It is increasingly important to get Americans off their couches and moving, along with another obvious need, to get Americans educated in how to eat right and get the right foods in your diet for weight management and organ fitness and health. Well, in another attempt to help get Americans up and moving, there is a new government sponsored fitness test called the President’s fitness test, which is sponsored by fitness advisors to the president.

You can get the fitness test, and if passed, you get a special certification of completion signed (stamped, we’re sure) by the President himself. What? Not money, no free stuff, just a lousy certificate? We kid, of course, but at least the government is showing it has the American public in mind rather than spending all their money on weapons of war and overspending on construction projects and other useless things.

The president’s fitness test will have three separate categories for passing and testing, which include an aerobic category of fitness, a muscular fitness category, and finally a flexibility section, for those of you who love yoga and stretching. All of these are important, and although you may not think the flexibility part is all that important, think again.

If we stay flexible well into our later years, this means that we have less likelihood of muscle pain, arthritis, and other degenerative muscle and joint problems, and may even mean less broken bones since stretching and flexibility makes you more limber all over. In addition to the physical tests the fitness test gives, it also gives you a BMI measurement, telling you what your muscle to fat ratio is, which helps determine your overall fitness and health level and determines what you need to do to get the ratio to an ideal span.

Hopefully this new government sponsored program will add to the deluge of messages being sent now, and that is that Americans need to start taking their own health into their hands and making a difference by working out consistently and getting this vital component to good health in their regimen.

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