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 ...

President Trump is trying to bring the Presidential Fitness Test back. For many, the mere mention raises bad memories. (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in ...

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 ...

A simple test can help determine whether a patient suffers from arterial stiffness, often a precursor to cardiovascular disease. Investigators in Japan divided 526 healthy, nonsmoking adults with BMI ...

For decades, the sit-and-reach test and the mile run were hallmarks of physical education for schoolchildren across the country. With President Donald Trump reviving the presidential fitness test ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, the once-ubiquitous school program that for more than five decades had American children running miles ...

Whether you loved it or loathed it as a kid, the exercises can still be a revealing measure of health — now that no one’s forcing you to do them. By Danielle Friedman If you went to an American public ...

Remember the Presidential Fitness Test? You likely had to take one of these physical assessments in elementary, middle or high school — think running laps while your gym teacher holds a stopwatch and ...

If you went to an American public school between 1966 and 2012, you probably have memories of sweating through the Presidential Physical Fitness Test — a gym class gauntlet that involved a mile run, ...