Starting Strength

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Is it Training or Exercise?

There seems to be more interest these days in actually rethinking the military’s PT paradigm. Here’s an article for those of you specifically interested in this topic by our buddy Maj. Ryan Whittemore.

“At present, passing the APFT and meeting body composition standards is either left up to the individual Soldier to do in any way the Soldier wants to do it, or the Soldier is forced to conduct a PT program designed by his immediate supervisors. In either case, the wrong people are doing the program design. This is where the Army shortchanges PT, and for some reason does not treat it in the same way as other combat-essential tasks.”