Scouting, Volume 50, Number 4, April 1962 Page: 11
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TOMORROW
Dr. Johnson, member of our National Health and Safety Committee for more than twenty years,
was chairman of the sub-committee that developed the current fitness plan of the Boy Scouts
of America.
character building and citizenship training, was written
as a basic objective in the original Boy Scout charter
from Congress.
The Scouting program has won popularity with boys
through outdoor activities such as camping, hiking,
swimming, canoeing, and field sports and through vigor-
ous competitive games played in meeting rooms and
outdoors. All these are group activities carried on in
Explorer units, troops, patrols, packs, and dens.
If you reviewed the merit badge and advancement
requirements, you probably would be amazed at the
number that are related to fitness. The whole advance-
ment method seeks to help the individual boy achieve a
sound mind in a sound body.
Looking ahead
Despite Scouting's splendid record, like that of many
other programs, it is not enough today. We Scouters
must give concentrated and continuous attention to mak-
ing personal fitness a daily effort on the part of every
Cub Scout. Boy Scout, and Explorer. We must make
them want to be fit and show them how to be fit.
To give them the will and the skill to become fit, we
now have a specially designed plan called Fit for To-
morrow. It was carefully prepared during the past year
by our National Committee on Health and Safety. They
consulted leading educators and experts in the field of
fitness and boy development.
Sound as we believe this plan to be, we know that
only people make plans work. The key workers for our
plan are Scout leaders and Scout parents. Thus, Fit for
Tomorrow is wrapped up in a guidebook by that name;
and complimentary copies are being sent to 130,000
Explorer Advisors, Scoutmasters, and Cubmasters.
Through these unit leaders the plan will get to parents
and into the lives of almost 4,000,000 boys this year.
Four-point plan
Fit for Tomorrow is a four-point plan of action, simple
to understand, but not easy to live—it s designed to
counteract the easy life. Here are the points outlined
on page 5 of the guidebook and implemented on all its
32 pages:
1. Medical checkup of boys, preferably by family
doctors, to appraise their capacities and needs for exer-
cise and vigorous activities.
2. Physical testing in pack, troop, or Explorer unit
to determine boys' fitness abilities and needs.
3. Exercise and activities, regular individual exer-
SIT-UPS. Lie on back, legs straight, feet a foot apart,
hands clasped behind neck. Feet held on floor by partner.
Sit erect; touch right elbow to left knee; return to first
position. Next time up, touch left elbow to right knee.
S 5 .
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 50, Number 4, April 1962, periodical, April 1962; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth331731/m1/13/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.