- Today, The Try Guys are doing the Presidential Fitness
Test for fifth graders. Let's do this! (Keith screaming) - Five seconds. (Zach screaming) (guys screaming) - Probably the worst part of my childhood. Happy to be back. Go!
- Big strong boy. - [Zach] Come on! Okay. - Okay. - [Ned] Okay. All right, well... - [Jacob] A valiant effort. That's a valiant effort.
- All right, zero. (upbeat music) - [Keith] Today, we are
sponsored by Future Fitness. - [Ned] Future is an app that pairs you with a fitness coach that
develops a workout program specifically tailored to you. - [Keith] To help you find out
what is actually good for you to become a stronger, healthier person. (regal orchestral music) - The Presidential Fitness test. Every year, the girls and boys of America would get together in gym
class to be humiliated. - The Presidential
Fitness Test seemed like it was something developed
to, like, make kids feel bad. - [Zach] If you don't
know, the kids at school would all have to do a
national standard fitness test. It was founded in the 1950s, and went all the way until very recently, and you were judged against all the other kids in your
school, but also in the country. - Pull-ups, sit-ups, push-ups. Fed up? We will be. - Today, we'll be doing a
kid's fitness test to see, are we stronger than a fifth grader? And what should the punishment
be if you don't do this? - Oh, my God. You- - A glass of water thrown in the face. - Okay.
- Okay. I think people, on the
whole, want to be healthy. I just think it's hard
sometimes to figure out how. - My name is Jacob, I'm a performance coach for Future Fitness which is an app that really focuses on, hey, how can we give everyone
in the country, eventually, their own coach that
handles all their fitness? - Future coaches have
trained Olympic level, collegiate and professional athletes. They're legit. - We're gonna crush fifth
graders. There's no way. - Yeah. - I have some hope. - Yeah. Yeah! - [Zach and Ned] Some hope! (upbeat music) - So a perfect form sit-up, we're gonna be arms
tight across the chest. You're gonna go down, the
upper back touch the floor, up to the elbows, touch the legs. - Sit-ups? I'm good at that. I sit up in bed every morning
and have two cups of coffee. - The standards for fifth graders, this is pulled from 1985, is for curl-ups, you're gonna go for 45 in one minute. (spits sounds) - [Ned And Zach] 45 in a minute?! - That seems like-
- You have to cook a little bit. - That seems like a lot. - I'm getting, like,
lightheaded. I'm so nervous. Each round is gonna earn
its own red or blue token. - Okay.
- Right? So you want to get as
many tokens as you can. - If you are better than 50% of kids, you could get a red patch. And if you're better than 85% of the kids, you got a blue patch. And one year I got a blue
patch and I was psyched. - It was always like that one kid who hit puberty before everyone else. - One year, Jacob, that patch kid was me. (Zach and Keith gasp) - What patch did you get? - I got the highest one! I displayed it proudly in my room and just thought about how
awesome I was. (giggles) - Okay.
- Three, two, one, go! (timer clicks) Hey, his face is so intense. - 9, 10.
- My ankles, Zach! I'm very concerned about
farting during sit-ups. (Jacob laughs) - Okay. - [Keith] When you were
in elementary school, you just had lunch, they gave you pinto beans
because you're in Tennessee. Have some other poor
child sit at your feet and now, just push your abdomen out. - [Guys] 9, 10. - 11, 12. - In the pandemic, I
feel like people either lost weight or gained weight. I did both! Got super
shredded in the beginning. Towards the end, my wife had a baby and then things kind of deteriorated. I'd say I'm at my lowest level of fitness. - [Zach] 13, 14, 15. - Two.
- Nice and easy. - [All] Three. - I'm not an athletically gifted person. I'm slower. I'm weaker. I'm more frail. It ain't for me. - Four.
- You're doing great. - Take your time. - Five! (giggling) - Six. Here we go, Zach. - He's blowing so much air in my face. - [Ned And Jacob] 23, 24, 25. - You got this, Keith!
- Hands on your chest. 27, half-way mark. 28, 29. Come on, Ned! - [Keith And Zach] 32, 33. - Yes, down.
- 34, keep those hips down. 35. - [Guys] 27, 28. (Zach groans) - No, you got this. - [Zach] Oh, he's like
sneezing on me. (laughs) Oh, God. - [Jacob] 37, 38, 39. (Zach screams) (timer alarm sound) - Nice! Just got 40. We're gonna give it to him. - Five seconds. (Keith screams) - [Ned And Zach] 42. - Couple more! - And time! (timer alarm sound) - Ahh!
