Do you remember having to do the Presidential Physical Fitness test in gym class in school? I went to school in Illinois which used to be (and may still be) the only state that required gym class all 12 years of school. So every year we had to do this test. (Except I did graduate after only 11 years so I didn’t have to do 12 of them. ;-))

I didn’t like it. There were parts of it that I just wasn’t good at. Like all of them. 🙂 I guess I’ve always been very competitive and I could never run as fast as my smaller friends, nor could I climb a rope (was that part of it?) or hang on a bar like those little monkeys could. My scores were probably fine but they weren’t the top of the class. i.e. I never got one of these:

And I want one. Badly. 😉

While I was in the Marine Corps, my goal was to run a First Class Physical Fitness Test and it didn’t take me too long to get to that level. I always maxed out the sit-ups, doing 80 in the minute (2 minutes?) and I ran fast enough that my run score combined with my sit-ups score wiped out the fact that I completely stunk at the flexed arm hang.

No, that’s not me.

The other day I stumbled across the Adult Presidential Physical Fitness Test and I knew I would have to take it. Make a baseline, retake it, get better, retake it. 🙂 I’m competitive, did I mention that?

I did my baseline this morning and I was pretty happy with the results. 

Interestingly, it was the half sit-ups that pulled my overall score down. I didn’t do them right I realized after I was finished. I had my legs straight and not bent. I’m not sure if it would’ve mattered but it’s to be noted. I also didn’t take my heart rate after my walk. I took it after my push-ups so that could also change things a bit. 

This is just a baseline, which I wanted, and I’m happy with it. So, who’s going to join me? How fit are you?