Army Fitness Requirements

A reader asks Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, how to calculate calories burned during a weighted walk.

Defining "ruck" is difficult to someone who has never moved out with 50+ lbs in a backpack for many, many miles.

The Army Weight Control Program ensures every soldier is healthy, physically fit and combat ready.

Here is a series of issues that runners face every year, along with links or advice to help with whatever running goals you...

Improve Your Army physical fitness test (APFT) score with the new Guard Fit app.

While deployed, many soldiers pass the time by setting goals. Some complete civilian or military education, play instruments...

Some rush headfirst into challenging programs without much thought as to what they really are getting into, while others...

As with any of the Special Operations units in the U.S. military, it takes endurance, stamina, intelligence and mental...

The Army physical fitness program has two factors: the weigh-in and the physical fitness test, or PFT.

TRADOC collaborated with a team headed by the director of the U.S. Army Physical Fitness School, resulting in a...