The Picard ManeuverPresidential fitness test
qooqieGotta make sure the youth can be good little soldiers if needed
This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.
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.
it actually caused physical health to decline in the US.
Wait seriously? Where did you hear that?