After military service, did you or will you continue to maintain the same level of fitness?

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When I left the Army the first time I think I actually ended up getting in better shape. When I was in the Army my fitness always seemed to center around the PT test. Once I got out I could pursue whatever activity I wanted and forget about the pushups/situp/2 mile run nonsense. I was more balanced and my body felt a whole lot better. Now that I'm back in and my schedule is crazy busy I think I'm once again becoming one dimensional.

Yes, to a degree. Weight wise i'm about 15 lbs lighter. BP and cholesterol (good before) are lower than before i retired. I can still bust out the sit ups. But due to my bad knee's and shoulder's i wouldn't be able to do the run and push up portion's of the PRT.
These days i consider Aleve be a major food group. I easily exceed the USDA recommended daily allowance. :)

I plan to be in better shape than I was in the Army. Less limitations on my max weight and the types of exercises I need to do. I also plan to remove the situps from my routine, and hopefully the back pain.

Although I'm still finishing a contract in the Army, I feel as though I was in better shape and made healthier decisions before I joined. I look forward to ETSing and working out more because I WANT to and not because I HAVE to.

I would like to think so with the drastic numbers of retirees and their degrading health, we all seem to say we are in health "IN" the Army, it really is a personal choice, like shaving!

I'm in MEDCOM so I'm basically not in the Army (kidding, sort of)... Physical Training is on our own as long as you pass the APFT. That being said, I would not equate any programing that focuses on passing that silly test to equate with fitness or health.
The Military as a whole seems to forget that health comes from what you eat and how much you rest IOT recover. Fitness comes from getting exercise that improves your ability to do your job and then do the activities that you want to do.

I will

Nope. Stopped exercising for a while and then when I tried to get back into it I discovered that I had thyroid issues. Now I'm running or walking trails three to four times a week. It gets me away from people and the trails keep my mind occupied.

I have been working on it. I left Active at the end of 2012, and went into the Reserves. For the last 4.5 years I managed to maintain my fitness--enough to pass PT Tests anyway--but now that I have left the Reserves, I am slacking a bit. That said, I'm at the gym at least 3 times a week, but with school, family, and work, without the Army as motivation, its hard to maintain proper fitness.