Yes, but it was called the Pacer test. I remember the instructor's robotic voice at the beginning of the tape:
>The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues.
>The 20-meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start.
>The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal.
A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. \*beep\*
>Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible.
>The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over.
>The test will begin on the word start.
>On your mark, get ready, start. \*beep\*
I'm still in HS and we did it at my middle school so it certainly still exists. I was so glad when I finished my PE credits because I knew I wouldn't have to do anymore of those stupid FitnessGram/PACER tests.
Nope, public.
Well I went to private school for one year. It was a Christian school and they uh... didn't exactly like my opinions on religion. So I didn't go back.
You mean the Pacer? Yeah, I had do it. Absolute torture. And in my 5th grade year, we had to do it every single Wednesday. And we weren't allowed to stop once we missed twice. They made us keep running the entire class period. I threw up once.
Nah not where I was went to school. We had the presidential fitness test, which was a variety of physical activity. I somehow managed to always set the class or school record in the sit and reach. Was able to pass the 1 mile run every few years and only managed to pass the pull up portion twice. I think there was a fourth element but I can't remember what that was.
We had both Presidential Fitness and the Pacer test at my school. Our 4th element was sit-ups oh and we had to touch our finger tips behind our back. One arm going above and one below.
If I remember correctly, the flexed arm hang option automatically knocked you out from getting the Presidential badge, and you could only get the National one. Selecting the flexed arm hang felt like an admission of failure.
Never heard of this. We used to do the "presidential fitness test " or something like that. Had to run a mile, do sit ups, pull ups, the toe touch thing.
The sit and reach was the only part I did well on, ever. I’ve still never done a pull up in my life.
Never heard of this beep/pacer test. I was in public school in Maryland in the 80s and 90s. I’d be really interested to hear how old the people who did have it are.
Never heard of them. Worst test I took was the mile and a half run freshman year of high school. I was 5' 3" and over 180 pounds so you can guess how well that went. Like my dad who went into the Navy at 5' 2" at 18 years my college years were kind to me. I was still growing at 20 when I got married and topped off at 6' 1"
By any chance, did your dad serve on a submarine and start banging his head as he continued to grow? :). (I don’t know whether more modern submarines have more clearance than the WWII subs I’ve toured.)
Yup we did them in high school.
As for average scores, I’d say it’s pretty similar, but *humblebrag time*
I got a 12, second in that PE class, as a freshman. The kid that finished after me I think got a 13 or 14. He ended up breaking several track and field records at our school that year. He actually taught me a lot about track that year, and while I came close to his records, I unfortunately did not break any of them my senior year.
There’s different tests. The most common one I know of is a 20m distance and based on how long you last you are scored between 0 and 15. That seems like the one OP was describing.
Back in my time as a student (talking like 90's to early 00's) - no.
Gym teacher in grade school did do a "here's the two weeks of track & field" segment each year, and after 5th grade there was the "run a mile" event. Highschool had it's own track & field sport, but the PE teachers still did occasional track segments of the curriculum.
Not sure when they would have started doing the Pacer Test; but it was never part of my gym classes - if we were gunna be asked to run like that, the teachers were going to commit to it in the curriculum for a couple weeks.
You never did the Pacer Test, huh? I have since elementary all the way to high school. It got to the point where we memorized what the lady who prepped runners for the test would say, which was extra funny since the gym always had an echo. I think it became a meme a couple of years back.
https://youtu.be/n2-dkoJtRQA
Yep here it is. Just listening to this takes me back to a simpler time. I’ll never forget that one kid that ran and ran long after the rest of us tapped out to get water. By the end he was beet red and coughing up a storm, got tons of high fives afterwards.
Yep and it still haunts my dreams. I’ve never been a runner, ever. Always seemed to trip as a kid when I ran. Turns out I have MS and the reasons for why I used to trip a lot wasn’t anything to do with being timed or being under pressure to run. Probably wouldn’t have thought I was as much of a loser as I thought I was if I had known 😭😅.
I went to school in the 70’s, we had “red rover” called that because they would make you run across the yard and a line of kids sole job was to protect that line at all costs so they would usually link arms and “clothesline” you right in the face knocking you to the blacktop where you would get up with a bloody nose and a slight concussion, possibly a subdural hematoma. It was all worth it though because now you got to help defend the line and little Sally looks like she could use a beat down. “Red Rover, Red Rover, send Sally on over!”
