![]() Okay, maybe there is some core activation, endurance and strength that can be built in the plank that can carry over into the leg tuck, but, without something to work on improving or at least challenging your upper body and grip strength, it’s not the same. Because there is nothing about a plank that even resembles what the physical demands of a leg tuck requires. But the fact that they made the modification a plank still baffled me unless they had ulterior motives. The simplest way to describe 2020 was it was WILD and there are too many things to list and me being a little nervous it’ll get flagged if I mention any of it outside of gyms getting closed, people working from home and so on. I get it, a lot happened over the course of 2020, but come on, you could’ve got an at home pull-up bar to throw up in a doorway. The front plank was given as an alternate event as a stop gap of sorts to allow people more time to keep training (or start training, because lets be honest, I bet you know someone who wasn’t doing anything) to prepare for the actual leg tuck event. (Insert shaking my head and rolling my eyes) So it didn’t take long before ACFT 2.0 was pushed out with a temporary modification to allow people to still pass while avoiding a certain test. They just figured once “We” release this new test it will change the culture of the ARMY. I’m kidding, I can neither confirm nor deny that that transpired. Or should I say, the person that did think of that was silenced immediately. Still would’ve had issues, but I’m confident with the right messaging, education and training soldiers could have been better prepared.īut of course, they didn’t think of that. Like what if we lie and say that pull-ups might be in the new test?” I believe that if they leaked a fib about pull-ups a year earlier in 2019 or 2018 the issues they have seen wouldn’t nearly as extreme. ![]() Maybe we should start prepping them for it before we even release this test. ![]() Like bad to the point that no one along the way was like, “Hey, this one movement is going to be a problem for 80%+ of our soldiers. I’m surprised the ARMY didn’t utilize the CIA in conjunction with Marky Mark Zuckerberg to spin it into being the greatest test ever created all over the internet with bots and fake accounts commenting of how life changing the ACFT is! Then again, maybe they did… But as soon as people started to fail in droves they scrambled for a solution because the immediate results were BAD. All of us are guilty of getting set in our ways and when something comes along that is going to mess up our routine, we often focus on the negatives versus trying to see the positives that can come from it.Īnd I’ll tell you what, the negativity was heard loud and clear. The big thing that I kept here those was, “Why do we need to upgrade to a new one when the old test is just fine?” Change can always be scary. Heard tales of some soldiers being scared to death and dropping their retirement packets. But once some soldiers saw what 1.0 was, it was clear that there were plenty of soldiers that were nervous, pissed and vocal about it all over the Facebooks. When the original ACFT 1.0 came out I don’t think they believe it was going to be as big of a cluster f*ck as it has become. The bad thing is they didn’t improve anything with the recent changes and just gave everyone a get out of jail free card like Monopoly to artificially improve scores. Should’ve just made the LEG TUCK (LTK) Pull-Ups and the Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC) a 300m shuttle to start with but no point in me continuing to beat that drum. The good thing is they are trying to make it “better”. And just like Apple I either expect to see ACFT 3.0X or ACFT 4.0 before next year. With the release of the ACFT 3.0, that makes it the 3 rd version in as many years. Is the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) becoming the ARMY’s version of the iPhone? No seriously? When is the new-new version coming? Do we have to wait until 2022 or are we getting a fall release? I feel this is the going to be the new yearly, if not semi-annual thing until all the kinks are worked out.
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