- Wow! - 45, 46.
- Yeah! Yeah! - 47, 48. Time! (timer alarm sound) (guys cheering) - Take that, fifth grader. - Get blue, baby! - Oh, how do you feel, Ned? - Oh, pretty wrecked, bro. (guys laugh) (upbeat music) - The perfect form push-up
would be all the way down, shoulder blades squeezing
down the back and up. All we're looking for here is you go down to 90
degrees at the elbow and up. - And this is until failure? - This is one set 'til failure. So when you drop, you're done. Push-ups, we're aiming for 22. - [Keith] 22?! - In just-
- In a row?! - In a row.
- In a row. (Zach laughs) - [Jacob] But only to a right angle. So that's a little bit
of help for you guys. So again, 1985 kids were fit. - No part of elementary
school before that was like, oh, conditioning to prepare you for that. You were just supposed to
develop the strength somehow by playing on the playground. - The way that fitness was
approached in my school all throughout my childhood,
it was all a ranking system. And I was judged against not
myself, but other people. And that made me feel
really bad about myself. - I don't, I mean, I'm very bad at pushups but I'm gonna think that I'm good. - [Zach] And then we got to make sure the butt's in the right place. - Yeah, so a straight line- - Where is it gonna be?
- here down to the feet. - Is it there? - Yeah, that's it. Yup, that's right. - Okay, now, I need to
take a rest just to... (guys laughing) I wanna have as much strength
reserved as possible. Okay, ready? Here we go. - [Jacob] One, two. - That's Zach. Looking good. Good form. - I have chronic pain and to
help with my chronic pain, I've actually been
exercising more than ever. It stands to reason
that I currently, today, may be in the best shape of my life. - [Jacob] Five, six, lower. Seven, eight, nine. Lower. 12, get down there. 13. The idea of comparing yourself
to everyone else in general is not a great paradigm for fitness. Ned's a family man with a
history of knee problems who played soccer. His workout should look a
lot differently than yours with a guy who has a history of back pain. Can I find something I wanna be better at and then go train to be better at it? That's a better way to look at it. 18. - Yes, Zach.
- Four more. - 19. Come on, Zach.
- Yes, Zach. - 20.
- There it is. There it is. Two more. - Yes!
- Yes, Keith. - [Zach] 22. - We did it! (timer alarm sound) - Yeah! (guys clapping) - Yeah! - Woo! - 20. (Zach screams) - Yeah! (timer alarm sound) Yeah! - 27, 28. Come on, 29. - Yeah, you got it, Ned.
- 30, 31. Thirty...
- Your hips. Hips are falling. - Two. (timer alarm sound) - [Keith] Yeah! (guys cheering) - Sixth grade, here I come. - I didn't really didn't
wanna do that last one. I maybe could've done one more but that was just right there. - Same. - I wanna see how many more I can do. Let's see.
- No, no, no. - Nope. (laughs) - That's enough.
- That's it. - No water in the face yet.
- (Ned sighs) - [Zach] What's the 17 year old benchmark? - [Crew Member] 53. (guys laughing) - Oh, my God! (upbeat music) - Okay, so the rule here is we do our feet shoulders apart and we're gonna get three bobs, and then the fourth bob, you
have to hold two seconds. And that's your reach. - [Jacob] V-sit reach, four inches. So hopefully we can touch our toes. - [Ned] Four inches past our toes? - [Jacob] Yes. - Four inches - [All] Past your toes? - I can maybe get- - Four inches before my toes? - Can I get four inches past Zach's toes? - I've never been flexible. I've never been able to touch my toes. And now, I know it's because
my hips are partially fused. But as a kid, I was just
like, "What's wrong with me?" I'm gonna go ahead and say that I think this whole
test is ableist bullshit. 'Cause, like, what are you supposed to do, like, if you're differently bodied? - Like I'm a giant man.
There's also tiny people. - Everyone's different. Your life is different than
Keith's life or Ned's life. And have we scale and make
sure that whatever you're doing is fitness for you. 'Cause fitness isn't one size fits all. - Oh, (beep). - [Jacob] Here we go. (Zach screams) - Let's get to zero. - [Keith] Exhale. (Zach screams) - This is the one and hold it for two. - Go, go, go, go.
- One, two, three. - (screams) That hurt. - The tape-
- Negative one? - The tape will show
negative three quarter. (timer alarm sound) - Ey! That's maybe a new record. - Okay, so we're gonna go one, two, oh. Three, and then we got to hold it. - [Jacob] Hold it, hold it,
hold it, hold it, hold it. - Oh, yeah, baby!
