WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps will institute a sex-neutral scoring physical fitness test for Marines with a combat arms primary military occupational specialty, the service announced this week. “Our ...

In July of 2025, President Donald Trump reinstated the Presidential Physical Fitness Test,[1] a standardized evaluation of fitness for American school-age children. It includes a one-mile run, ...

Mandatory push-ups, pull-ups, running and more will be soon be returning to schools as President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test, which requires students to complete a series ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illustrations from 1997’s ‘Get Fit! ... How To Get in Shape To Meet the President’s Challenge and Earn the Presidential Fitness Award’ It was born out of Cold War fears of an overweight, sluggish ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test on July 31. The program, which includes completing a series of physical challenges, was first introduced in ...