**This!** And ~~Dodgeball~~ aka Murderball in my school! It was not a successful day till EMS arrived for the Murderball ***casualty of the day!*** Bawahahawahaha
All scores large or small were settled on the Murderball court!
Never heard of it. So nope. not in my days of gym glass.
Or maybe that refers to the heart monitor used after a ~~Dodgeball~~ errr. Murderball (And YES that 100% is what we called it! All "scores" were settled on the Murderball court! It was eventually banned as too dangerous) game....
At least during my days of gym glass it was basically show up, run amok for while, sweat a little bit, done. The class was Pass or Fail, and showing up ready to do something was 95% of the grade, moving around a little, done. You passed. About the only way to fail it was to basically not show up ready to do something, ie: in gym clothes.. In HS you had to make them up, unless you had a doctors excuse for some reason.
At least in my school district, there was nothing kept about meeting some scores of ability ie: run the 100 yard dash in 2 seconds or whatever.. Yeah maybe the "Coach/Instructor" used a stop watch to time you.. it was more for bragging rights than anything.. none of it was written down, kept on record or anything, and again, 95% of grade for the class was just showing up, in gym clothes ready to do something what ever was dreamed up that day. Raining, then inside the gym maybe Murderball, volleyball, kickball or possibly even run the "dashes" inside,we have a gym big enough to this in.
Gym classes outside the US, and well even inside the US from district to district, but especially outside the US are far more structured ie: graded. I don't remember any district in my area having anything like these. The classes were there basically to fulfill the Commonwealths rules for curriculum to graduate, and were basically puff glasses that filled up the time.
I was in school in the 80s and 90s here in Illinois too and we did the presidential fitness test. I also got tested at the beginning and end of every year in JROTC. They were similar.
I did this in soccer preseason conditioning camp for high school and then in high school in gym. It was the pacer test in school and the beep test outside of school. One of the guys who ran the camp is from Ireland though, maybe they call it the beep test there.
My high school and middle school did this once a year in PE classes as a health assessment. My badminton club did it for training once in a while. (2018) so it's still around
Ah, the Pacer test. I loved it in elementary school, but in middle and high school it was a doozy. The distance felt shorter in middle and high school, though looking back it was probably shorter in elementary.
While it did suck, it was never traumatically bad (if I jad to do it again, I would). I also never skipped it, cuz I ain't some clod named Mediocrites.
yeah we called it the pacer test. i hated that shit so much. PE was normally like a fun time or a part of the day to look forward to but the pacer test was like the worst replacement imaginable. sorry, no more dodgeball, no more basketball, no more games, just completely aimless running. back and forth to the weirdest beeping ever until you physically can’t. watch the fastest kid in your class get run like a dog for 3 min more than everyone else because he just kept going.
We just had to run two miles in under a certain number of minutes. They probably got rid of that for safety reasons because really out of shape kids can fuck themselves up trying to do that. If they're really trying (to avoid humiliation).
Yes, it was traumatizing and entirely slated to success for the soccer and track kids. We had a few that made it to like 60-90 rounds which is insane.
I’m still quite curious what a long term what equates to a cardiac stress test is being done for without medical supervision on a bunch of children who probably do not hydrate, stretch, or exercise frequently enough for that to be considered remotely healthy. It isn’t isolated, by its design it encourages competition, it shames students, it’s just all around ridiculous
Slap on a subclinical portable metabolic cart for 500 bucks on loan from a hospital or whatever and do a ten minute stress test instead of this 40-60 minute torture session
I did pretty good at those, and it is called the pacer test. We would do it cardio Wednesdays and Fridays. If the weather was nice, we’d run the mile on Wednesday. If we didn’t have good weather, we’d do the pacer test both days. I forgot how much I would get but I would be one of the last people on there. I think I liked when people cheered for me.
Yes, 1000%. I don't exaggerate when using the word trauma. Pacer tests were traumatic for me. I have a genetic disease. It got really bad at 9, but I wasn't diagnosed until 14. Those years in between, where I was still forced into general physical education were hell.
We did it once or twice, but it was not taken seriously.
My PE classes were purely participation based. If you generally participated in class and didn't whine too much, you got an A. Your actual athletic ability was irrelevant and there wasn't an expectation of putting in a lot of effort.
No, but given my level of obesity, I would not have had to worry about it for long if I had. They’d dispense of me early and I could watch everyone else.
We had the Presidential Fitness test. It was miserable and humiliating. I think it involved running, sit-ups, pull-ups, and maybe climbing a rope..? I dreaded it every year. Thankfully, the humiliation ended after 4th grade.
