I will say the presidential fitness tests were awful to go through, as someone that didn’t do well on them. Nothing we did in PE class prepared us for pull ups or situps, so it was always me laying on my back and one of the cheerleaders holding my feet down, encouraging me to do one situp.
I’ve never done a situp in my life. I first started trying at home sometime before 4th grade–I remember the room I lay in, trying my hardest. We moved between 3rd and 4th grade.
Yeah, imo the way those are usually done in schools is worse than useless. Nobody teaches you how to e.g. do a pull-up much less how to progress up to one if you can’t. So a lot of kids get tests thrown at them they can’t pass, then just move on with the idea that they’re physically inferior in some way.
I will say the presidential fitness tests were awful to go through, as someone that didn’t do well on them. Nothing we did in PE class prepared us for pull ups or situps, so it was always me laying on my back and one of the cheerleaders holding my feet down, encouraging me to do one situp.
I’ve never done a situp in my life. I first started trying at home sometime before 4th grade–I remember the room I lay in, trying my hardest. We moved between 3rd and 4th grade.
Yeah, imo the way those are usually done in schools is worse than useless. Nobody teaches you how to e.g. do a pull-up much less how to progress up to one if you can’t. So a lot of kids get tests thrown at them they can’t pass, then just move on with the idea that they’re physically inferior in some way.