{"id":629051,"date":"2026-05-07T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:43:15","slug":"the-presidential-fitness-test-for-schoolchildren-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629051\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidential fitness test for schoolchildren is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778017488407.png\" alt=\"Photo by Margo Martin, Special Assistant to the President\"\/>Photo by Margo Martin, Special Assistant to the President<\/p>\n<p>In July, President Donald Trump announced plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren.\u00a0The program, which was created in 1966, had children run and perform situps, pullups or pushups and a sit-and-reach test. \u00a0Famous athletes joined a group of students on the White House south lawn Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odphp.health.gov\/pcsfn\/programs-awards\/presidential-youth-fitness-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see\u00a0<\/a>more about the Presidential Youth Fitness Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Margo Martin, Special Assistant to the President In July, President Donald Trump announced plans to reestablish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-629051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}