- There we go. That's a five right there. - [Ned] That's a fiver. That's a fiver. - Is that an 85 percentile? - That's right. - Am I a strong baby? - [Ned] You got blue balls. - I'm a strong baby and a two blue balls. - I think I'm pretty flexible. I think I can do the sit
and reach pretty well. - That's when you hold. Hold it, hold it, hold it. - [Zach] Oh, wow. There we go! - Eight inch reach. - Woo! - Now, did you say that you had a way to stretch out my hammies? - [Jacob] I do. This leg's straight.
- What are you doing? What are you doing? - [Zach] Okay. - Fitness is very much
like a quick fix online. And, like, it's not. And I wanna give everyone a magic pill that makes everything,
like, fixed overnight. But it's a journey. And so, you wanna have someone
with you on that journey. - Wait, do you know where
the magic pills are though? - I wish. - Ow! You're good, you're good. Ooh! Phew, all right we're
getting to zero, guys. - Go!
- Go! - Oh, oh! - Come on. Here we go. - Yes! (guys cheering) (timer alarm sound) - Zero! Yeah. - No, you got 0.5. - Yeah, you got past the mark. - He did. (upbeat music) All right. Shuttle run. - [Jacob] So what you're gonna do is you're gonna have to
start behind the cones. - [Ned] Okay. - I'm gonna run down. I have to grab the block,
bring it back, drop it off. Run back.
- Oh, no. - Second block.
- Oh, no. Run back, drop it off then I'm done. - [Ned] Our goal is what? - [Jacob] 10.3 or 11.2. - [Keith] I don't think I've
sprinted in a long time. - [Ned] 30 feet, four times. - [Jacob] Yeah. - So two and a half
seconds to get from here to the outside of the room? - Yeah. - What am I, Spiderman? - That can't be right. - [Jacob] Three, two, one, go! - [Zach] Yeah. Oh, my God,
look how long his legs are. - [Jacob] Here we go. - [Ned] It's slippery over there. - Go, go, go!
- Go, Keith, go! - [Jacob] Here we go, Keith. - Go, go, go, go, go!
- Go, go, go! (timer alarm sound) (guys cheering) - [Jacob] 10:48. - There you go.
- Yeah! - [Zach] You were right there, my man. - I think I got a little
faster when I slipped. - Wow.
- I slipped on the ground. - [Jacob] Are you ready?
Three, two, one, go! - Go, Zach, go!
- Here we go, Zach. Come on. - [Zach] Oh, it's slippery. - [Keith] Grab both. That
would've been a good strategy. - [Zach] I thought about
grabbing both of them. (guys cheering) (timer alarm sound) (guys cheering) - That's a red-
- Better than I thought. - That's a red coin. - Now that I'm not, like, worried about all my
classmates making fun of me, I'm just trying to do my best and- - That's right.
- I'm proud of myself. But I'm more proud because I'm not weaker than
a fifth grader, thus far. - There's a good half
that is better than us. - [Jacob] All right, here
we go. Three, two, one, go! - Go Ned!
- Here we go, Ned! There we go. Go, go, go! Come on, Ned! - The determination.
- Go, go, go, go, go! (timer alarm sound) - 10:01. (guys cheering) - So far, we are all at
least 50% of fifth graders. But now is the real test. We all know the pull-ups are
scary and the mile is scary. So we're going to a park to really embrace that school recess atmosphere. - We'll see you right now. Yeah! Pull-ups. Wow, you really jumped. - Now, we're at the park. - That jump makes sense now. It's like, we're just
jumping earlier? Cool. (suspenseful music) Red's gonna be two pull-ups. And if we're going for a
straight blue across the board, then we're gonna have to go for six. - You know, as a child, I definitely dreaded pull-ups the most. It's currently what I
dread. I just can't do it. - Much like I'm sure you guys do, like not great memories
of this, but here we are. - Oh, boy. Okay, well, go for it, Keith. - Okay. Well, maybe we
should see how it's done. - Yeah. - Full dead hang at
the bottom, core tight. You wanna go chin above bar at the top. Back down to a full lock it at the bottom. - Now, what about if we just wanna hang up as long as we can. Isn't that a thing? - It is, but only for the red star. I believe it's 11 seconds. - Okay.
