Military PT Guides
Guides to the Army Fitness Test and to training for any branch's fitness test. Each guide lists the official documents its facts come from.
Army Fitness Test guides
How the AFT works, how it is scored and what changed from the ACFT.
- Army Army Fitness Test (AFT): complete guide The five events, both standards and the 2026 changes.
- Army Army AFT vs ACFT: what changed The events the AFT kept, the one it dropped and how the scoring changed.
Training guides for any branch's PT test
How to prepare, how to plan training around your test dates, and how training to pass differs from training for a top score.
- All branches How to prepare for a military PT test What your test asks for, a scored practice test, an eight-week plan and the days before the test.
- All branches Periodization for military PT Plan training around your test dates: a six-month cycle, three blocks and a taper.
- All branches Passing vs maxing a military PT test Different training plans for a bare pass and for the top score.
Military PT calculators and standards
To score a test or look up the tables for your age group, use the military PT calculators and standards for all six branches.