Pic courtesy of Popular Science
I don’t know if other countries did this, but when I was in school from age 10 to 16 or so, once every year we were forced to participate in The Presidential Physical Fitness Test. It was a standardized fitness test that consisted of push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, a standing broad jump, a shuttle run, a 50-yard dash and a softball throw. Every single kid in the United States was tested on this stuff once a year. I’m still not sure why the President cared if I could do ten pull-ups. And not once as an adult have I been asked to do pull-ups at work.
I earned that ridiculous patch every year and every year I threw it away. There were a few hundred kids my age in my school every year and not one of us put that patch anywhere but the garbage. I think it’s time we make The President’s Physical Fitness Test really presidential.
It’s the Presidential Physical Fitness test. If either of these guys can do ten pull-ups, run 50 yards in 8 seconds, do 15 push ups and 30 sit-ups in a minute then they get a patch and the Presidency of the best country in the world. If they aren’t as physically fit as ten year olds are expected to be, then they are not fit for the presidency. I believe that this is why they set up The Presidential Physical Fitness test; to prepare my generation for the Presidency. Our time has come.
Pic from The Profile
By The Presidential Physical Fitness test standards, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson should be our next President. Have any of you got any better ideas?
Thanks for reading! ~Phil
