Athletic Republic is joining the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to encourage students of all ages to join the National President’s Challenge—a six week physical activity program designed to get America up and moving. Athletic Republic facilities across the country will be reaching out to schools in their communities to encourage students to join the Challenge.

According to Athletic Republic CEO Charlie Graves:

Athletic Republic’s primary clientele are student athletes aged 8-18, but it is their classmates who we hope to inspire through our support of the National President’s Challenge. Our goal for the 2008 Challenge is to inspire the students in Athletic Republic’s group to log 500,000 minutes of physical activity per week throughout the National President’s Challenge. That would equal 3 million minutes, or 50,000 hours of logged activity over the six-week Challenge.

The National President’s Challenge will kick-off on March 20 and end May 15. Participants can register for the Challenge between March 1 and April 3 for free at www.presidentschallenge.org. Participants can join as an individual or create a group with friends, family, co-workers and students.

Anyone who wants to join the Athletic Republic group should enter 68944 as your group ID number, and list Athletic Republic as your group.