Student fitness levels, measured by range of motion, strength, hand grip, and VO2 max, declined significantly around the late 1990s, coinciding with the rise of personal computers, but began to recover approximately five years later.

“the evidence uh at the University with all our first year students one of their Force courses they took was was on just basic Fitness evaluation range of motion strength hand grip um V2 Max some of these markers and they would measure each other and we kept the scores year after year of the incoming class the students got terribly soft and I can prove it based on that data and we would graph it now whatever year was the year where the students had grown up with the personal computer it was right at the very late 90s I think”