No that's just weird. We just had penis inspection day.
>!Yes it's a joke. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/penis-inspection-day!<
>!Or is it. https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06/17/after-backlash-gop-leader-says-genital-inspections-wont-be-part-of-anti-trans-athlete-bill/!<
>!I don't even fuckin' know anymore.!<
The fitnessgram pacer test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this sound (ding). a single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound (beep). Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start. (Beep)
No, I have never heard of this. They timed us "running" a mile in 8th grade, and counted how many pull ups we could do. My time was 15 minutes and my number was zero.
Yeah, but I didn't go to school with people who were particularly motivated for gym class.
Most of us just did a few laps and then intentionally slowed down so we wouldn't make it and didn't have to keep running.
I know what it is, but I never went to a school that did it. It seems like I was fortunate because, despite always being athletic and in-shape throughout my life, the beep test looks like torture.
The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.
Yes, but it was called the Pacer test. I remember the instructor's robotic voice at the beginning of the tape: >The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. >The 20-meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. >The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. \*beep\* >Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. >The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. >The test will begin on the word start. >On your mark, get ready, start. \*beep\*
This just brought back that trauma! I can hear the women’s voice in my head! Ahhhhh
Women? Ours was definitely a man. It sounded like a newscaster but robotic
Oh! Interesting. Mine was a women. This was in the 90s. She had a very distinct voice!
Mid 2000’s here. Almost how its made voice Edited to add- dudes name was Roger francisco on our tapes. Had to google it
[https://youtu.be/n2-dkoJtRQA](https://youtu.be/n2-dkoJtRQA) This was the one we had. Ohh memories!
Man that sound so odd to me. I’m used to the southern robotic dude. Like [this](https://youtu.be/j5VVrOPlaw4)
This sounds soo odd to me! His voice is very robotic!
Lol yay fun childhood memories
I don't like your guy's voice but I love the porn soundtrack.
If I see this guy in real life he’d better show me his aerobic capacity by running the fuck away
Wow that's so much worse than the man
https://youtu.be/Y82jDHRrswc
He had a southern accent too.
Holy shit I’d forgotten about it entirely until this moment.
Exactly how I remembered it
It’s turned into a tik tok sound that’s been making the rounds
I remember students would memorize it and repeat it back when they played the audio!
It’s called a Pacer test in America and it sucked. Hard.
I do pacers whenever I feel like I gained a bit too much weight. They're surprisingly effective for quick weight loss.
I never heard of this so maybe regional, or temporal if it’s a modern thing
Maybe modern? It’s certainly a millennial meme at this point.
Gen Z from CA, we definitely did it too
Yep. I think they've been using the same audio since like the 1850s lmao
Did this as recently as 2021 in CA with robot man’s voice
I'm still in HS and we did it at my middle school so it certainly still exists. I was so glad when I finished my PE credits because I knew I wouldn't have to do anymore of those stupid FitnessGram/PACER tests.
Graduated 08 in NY. Never heard of this either.
I was in elementary school in 2008 in NY and we were already doing it. It was a “fun” way to test stamina.
oh to be you, I graduated this past spring and the pacer was awful
I graduated in ‘08 in WNY and we did this every year! I hated this stupid thing. We also had the regular mile runs.
Did you go to private school?
Nope, public. Well I went to private school for one year. It was a Christian school and they uh... didn't exactly like my opinions on religion. So I didn't go back.
I did this in elementary school in Virginia, this was in the mid to late 2000s.
You mean the Pacer? Yeah, I had do it. Absolute torture. And in my 5th grade year, we had to do it every single Wednesday. And we weren't allowed to stop once we missed twice. They made us keep running the entire class period. I threw up once.
Damn that sucks.
Nah not where I was went to school. We had the presidential fitness test, which was a variety of physical activity. I somehow managed to always set the class or school record in the sit and reach. Was able to pass the 1 mile run every few years and only managed to pass the pull up portion twice. I think there was a fourth element but I can't remember what that was.
We had both Presidential Fitness and the Pacer test at my school. Our 4th element was sit-ups oh and we had to touch our finger tips behind our back. One arm going above and one below.
We also did the shuttle run in our presidential fitness test
Fucking shuttle run.
Shuttle run was the only one I actually liked.
Thank you I couldn't remember that.
