The U.S. Marine Corps set out to make its Physical Fitness Test more challenging this year, and initial records obtained by Task & Purpose suggest they’ve succeeded. An analysis of the service ...

Some major changes are coming to the Marine Corps physical fitness and combat fitness tests, referred to as the PFT and CFT, respectively. Here’s what’s in store for all Marines come Jan. 1, 2017.

The Marine Corps PFT is a semi-annual evaluation and has three events, pull-ups, abdominal crunches, and a 3-mile run. Find requirements for each age group.

The Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test (PFT) is the toughest among the U.S. military’s standard fitness exams, demanding top-tier performance in pull-ups or push-ups, planks, and a brutal 3-mile ...

Marine Corps Recruits with November Company, 4th Battalion, and Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, conduct the 3-mile run portion of a physical fitness test (PFT) on Marine ...

Marine officials announced in June that a plank would be allowed on the abdominal strength section of the PFT. The exercise must be held for four minutes and 20 seconds to receive the full 100 points.

Marines at Marine Corps Base Hawaii do crunches during their physical fitness test in March 2017. The Corps is doing away with crunches as part of its fitness test and replacing them with planks.

U.S. Marines conduct the crunches portion of a physical fitness test on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, May 21, 2015. (Lance Cpl. Jodson B. Graves/Marine Corps) ...

Welcome back to another General Discharge video! This video is the Marine PFT made easy. Every Marine has to do this test, as well as sailors who elect to go Marine Regs. Sit back and enjoy the video!

The U.S. Marine Fitness Test, known as the Marine PFT, includes a grueling test of “dead hang” pullups, situps, and a three-mile run. Recently, ...

Professional climber and YouTuber Magnus Midtbø took on U.S. Marine Corps physical fitness test, which includes pullups, crunches, and a 3-mile run.