Think the fitness tests you did in gym class were tough? The U.S. military has been putting its service members through the ...

The Marine Corps provided advanced notification on December 18th 2025 of changes to physical fitness standards. The new ...

Updates include sex-neutral requirements for all combat MOS Marines to score a minimum of 210 out of a possible 300.

The U.S. Army announced an overhaul of its physical fitness test, including gender-neutral standards for soldiers in 21 combat jobs. The new fitness test consists of a three-repetition maximum ...

If you do not consider the current military fitness test a useful tool to predict success in training or as an adequate assessment of someone's ability to be an effective military member, that's ...

For the first time in over a decade, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is requiring all of its special agents to take a physical fitness test, the New York Times reported today. Agents have ...

The Presidential Fitness Test, a national physical fitness testing program in many United States public middle and high schools from the late 1950s until 2013, has had a long, complicated history, ...

Think you can stomach the FBI’s sit-up test? The FBI accepts applications from people between 23 and 37 — though veterans may qualify for an age waiver. Besides a background check, applicants must ...

Combat roles in the Marines have had gender-neutral requirements since 2015. A new policy extends that rule to fitness test scores.

Elite bodybuilders step away from the gym and into a very different kind of physical challenge. We take on the FBI fitness test cold, with no preparation, to see how raw strength stacks up against ...

When it comes to the selection and hiring of our next generation of firefighters, physical fitness should never be left to chance. The fireground doesn’t care how you look in uniform or what you bench ...

A soldier performs a leg tuck during a pilot Army Combat Readiness Test at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. (Stephanie Slater/Army) The jury is most definitely in: The Army Physical Fitness Test, ...