could run 2 miles. I surpassed the number of situps as well. As well aged, the numbers and time were to decrease, but that was changed towards the end of my career. I had to do more situps at 60 than at 40, but still surpassed and beat the4 20 year olds. Now at 75 it is so much harder. I do not tolerate heat and humidity, I can stroll in that weather a quarter of a mile and would fall out. When the weather is pefect, I can still walk a mile in about 14 minutes, but that is with hills and not flat pavement. The kids have to want to do something to better themselves. They need to be encouraged at every level. Get them to feel good about what they are doing. Help them set goals and meet those goals. When you do your best, you cannot lose. Walking is better than running on the joints as well, fewer injuries and fewer surgeries and joint replacement in the fuure. For those who can run, GREAT! For those who can't can walk they can still be GREAT! If they have not won the big reward, they have still won becasue they have done their BEST! And that is what counts!
The Constitution does not call for this Presidential Fitness Test. The real laws are classified. Doctor Latypova figured it out. Big Pharma's "Fitness Test" network is an intelligence operation woven into the FBI and the secret state, protected by legal interpretations that ordinary citizens are forbidden to read, discuss, or even imagine. Every page they black out hides another "Fitness Test" that swallows the rules.
They start with children because they're the easiest to map, then expand outward through families, schools, hospitals, and electronic records until everyone is cloned and networked.
The FISA Court doesn't merely score these Presidential Fitness Tests. It manufactures reality with secret opinions that rewrite the meaning of the law while pretending the Constitution still exists. Congress gets carefully edited glimpses. The public gets fairy tales. Every "winner" is another invisible authorization. Every loser forced to confess family traitors. Every skinned knee accompanied by a laugh track and DNA test.
Nothing about these tests is Constitutional. Their resurrection is only because the Watchers are hidden behind rules that no one is allowed to know about.
I'm rewriting this piece to call out an interesting perspective: "IF the majority of American kids ARE not involved in after-school sports, THEY WILL quickly lose muscle tone and aerobic ability – and, by the time they graduate high school, WILL BE out of shape."
That's a recipe for a sick society, one that pharma will look to heal.
The fitness test sounds good and is a great step in the right direction, but ultimately, it's a blip in a pool of negativity on negative health. It will be up to the individual family to ensure proper health, but that again is a battle to fight.
Pharma-medical cabal KNOWS a sick and unhealthy society is just a better BIZ model for sure! The point you make about muscle tone and mass ration in a body is real as the decades pass in a life. Look at all the medications people take that actually cause sarcopenia too!
I came from a non-athletic family and by 10 yrs old was starting to gain weight. I hated that damn physical fitness test annually. It was a day of humiliation that did not help me form a positive connection to physical exercise. I agree kids should exercise but it should be fun and something to encourage not embarrass and humiliate. Sad that is not the focus, they still do not get it. I feel sorry for the kids that will be hurt by this. At 66 I am still overweight and still hate to exercise, their tests did not change or help me.
I remember in 1975 gym class we had to climb up a rope with knots in it. There was only one overweight girl in our class and she couldn’t do it, so when it was my turn I pretended I couldn’t do it either. This isn’t relative, but it made me think about that experience. And how all but 2 of us from about 50 girls couldn’t do it.
I remember getting 5 of those patches and certificates between 4th and 8th grades which then was the only years offered. Almost missed the 4th grade attempt with the pull ups minimum needed! Who really had arm strength as a male or female in 4th grade lol. I have fond memories of those challenges, and do feel in helped me to this day in many ways in the TRYING in life! Sure it a physical fitness test, but looking back there were definitely mental aspects needed in focus, will and drive. Good to see it being brought back! These days when I workout in various gyms all I see is younger men and women staring at their phones far more than exercising. Its pretty insane how mentally focused they are on that computer-phone in hand with a severe angle of perpetual "text neck" looking down at their phones. Can only imagine what neck x-rays look like when they turn 50 lol.
It is good to bring the PFT back, but let's make some improvements in implementing the test: 1. Offer Driver Insurance discounts? 2) Make it a requirement for an A grade in physical fitness class (gym) to factor into GPA? 3. Offer discounts at sporting goods stores? 4. Speaking of "gym" class, this class--a workout session--needs to be the last class of the day so that students can practice logical proper hygiene by showering immediately after the workout or as soon as they return home.
We had a woman whose name I still remember come and lead us through calisthenics out on the black top at our school. I don't remember any pushups but I thought it was a good thing.
Agree
Short answer: Yes.