Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A simple test that takes only seconds to complete can ...

We’ve all seen fitness routines that promise to reshape your body, boost your energy, or improve your heart health, but what if something as basic as sitting down on the floor and standing back up ...

You might want to sit down for this — then stand up as smoothly as you can. The ease with which a person can sit on the floor and rise to their feet, using as little support as possible, may help ...

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 ...

Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment. By Michael Levenson Ivory ...

Mandatory push-ups, pull-ups, running and more will be soon be returning to schools as President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test, which requires students to complete a series ...

A simple test that takes only seconds to complete can help predict how long you might live, new research suggests. The “sitting-rising test,” or SRT, gauges how well you can sit down and rise from the ...