Posted on Jun 10, 2015

Have anyone take the swimming as alternate event for the APFT?

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My situation is that i already had 2 foot surgery on the same side (right) and my right knee is messed up as well (going thru physical therapy and possibly facing surgery for the knee). Basically you can say my whole right leg is messed up. My surgeon is giving me the option on my permanent profile as an alternate event to choose the walking, the swimming or the bike. I already discarded the bike so my real options are walking or swimming ( I used to be a good swimmer) or maybe just get out of the army, since pretty much im always on pain and cant go thru the day without pain killers.......

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The swim is tough. It requires good levels of fitness and strong technique. The walk is cake, just deal with the pain and everyone passes. The bike is the easiest if you have strong leg muscles. The swim is 800 yards or 16 down and backs in 20:00 - 24:00 minutes. If you can swim that fast that long then go for it. I could run a 13:00 minute two mile but ended my swim way over the time limit.

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Thank you very much for your insight and advice Sir. Been asking over 20+ people about the swimming and i even met other soldiers who did it before and they all say the same thing...it sucks.

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As a young E4 we were giving our profile PSG a hard time on his walk so he had the platoon take each of the alternate events, everyone that passed the run passed the bike, most of us quit the walk after a mile and just ran, out of ~16 or so only two passed the swim, both swam in high school.

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If you've never done it before, the walk is not "cake". Once you get used to it though it is easy. I did the 2.5 miles in 29:17 my last APFT and hardly broke a sweat. The really sad/funny thing is I walked 2.5 miles faster than a couple of the females ran 2 miles....

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