New Army Fitness Testing

The Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) is being overhauled for the first time since 1980. Two new tests, the Physical Readiness Test and the Combat Readiness Test, will be incorporated. The new elements of the Army's physical training incorporate advances in exercise science and will challenge the body in different ways. To learn more about fitness, check out http://bit.ly/flXoa4.

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[Quex01]

what does "gender neutral" means?

[nationalguard]

@Quex01 Gender neutral is when it is for both sexes, not bias by one or the other.

[MrSniper1177]

I'm leaving 20110418 for Ft. Benning BCT..... will I be required to take this new PT test?,.. And if so is this any more or less difficult than the regular PT test?

[nationalguard]

@MrSniper1177

You may be in the test group that does these PT tests. There are more events and it's designed to better test your combat strength, but we cannot speak on the difficulty as it's still being tested!

[ladiezman914]

is it going to be replacing the 2mile and did ft benning adopt this test yet

[nationalguard]

@ladiezman914

The new fitness test is being tried in a couple of training units. Whether it is replacing the way things are now will be considered once the trial is completed and reviewed.

[radeon110]

@SSJ2Starscream a recruiter told me that its because the army surveyed a bunch of soldiers (combat mos's primarily i believe) about the physical fitness test. The survey revealed that soldiers thought running two miles does not come in to account when they step into a war zone. If this is true, i find it stupid

[eyesack9]

@SSJ2Starscream i know right it should be 4 miles

[SSJ2Starscream]

weird how they made the run 1.5 mi instead of 2 mi

[el19823101]

@jshaffer21 just go hard soilder(to be)

[o13starsnstripes]

I would love it if a snatch test became the PT test

[dmesz311]

@jshaffer21 The army has not adopted this yet, we did "trial" runs of this at benning, but thats all they were. 

[jshaffer21]

damn...i go to benning in november and havent preprared myself to do anything other than the pushups,situps,and the 2 mile run.dont tell me that im going to be doing something completely different

[Giallo007]

wow shes hot!