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Remember the Presidential Fitness tests in school? Push ups, sit ups, some running, dangling from a bar, etc. It sucked That’s how I learned I couldn’t do a sit up. Not in second grade, not in sixth grade, never really. From age five onward, I felt like a sit up failure. Even when my classmates […]
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CN: child abuse, menstrual/menopausal, dog bite I cannot do a sit up. I just can’t do it. This proved a challenge on the Presidential Fitness Tests in elementary school. My gym teacher, Mr Kenzel (sp?) was baffled. Year after year, I would strain and try. Classmates would support my back. I was a scrawny kid […]
