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Presidential fitness test (startrek.website)
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[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.

[-] Bael422@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think it was worse than that. It was to test for and increase capability for military life, but the exercises themselves are not a good way to keep a general healthy body so it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.

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