Can you ace the presidential fitness challenge?

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6 years ago 10/17/2017 10:20pm EDT

re: Bad Wigins

Bad Wigins wrote:
PRs RuS wrote:
50 yd dash: 7.5 sec, can do 100 m in under 15 if pushed
600y ca 1:45-1:50; mile 5:11 (time trial this year)
Are you sure about that 600y because that would be around 2 minutes for 600m, slower than 5:11 mile pace.

Still replying to your own 3 year old thread. Well done!

Presidential level is tough because you need to be good at shuttle run and the mile. I know I used to have a couple of those blue presidential patches somewhere, but I bet they are lost to history at this point.

Could I do it now. Nope. I'm fat and lazy. I'll get back into shape at some point though.

6 years ago 10/17/2017 10:41pm EDT

re: Bio Dome

even too lazy to check who bumped the thread

6 years ago 10/18/2017 2:52am EDT

re: Valley of

Valley of wrote:
As always, I would fail the V sit and nothing else. OP's standards are easy except the broad jump (not sure what that means, but I doubt I could go 2.5m from two feet standing still), 50m, and idk what a shuttle run involves.

I'm horribly inflexible, so could never get that. I could never get more than 3 pull-ups in middle school, and we didn't have the broad jump.

At 34, all those would be a joke for me since V-sit isn't in there (can do 25 strict pull-ups, still explosive enough to dunk). I would feel knotted up after the sit-ups though since I haven't been doing them recently.

6 years ago 10/18/2017 4:33am EDT

re: Bad Wigins

What is the shuttle run? Can someone describe it? Thank you!

6 years ago 10/18/2017 2:51pm EDT

re: Mikeh

Iirc the way I had to do it back in high school was run ~10yrds then back 2 or 3 times

6 years ago 10/18/2017 4:01pm EDT

re: Bad Wigins

Bad Wigins wrote:
PRs RuS wrote:
50 yd dash: 7.5 sec, can do 100 m in under 15 if pushed
600y ca 1:45-1:50; mile 5:11 (time trial this year)
Are you sure about that 600y because that would be around 2 minutes for 600m, slower than 5:11 mile pace.

you are right, more like that for 600 m not yards. So maybe high 1:30s? I'm going to give it a go (the whole test) this fall as a baseline and then try again in the spring under new age group. The softball throw will kill my score and probably the shuttle run.

6 years ago 10/18/2017 8:47pm EDT

re: Mikeh

You take two lines 9.1m apart, put two things on one line, and start behind the other line. The timer says go, off you go to pick up one of the things, return it to the start line and put it down on the line (not just drop it there) then go get the next one, which you can run across the finish line with. Test of agility replaced by the beep test.

Mikeh wrote:
What is the shuttle run? Can someone describe it? Thank you!

6 years ago 10/18/2017 10:41pm EDT

re: Bad Wigins

I can run to the bathroom and to the fridge to pick up a Stone Ale and be back on my sofa during the commercial before the 2nd half starts.

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