Army Begins Field Trials for Its New Combat Fitness Test
|I hope everyone has their profiles ready because the Army Combat Fitness Test is coming to an installation near you:
The Army spent six years developing the ACFT to better align fitness standards to the physical skills soldiers need in combat, compared to the four-decade old APFT. The new, 50-minute test requires a soldier to perform three repetitions of a deadlift, throw a medicine ball backward over his or her head, perform as many hand-release pushups as possible in two minutes, complete a sprint-drag-carry course, perform as many leg tucks while hanging from a pullup bar as possible in two minutes, and complete a two-mile run in less than 21 minutes. Each of the exercises, Army officials said, correlates directly with common activities that soldiers perform on the battlefield. [Stars & Stripes]
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Yeah, I’m sure a lot of the higher ranking obese soldiers will be trying their best to get a permanent profile, I doubt they will be able to take this new test by written/correspondence course only, lol, or if they do, unit members won’t believe it unless they see it, 😛
From the quoted part of the story: “throw a medicine ball backward over his or her head” and “correlates directly with common activities that soldiers perform on the battlefield.”
This throwing of the medicine ball as a combat maneuver intrigues me… I think I could do that multiple times. With or without a plastic straw.
From USA Today (March 30, 2017): “What is a medicine ball at Starbucks? The drink, which gained popularity through social media, is filled half with steamed lemonade and half with hot water, a Teavana jade citrus mint tea bag and a bag of Teavana peach tranquility tea, a packet of honey and an optional pump of peppermint.”
For Senior NCOs, MEDDAC (I was a medic) and the full time Guard/ Reserve staff they will still score well above the minimum although the equipment will never move from the storage area…funny how that works…
Backwards Medicine Ball, directly relates to throwing a Grenade while withdrawing. 2 mi in 21 Min, heck even I could do that when I was an out of shape Private at the beginning of Basic at 207 lbs.
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“That’s right you little twink sissyboi… kiss the ground I walk on or you get the smack again. OK. Time is up. The next customer paid for the Nazi Mistress experience and I have to get changed.”