The Marine Corps provided advanced notification on December 18th 2025 of changes to physical fitness standards. The new ...

A body composition test measures percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in the body. It can provide a snapshot of your overall health, inform strategies to improve health, and help gauge progress toward ...

A soldier receives a 3-D body scan at Fort Bragg, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2021. The scan/study is part of a comprehensive body composition study examining the association between body composition and Soldier ...

The scale has never been a friend to Mana Mostatabi. Even back in high school, when she ran a quick 100m on the varsity track team, her BMI – a ratio of weight to height – put her in the overweight ...

A Soldier prepares for the dead lift event of the Army Combat Fitness Test Sept. 23, 2019, at Fort Jackson, S.C. (Thomas Brading/Army) The Army has set a timeline for reforms on how the service ...

The Army’s decades-old tape test used to determine whether soldiers meet body fat standards could be on its way out when the service gets the results of a new body composition study launched Monday at ...

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