{"id":34271,"date":"2025-08-03T02:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-brings-back-presidential-fitness-test-for-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T02:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:56:34","slug":"trump-brings-back-presidential-fitness-test-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-brings-back-presidential-fitness-test-for-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump brings back Presidential Fitness Test for public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">President Donald Trump on Thursday reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">First instated in the 1950s to gauge young people&#8217;s health and athleticism, the assessment included sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and a sit-and-reach test. It also featured a competitive component, recognising the best performers with the Presidential Fitness Award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The test had been discontinued in 2012 and replaced with a fitness program during Barack Obama&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The BBC&#8217;s Bernd Debusmann takes a look at the test&#8217;s history and what Americans have to say about it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"video-by-alex-foster\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Video by Alex Foster <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"produced-by-blanca-estrada-and-madeline-gerber\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Produced by Blanca Estrada and Madeline Gerber<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/ce3j23zk2w2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. First instated in the 1950s to gauge young people&#8217;s health and athleticism, the assessment included sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and a sit-and-reach test. It also featured a competitive component, recognising the best performers with the Presidential Fitness Award. The test had been discontinued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34273,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34271\/revisions\/34273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}