Presidential Fitness Test Revival Is Causing some Freaky Flashbacks for Readers

Why bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test is exactly what America needs, even if you hated it - Washington Examiner

When I was in fifth grade, I aced the Presidential Fitness Test. Not because I was some athletic prodigy — I was a large child who’d later become a big man — but because we had a pull-up bar at home. My parents had installed it in a doorway, and like my 5-year-old daughter today, I’d been doing dead hangs since before I could walk. When test day came, I knocked out pull-ups even as some skinnier children struggled. I held my own on the run. I be…

Can President Trump Run a Mile?

Zach Helfand reports on Donald Trump’s revival of the Presidential Fitness Test, and chronicles the history of political concern about the physical fitness of American youth.

Lawrence Taylor 'Doesn't Know Why' He Was Tapped For Trump Fitness Council

Photo: Getty Images North America Ex-NFL star and registered sex offender Lawrence Taylor was tapped for President Donald Trump’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and he admitted, “I don’t know why.” On Thursday (July 31), Trump welcomed Taylor, a Hall of Fame linebacker for the New York Giants, to the White House for his … Continued

Presidential Fitness Test revival is causing some freaky flashbacks for readers

Apparently, when President Donald Trump announced he’d be reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, it surfaced plenty of childhood traumas.

The presidential fitness test is nostalgia in the worst way

Among those standing over President Donald Trump last week as he autographed another executive order, this one reviving the presidential fitness test from Trump’s favorite decade - the pre-Civil Rights, pre-Voting Rights 1950s - was a leather-skinned bearded guy with…

The presidential fitness test: 'One of the worst memories of childhood'

President Donald Trump's announcement of the return of the presidential fitness test was met with strong (largely negative) reactions.