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Good morning, just finished taking the army physical readiness test, APRT, with my company, here is some data on my last APFT and today's APRT

22 years old, 76 in, 220lbs,

Last APFT 20 APR 11 raw scores
PU: 82
SU: 87
2 mile run: 14:02

APRT Today
Shuttle Sprint : 15.01 seconds
Rower: 42
Broad Jump: 96in
PU: 41
1.5 mile run: 11:13
The test was done in the normal APFU.

The shuttle sprint: From the start line a square piece of 2x4 was placed at 5,10, and 15 yards away, you had to grab the blocks in that order and place them flat completely behind the starting line, if it wasn't placed right you had to go back and fix it while time was still running. This event really got some people, it was worth it to take the extra time to make sure you place the block right. We had 4 or 5 people not place the block completely past the line and have to go back to fix it, this usually made their time 3-4 seconds slower than what seemed normal. Some guys even dropped a block completely and had to go back, jacking up their times.

The Rower: It was conducted as I said in the previous post, they were extremely picky when it came to heels and then feet being together and flat on the ground, I had 7 reps not count due to this.

The Broad jump: I didn't have any problem with it, or notice anyone else having trouble with it, but at this point my heart rate was still up and I wasn't paying attention to anything but completely destroying the task at hand.

Push Ups: This was tricky, they considered "stopping for more than 2 seconds" if you were in the middle of a rep and sort of stuck half way up, I had a few friends get terminated for that, there was no "as long as you provide continuous effort" statement in the rules like in the APFT, I was terminated for not moving my body as a single unit, I could have knocked out 10-15 more reps but I rushed it, good form always wins, lesson learned.

1.5mile run: The only difficult part of this was trying to finish with nothing left, I kicked too late and my time reflects that.

Overall the test was interesting and fun, I like the fact there is no break between events.

Is it a good replacement for the old APFT? Thats above my pay grade to answer. But I could see it having benefits if used in conjunction with the normal pt test.

As soon as I get either the Company or Platoon scores I'll do a quick stats analysis and post it, or if they give us some scoring standards and any more info.