Schools Brace for Presidential Fitness Test’s Revival

The Presidential Fitness Test Was Humbling. I’m Glad It’s Back.

Gather round the campfire, children, and let me tell you a scary story about the annual ritual humiliation known as the Presidential Fitness Test.Long before SoulCycle, the social internet, and the everyone-gets-a-trophy ethos that allegedly remade millennials into a generation of coddled, spherical slobs, the youth of the nation were summoned each spring to the school gymnasium and put through the rigors of seven exercises designed to measure o…

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Schools brace for Presidential Fitness Test’s revival

Mesa Public Schools students could soon have another test to prepare for – one that assesses their endurance, core strength and agility.

Pat McAfee rejoices in 'Sit and Reach' being removed from Presidential Fitness Test

Depending on your age and core flexibility, you remember it well… the dreaded Sit and Reach test. For years many seemingly active and physically fit children often would be denied the ‘Presidential Physical Fitness Award,’ awarded to the top 15% of test takers, specifically due to being unable to reach a certain amount of distance while sitting on the ground. This annoyed myself and many others, including Pat McAfee to no end. In 2012 the test w…