Passing the push-up portion of the APFT and graduate Basic Combat Training, soldiers must score at least a 50. Find the push-up requirements for each age group.

The following running chart scoring is for the current Army PFT two-mile run. In 2020, the Army will still run the two-mile timed run, but it will be part of an entirely new fitness test called ...

The Army is moving forward with its long-awaited Army Combat Fitness Test this year, but the service has officially dropped the test’s attempt to set a gender- and age-neutral physical fitness ...

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.

The U.S. Army is making changes to their physical fitness requirements for all soldiers, introducing new gender-neutral standards while eliminating one of its most criticized events. On Monday ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army announced today the establishment of the Army Fitness Test (AFT) as the official physical fitness test of record for all Soldiers, replacing the Army Combat Fitness Test.

The six-event test was meant to better gauge how prepared soldiers were to perform tasks in combat than the Army Physical Fitness Test, or APFT, which the ACFT replaced in October 2022, two years ...

Army Chief Warrant Officer 4 Kristan Johnson, from U.S. Army Central Forward, based in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, completes hand release pushups during an Army Combat Fitness Test, Jan. 25, 2021 ...

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after ...

Following a three-year review, the Army has scrapped plans to use the same physical fitness test for all soldiers, choosing instead to have some reduced standards to allow women and older soldiers ...