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Water Confidence. Beach March. Even these standard changes take time to implement. Creating a completely different combat fitness related functional test with new exercises and training goals is progressing nicely in many of our branches of service.
Some will argue—not fast enough; but patience and testing seems to be winning out in the favor and new and creative thinking with fitness testing. The harder, more physical jobs like armor, artillery, and infantry require a higher score on the test. The standard Army PFT is still pushups, situps, and a 2-mile run and will likely remain for the foreseeable future, but the addition of new testing protocols and exercises will help soldiers train in a different way for combat readiness.
The CFT consists of the following:. Ammo Can Lifts Overhead — Lift pound ammo cans as many times as possible from shoulder to head for 2-minute time limit. Maneuver Under Fire — This section is the combat conditioning course of the test.
Marines will run through a yard course performing the following tasks:. For decades, the active duty SEALs used a modified version where the swim was increased to m and the run was increased to 3 mile runs.
That was dissolved over a decade ago. It consists of the following events:. Standing Long Jump is a broad jump with both feet leaving and landing at the same time.
Pro-Agility Test is the yard shuttle run totaling 20 yards and three direction changes. Bodyweight Bench for max repetitions.
The focus of the RAW 4. Functional Fitness — The focus of the fitness elements are strength, endurance, and movement skills mobility doing such exercises as the following: Pro-agility test — This is a short sprint of changing directions every 5, 10, and 5 yards — total of 20 yards of running with three degree directional changes. Also known of the agility test. Standing Long Jump — Jump forward from a standing position. Dead Lift — lb dead lift for max repetitions maxing out at 30 reps.
Pullup — Dead hang pullups no kipping for maximum effort and no added weight. You can do this as part of the same session or make it part two of the workout day. Or save the cardio events for a different day altogether. Getting used to this test and all of the events in a single workout is critical to preparing fully for this long, challenging test.
You may need some days where you just focus on the cardio events or strength events to improve certain elements, but the overall conditioning that the test requires is not to be underestimated. Send your fitness questions to stew stewsmith.
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