Physical Chatter

 Back before Covid (spring 2020), I read a 'rant' piece from a gym instructor at some high school.  What he hyped about was the 500 'lads' that he had for daily gym class....he figured at best....about sixty of them were in decent physical shape....meaning they could run a mile without stopping, or do forty sit-ups.  So, figure about 12-percent of the group were in this top category.

Then he came to the second group....the lads who could probably move up to this level in four weeks....if they were to put effort into some physical training.  He figured 20-percent of the group fell into this category.

So, then came the final group....the totally unfit gentlemen (ages 14 to 18) who would require a minimum of three months to reach any real physical conditioning.  You can do the numbers but it's like near the two-thirds point of the whole group of 500.

The rant direction?  Well....he came to discuss physical conditioning of what existed in the 1960s and how things could not match up today.

I would imagine if you took the young ladies and did the same analysis.....it'd likely come out the same way.  

The fact that no one really cares?  Well....yeah, that probably is the central part of this discussion.  

The out-of-shape kid.....what grade are they giving him for gym class? 'A'?  Someone ought to come along and say you got new year starting in gym, and at the end of the first six-week period....a simple test comes up.  If you can't run a mile in 16 minutes, or do twenty sit-ups in three minutes....you fail.  Next semester?  Same deal.  At the mid-year point, you now raise the mile run to 1.5 miles and 18 minutes, and double up the sit-ups.  

Doctors trying to waiver the kid out of this?  I'd call up the state license board and ask how the health of the kid is, and if the doctor is hindering....not helping.