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The President's Physical Fitness Test

Maintenance Phase

The Problems With the President's Physical Fitness Test

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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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