How I Would Change Gym Class

October 12, 2011

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Tug of War” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/tugofwar.jpg” alt=”tugofwar” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Gym class was not a great time for me./p
pTo understand exactly how painful grade school PE was back in my day, you must experience #8220;Go, You Chicken Fat, Go.#8221; Back in early 1960s, PE was all about preparing for and passing the Presidential Fitness Test, which was JFK#8217;s youth fitness standards. a title=”Go You Chicken Fat Go” href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2j59zzX3Q” target=”_blank”#8220;Go, You Chicken Fat, Go#8221;/a was a ridiculous song written expressly for the Presidential challenge and sung by a guy named Robert Preston. Every single day during PE class, we did calisthenics as it blasted over the PA system on repeat. We#8217;d do pushups, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, chinups, all while listening to this masterpiece #8211; I think I#8217;m finally realizing why I hated strength training and gravitated toward long distance endurance events for the bulk of my youth! We occasionally got […]

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