The Navy intends to carry out the Pentagon’s mandate that all troops take two fitness tests per year, said the service’s top petty officer.

In this video, we go through the Navy’s physical fitness standards and the requirements of the Physical Readiness Test. You’ll learn how each event is scored, what common mistakes to avoid, and how to ...

The U.S. Navy has announced a "one-time reset of all physical fitness assessment (PFA) failures" as part of an effort to keep sailors in the service. It wrote in an administrative memo Thursday that ...

Sailors’ careers will no longer be over if they fail back to back fitness tests, according to updated U.S. Navy policy. Now, instead of automatic marks on their annual evaluations, sailors’ fitness ...

Sailors assigned to amphibious command ship Blue Ridge perform planks during a physical readiness test at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Oct. 13, 2021. (MCSN Trinity Benjamin/Navy) For the ...

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The Navy is giving sailors three more months to complete mandatory physical fitness tests in 2023. The window for the formerly twice-a-year test, now just once annually, opens Navy-wide on Feb. 1 and ...

Updates include sex-neutral requirements for all combat MOS Marines to score a minimum of 210 out of a possible 300.

A Navy Selected Reserve officer died earlier this month after collapsing during an annual physical readiness test, the Navy confirmed this week. Cmdr. Martin P. Schaefer was assigned to Navy Reserve ...

Many working to improve timed runs, shuttle runs and sprints in the military feel the “need for speed. Adding calisthenics between these sets of speed and goal-pace running and swimming can be an ...

“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 ...

“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 ...