Presidential Fitness Test Standards 1970s

Under ronald reagan a new award the national physical fitness award was developed to recognize children who scored at the 50th percentile or up to the 85th percentile on the presidential physical fitness test.

Presidential fitness test standards 1970s. Nowadays the presidential fitness test has been replaced with comprehensive health and fitness programs like let s move and more recently the presidential youth fitness program which touts itself as more than a test but for a fitness nerd like me the allure of those original uncompromising fitness standards still looms large. By the mid 1970s faerber says the physical fitness education community began talking about the negative impact of the test a debate that spanned multiple presidential administrations. It was finally retired after. Developed in the 1960s and administered yearly for several decades the presidential fitness test involved performing challenges with your peers purportedly designed to assess your level of physical fitness.

Those are just a few of the torturous exercises from the presidential fitness test the physical fitness gantlet for middle and high school kids in the united states.