President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, the once-ubiquitous school program that for more than five decades had American children running miles ...

President Donald Trump is resurrecting what he’s calling the “wonderful tradition” of the Presidential Fitness Test, through which a new generation of students will—if the new test resembles the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A familiar fixture in American physical education is making a comeback. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, a national ...

Adults of a certain age likely remember having to participate in something called the Presidential Fitness Test. The test was typically administered in school gyms across the country, and it involved ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, ...

Tom Davidson Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 5:57 p.m. | Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 5:57 p.m. President Donald Trump is the latest occupant of the Oval Office to be dismayed by the physical fitness of American youth.

Northwestern Middle School student Braydin Kenly was the only student in the state who was recently selected to participate ...

The yearly scholastic fitness test may help to combat the rising childhood obesity rate—but only if schools (and the government) make some changes.

President Donald Trump’s plans to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test stirred immediate reactions from adults, who still carry vivid childhood memories of running a mile or doing pull-ups as ...

On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would bring the set of physical exercises back Christopher Rudolph is a contributing writer for PEOPLE. He previously covered ...