Navy announces single physical fitness assessment cycle in 2023

I spent three years as the PFT coordinator for one of my commands. Given the consistency that I saw in most people's scores, I would say that doing the test twice a year didn't really gain us anything that we wouldn't have had if we did it once a year. The people who failed or were close to failing went into my remedial fitness program, along with the people who were near or over the limit for body fat, and did weigh-ins and mock PFAs monthly to monitor their progress. People who made enough progress got to stop coming to my remedial PT sessions, but still did the monthly assessments to make sure that they didn't backslide. Fortunately for me, I usually also had a few people who were already high-scorers, who wanted my coaching so they could get better. My favorite part of the job was when the people I was coaching exceeded my results. I was in my 40s at the time, so any of the youngsters who were really committed to improving were almost always capable of doing so.