Certain PT test exercises fill the upper-body muscles with blood, making a run afterward more challenging than running fresh.

The Presidential Fitness Test, a national physical fitness testing program in many United States public middle and high schools from the late 1950s until 2013, has had a long, complicated history, ...

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 ...

The test has been reinstated after being canceled in 2013 ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with sports physician Jordan Metzl about President Trump's effort to revive the Presidential Fitness Test. The presidential fitness test is coming back. You remember that, ...

A soldier lifts a sandbag into a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle while taking a diagnostic Ranger Physical Assessment at Fort Drum, New York, May 19, 2026. (Sgt. Sam Shomento/U.S. Army) The changes to ...

EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Trump Administration announced the reinstatement of The Presidential Physical Fitness Test, the long-running program that assessed youth health and fitness from 1966 to 2013.