Trump To Revive Presidential Fitness Test

The Presidential Fitness Test is coming back.

President Donald Trump will motion an executive bid Thursday day reinstating nan nationalist fittingness appraisal implemented successful nationalist schools from 1956 until 2013, a White House charismatic told NBC News.

The domiciled of administering nan trial will autumn to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been vocal successful his interest astir puerility obesity and whose “Make America Healthy Again” study successful February attributed nan issue, successful part, to sedentary lifestyles.

The White House charismatic said Trump intends to reside Americans’ declining wellness and beingness fitness, including “crisis levels” of obesity, chronic disease, inactivity and mediocre nutrition.

“President Trump wants each young American to person nan opportunity to stress healthy, progressive lifestyles — creating a civilization of spot and excellence for years to come," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement.

The original Presidential Fitness Test was established nether nan Eisenhower management successful nan 1950s and underwent respective iterations successful nan decades to come. Students were mostly asked to execute immoderate operation of push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, moving and reaching for their toes while seated. Starting successful nan 1960s, those pinch nan highest fittingness scores were eligible to person a Presidential Physical Fitness Award.

The Obama management replaced nan fittingness trial aft nan 2012-13 schoolhouse twelvemonth pinch nan Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which focused much connected individual wellness than diversion prowess.

Trump’s executive bid Thursday tasks nan President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition pinch processing criteria for a caller Presidential Fitness Award, a White House charismatic said.

The council's chair, master golfer Bryson DeChambeau, will beryllium coming astatine nan signing Thursday day astatine nan White House, nan charismatic said. Several different master athletes are besides scheduled to attend, including Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, shot Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor and Swedish master golfer Annika Sorenstam.