High School Fitness Program from 1962. Junkfood & GMO's Were Unknown #MAHA #BringItBack 💪
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Went to High School in the late sixties and physical fitness was required. We used to have to shimmy up these thick ropes that were hung from the high ceiling of the gym. You had to touch the steel beam at the top to get credit for it., even girls (like me) were required to do it. There were maybe three or four fat kids in the entire school. We also played field hockey, basketball, softball and did track. All in gym class. We were lucky enough to have a pond near the school and got to ice skate on it during the winter months.
I climbed that rope in the 70s without using my legs.
I was the only one in my class to do it. I threw a lot of hay bales and did a lot of water skiing. Real stuff is better than weight lifting...
Most urban and city folks have no idea how strong farm kids are.
Move thousands of pounds of hay bales every week, along with other farm chores and you will be insanely strong.
You said it Grady. ..and said it well. 💯% 👍
throwing hay out at my mamaw and pap's farm and doing that rope w/out legs -man, what I wouldn't give to be that again, right now. wonderful memories and physical exercises that kids just do not know today. I'd bet you're in better shape today than most 20/30 year olds. Until me getting smashed by a tractor trailer and it screwing up my back I was still what I'd of considered to be in pretty good shape. Throwing hay back at the farm. man,.. you just don't know how wonderful people and life is -until its not there, and neither are they. 'miss mamaw and pap every single day. Pap and all his brothers [my uncles] were WWII vets. Some of the best people I've ever had the pleasure of being around and showed unconditional love to the point of making you feel like Col. Steve Austin. I was the six million dollar man back then - or so I thought. 🥲
I remember... I started school in mid-60s. I had one of those push-up extension records
Good for you! I think I failed push ups, but could do chinning on the bar okay. I kind of sucked at track too, but they didn't care as long as we completed the course. I can't even imagine them letting kids skate on a local pond as part of PE now.
too many liabilities and honestly I do not think the kids would be strong enough to do it today, so far as even standing up on the skates. I know if I were a teacher in this day and age, I'd be a nervous wreck watching these kids. I'd have em' all wearing arm floaties and crash helmets just to stick their feet out on that ice. lol
Yep. Us too. No pond for ice skating in Seattle though. Do you remember the President’s Physical Fitness badge?
I was just going to mention this. We worked all year for one day a week, roughly, in order for everyone to make the base requirements for the President’s Physical Fitness award. We had PE three times per week and music the other two times for the last lessons of the day.
music, ah yes... boy do I remember that. getting up infront of the class and singing [if that's what you could call it] I wasn't that good 'course I had mamaw just grinning ear to ear at church when we all would sing. I miss those times. thanks for bringing up "music class" -good memories. Cheers Trumpgirl 🍻
I do lol
absolutely remember that. wasn't a bad thing either. instilled a sense of self-confidence and healthy competition. not this participation trophy junk that literally does nothing for anyone.
Yes, nearly the entire school got them.
I got one of those.. many of my classmates did.
In 1962 Someone opened a candy story right across the street from my elementary school. The school stopped the children from leaving the school during lunch.
Gym was still required in the 90s. The rope climb I don't recall, but indoor and outdoor sports will still offered and encourage. Most days were spent doing warm up laps and then an indoor sport like volleyball or basketball.
we had gym sometimes and they make us do the stair laps. always had that one guy though that complained about his ankle. Rodney - oh rod' yeah, that guy might as well of had a wooden leg and just called it good. He ended up being a policeman after highschool. Only guy I ever went hunting with that I made it a ONE TIME ONLY affair. I told Pap that he shot off through the back field running and shooting all at the same time with my brother being in a treestand downwind from him. lunatic 😆 and ended up with a gun on his side for years. -I'd of ''one bulleted him like barney fife if I'd of been sheriff.
I work for the school district. You won’t believe all the junk food sold during lunch hour. I talk with the kitchen staff and they say a huge % of their sales are for chips, soda, cookies, ice cream bars, rice crispy treats…etc!! And it shows. The obesity in schools is alarming.
I remember that lunch was 35 cents and it was from scratch. The lunch ladies were real nice and I still remember their apple crisp.
Yeah, you’d be shocked what they serve now. It’s all processed. We need serious changes in the schools!
There was no school lunch program in my day, so we got to eat healthy at home.
MAHA!!
Stone tablets and chisels at school? 🤣🤣🤣
I seem to remember bag lunches in kindergarten. Peanut butter or bologna.
Yup! 🤪
Small, rural town. We had to bring our own lunches during elementary. Got to go home for lunch during Jr High and High School.
We only had 500 kids in high school and only 80 were guys. Parents with daughters moved out of Buffalo.
slim pickens for the ladies, good grief. lol but sounds like quite a broad field for the fella's to choose from. 👍
yep. -good memories. I think today you can't even send em' to school with peanut butter anything. Ridiculous, but the allergies must be deadly from what I understand. unreal. .. stone tablets eh? lol 😆 nitwit. Cheers! 🍻
anybody else remember how "big mike obama" took it upon herself to revamp the school lunch program...all processed crap, and "he" probably made a shitload of money off of requiring that crap to be pushed into the school programs...
hell yes I remember that. -horrible human being, if you can call him that [human] utter junk. These kids today don't know what real health insurance is either - the guys husband made sure to get rid of that while his husband/wife wthellever ended up doing exactly what you said with the school lunch systems. Our jails had better food than what our schools did. Horrible.
