National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2026

This proclamation declares May 2026 as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. It directs federal agencies to promote healthy lifestyles, expand access to athletic opportunities, support youth sports and college athletics by enforcing eligibility, transfer, and compensation rules, and revitalize the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test, while noting upcoming major sporting events over the next three years and the planned Patriot Games for the Nation’s 250th anniversary.