What is your philosophy on what to do for Remedial PT? Do your SQL's show up to do it with them? Do you think they should?

Back in the dark ages, I was in charge of my Battalion's remedial PT program. The first thing I did was split the soldiers into two groups, those that were there for PT failure, and those that were there for weight control. Those that were there for PT failure spent 50 out of 60 minutes doing push-ups, sit-ups, and running. It was effective, we would do 30 sec of PU, 30 sec of SU, then run 1 lap on the 1/4 mile track, then repeat until we ran out of time. Every Friday, I would give them an actual diagnostic PT test. Those that were there for weight control, would spend more time on aerobic training. I have to admit that this was the weaker part of my training program. I felt that it would burn them out to just run every day, as the last trainer had them doing. Instead, Mon, Wed, and Fri, they would do interval runs around the track, alternating between short sprints to keep their HR up, and walking, to continue the fat burn. On Tue and Thr, I had them taking an advanced water aerobics class at the gym nearby. Both programs worked pretty well, and resulted in most of them staying on the program for less than 90 days, which was my initial goal. As for SQL's showing up, I left that up to them. At first only a few did. After a while, the others saw that soldiers were working harder when their supervisors were out there with them, and that those soldiers who had their supervisors support were much more successful in the program. Since my program was held in the afternoon, and the remedial PT soldiers were doing this in addition to regular morning unit PT, some of the PSG's allowed those SQL's, that were doing PT with their soldiers to miss unit PT in the AM. Hope this helps.

If SQL is an effective concerned leader than their attendance is tantamount to a successful out come for the SM. I would have to review the SM's last APRT to determine what area (s) they are weak in and devise a plan of action to build on strength stamina and most of all confidence.

I think remedial PT should be tailored to the individual needs and who better to know their soldiers than the squad leader the problem is that a lot of leaders don't want to dedicate the extra hours to make sure their soldiers are good because it takes away from what little time you have but it will pay off if you put the time because if the soldier wants to be better and pass you will see when you are one on one with and if he doesn't want to progress you will see it too