It has taken the impetus of war to bring home to us the great importance of physical fitness and to give that subject the attention it deserves: no one can be complacent when one realizes that 1 out of 4 of our 18-19 year old registrants fails to pass his Selective Service examination. But even now physical fitness is too frequently discussed in terms of only one of its various components, and many panaceas and programs are proposed which, although proper in themselves, are no more than single items in a well integrated and complete plan. In this report three kinds of physical fitness are discussed: first, static or medical fitness, which is concernedwith the soundness of the organs of the body; second, functional or dynamic fitness, which has to do with the efficiency of the body in strenuous work; and, third, motor skills fitness, which is related