ACFT TRAINING
The Army Combat Fitness Test will better connect fitness with combat readiness for all Soldiers.
The 50-minute test (about 37 minutes of work, 13 minutes of rest) involves 6 events.
Soldiers’ test requirements will be based on their military occupational specialties or units, which will be classified in one of three categories, depending on how physically demanding
they are: “moderate,” “significant,” or “heavy,
The minimum requirements for each category will be the following:
“Moderate”: Lifting 140 pounds; throwing the medicine ball 4.6 meters; completing 10 pushups; getting through the “spring, drag, carry” event within 3 minutes and 35 seconds; doing one leg tuck; and completing the 2-mile run within 21 minutes and 7 seconds.
“Significant”: Lifting 160 pounds; throwing the medicine ball 6.5 meters; doing 20 pushups; completing the “sprint, drag, carry” event within 2 minutes and 45 seconds; doing three leg tucks; and finishing the 2-mile run within 19 minutes.
“Heavy”: Lifting 180 pounds; throwing the medicine ball 8.5 meters; doing 30 pushups; completing the “sprint, drag, carry” event within 2 minutes and 9 seconds; doing five leg tucks; and running 2 miles within 18 minutes.
3RM DEADLIFT
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Muscular strength, balance and flexibility
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
60-pound trap bar and plates
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: 140 pounds and 340 pounds
5 minutes-Deadlift the maximum weight possible three times.
STANDING POWER THROW (SPT)
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Explosive power, balance and flexibility
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
10 pound medicine ball
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: four and 13 meters
3 minutes-Throw a 10-pound medicine ball backward and overhead for distance.
HAND RELEASE PUSHUP (HRP)
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Muscular endurance
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
Kettlebells
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: 10 and 70 repetitions
2 minutes-Complete as many arm-extension push-ups as possible in two minutes
SPRINT DRAG CARRY (SDC)
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Agility, anaerobic endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
2x40 pound kettlebells & 90 pound sled
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: 3:35 and 1:40 minutes
4 minutes-Conduct 5 x 50 meter shuttles for time - sprint, drag, lateral, carry and sprint
LEG TUCK (LTK)
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Muscular strength, and endurance
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
Climbing bar
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: 1 and 20 reps
2 minutes-Complete as many leg tucks as possible in two minutes; maintain a relative vertical posture while moving the hips and knees up and down without excessive swinging or kipping
2 MILE RUN (2MR)
FITNESS COMPONENTS
Aerobic endurance
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
2 mile run route on level surface
FIELD TEST
60 and 100 point scores: 21:00 and 12:45 minutes