<p>I know I've asked this before, but I was wondering EXACTLY what the initial PFT for application is, and what the final PFT your 1st class year.</p>
<p>The CFA (Candidate Fitness Assessment) consists of a kneeling basketball throw (you get three tries and they take the best one,) pullups in two minutes, shuttle run (sprints, I believe it is best of two tries,) situps in two minutes, pushups in two minutes and a mile run.</p>
<p>At Summer Seminar we took the PFT also and it consisted of max pushups in two minutes, max situps in two minutes, being able to sit and touch your toes, and a 1.5 mile run.</p>
<p>Start working on your pull-ups now. My son could only do 7 at summer seminar :D. He worked all summer on his pull-ups and was able to max out the next time he took his CFA.</p>
<p>Yea thats great advice, pullups are something you get can really good at. I bought a pullup bar for the door to my room and did pullups every other day(not good to lift the same way every day) for about a month leading up to NASS, and did 15 on the CFA. But for all you skinny trackletes out there like me, I would recommend working on the basketball throw alot, because darn those football players and their ease with that, lol, i really struggled.</p>
<p>yeah, pullups were hard for me too. there are some really good workout plans to get in shape for the PFT that I did so if i can find them I'll post them again i'll post the links.</p>
<p>PRT stands for Physical Readiness Test. It is taken every sememster and consists of 2:00 of push ups, 2:00 of sit ups, a 1.5 mile run, and a sitting toe touch.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.comilstd.org/Navy_PRT.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.comilstd.org/Navy_PRT.htm</a></p>
<p>CFA stands for Candidate Fitness Assessment which is designed to asses the fitness of a candidate (never saw that coming did you?). It is taken at NASS (if you go) or can be taken multiple times prior to appointment. It consists of a 1 mile run, 2:00 of push ups, 2:00 of sit ups, kneeling basketball throw, pull ups (male) or flexed arm hang (females...one pull up counts for more than infinite time on the flexed arm hang by the way), and a shuttle run.</p>
<p>JarB&G2011-</p>
<p>My son is in the same boat as you. Can run like the wind, but no upper body strength..............at all. After he got comfortable with the number o fpullups he was able to do, he started working on the b-ball throw. Still didn't do wonderful, but good enough, I guess.</p>