Presidential Physical Fitness Test is Back
The Presidential Fitness Test is a youth physical fitness assessment tied to US national school fitness goals. Historically it tested students through events such as running, curl ups, pull ups and flexibility.
The test was best known as a school PE benchmark and award system, not as a medical diagnosis or complete measure of health.
Today, the revived Presidential Physical Fitness Award framework is shown on the White House fitness page, linked below.
The page shows how the test organizes award targets into core strength, cardio and upper body categories. Students are required to meet at least one target from each category to earn the Presidential Physical Fitness Award.
By JENNIFER H. SVAN
Schoolchildren of U.S. service members will soon be vying for an award in gym class that many of their parents and grandparents likely remember well.
The Pentagon said Tuesday it was reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test at its schools as part of a broader push by the White House to reverse a decline in health and physical fitness across America.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the fitness program will be mandatory at 161 Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) schools across 30 installations worldwide. He hopes the rest of the nation’s schools will follow DODEA’s lead, he said.
“It’s going to be mandatory for the young kids of those service members who use those schools,” he said while speaking alongside President Donald Trump, schoolchildren, professional athletes and others at an Oval Office ceremony.
“We need young, strong, healthy Americans, whether you serve in the military or any other aspect of your life,” Hegseth said. “The idea that competition is bad is the beginning of a decline of a nation.”
The fitness test uses age and sex based standards to compare student performance against national benchmarks. Students could earn different awards depending on how well they performed across the required events.
- Presidential Physical Fitness Award: This award was historically reserved for students who reached high performance standards across all events.
- National Physical Fitness Award: This award recognized students who met a lower but still meaningful performance level.
- Participant Award: This award recognized students who completed the test even if they did not meet higher performance thresholds.
No participant award for failure, which is a nice change.
Presidential Fitness Test Page
Category: Big Pentagon
So they have all these awards for passing and or taking the test. Is there one for the budding shammer who avoids the test with an appointment to dental? The E-4 mafia has to start somewhere…
So, I looked at the website and there seems to be something strange about it. You can only pick one of two genders. What are they going to do in Minnesota and California for all the other genders? Also the standards are completely different for the two genders. I heard that boys and girls were exactly the same. Will the boys who feel like they are girls be allowed to compete against the other girls?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fitness/
Push-ups, sit-ups and run? This sounds vaguely familiar.
All together now:
“Push-ups, Sit-ups, 2-mile Run,
We’re only here to have some fun!”
“Push-ups, sit-ups and run? This sounds vaguely familiar.”
Holy shit… this test is military indoctrination! What’s next on the Republican agenda, “Firearms Safety”?
“You may not be picked up, pushed, pulled, carried, MEDEVACed, slung-load, air-dropped, kidnapped by aliens or miracled to the finish line by God… “
Dammit! I needed that speech wayyyy back when! By-God brilliant!
I saw some news blurb, libs were bitching about “Trump requiring a physical fitness test that he’d never pass”. Willful ignorance, like always. I remember there being one general test, and there were other more specific tests. All you got was a cool patch and bragging rights.
It was Jimmy Kimmel who said that. Since there is no pass or fail on the test he is technically correct and yet still a douche bag.
Kimmel is more an enema than a douche.
He’s more the flushed after effects of the enema than the enema itself.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Pussy Kimmel is one to talk. He couldn’t pass the test, himself. He probably needs a Carpal Tunnel brace just to jerk off.
Perhaps, but he isn’t trying to make kids more healthy, they need to have their butts firmly planted in front of the TV watching his show before he gets cancelled again.
Sweet. I will be standing up my “Quality Firtness Center” next week in which I promise to deliver equitable fitness outcomes to disadvantaged inner city youth who are historically subject to racism and therefore less fit. For this, I will pull in $10k in federal dollars for each student I claim to build. My training facility will be a PO Box.
Training kids to firt is pretty easy, I’ll do it for half price and guarantee results.
I remember doing this at Zaragoza AB Spain 72-75 as an Air Force Brat.
Patches came in 3 colors.
White was I showed up and was breathing. Can’t remember the color of the other ones anymore.
Mike
USAF Retired