The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoPresidential fitness teststartrek.websiteimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1526
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minus-squareqooqie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 months agoGotta make sure the youth can be good little soldiers if needed
minus-squareSoylentBlake@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoThis is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.
minus-squareBael422@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI 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.
Gotta 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.
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