How does your Commander's performance on their PT test influence your opinion of them?

Honestly never cared sir as long as they passed.

I judge my commanders based on their command presence and planning ability

This is one of those standard vs "the standard" questions. Yep, you cant bust tape or fail. You also can't just do 181 and stand up. I was at varying degrees in my career injured. Long term injuries. It made all that very hard. I took many an APFT circled X. It was better to pass, even if you were close, than have that profile narrative on a command/KD OER.

I did not max APFTs. I worked to have them over 250. When I did that, I was always over the unit average. It also allowed me to compensate between events if I had to nurse something or other. I would sometimes throw sit-ups under the bus and focus on PU and run and still get a half way decent score. I also tried to work on other than APFT physical things to maintain appearance and overall fitness.

As for the question....I did not really care. Everyone is fighting their own battle. I had an officer work for me that spent 2-3 hours each night in self run physical therapy so he could be ready for the next day. I did not think he had a long future soldiering but I admired the grit of looking down the barrel of that everyday and still doing it.

In all truth and I am being honest. Nope, don't care. Is that the wrong answer probably. To tell you the truth I am not a PT stud myself. I hate running, in fact, I found out I show degeneration at my posterior horn of the medial meniscus. So, running is pretty much out for me now. Now, I do the best that I can and give 100% when I do my PT tests. I just never thought twice about officers. No offense sir, I just worry about my soldiers.