President Trump recently signed an executive order to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test. Dr. Jacqueline Goodway, a professor of Kinesiology at Michigan State University, joins "The Daily Report" to discuss.

Trump revives a decades-old tradition as part of a national campaign to improve youth health and fitness across U.S. schools.

President Donald Trump was joined by professional athletes on Thursday as he signed an executive order that will expand on his council on sports, fitness and nutrition, including by reviving the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools.

President Donald Trump is resurrecting what he’s calling the “wonderful tradition” of the Presidential Fitness Test, through which a new generation of students will—if the new test resembles the old—compete in their schools and nationally to earn recognition for their prowess in pushups, pullups, and the mile run, among other athletic feats.

The Presidential Fitness Test ended during the 2012- 2013 school year when the Obama Administration replaced it with a different program.

The US president reintroduced the presidential fitness test into the country’s schools. The test, which was first implemented amid the backdrop of the Cold War in the 1950s and eventually phased out in 2012,