President Donald Trump wants to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back to public schools. For more than four decades, students across the nation were tasked with performing the test's multiple feats ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the presidential fitness test, a hallmark of American physical education programs for more than half a century — and the bane of more than a few ...

US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after signing an executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools on July 31, 2025 in Washington, ...

President Trump on Tuesday restored the Presidential Fitness Test Award for public schoolchildren — less than a year after he revived the health program that was nixed during the Obama administration.

President Donald Trump was joined by professional athletes on Thursday as he signed an executive order that will expand on his council on sports, fitness and nutrition, including by reviving the ...

President Donald Trump announced a new effort to promote health, fitness and nutrition among young people on Thursday through an executive order that includes reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, a ...

For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like "shuttle run" and "sit-and-reach" likely conjure vivid memories of what was once a staple of American physical education: the Presidential Fitness ...

The summer announcement of the return of the Presidential Fitness Test was met with mostly positive reactions from the health sector because getting children moving in school has many benefits.

President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he will reinstate the presidential fitness test provoked some predictable groaning, and not unreasonably. On their own, physical fitness tests — ...

President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order Thursday that would revive the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. The test — which has included running, throwing, jumping, ...