Am I the only one on here that thinks PRT is useless?

First of all, we all know that given the choice manyvwould skip training all together given the opportunity, or perform exercises that do nothing for the body in the way that fitness experts have deemed appropriate for Soldiers. If you follow the progression performing all components appropriately you would find that the system works.

Do it (even if for no other reason that) as it is a directive and policy for the Army, you and your Soldiers will see marked improvement. Very seldom wil the collective perform fitness on their own in the way that they should.

Additionally PT starts the group dynamic off every day, putting Team in the forefront. The Army is made up of collectives that fall in line to perform a mission, it starts with PT. The motto, Army of one, lasted for about a minute, maybe less-I personally laughed when I saw it on TV. Thank you for your service.

PRT became useless because of leaders who still have their units doing 5-repetitions, even though they should be at 10.

It's useless because instead of doing a proper Rear Lunge during Preparatory and Recovery Drills, Soldiers are doing a half-assed Calf Stretch Standing, and their leaders let them do it wrong. Then they complain they don't feel adequately warmed up.

It's useless because leaders let the "silly appearance" of the Hip Stability Drills and Power Skip distract them from their functional purpose, thus causing their Soldiers to miss the purpose behind the movements. Before Hill Sprints, I always have my teams do Hip Stability Drills, to get blood flow to that area, for increased mobility and performance. My warrant officer decides to show up for PT during my session, and thinks it's fine. The next week another leader ran the hill sprints day, but they skipped the Hip Stability Drills; we ran the same hills for the same amount of repetitions, but everyone was like "that was a much better session than last time, because I feel more tired." In reality, they decreased their performance potential due to having cold hips, which increased their perceived effort, but yet thought the workout was better because of the difficulty they had in performing the exact same hills...

PRT is an amazing system that allows for a high school graduate who knows squat about exercise science, to design a cookie cutter plan that implements progressive overload and other proven concepts into a daily exercise routine. Just like any rule, regulation, or law, it is only as effective as the level of enforcement it receives. I don't believe most units enforce PRT progression and proficiency any further past the Preparatory Drills.

PRT isn't designed to get everyone to 300 APFT scores; 300 is that high in order to establish a way to differentiate high performers versus those who only care to be mediocre (which is fine, because it still exceeds the Army standard). PRT is designed to establish and maintain a feasible (albeit mediocre) baseline for the massive amount of Soldiers that cycle through and are being instructed by leaders who are mostly uneducated on the topic of group exercise.

I find PRT to be useless because there is no stretching involved and some of the exercises are not challenging enough. Even I ended up pulling a quad muscle doing suicides and there was no proper stretching. I've done both Marine Corps PT and the Army PT and the Marine Corps PT is more challenging.

I like the FM 21-20, that's when Soldiers trained and went against the grain. "grass and guerrilla drills.

I concur.

I think the main 10 prt stretches are fine, but when it comes to hip stability and military movement is when I face palm.

I miss old school PT....