Army’s new fitness test ready by 2020; officials want better predictor of successful combat tasks...

agree LEADERSHIP first I want to see the avg male soldier dead lift 420 pounds. then rest 2 minute and do the next event. To many leadership in high positions that are on profile and the Army should think about that. Most of military senior leadership friends walk the PT TEST 2 mile run. Where in combat are you going to run 2 miles in under 13:00 minutes.
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The test appears to be designed for combat arms folks. I believe it’s a great test for those folks. But when the REMF’s can’t pass it or get hurt taking the test because they are not in proper shape, I believe that it will go away. There is a valid reason why the PT test hasn’t fundamentally changed in 40+ years.

This test appears to be designed specifically NOT for combat arms. More events means more chances for one or two high scoring events to counter balance lower scoring ones.

Additionally, the events aren’t particularly difficult. A max deadlift weight of 420 lbs? Only 3 reps in 5 minutes? Um..
A 10lb over head toss? Um..
Hand release pushups? Um...
25m sprint drag carry? 40lbs kettle bells sound like a lot, but when you realize theyre 10 lbs less than sacks of potatos, you realize it’s not much (because it isn’t). Um..
Leg tucks? That I can actually see a lot of soldiers, regardless of MOS, having trouble with at first, as it’s not generally an exercise practiced for timed reps.
2mile run, with a 20 minute max? Cmon..

This is what the test will look like:

Deadlift between 120 and 420 pounds, depending on the individual soldier. You must do three reps in five minutes.
Two-minute rest.
Standing power throw. You’ll be required to toss a 10-pound medicine ball overhead and backward. You’ll have three minutes to make one practice throw and two for a grade. The longest distance is recorded.
Two-minute rest.
Hand-release push-ups. You lower your chest to the floor and lift your hands off the ground between each rep. You’ll be required to do the most reps in three minutes.
Two-minute rest.
Sprint-drag-carry. In four minutes, you will go 25 meters out and 25 meters back five times. Each iteration will include a different activity: sprint, drag a sled, run a lateral shuffle, carry two 40-pound kettle bells, then sprint again.
Two-minute rest.
Leg tuck. You will be required to hang from a pull-up bar and with your body parallel, then pull knees to your elbows for as many reps as possible in two minutes.
Five-minute rest.
Two-mile run on a track or a paved, level road, with a 20-minute maximum.

That said, I’ll believe the Army changes it’s pt test when it actually happens Army-wide.
There are plenty of valid reasons why the APFT hasn’t changed since it was rolled out in 1980. A real big one is that the better part of the last 20 years have been spent on a wartime footing and priorities weren’t on the APFT. Throw in the fact that it takes the Army about a decade of research and planning and contracts, etc to make a major shift like replacing the APFT... well that’s almost 30 of the nearly 40 years right there. The other 10, were probably ‘80-‘90 when the Army was basking in the glory of its wonderful new APFT.

But that’s just me