Sit and Reach Test Exercise physiologists and fitness trainers may use the sit and reach test—which measures lower back and hamstring flexibility —to assess your baseline flexibility.

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.

Before then, the Presidential Fitness Test received some tweaks. At its core, though, were five parts meant to encourage and assess the fitness of America’s youth.

Trump reinstates school fitness test, citing health crisis, but critics warn of body shaming and outdated methods.

Kids, lace up your sneakers and prepare to stretch: the Presidential Fitness Test is coming back.

It felt like a military recruitment exercise, she said, with all of her classmates watching as she struggled to run a mile and complete a sit-and-reach, a pull-up and other exercises.