President George H.W. Bush, assisted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and weightlifter Fairfax Hackley, lifts a barbell in 1991 on the South Lawn of the White House during the second annual Great American ...

Illustrations from 1997’s ‘Get Fit! ... How To Get in Shape To Meet the President’s Challenge and Earn the Presidential Fitness Award’ It was born out of Cold War fears of an overweight, sluggish ...

Remember the one-mile run and pull-ups from the Presidential Physical Fitness Test? Schoolchildren today have never experienced it. A group of Ohio lawmakers wants to change that. Reps. Brian Lorenz, ...

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest and symbolic move that reflects mounting internal and political pressure over ...

The Air Force is likely to up its fitness standards, including the addition of a 2-mile run and twice-yearly testing, Air Force officials confirmed to Task & Purpose. “Yes, PT changes are coming,” ...

(NEXSTAR) — Kids, lace up your sneakers and prepare to stretch: the Presidential Fitness Test is coming back. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to reestablish the test, which ...