President's Challenge Program

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The President’s Challenge is the premier program of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition administered through a co-sponsorship agreement with the Amateur Athletic Union. The President’s Challenge helps people of all ages and abilities increase their physical activity and improve their fitness through research-based information, easy-to-use tools, and friendly motivation.

Since our founding as a fitness test for youth in the 1960s, we’ve grown to include these challenges:

The Physical Fitness Test measures the physical fitness of kids and teens. The Adult Fitness Test measures an adult’s aerobic fitness, muscular strength, flexibility, and other aspects of health-related fitness. The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge is for people who want to make physical activity and healthy eating part of their everyday lives. The Presidential Champions challenge is for people who want to be more active more often.

Over the years, we’ve recognized the fitness achievements of more than 50 million kids and teens, bestowed more than 1 million PALA and Presidential Champions awards, and helped countless people live more active, healthier lives.