Uniform Kids Presidential Fitness Challenge
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Uniform Kids Presidential Fitness Challenge
In July 2025 the President brought back the Presidential Fitness Test. Uniform Families Foundation is bringing it to the kids of firefighters, paramedics, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and service members, run by the people they look up to most: the men and women in uniform.
Their parents pass a fitness test to wear the uniform. Now the kids get their turn.
What This Is
A Fitness Day Built for Uniform Kids
The Presidential Fitness Test was a tradition in American schools for decades. It was retired in 2012 and restored by executive order on July 31, 2025, along with the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Award.
The Uniform Kids Presidential Fitness Challenge is a community fitness day where the children of uniform families take on the classic test events side by side with firefighters, paramedics, officers, medics, and service members who run the stations, cheer them on, and hand out the awards. Every child who participates earns a Uniform Kids Fitness Challenge award. When the official Presidential Fitness Award criteria are published, our events will follow them so Uniform Kids can earn the real thing.
The Events
Five Classic Stations
The events most Americans remember from the original test. Each station is run by a uniformed volunteer. Kids of every age and ability participate, and every kid finishes.
One Mile Run
Or a walk. Every finisher counts.
Push Ups or Pull Ups
Child's choice, uniform's encouragement.
Sit Ups
One minute, counted by a firefighter.
Shuttle Run
Timed by an officer with a stopwatch.
Sit and Reach
Flexibility, measured by a medic.
How It Works
Three Steps to Host a Challenge
A Department or School Requests It
A fire station, sheriff's station, hospital, base, school, or union asks to host. Uniform Families Foundation brings the plan, the stations, and the awards.
Uniforms Run the Stations
Firefighters, paramedics, officers, medics, and service members volunteer as station leads. The kids see their parents' world up close and on their side.
Every Kid Gets an Award
Participation awards for all, and top performers recognized in front of the uniforms who cheered them on. Photos go home with every family.
Who Can Host
Bring the Challenge to Your Community
Fire Stations and Departments
Turn the apparatus bay into a fitness course for a morning.
Sheriff and Police Stations
A community day where kids see the badge as a coach, not a headline.
Hospitals and Medical Groups
Nurses and medics run the stations and talk about healthy bodies.
Bases, Armories, and Veterans Groups
Service members and veterans lead the kids through the course.
Schools and PTAs
Pair with your PE program and invite the local uniforms in.
Unions and Associations
A family day your members will actually show up for.
Why We Built This
Strong Kids, Strong Families, Strong Country
Uniform Kids grow up watching a parent train, test, and stay ready for a job that demands it. This challenge lets them step into that world for a day, earn something with their own effort, and hear a firefighter or an officer say "good job" to their face. It builds fitness, confidence, and the bond between the community and the people who protect it.
- Free for every uniform family
- Open to kids of all ages and abilities
- Run by uniformed volunteers from all six pillars
- Awards for every participant
- Aligned with the restored Presidential Fitness Test and Award
Uniform Families Foundation is not affiliated with the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Presidential Fitness Award is administered by the federal government. Uniform Families Foundation awards are presented by Uniform Families Foundation.
Uniform Families Foundation
Serving the families behind the uniform: Fire, Paramedic and EMS, Law Enforcement, Medical and Frontline, Military, and Uniform Kids.
Uniform Families Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. EIN: 41-5063345.