Soldiers trying to earn the Army Ranger tab will have to do more challenging functional fitness exercises starting day one.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in January to review "in a gender-neutral way" readiness standards for troops.

The Army recently announced that its all-around health and fitness program will now expand beyond a select 111 brigades to the entire Army. Since its inception in 2018 with a pilot program ...

62-year-old George Hood, who served as an officer in the Marine Corps, set the record for “longest time in an abdominal plank position (male)” with a time of 8 hours, 15 minutes, 15 seconds ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered gender-neutral physical fitness standards for combat roles, asserting the same ...

The Army is going back to basics in its approach to fitness tests in a desperate bid to find more troops to facedown Vladimir Putin's forces. A 'woke' fitness assessment introduced in 2019 - which ...

Over the last five years, the Army has been testing and developing new fitness tests and standards, updating the APFT with the ACFT. In recent years, other tests have been added or modified to ...

Beginning in January 2016, all military jobs opened to women who met the qualifications, and in July 2020, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command announced that the first woman authorized by the ...