<p>Is there a specific date when you take the fitness test? Or do you have to schedule it?</p>
<p>The PAE (physical aptitude test) can be adminstered by someone at your school. My track coach did mine. So you'll have to schedule it, in the sense that you're gonna have to ask for an hour of their time after school one day.</p>
<p>So your coach basically records the results? And then what? he signs it and send it?</p>
<p>Yes, he signs it and you mail it up with everything else. My Senators asked me to include a copy of my PAE results in my nomination application.</p>
<p>If you go to SLS you will have the opportunity to do the CFA there.</p>
<p>You schedule with your coach or a gym teacher or some other figure of athletic authority if you're not doing the CFA at SLS. Choose someone you trust and respect and are comfortable with. Also schedule so that you are on your own if you do not like having people watch you. Put the test when you feel your body is most ready. I noted an extreme change for myself when tested at 0615 versus 1515 (difference of several pushups/situps and over 10 seconds for running).</p>
<p>So the CFA alternates arms vs abs/legs. Stretch between and control your breathing. </p>
<p>When you are done, I think it is still mailed. I know that for Navy it is done online. I think USMA may be changing over to more online application work soon.</p>
<p>Where do the coach records your results? Is there like a form where you can print it out? Or do you make your own? Then they sign it on that sheet?</p>
<p>You will receive the form with your official application packet which is usually mailed out in August. You can take the test earlier at West Point if you go to SLS in June.</p>
<p>haha, I took my CFA in the gym (unintentionally) in front of the girl's volleyball team. My XC coach adminstered it, and 2 days earlier he made the team skip rope for practice, which, as I learned, used the exact same muscles and pushups, so I was already sore when I started!</p>
<p>The moral is don't jump rope (or do any other physical activity) the fews days before the test. And personally, I think it helped to have people watching because I felt more pressure and was further motivated not to embarrass myself in front of the volleyball team</p>
<p>When I was in high school I remember taking the CFA after cheerleading practice because being the captain I HAD to be there... Being a flyer, my legs and abdominals were pretty spent. </p>
<p>Insist that your coach give you the time off for the test. Plan accordingly! </p>
<p>I had to run on the track at the same time as the track team because part of the team was on the track doing drills (no one told me!). Not fun.</p>
<p>i did mine in front of the men's basketball team weekend practice.
they didnt understand the point of the basketball throw, and astonishingly only one of them could throw it farther than me (101') to my (81').</p>
<p>its all technique though.. and if you have octopus arms</p>
<p>It tests your expolosive upper body power. Pushups test your aerobic endurance. The two correspond with the long jump and sprints for the lower body.</p>
<p>yes, plan accordingly. haha. i did my run in 95 degree heat. then went to track practice right after. fun stuff!</p>
<p>Oh gee...my basket ball throw... Short arms...hands of a 10yr old, never did a contact/throwing type of sport in my life not a good combination. I remember my first CFA score was 18 feet, you have no idea how happy I was when I breached 30ft only 2 weeks later after doing work with the varsity baseball coach.</p>
<p>hey for the fitness test, does the person who records it have to be a coach? Can it be like your personal trainer, or just a regular teacher?</p>
<p>The "Instructions for Applicants" booklet states that the test must be "...administered by any physical education teacher or Service Academy Liaison Officer."</p>
<p>peteyflow: you really should consider researching the usma.edu website site. There is a wealth of information there that will answer many of your questions.</p>
<p>Personal trainer?</p>
<p>Unless they are a PE teacher or coach for your school as well, no.</p>
<p>Pull ups seemed to be the main problem.... Son went from Zero pullups to 5 in 6 months, and that got him through. Pull-ups is not to show your strength but to show height-weught ratios. It seems the be the key challenge. The basket ball throw is all technique, and running, situps, and pushups comes quickly. But pull-ups you have to plan carefully for. For him it meant every morning at 6:00 AM hitting the gym and doing a series of lat pull downs, day after day, week after week. At the same time he got his weight well in line.</p>
<p>The other focus admissions will go to if they are concerned about your pull-ups is your weight/height ratio. They will send you to the local Army recruiter station to have the NCO measure you on the Army index. If you have low pull-ups (muscle mass, tall - most accomplished basket ball players find pull-ups a problem as well as defensive tight ends) they wiill make sure your not fat.</p>