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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-presidential-fitness-test-for-adults/">The Presidential Fitness Test - for Adults</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 16, 2008 at 02:00 PM by Martinique Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Perhaps, like me, you remember hanging from the pull-up bar in third grade for the flex-arm hang until you positively quivered and shook just to beat out your best friend.&nbsp; Well, now is your chance to do it all again! On May 14th, The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports released a test very similar to the one you remember (oh so fondly) from elementary school.&nbsp; Although the website says that “Many baby boomers remember taking the youth fitness test when they were in elementary school,” many of us Gen-Xers took the very same test a generation later.&nbsp; The early test was spurred by a study in the 1940s and 1950s that compared American school children’s performance in activities “which included activities such as leg lifts, sit-ups, trunk lifts, and toe…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-presidential-fitness-test-for-adults/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-presidential-fitness-test-for-adults/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-presidential-fitness-test-for-adults/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-presidential-fitness-test-for-adults/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/calculators-and-tools/">calculators-and-tools</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a><br /><br /> </P>