General New Ranger School Fitness Test

[oblongo]

What do you think?

The new test is completed wearing combat uniforms and boots. In 14 minutes, soldiers must complete:

• An 800-meter run.
• 30 dead-stop push-ups.
• a 100-meter sprint.
• 16 lifts of 40-pound sandbags onto a 68-inch platform.
• 50-meter “farmers’ carry” of two 40-pound water cans.
• A 25-meter high crawl, 25-meter three-to-five second rush.
• A final 800-meter run.

After that, soldiers will change into their physical fitness uniform and run four miles within 32 minutes followed by six chin-ups.

The old Ranger course assessment consisted of 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, a 5-mile run within 40 minutes, and six chin-ups.

Ranger School's new fitness test is tougher than ever, but nixes sit-ups

Soldiers trying to earn the Army Ranger tab will have to do more challenging functional fitness exercises starting day one.

taskandpurpose.com

 

[supersonic]

Damn, the old Rangers had it easy

 

[SongExotic2]

No way

 

[CasketCaseZombie]

When CrossFit came to the Army…

 

[Poiupoiu]

what about for females or people of color?

 

[Uncle Tom Doug]

Why are they training our soldiers to run? We aren't france.

 

[MountainMedic]

Mogadishu Mile comes to mind

 

[SongExotic2]

Mogadishu Mile comes to mind

"We got a rainbow coloured mohawk down"

 

[sparkuri]

what about for females or people of color?

Simple.
Just divide those numbers by femme, Butch, Fa’afafine, Intergender, Cassgender
, Graygender, Xenogender, Autigender, Novigender, Aporagender , Polygender
, Trigender, Maverique, Genderflux, Hijra, Two-Spirit, cisgender, Gender fluid, non-binary, agender, bigender, gender queer, androgynous, demi-boy, demi-girl, pangender, neutroud & transgender.

Then multiply by .2

 

[kvr28]

Mogadishu Mile comes to mind

what I was thinking, surprised no pull ups or rope climbs.

Let's be honest though, the 1600 meters is gonna burn up half of that, it's a mile. Today's youth a 7 minute mile is gonna be tough. We ran a 5k first day of the academy. I was 46 and came in 7th with a time of 20:13 out of 68 other cadets. There were people still straggling in at 30 minutes and puking.

 

[Fookster1982]

(2) 800 meters in 14 minutes?

I would have 2 minutes to finish the rest of the workout…