Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment.

President Trump is bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test to schools. How would you score against the average fifth grader?

Did you huff and puff through the mile, or astound your classmates with your pullup prowess? Your answers probably have a lot to do with how you feel about the Presidential Fitness Test, which President Trump plans to bring back.

Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that will expand the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition and bring back the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools, White House Officials confirmed to ABC News.

Boy, we truly are living in the era of reboots. This week, President Donald Trump announced the return of the Presidential Fitness Test, the program intended to promote physical activity in schoolchildren through twice-yearly exercise assessments like a one-mile run.

The president reinstated the test, which was phased out during the Obama administration, to celebrate the "the exceptionalism of America's sports and fitness traditions."

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,