I was on my fourth and final lap around the track during the mile run for my fifth-grade Presidential Fitness Test when it happened. My stomach gurgled, I stopped abruptly, and I bent over and heaved.

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, ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for decades that gauged young people’s health and ...