Army to have tougher physical training requirements as overweight recruiting pool increases

SSgt Anita Pollock there is no gender or height weight different standard on this new PT test. I am 5ft 4 as well and weigh 120 and pretty darn fit, but when i first gave myself a diagnostic on this new test, i failed the leg tuck and deadlift event (because I was not regularly training with heavy weights doing deadlifts and almost never did unassisted pullups) I took the Army PRT manual and the new ACT and put together my own training program and trained for 30 days. Next diagnostic I passed with flying colors each event. Thus the program I created and now have available to all military members or future military members who want to be ready for this new standard. I was already in very good shape, but because of two areas I did not focus on in my training, I would have been a failure.