Thomas Griffin 8/21/25 (For Crisis Magazine)
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According to the CDC, one in five American adolescents are obese and two-thirds of adult Americans don’t meet the recommended weekly exercise guidelines.
In response to this growing statistic, President Trump recently announced that he is reinstituting the Presidential Fitness Test which was abandoned by the Obama administration in 2012. The test includes a one-mile run, push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and a few other exercises.
Harrison Butker was present at the announcement press conference at the White House. He will serve on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. In his remarks, Butker noted his reason for being a part of this initiative: “I think you have to be strong in mind and body and soul,” he said.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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