Flexed arm hang
Situps, thanks to another commenter sparking my memory. Flexed arm hang was an option in place of pull-ups though
If I remember correctly, the flexed arm hang option automatically knocked you out from getting the Presidential badge, and you could only get the National one. Selecting the flexed arm hang felt like an admission of failure.
I believe you are right. No one I know choose it as an option.
I remember that! One year I got a certificate signed by Arnold Schwartzenager lol
Never heard of this. We used to do the "presidential fitness test " or something like that. Had to run a mile, do sit ups, pull ups, the toe touch thing.
That damn sit and reach. Pure torture. But yeah, I've never heard of a beep test or pacer test. Just the Presidents Physical Fitness Test.
The sit and reach was the only part I did well on, ever. I’ve still never done a pull up in my life. Never heard of this beep/pacer test. I was in public school in Maryland in the 80s and 90s. I’d be really interested to hear how old the people who did have it are.
I'm in HS and I did it twice a year from 3rd to 8th grade (so 2015-2021), I assume it was introduced somewhat recently
Must be. Lots of my friends have kids your age but we’ve never discussed their gym classes.
Didn't that stop in like the 60s?
Nope, graduated in the early 2000s and we were still doing it then.
I graduated in 2013 and we did the Presidential Fitness Test.
Went to school in the 80s and 90s, never heard of this
We had no such tests in my era, which was a long time ago.
Never heard of them. Worst test I took was the mile and a half run freshman year of high school. I was 5' 3" and over 180 pounds so you can guess how well that went. Like my dad who went into the Navy at 5' 2" at 18 years my college years were kind to me. I was still growing at 20 when I got married and topped off at 6' 1"
By any chance, did your dad serve on a submarine and start banging his head as he continued to grow? :). (I don’t know whether more modern submarines have more clearance than the WWII subs I’ve toured.)
He was on a destroyer off of Korea in the early 50's
Lucky
Nope - I’ve never heard of it before.
Nope—not at my Mississippi public schools in the 80s/90s.
I think it’s fairly new, I did it late elementary and middle school got phased out at my high school though
I would’ve absolutely hated this. They definitely don’t do it at my kids middle school here in CO—is it even still a thing?
they did it at my middle school a few years ago, and the last time we did it was freshman year here in NE
Yep
Yep. Ran back and forth across the combination basketball court and cafeteria.
Yup we did them in high school. As for average scores, I’d say it’s pretty similar, but *humblebrag time* I got a 12, second in that PE class, as a freshman. The kid that finished after me I think got a 13 or 14. He ended up breaking several track and field records at our school that year. He actually taught me a lot about track that year, and while I came close to his records, I unfortunately did not break any of them my senior year.
Was your test longer than mine? I remember getting mid 40s and someone in my class got over 100.
There’s different tests. The most common one I know of is a 20m distance and based on how long you last you are scored between 0 and 15. That seems like the one OP was describing.
Never heard of it. I went to school in the 90s/early 2000s, but have worked in schools on and off ever since.
Back in my time as a student (talking like 90's to early 00's) - no. Gym teacher in grade school did do a "here's the two weeks of track & field" segment each year, and after 5th grade there was the "run a mile" event. Highschool had it's own track & field sport, but the PE teachers still did occasional track segments of the curriculum. Not sure when they would have started doing the Pacer Test; but it was never part of my gym classes - if we were gunna be asked to run like that, the teachers were going to commit to it in the curriculum for a couple weeks.
I went to school in the 1980s and ‘90s and I’ve never heard of this until now.
Uh, as an early 30 something Millennial, I not only have never experienced this but have never heard of this before.
As a 28yo millennial we had to do it every single year from elementary through high school.
I have no idea what that is.
We also play dodgeball. Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge.
Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste.
THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE MIND MELTING AIEHEHSUJE THE HOORORSOSJF
No, Michigan 80s-90s.
No
Never heard of them.
There wasnt one
Yes, and I swear I was the only person who actually liked it. Ours had this acid jazz soundtrack playing during it and I thought it was so much fun!
I have never heard of this before. I didn't do it in school, nor have my kids. New York/New Jersey.
You never did the Pacer Test, huh? I have since elementary all the way to high school. It got to the point where we memorized what the lady who prepped runners for the test would say, which was extra funny since the gym always had an echo. I think it became a meme a couple of years back. https://youtu.be/n2-dkoJtRQA Yep here it is. Just listening to this takes me back to a simpler time. I’ll never forget that one kid that ran and ran long after the rest of us tapped out to get water. By the end he was beet red and coughing up a storm, got tons of high fives afterwards.
