Life with Josh - Josh Spaulding’s Personal Blog

I got out of the Army a little over a year ago, from the time of writing. After Claudia and I quit smoking in January of 2008, and sitting on my butt everyday working at home, I gained somewhere around 20lbs.

A few months ago I realized it was time to get back in shape and after 5 years in the Army I went back to what I was doing then… lots of running, push ups and sit ups.

I’ve been making some great progress, but I constantly measure my current fitness level with that 3 or 4 years ago, when I was at my peek physical shape.

At that time I was scoring a 280/300 on average on my PT tests. Now, although I do feel like I’m in decent shape, I wouldn’t come close!

I thought people might think it’s cool to see how they would do on an Army PT test, so I’ve pasted a link below that goes to the official PT Score card. It’s a PDF document. Just scroll down and you’ll see a scale for the 2 mile run, 2 minute of push ups and 2 minutes of sit-ups.

Just go to your age group and gender and look over at what constitutes what as far as points. Add up your points for the push-ups, sit-ups and run and you have your final score. You must get a minimum of 60 points in each event in order to pass the test with the max being 300. (you’ll probably need to zoom in to see them)

Here it is: http://www.ncsu.edu/army_rotc/APFT_scorecard.pdf

(Just ignore “test 2,” “test 3″ etc. those are just for future tests.)

For more on Army Physical Fitness Training, see FM 21-20

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