Back-to-school season is nearing, and while your kids might be dreading homework and obeying their teachers' orders again, there's another surprise waiting in gym class. Trump is bringing back the ...

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 ...

Remember the Presidential Fitness Test? You likely had to take one of these physical assessments in elementary, middle or high school — think running laps while your gym teacher holds a stopwatch and ...

Students from a Boston Latin School physical education class run on the track at White Stadium, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at Franklin Park in Boston. Charles Krupa / AP For decades, the sit-and-reach ...

(NEXSTAR) — Kids, lace up your sneakers and prepare to stretch: the Presidential Fitness Test is coming back. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to reestablish the test, which ...

The Cold War-era test was a staple of school gyms for half a century before the Obama administration replaced it. Trump says his focus on... For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like ...

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 ...

When I was in fifth grade, I aced the Presidential Fitness Test. Not because I was some athletic prodigy — I was a large child who’d later become a big man — but because we had a pull-up bar at home.

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