Presidential fitness challenge

[*zap*]

And the trend continues down.....if you do not see that your oblivious. T counts are down, attention span is down, abilities are down, softness is up thou.
Society has changed so much that the people raised in this society cannot be similar to people raised differently. It is not possible.

 

[ThunderJack49]

It is a valuable tool in physical education. Not everyone is going to like it, which is fine. Not everyone likes history but they do it.
As a society we seem to avoid physical discomforts at almost any cost, and that's probably a bad thing.
I did the tests in school and remember them as a positive.
Being able to force yourself to run a hard mile and being able to force yourself to read a dry and uninteresting textbook are both probably useful skills in becoming a well adapted adult in the world.

 

[doc holiday13]

@*zap* Every post you make in this thread Makes me hear Eastwood's voice in a condescending tone and I love it

 

[flyfisher117]

I think it can be a step in the right direction. I do believe it won’t be utilized well and it will flop like it did for me in the 90s.

It was just something we did 1 time a year and we all failed it because there was zero prep or work up to it. Not really motivating just a stupid thing we did. It would have been an excellent opportunity to turn it into a multi week thing that we worked up to.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I think it can be a step in the right direction. I do believe it won’t be utilized well and it will flop like it did for me in the 90s.

It was just something we did 1 time a year and we all failed it because there was zero prep or work up to it. Not really motivating just a stupid thing we did. It would have been an excellent opportunity to turn it into a multi week thing that we worked up to.

When I was in middle/high school there were components of it daily as part of the warmup before we got to play whatever game the teacher had planned for the week.

Every day we would run, do pushups, and the ready stretch. The 2 PE teachers would track it all somehow. It was very very common to run a mile at some point in the 60 minute PE class.

I’m it sure when it changed but I was talking to a PE teacher know and he said anymore, PE classes are rarely over 30 minutes, and some studies indicate that kids get like 10 minutes of actual exercise during that time.

It’s sad but it seems like PE teachers can be very lazy, arranging simple games that kids can play without incorporating any real structure. Dodgeball and basketball are great but like I said, we used to actually run, do sit ups, jumping jacks, different types of jumps etc before playing games.

Nowadays, if a teacher takes kids to the playground to burn off some steam for 15-20 minutes, they land themselves in a meeting with the principal for wasting instructional time.

 

[flyfisher117]

When I was in middle/high school there were components of it daily as part of the warmup before we got to play whatever game the teacher had planned for the week.

Every day we would run, do pushups, and the ready stretch. The 2 PE teachers would track it all somehow. It was very very common to run a mile at some point in the 60 minute PE class.

I’m it sure when it changed but I was talking to a PE teacher know and he said anymore, PE classes are rarely over 30 minutes, and some studies indicate that kids get like 10 minutes of actual exercise during that time.

It’s sad but it seems like PE teachers can be very lazy, arranging simple games that kids can play without incorporating any real structure. Dodgeball and basketball are great but like I said, we used to actually run, do sit ups, jumping jacks, different types of jumps etc before playing games.

Nowadays, if a teacher takes kids to the playground to burn off some steam for 15-20 minutes, they land themselves in a meeting with the principal for wasting instructional time.

Yeah we moved to Montana when I was in middle school. PE class in MT was intense. Every day we ran a mile before we started doing what ever the teacher had planned for us. I remember the first month was a living hell. I quickly got into decent shape for a middle schooler though. Wish they had done the presidential challenge at that school.

 

[bigeyedfish]

If I remember right, my grade school did it once a year in the spring, and we got pretty competitive. The PE teacher always kept a laminated list of school records each age group. When we lined up to go back to our class room after PE, that list was right there on the wall for motivation.

I only took one semester of PE in high school. If you wanted an A in that class you had to run two miles in 15 minutes or less, do a set of 50 push ups and a set of 50 sit ups. At that age the run and the sit ups were easy, but the push ups were a real test for me. That was a long time ago. All three would be a challenge for me today.

It seems like the gap between the best and worst athletes in a given age group has gotten wider, and that there are less kids that are middle of the road. In general, I agree with the sentiment that people have gotten softer and that healthy competition is lacking. I think bringing back PE challenges is a step in the right direction to fix that.