Legit full pullups with overhand grip are not that easy. If you have a strong back but are light with small legs it’s easier. I’ve always had big lower body (actually just more proportionate, I seem to be one of the few people who looks like he “doesn’t skip leg day”…though I do) and my front upper body is stronger than my back. Strong chest and legs compared to my back and I’m not light. I can do better at that now in middle-age but I’m slower running. That and the sit and reach were my weaknesses. I had no flexibility. Which is interesting since my kids are actually too flexible to the point they have to do physical therapy for it. I always led my class in situps, which seems to be the most useless one.
I am so old that the mile run was not one of the “events.” IIRC, in my day, we had:
- Pull-ups - and I was so overweight back then that I couldn’t even do one
- Sit-ups
- Chair push-ups - like normal push-ups, except that you put your hands on the edge of a chair seat and move your chest up and down to touch the edge of the seat
- Six-minute run - how many 1/16-mile (110 yard / 100m) segments could you run in six minutes
- Standing long jump
- Ten-second shuffle - the one I was good at; there are three parallel lines 3 feet (before high school) or 4 feet (high school) apart; you start with one foot on each side of the center line, then move to your left so that your left foot is across the left line and your right foot is to the left of the center line, then back to your right until your right foot is across the right line and your right foot is to the right of the center line, then back to the left; keep doing this for 10 seconds