- Sounds good. - I distinctly remember standing in line. And every kid is, like, being picked up to reach the pull-up bar. There were many kids who
couldn't. I couldn't. And you just did it in front of everyone. So they're like, "Okay, well,
you're in fourth grade now. Time to show everybody
how inferior you are. (chuckles) You need to
do as many as you can." - This was always one of the
most humiliating in school. - It was my least favorite. - [Keith] It's the hardest one. - I think it's everyone's least favorite. - Okay, okay, okay. - Here we go. - [Ned] Go, Keith, go! - Go!
- Big strong boy! - [Zach] Come on. Okay. - Okay. - Okay, all right, well... - [Jacob] It's a valiant effort. It's a valiant effort.
- All right, zero. - Okay, we're gonna do
the 11-second hang, baby. - [Jacob] Three, two, one. - [Zach] Now, you're legs
are supposed to be straight. - [Jacob] Keith, stay
still. Keep your legs tight. - Hold it, hold it.
- Let's go, let's go! - [Ned] Hold it! - [Jacob] All right, we're halfway there. - [Ned] Hold it! - [Jacob] You still
want him to keep going? - [Zach] Oh, yeah, you did it. (guys laughing) - Woo! - I can never do a pull-up. I don't know to this day
if I can do a pull-up. - [Ned] You got this, Zach. - So much of my life has
been me avoiding this moment. (Zach laughs) - [Jacob] I believe in you. Just one. - [Ned] You got this, Zach! (suspenseful music) (guys cheering) - [Ned] Yes! - [Jacob] Go all the way
down. Again, come on. (guys cheering) - I've never done that in my life. (Zach grunting) Oh, that's it, that's it. Hey, I'll take a red. I'll take a red, man. Wow, wow, that's really... I can't believe I did that. - I think I can do maybe three pull-ups. But as a middle schooler, I
was just a little string bean. I can do, like, 15 pull-ups. - [Zach] Here we go. - [Guys] One, two, three. - Four. Keep those legs still. Five. - One more, one more! - Six.
- One more! - [Jacob] Again, go, go, go! (Ned grunts) - Yeah! We're gonna give it to him. - Woo! - That was amazing! - Yeah.
- Yes! - Oh, you got so many
blue balls at this point. (Ned laughs) (empowering music) - [Ned] It's time for the final
challenge, the one mile run. - [Jacob] The coup de grâce. - You know, if it isn't the
pull-ups the kids dread, it's definitely the timed mile. - [Ned] To get the blue
badge, it's eight minutes and the red badge, it's 10 minutes. Ya'll can do that. - I think the fastest mile in my life was, like, 9:30. - All right, maybe not. - I'm excited. I think I can get under 10. - Now, because of my AS,
I wanna avoid a flare up. I'm not gonna be running as high impact. But I am from New York and
we know how to walk fast. I'm gonna be power walking this bitch. - And I'm just gonna run as fast as I can. - [Jacob] Three, two, one, go! - Go, boys! They're all off running like fools. Good day to be the finish line watcher. - Trying to just keep a nice, steady pace. - [Ned] Ain't nothing
gonna break my stride. Just gotta keep moving. - Hopefully, this is a good angle for me. Then again, I don't have bad ones. - Okay, we're feeling it. Feeling it in the ankles. Feeling it in the shins. - [Sam] Ooh! Go, Ned! Oh, my God, he's flying. - Wave to your adoring fans. Hi, thank you. Yes, hi. It's really me. Hi. - Now, I'm not gonna be intimidated by the pace of the other fellas here. I'm my own man. I'm
gonna be walking like me. The mile is the one that
still haunts me to this day. I just, I got to catch a subway, you know? That's all we're doing here. (Zach sighs) So one year, I decided I was gonna cheat. So in my school, we
would all be on one track and the track wasn't a full mile. So you would have to go around and every time you go around,
you pick up popsicle sticks. I would always finish towards
the bottom of the pack. The coach is here and behind him was the box of popsicle sticks. So I go past him and I
bend down to tie my shoe and I grab a second popsicle stick. And I'm like, "Oh yeah!" So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna run this next lap really slow. So that, like, my final
time is believable. 'Cause I can't go from, like, a 10 to a seven all of a sudden. I get done with my final lap. I handed my three popsicle sticks. Coach calls me out on
my bullshit immediately. He knows that I cheated. He doesn't know how I
cheated, but he knows. And he goes, "No, Kornfeld.
You're doing another lap." I (beep) hate the mile. - What if I cut through?
