Posted on Jan 15, 2014
What changes would you make to the APFT if given the chance?
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Soldiers have a hard time taking an APFT and making height and weight all because they only are required to take one record APFT within a Fiscal year. Yes, they have to wiegh in twice a year, but what are your thoughts on this? How many times a year do you think we should we take an APFT? If you had to choose the events, what would they be?
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No, each MOS has unique physical needs. There are undisputed and unchangeable physiological differences between the sexes. Women and men will never be physically the same. As for the age thing, well it's obvious that most saying age shouldn't matter haven't crossed the 40 yr mark yet. After age 40 most men lose 10% testosterone production which affects muscle growth, there is also the slowing of metabolism which makes it harder to keep weight off. This is accompanied many times arthritis and other age related joint issues. After 20 years of pounding the ground in uniform things breakdown.
I wish I were in my 20s again everyday.
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As a Company Commander, when not "in the field", I scheduled one APFT per month. Repetition is the soldier's friend and it allows the command to use it as a make-up for those who may have missed, a diagnostic for new soldiers or a mile marker for everyone else. I thought it worked fabulously. If you are a Squad or Section Leader, with permission from your commander and 1SG, you could do one periodically, say once a quarter, for the benefit of your soldiers too.
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<p>Physicall Fitness is a personl responsibility. The APFT is designed to evaluate a soldiers fitness and is an individual activity. PRT can assist with maintaining a soldiers physical fitness but if it is not enough it is up to the soldier to get where they need to be by conducting PT on their own time. The frequency of the APFT and the events currently in place are sufficient for now if conducted correctly. The problem with selecting new events is determining how to evaluate them. That is what happend to the APRT.</p><p> </p><p>SFC Rice</p>
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CPL Michael Hostutler
Well I agree that is individual responsibility to stay fit. But I don't believe the APFT should be the same cause not all of our jobs require the same physical demand so there for each MOS should have there own standard. And there should be different age groups just like there is currently cause people's bodies wear Down and it does make it harder for them to maintain a standard that they could meet at 20 yrs old to include weight being the number one thing cause every persons metabolism is different and some peoples slow down why some never do. But with that being said if each MOS has it's own APFT standards both women and men should be treated equal to make it fair promotion wise and if they can't meet the standard they don't get the promotion
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