To be a good tactical athlete, you need to be good at all the elements of fitness, including strength, power, speed, agility and muscle stamina.

During the second phase, all Soldiers will take the ACFT as a diagnostic and all Initial Military Training officers and enlisted will take the six-event fitness test as a graduation requirement.

The Army has also made available multiple training plans, which include equipment-free options, available through a mobile app, Army doctrine and the Army’s ACFT microsite.

Beginning Oct. 1, a modified version of the Army Combat Fitness Test will become the service's new fitness evaluation, but training challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic will mean ...

The Army updated its physical training app to help soldiers prepare for the new Army Combat Fitness Test, complete with walk-through videos and training templates ...

Spc. Benjamin Ritchie is the first basic trainee to max out the new Army Combat Fitness Test and the third person overall.

The Army said this is the third soldier to hit a perfect score on the ACFT— and the first basic training recruit to do so.

"Clearly, rolling out this new test is premature," two senators said in a letter.

Army officials announced in June that all active, National Guard and Reserve units would be cleared to take the ACFT on Oct. 1, a move that ends a six-month suspension of all fitness testing to ...

The six-event ACFT replaced the aging APFT Thursday as the Army's new standard for measuring fitness.

Army officials initially proposed three job-based scoring tiers, which would require different minimum scores on the ACFT based on the physical requirements of a military occupational specialty ...

A United States Marine takes on the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to see how well Marine Corps training stacks up against ...