The new fitness test is meant to simulate the taxing physical conditions that Explosive Ordnance Disposal airmen face.

Airmen may soon run two miles rather than 1.5 under new fitness standards, and be tested twice per year, according to an ...

Changes in how the Air Force tests for physical fitness appear to be increasingly likely. The changes may include a two-mile run and testing twice a year, a recent message from the Air Force’s ...

The Air Force stopped including annual body circumference measurements in airmen’s PT test scores in 2020 amid worries that it was leading some troops to starve themselves.

Since 2010, more than 30,000 airmen have failed the waist measurement portion of the Air Force fitness test. That’s a lot of girth — but should abdominal size be tied to the service’s ...

The research supports an Air Force policy change from 2015 that allowed postpartum airmen to defer PT tests for up to a year, allowing them more time to heal and train before facing a test that ...