APFT Revamp

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Re: APFT Revamp

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Old school from the 1960s:

40 Yard Low Crawl
Horizontal Ladder
Grenade Throw
Run, Dodge & Jump
1-mile run

I'd add a 5-mile ruck to it
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Re: APFT Revamp

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. wrote:Throw a low wall obstacle in there, a rope climb and a caving ladder climb and I like it. Make the full kit run 1 mile instead of 1/2 mile and make the ruckmarch 50lbs. What kind of time period are we looking at here? I would say it has to be completed in one period of daylight.
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Drop the max weightlifts. That'll just break bodies.

Follow the fire dept lead, as . has suggested, use task oriented events.
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