How to actually be "Army Strong" - You're Welcome.blog

I don't disagree with the article. What makes it hard to achieve army-wide is that this path to being as Army-strong as possible is a mostly individual path. As a National Guard soldier, I work out alone. That means that when I feel great and fill like lifting or running more, I do. It also means that when I feel like I need a rest day, I take it. That has never been an option in organized PT. You do what's on the schedule regardless of how you feel. Need more work on [insert exercise here]? Too bad. Today we're rucking. Feel like rucking faster/farther? Too bad. Stay with your squad/platoon.
Then there's the issue of not being able to track progress. Moving sandbags around is great. But leaders report numbers and there's no number surrounding sandbags. Army leadership will always lean towards improving their numbers because that's where the OER bullets come from.

So again, I'm not disagreeing with the article at all, I just think it will be hard to apply to Army units.

Functional fitness is THE WAY of the future for the military. Simple push/pull & endurance will not build a body to last. You need a full body conditioning workout in order to do the job at a premium & at length.

Good read