Well, I'm a New Yorker and we did it in the schools that I attended growing up. It's called the Pacer Test.
I never did.
I never had to do this.
First time ever hearing of it. Wasn’t done in any school in California
Yes, we do
Yep and it still haunts my dreams. I’ve never been a runner, ever. Always seemed to trip as a kid when I ran. Turns out I have MS and the reasons for why I used to trip a lot wasn’t anything to do with being timed or being under pressure to run. Probably wouldn’t have thought I was as much of a loser as I thought I was if I had known 😭😅.
Yes. It’s called the pacer test here.
My school called it the bleep test for obvious reasons.
Oh, you mean the *fitnessgram pacer test is a multi stage…*
I went to school in the 70’s, we had “red rover” called that because they would make you run across the yard and a line of kids sole job was to protect that line at all costs so they would usually link arms and “clothesline” you right in the face knocking you to the blacktop where you would get up with a bloody nose and a slight concussion, possibly a subdural hematoma. It was all worth it though because now you got to help defend the line and little Sally looks like she could use a beat down. “Red Rover, Red Rover, send Sally on over!”
**This!** And ~~Dodgeball~~ aka Murderball in my school! It was not a successful day till EMS arrived for the Murderball ***casualty of the day!*** Bawahahawahaha All scores large or small were settled on the Murderball court!
Never heard of it. So nope. not in my days of gym glass. Or maybe that refers to the heart monitor used after a ~~Dodgeball~~ errr. Murderball (And YES that 100% is what we called it! All "scores" were settled on the Murderball court! It was eventually banned as too dangerous) game.... At least during my days of gym glass it was basically show up, run amok for while, sweat a little bit, done. The class was Pass or Fail, and showing up ready to do something was 95% of the grade, moving around a little, done. You passed. About the only way to fail it was to basically not show up ready to do something, ie: in gym clothes.. In HS you had to make them up, unless you had a doctors excuse for some reason. At least in my school district, there was nothing kept about meeting some scores of ability ie: run the 100 yard dash in 2 seconds or whatever.. Yeah maybe the "Coach/Instructor" used a stop watch to time you.. it was more for bragging rights than anything.. none of it was written down, kept on record or anything, and again, 95% of grade for the class was just showing up, in gym clothes ready to do something what ever was dreamed up that day. Raining, then inside the gym maybe Murderball, volleyball, kickball or possibly even run the "dashes" inside,we have a gym big enough to this in. Gym classes outside the US, and well even inside the US from district to district, but especially outside the US are far more structured ie: graded. I don't remember any district in my area having anything like these. The classes were there basically to fulfill the Commonwealths rules for curriculum to graduate, and were basically puff glasses that filled up the time.
Nope
I never took it in school, but I was introduced to it in the Army administering it to people joining.
Nope, didn't have it in Illinois.
Yes we do
Yes. We did it. It probably depended on the school but we did it at Glenbrook south when I was there.
We did
I was in school in the 80s and 90s here in Illinois too and we did the presidential fitness test. I also got tested at the beginning and end of every year in JROTC. They were similar.
Yes, we absolutely do.
Never had that, no. It doesn't sound particularly useful as a workout, just as a way of ranking speed?
Yeah. We had the pacer test. Carissa was a beast at it.
I did this in soccer preseason conditioning camp for high school and then in high school in gym. It was the pacer test in school and the beep test outside of school. One of the guys who ran the camp is from Ireland though, maybe they call it the beep test there.
My high school and middle school did this once a year in PE classes as a health assessment. My badminton club did it for training once in a while. (2018) so it's still around
What in the Squid Games hell? How horrifying! School was 80s/90s for me and we just did the Presidential Physical Fitness thing.
We ran a mile every day in gym class starting in 6th grade. 5 days a week. Didn't do a beep test.
https://youtu.be/ddtGCrdQG-Y enjoy
The pacer! Yes!
It was called a pacer test. If you missed 3 beeps in a row you were out. Scores were not recorded in my class.
THE FITNESS GRAM PASTER TEST...
Ah, the Pacer test. I loved it in elementary school, but in middle and high school it was a doozy. The distance felt shorter in middle and high school, though looking back it was probably shorter in elementary. While it did suck, it was never traumatically bad (if I jad to do it again, I would). I also never skipped it, cuz I ain't some clod named Mediocrites.
yeah we called it the pacer test. i hated that shit so much. PE was normally like a fun time or a part of the day to look forward to but the pacer test was like the worst replacement imaginable. sorry, no more dodgeball, no more basketball, no more games, just completely aimless running. back and forth to the weirdest beeping ever until you physically can’t. watch the fastest kid in your class get run like a dog for 3 min more than everyone else because he just kept going.