Even in the 80s and 90s it was already pretty common to have soy patty “hamburgers”.
agreed. 💯%
Home made rolls. The burger buns were out of this world. The chemicals in flour now aren't allowed in Europe.
I hope they end up doing away with that junk here too. I'd read where Subway in Ireland actually had to change their entire dough recipe because the Irish Govt stated that it technically "wasn't bread." - all the chemicals.
now you're making me hungry. I do indeed remember that and peach cobbler. 😊👍
90s kid here, school lunches was always crap, unhealthy and cold, Ive seen videos of lunches from other parts of the world. Should be illegal to feed under developed children the kind of garbage we get.
Well said. 👍
good Lord, you aren't kidding. Severely interrupted endocrine systems to say the least. all of our lunch ladies were basically all the older women from our Church. Everything cooked from scratch. not this horrible stuff brought in from pepsico or whatever they call it nowadays.
I've always wondered what happened to that 50's, 60's American accent. How come nobody speaks it anymore and what part of the country did it come from?
Edit: we still have a NY accent, a midwest accent, a southern accent, a Texas accent; but this accent disappeared. Maybe it was just a fake TV accent.
Like you said, fake TV accent. Every announcer/narrator had a voice like that to give the sense of authority people expected.
I'm an English speaker of English and some of us have a similar style of speech. Without the American accent obviously. It's generally called RP (Received Pronunciation) or "strangulated vowels". I don't speak it myself but it involves tightening the muscles in the throat during speech. It doesn't come from any part of the country - the entire point is to avoid any regional accent and instead prove one's membership of an elite tribe.
Our royal family evolved a particular style of speech for unknown reasons (many of them were not native English speakers) and people copied them in order to appear socially superior. It's still fashionable today amongst a few social-climbing wannabees but slowly dying out. Up until the 1980s or so the ability to speak that way was absolutely essential to get a job in radio/TV presentation, just like the narrator in the fitness video. Thankfully not so much these days.
Well this is the best explanation. Thanks.
As usual, it’s the very next post while reading down through the comments!
many thanks for all that. well stated and very interesting. 👍
The majority of people are illiterate. They know the most basic words and don’t understand anything else. MOST people can’t even use there/their/they’re correctly :|
I understand the decline of the use of language. However there is a particular tone, timbre to this time that made the accent distinct. Even if people today are using English in its proper form it does not sound like this.
Have had the exact same thoughts with the 20’s-40’s accents.
Amen. I’m a grammar kitty, too!
so tell me what you're thinkin' 😆 I jest but I agree 100%. It gets irritating to say the least and I'm no english expert, although I will say this - what they consider music today - just no, no all day and night long No. no. .... just illustrates the fact that some [many] are indeed illiterate.
The transatlantic accent? It was just not taught to speak like that except when it came to tv and film.
my proper SLP colleague would refer to many people as 'sloppy talkers' because the mumble, slur, etc.
I think it comes from lack of phonics & spelling. Students don't have to be conscious of the letters & sounds anymore, anything goes.
we actually had a very well paid reading coach at our school, when the kids were stuck on a word, her answer was to GUESS🙄
language is a code, but liberals don't understand that. and it's impossible to change their minds because the 'system' supports the nonsense.
True. But even those today that go through the most stringent language programs and enunciate correctly don't have this accent. I'm referring to the accent, just like the Brits have an accent. This one just disappeared.
yes and about that reading coach "professional guesser eh?" lol I couldn't believe the number of kids today that do not know directions, NSEW as well as how to tell time on a normal clock and I'm not kidding at all. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Unreal. 🙄
Not a single fat kid in the entire video.
Not merely "not fat", those kids are buff!
times are most definitely very, very different. I can only hope they bring back just a little of this for the betterment of the kids themselves. What a difference that would make.
There was junk food in the 1960s. It just wasn't poisoned. We and almost everyone we knew often finished dinner (and often lunch) with some kind of dessert, such as a little cake, pie, or ice cream. Also, I went to schools that didn't have rigorous fitness programs. We might not have been as fit, but almost all the kids were slim to normal weight.
Wickedpedia says: "HFCS was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, where the enzyme was discovered in 1965." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Taste_difference
Ordinary sucrose for desserts in the 1960s, so free of that menace. Probably many of them home made or locally made, so no need for the preservatives either.
Yes 💯% 👍
Agree 100% and "normal weight" -yeah, some kids I see today I just almost want to cry. I feel horrible for them. That 'has' to affect their self-esteem as well. The problem is, society tells them that this is perfectly fine. Acceptance of this is crucial and to deny it is racist, mean and somewhat 'uneducated' today. In other words, totally upside down, backwards and sideways.
Here's a short documentary about the LaSierra HS fitness program. "The School Where Fitness Counts"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmNLwMJNak0
Worth a watch for the swingin' wah-wah opening music alone. There's also a longer documentary film on the program where they go back and talk to students who went through the course as kids but I don't have a link handy.
Man I really appreciate you sharing that video. Many thanks Frog. -and yes, I loved the music. 😊👍 and those kids were muscled up! You just don't see that anymore.
We had the rope in the 80s, they took it down in the 90s "to dangerous".
we did too. if they'd left the play ground/battlefields alone the kids might of turned out a bit different today - for the BETTER. either way, agreed 100%. 👍