Overview

• President Donald Trump signed an executive order on July 31 reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test, which had been discontinued in 2012 under the Obama administration.
• Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will administer the program through the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
• Professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau has been named chair of the council charged with overseeing the fitness assessment.
• The council is directed to develop criteria for a new Presidential Fitness Award and to establish school-based programs that reward physical education achievements.
• The revived fitness test will measure student performance in a one-mile run, sit-ups, push-ups or pull-ups and a sit-and-reach flexibility assessment.