Under a cloudless sky, Joe Ballato came flying around the turn with his fifth-grade classmates on the Tamarac Elementary School track. Ballato, wearing a "Dept. of Phys. Ed." T-shirt, finished ...

So if your school was among those that submitted scores to the Presidential Fitness Test between roughly 1980 and 2013, your name and one-mile run time probably reside in the archives of the ...

Starting next school year, the Physical Fitness Test will be replaced by the newly-announced Presidential Youth Fitness Program, a "health-related, criterion-based assessment." Presidential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those are just a few of the torturous exercises from the Presidential Fitness Test, the physical-fitness gantlet for middle- and high-school kids in the United States. It was finally retired after ...

Started in the late 1950s by President Dwight Eisenhower, the fitness test evolved into five parts: curl-ups, a shuttle run, pull-ups or sit-ups, a sit-and-reach and a one-mile run.