The President's Challenge

The President's Challenge is a program that encourages all Americans to make being active part of their everyday lives. Earn awards for your physical fitness activities, including patches, medals, and certificates. The program is produced by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, with a mission to promote the benefits of fitness everywhere it can.

Earn this award by logging 30 minutes of physical activity at least 5 days of the week for six weeks. Just about any physical activity counts. For pedometer walkers, logging 10,000 steps a day for adults is the daily goal. Log your activity using an online form or print out the log and record it with pen or pencil. You can repeat the program to earn stars. Redeem for $1.75 for a certificate, emblem, and stickers.
Active Lifestyle Program

You can order a pedometer from the President's Challenge site, two models are available for $15 and for $12.

Earn points for every activity you log, based on the amount of energy each activity burns. Roughly, these equal the calories you are burning. Earning a Bronze award takes 20,000 points. You can select walking and pedometer as two of the activities and track time or steps. Walking 30 minutes or 5000 steps equals about 110 points. You can choose from over 100 different activities.
Presidential Champions Program

Registration is free. You can register online to use their online activity log and begin tracking your walking and other physical activity immediately.
Registration

Track your physical activity with other Walking.About.com readers. When you join, add us as a Group. Our group number is 12099 and Group Name is Walking.About.com

To log your activity, sign in and use the online log each day. You can post your activities for up to 14 days in the past. Or, you can print out a log and keep track on paper. If you join a group, you can see how others in the group are progressing, selecting by date, activity, and state.

When you have reached the level to earn an award, you can order it online, by phone, by fax, or by mail. The awards include patches, certificates, and medals. You can also order shirts, hats, etc. Once you have achieved an award, you can keep progressing to the next level. The Silver Presidential Champion Award is earned with 45,000 points and the Gold with 90,000 points.

Still going? After earning the Lifestyle Award, and the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Presidential Champion Awards, now you can go for the Advanced Performance Presidential Champion Awards.
Advanced Performance Presidential Champions Program