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The President's Physical Fitness Test

Maintenance Phase

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The Problems With the President's Physical Fitness Test

In the late eighties, in the early nineties, when schools start doing what they call body composition tests. As part of the president's physical fitness test, they started measuring kids b m i no. And they started doing skinfold tests s. There's something called the fitness graham where they take a measurement of your skin fold on the back of your right arm and on your right calf,. And that's a measurement ofyour body fat percentage. Basically, totally b totally bananas. It's not really about testing fitness any more. It's about testing fatness.

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