PAUL ‘TRIPLE H’ LEVESQUE: I went from 130 pounds to a world champ. We all must get fit

At 14, I was astir six feet tall, pimple-faced and 130 pounds soaking wet. I retrieve due to the fact that that was the twelvemonth I joined a gym. It was connected Daniel Webster Highway, not acold from my location successful Nashua, N.H., and my parent said she’d thrust maine arsenic agelong arsenic I kept up my grades.  

I’ll ne'er hide the sounds that greeted maine arsenic I walked done the door: the clank of the weights, plates being loaded onto the machines, the grunts that came with each rep. I retrieve thinking: almighty worldly is happening here. In fact, it was much than that. It was transformative. I couldn’t bash a azygous pull-up erstwhile I started. Fortunately, immoderate of the older guys encouraged me, giving maine tips connected everything from method to nutrition. Suddenly, I was hooked. The gym helped maine deliberation of myself successful a antithetic way. It allowed maine envision what I wanted to be. For me, moving retired illuminated a destination.  

Paul "Triple H" Levesque addresses the assemblage during Wrestlepalooza astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected September 20, 2025 successful Indianapolis, Indiana.  (Michael Marques/WWE via Getty Images)

Now I’m not suggesting that you go a WWE Superstar oregon adjacent an athlete. You bash you. Just recognize that a fittingness regimen — doesn’t person to beryllium clanking weights successful a gym — will assistance you get there. And I’m imploring you, and your kids, to commencement close now. It volition marque you each better, sharper, healthier.  

TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REESTABLISH PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS TEST

This twelvemonth volition people the 70th day of the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Now, President Donald Trump is revitalizing the assembly and reviving a halfway tenet, the Presidential Fitness Test. We volition enactment with schools and communities crossed the state to promote Americans of each procreation to beryllium healthier, stronger and much progressive successful their regular lives.

Paul "Triple H" Levesque looks connected during Night One of WrestleMania 40 astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected April 6, 2024, successful Philadelphia, Penn. (Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

Here's the deal: our wellness has dramatically declined implicit the past fewer decades. Americans are progressively sedentary and lacking nutritious diets. Our children, successful particular, are facing a crisis. Rates of chronic illness and mediocre nutrition are done the roof. Childhood diabetes is expanding astatine an alarming rate. One successful 5 American kids are obese — a 270% summation from 50 years ago — and obese children are 5 times much apt to stay overweight successful adulthood.  

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Bottom line: We’re allowing our kids to devour super-sized portions of ultra-processed food, and walk excessively overmuch clip connected their butts, looking astatine screens. Kids don’t play extracurricular anymore. Schools seldom instill the manner practices to unrecorded steadfast lives — exercise, due nutrition and the inclination to situation oneself. 

John Cena and Triple H look connected during Saturday Night's Main Event astatine Capital One Arena connected December 13, 2025, successful Washington D.C. (Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images)

We can’t proceed this way. 

It’s wherefore those of america astatine the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition are truthful committed to reversing this calamity and revolutionizing Americans’ wellness and fitness, particularly for the adjacent generation.

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It's captious to instrumentality attraction of ourselves physically. But it’s adjacent much important to acceptable an example. Kids don’t conscionable listen, they observe. The bully quality is, it’s not that complicated. You don’t person to walk hours pumping robust oregon commencement grooming for a marathon. 

Just a regular 15-minute locomotion importantly reduces one’s hazard of aboriginal mortality. So, get outside, move, statesman pushing yourself. Start small, advancement gradually — as agelong arsenic you support showing up. Remember: It’s not conscionable astir you. It’s astir your kids.   

Physical fittingness is simply a batch much than being strong, fast, oregon playing varsity sports. Actually, I’m not penning this for those who already deliberation of themselves arsenic athletes truthful overmuch arsenic those who don’t. I’d archer them the aforesaid happening I told my ain daughters erstwhile they said thing was hard.

The reward is connected the different broadside of difficult.  

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It doesn’t substance if you can’t bash a azygous pullup, pushup oregon sit-up. It matters if you try. If you support trying, you will. Working retired volition springiness you discipline. Discipline volition springiness you confidence. It volition unfastened up a doorway to the possible. That’s what this is truly about. 

A carnal fittingness regimen changes you arsenic a person. It changes the trajectory of your life. So, I’m asking, connected behalf of the president: are you ready?