For more than a century the Army has tinkered with ways to make soldiers more fit. With each passing phase of warfare, leadership sought to get more soldiers ready for battle through a range of ...

It’s been a decade in the making, but the Fort Eustis-based Center for Initial Military Training’s rethink of soldiers’ physical fitness and the test it developed has won a green light from Army ...

Master Sgt. Kathryan Torres performs the three-repetition maximum deadlift during an Army Combat Fitness Test on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston on Sept. 20, 2022. (Spc. Joshua Taeckens/Army) ...

FORT SILL, Oklahoma (May 9, 2022) — The U.S. Army has launched the revised Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) and one artillery battery commander is welcoming the changes with massive open arms. Capt.

The Army is not buying a new PT uniform, but it will offer soldiers a wider selection of optional PT gear items, a spokesman for the service’s top enlisted leader said. “The Army will continue to ...

The Army has approved a series of revisions to its physical fitness test, recalibrating performance benchmarks in a modest and symbolic move that reflects mounting internal and political pressure over ...

The Army’s physical fitness test has remained unchanged for some 40 years: two minutes to do as many push-ups as possible, then two minutes for sit-ups, then a two mile run. Recruits need a certain ...

A controversial proposal that would force the Army to return to its old, and what service leadership argue is inferior, fitness test would allow for some changes, including swapping out events, ...