Following changes in military fitness tests, along with corresponding pass/fail standards ,over the past few decades, most military members must master pushups, the plank pose and running.

SSgt Boscarino getting a quick work out before returning home from work. They donÕt PT anymore as a squadron so itÕs all on the individual and therefore, no PT clothes anymore. Photo courtesy SSgt ...

(CBS/AP) - There's fit, and then there's Army fit. And now the Army's fitness demands are getting a lot tougher. After declaring last summer that some new recruits were "too fat to fight," the U.S.

Many people will start running and doing physical training, or PT, a month or so before their scheduled fitness test. Whether that is a 1.5-, two- or three-mile run, your preparation requirements will ...

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (Army News Service, March 2, 2011) -- For the first time since 1980, the Army's physical fitness test is being overhauled. It will be replaced by both the Physical Readiness Test ...

The new Soldier Readiness Test from Army Forces Command has six events, including a dummy drag and tire flips. (Sgt. 1st Class Twana J. Atkinson/Army) The Army has spent the better part of a decade ...