The Navy Physical Readiness Test (PRT) sets a basic level of fitness to pass, but to score the maximum points requires ...

Over the past 20 years, to say that all military branches of the Department of Defense have changed their fitness testing and standards is an understatement. Largely due to the wars in Iraq and ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force is making physical fitness assessments biannual for all airmen and introducing a 2-mile run as part of the service’s fitness initiative in the new year, the Air Force ...

“There’s still time to back out,” Lieutenant Commander Joseph Wood informs me with a grin. I’m standing opposite an assortment of heavy sand-filled “powerbags”, wooden boxes, dumbbells, kettlebells ...