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The shuttle run! The flexed arm hang! The v-sit reach! These terms are seared into the memories of an entire generation of American schoolchildren. But did the President's Physical Fitness Test actually make us fitter? (Spoiler: lol no)
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- The Report That Shocked The President
- JFK’s Sports Illustrated article, “The Soft American”
- 1958–2008: 50 Years of Youth Fitness Tests in the United States
- The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
- Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram
- The Modern Era: Blossoming of the Olympic Movement and the Conquest of Acute Disease
- The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: The First 50 Years
- Do Fitness Test Performances Predict Students’ Attitudes And Emotions Toward Physical Education?
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