What if we just cheat? I think the test would be better if there was something to run from. - [Ned] Starting to get
a little fatigued. Yeah! - If it was like, "Everybody run or that bull will get you." Everybody's gonna run. (Keith panting) Take a little breather. A little breather. - Look at this pace. Look at this pace. (Ned panting) - [Jacob] Go, Ned, go! - Oh, my God. This is a nightmare. (tense music) (Ned panting) (Keith panting) - I haven't moved this
much in a long time. I take nice leisurely walks
with my dog every morning. Oh! (Keith panting) It's not even my breath. I'm fine. I can breathe. I'm talking. Look at me go. It's these shins. - (panting) You can do this, Keith. (Ned panting) - [Jacob] 10 seconds! Go, Ned! (triumphant music) - [Ned] Woo! - [Jacob] 6:57. - Yes! I'm so worn out. That was intense. (panting) At the end, that really, that made me
think I was gonna barf. (tense music) (Keith panting) - I got two minutes. Oh, I get a side, full side cramp. Oh, my God. I'm trying
to walk as fast as I can. I'm so out of breath. - One minute! (Keith groans) - [Jacob] You got it, Keith! - You got this! Push through, push through! (Keith panting) 10 seconds! Nine, eight, seven, six, five. Yeah! He did it! - Oh! I can't believe it. - Great job. - (pants) Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Jeez Louise. - [Sam] Go, Zach! Woo! (ethereal music) - Come on, Zachy! Wow, he looks so confident.
What a New Yorker. He's trying to get to that bagel place right before it opens, you know? He's trying to make sure
he gets the vegan schmears, becoming more and more popular. Now, even an non-vegans are eating
it. Leave some for Zach. - Wear all his jewelry to the bodega. - [Keith] Oh, my gosh. - [Jacob] Yeah! (guys cheering) 14:26. - No way? - Yes.
- Woo! - I googled. The average mile is 15:20
minutes when walking. Therefore, I'm an above average child. (guys cheering) Well, after a day of exercises, Ned, congratulations, you're
blue across the board. I'd say we all did a
pretty damn good today. We're certified presidentially fit. - [Keith] Thank you so
much to Future Fitness for sponsoring today's video. This is so fun. I can't wait to actually get in there and I would love to be paired with you. It would be amazing to have somebody who could actually focus on
my, you know, current situation and make a real plan to get
me a little bit stronger. - That's right. - I will put the caveat in there that what you guys did was fifth graders. If we go by the 17 year old standards, 6:06 mile. (laughs) - Oh, boy.
- 6:06?! - 13 pull-ups. - 13 pull-ups?! - 13?!
- For what? - 8.7 shuttle runs. (indistinct chatter) - Oh, who could do that? - You know, the benchmarks
really aren't that important. - So by that standard, we're all getting- - You're all getting water.
- Water in the face. - Hm, well, let's get wet. (guys laughing) (regal orchestral music) (playful orchestral music) (upbeat music) - We're in the wrong order but whatever. - Wait, we can... I was on the far right. - And I was on this. I
was here next to you. Yeah, it was like this. - It goes like this.
- Yeah. Ready? - Three, two, one.
- [All] Yea-
Zach saying fitness was a ranking system in school made so much sense to me. Idk how it’s everywhere else but playing a sport and competing were a huge thing in my school back in the day. It wasn’t like the high school cliche but people good at sports were given more opportunities and ways to improve at fitness while the ones not that fit weren’t. Maybe it was just because the school needed people for competing but unfit people clearly didnt get anything in any “physical education” class. Im just rambling right now, but I just mean I’m against this system of improving the competent while completely ignoring those who really need help if I put it simply. Exercises aren’t tailor made since every one has a different body and health. Schools should do a better job of promoting fitness equally. Am I making even sense right now? Lol
Now THIS felt like a classic try guys video. Loved every part of it. Please do a "smarter than a 5th grader" one too!!!
that was really fun
This was such a good video
I loved this video. I was always made to feel like shit in school because I couldn't complete the beep test or didn't know the rules of football. This was simply because I come from a country that doesn't gives much importance to physical health. So glad that Zach and Keith both spoke up about their own experiences too.
Also, I'm so freaking impressed by how well Zach did and how much his posture has improved! Makes me happy to see him finally living his best life ❤
IS IT JUST ME OR ZACH LOOKS REALLY HOT IN THIS?????? like he has always been adorable and cute but I've never found him hot BUT OH MY GOD HE LOOKS HOTTTT IN THIS PLEASE SOMEONE AGREE WITH ME
I wonder how Eugene would have done 😔