He, a civilian, was wise enough not to take the advice.
"I would like to see a test established that would oblige officers to take sufficient exercise to pass it without inconvenience.

For the reasons given above, 20 miles in two days every other month would do the business, while 10 miles each month does not touch it, simply because nobody has to walk on 'next day' feet.

As for the proposed test of so many hours 'exercise' a week, the flat foots of the pendulous belly muscles are delighted.

They are looking into the question of pedometers, and will hang one of these on their wheezy chests and let it count every shuffling step they take out of doors.
"If we had an adequate test throughout 20 years, there would at the end of that time be few if any sacks of blubber at the upper end of the list; and service opinion against that sort of thing would be established." These tests were kept during my administration.

They were afterwards abandoned; not through perversity or viciousness; but through weakness, and inability to understand the need of preparedness in advance, if the emergencies of war are to be properly met, when, or if, they arrive.
In no country with an army worth calling such is there a chance for a man physically unfit to stay in the service.