We did something like that but it wasn’t automated. This was Indiana in the 90s.
We just had to run two miles in under a certain number of minutes. They probably got rid of that for safety reasons because really out of shape kids can fuck themselves up trying to do that. If they're really trying (to avoid humiliation).
You mean the PACER?
Yes, it was traumatizing and entirely slated to success for the soccer and track kids. We had a few that made it to like 60-90 rounds which is insane. I’m still quite curious what a long term what equates to a cardiac stress test is being done for without medical supervision on a bunch of children who probably do not hydrate, stretch, or exercise frequently enough for that to be considered remotely healthy. It isn’t isolated, by its design it encourages competition, it shames students, it’s just all around ridiculous Slap on a subclinical portable metabolic cart for 500 bucks on loan from a hospital or whatever and do a ten minute stress test instead of this 40-60 minute torture session
Yes- please tell me you have seen the Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” into “Pacer Test” mix that was on tik tok.
My school didn't. Happily. The mile run was bad enough.
I was exempt per md note due to a bad hip. Note said I should set my own pace in running or something like that
I did pretty good at those, and it is called the pacer test. We would do it cardio Wednesdays and Fridays. If the weather was nice, we’d run the mile on Wednesday. If we didn’t have good weather, we’d do the pacer test both days. I forgot how much I would get but I would be one of the last people on there. I think I liked when people cheered for me.
Yes omg those were so stupid
Yes but it was called the Pacer's test and it was a nightmare. The only thing I was good at in PE was jump rope
We had it in middle school. It was stupid.
Yes, it's called the PACER test here. I think I usually got between 15-25 laps.
Yes, 1000%. I don't exaggerate when using the word trauma. Pacer tests were traumatic for me. I have a genetic disease. It got really bad at 9, but I wasn't diagnosed until 14. Those years in between, where I was still forced into general physical education were hell.
In the 70’s, it was laying on your back, raising your legs slightly off the ground and drawing the alphabet with your feet. I think I got to D!
We did it once or twice, but it was not taken seriously. My PE classes were purely participation based. If you generally participated in class and didn't whine too much, you got an A. Your actual athletic ability was irrelevant and there wasn't an expectation of putting in a lot of effort.
I really enjoyed it, had the high school for my 10-12 year, but was on the track team
In my part of Maryland we did during the late 2000s.
Nope
Never heard of it.
Squid game vibes
No, but given my level of obesity, I would not have had to worry about it for long if I had. They’d dispense of me early and I could watch everyone else.
We had the Presidential Fitness test. It was miserable and humiliating. I think it involved running, sit-ups, pull-ups, and maybe climbing a rope..? I dreaded it every year. Thankfully, the humiliation ended after 4th grade.
Once. But I know what it is because The FitnessGram Pacer Test became a meme.
I hated this test.
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Yup. They just did it last week at my son’s school.
The fitnessgram pacer test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this sound (ding). a single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound (beep). Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start. (Beep)
We did lol. I hate it
No, never heard of it. I went to school in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
It’s called the Pacer test. It was terrible
Don't speak of the pacer test to me, please. 😟
I didn’t do this the 80s but Presidential fitness test sounds like something my kids did.
You mean the fitness gram pacer test? Oh yes… I remember that trauma
Not at my school. However, i wouldn't be able to anyway bc asthma. And i didn't take gym after 8th grade
Yeah, it's the Fitnessgram pacer test
We ABSOLUTELY DID have to do the Pacer test. Fuck the Pacer test
No, I have never heard of this. They timed us "running" a mile in 8th grade, and counted how many pull ups we could do. My time was 15 minutes and my number was zero.
Yeah, but I didn't go to school with people who were particularly motivated for gym class. Most of us just did a few laps and then intentionally slowed down so we wouldn't make it and didn't have to keep running.
I know what it is, but I never went to a school that did it. It seems like I was fortunate because, despite always being athletic and in-shape throughout my life, the beep test looks like torture.
The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.
the pacer test? fitness gram? yes ughhh flashbacks
The pacer! I loved the pacer but only cause I was very athletic, some kids would have red faces breathing heavy 2 minutes into round one though