Imagine laying on the ground with your face in that astroturf while the narrator babels when they could have just let you do the movement at normal pace and pause the video in editing when needed.

what government bureaucrat came up with this nonsensical test? This event is like a combination of playing Simon Says while filling out a 1040 tax return.

This is the biggest joke! Glad I got my DD-214

Let be real. If you cannot slam your hands back to the ground, you cannot do 60 push-ups in 120 seconds.

How are you supposed to max out the ACFT to get a score of 600 when this event is impossible to get 100 points, which is 60 reps for men in 2 minutes? That is one rep every 2 seconds, and there is not enough time to raise, lower, lift your hands off the ground then place them back into start position. Maxing out all of the other events seems achievable but this seems impossible. I think the Army needs to update their max standards. Also glad I have my DD214.

if 60 is max, whats the min because theres no way youre maxing this out in 2min

The only organization in the world that can take a specified pushup that is used throughout the fitness community and not incorporate lifting the legs off the ground and extending the arms out to the side rather than the Palms up off the ground go figure just continue to make up nonsense and watch retention number shrink and shrink and Shrink.

Anybody remember the old manual stating that push ups could be performed on the knuckles, and that the soldier may need to do this due to a prior wrist injury?

If 60 is the max and you have two minutes to do this, then you only have 2 seconds per repetition. How is that possible?

If you have "forward posture symdrome" even minor versions, you are going to have problems raising your hands raised doing to the "Full Hand Extension Pushup". But someone in a past video said you can "slide your hands". Most of the poeple who do these videos are like 18-21, not 40. Now doing the HRP "Hand Release Pushups", I can easily do 30 HRP, but I'm sorry "under time and stress" you are going to slam your hands to the ground after the previous pushup. The video says you have to keep your hand in the same place, which is different from your APFT pushups where you can utilize different pecorial muscles at different angles where you can go inner and outer as you tire. If that is a standard that is kind of messed up and doesn't test the entire pectorial muscles. The HRP different from the Traditional pushups has advantages and disadvantages: ADVANTAGE: Activates more of the pectorial muscle, you will feel the difference. DISADVANTAGE: Time under tenstion known as TOT, is not the done while the traditional pushup uses constant TOT. Best thing IMO is the "Perfect Pushup" or "pushup bars" where you can utilize more of the Pecorial muscle and still have TOT.

So what the hell is correct? Extend arms out, or just raise them? WTF!!!

Holy cow, did they design this for women? By bringing in the arms inward and a resting period between each rep this gives women a much higher rate of success. Whoever came up with these either never has been in combat or created this test to be easily passed. BTW, at least five guys in my platoon have so much upper body muscle the hand raises are almost impossible.

So no more regular pushups?

😅😂🤣Wow,Just Wow

I personally am glad they got rid of head bob "pushups" by some.

Who come up with this nonsense

good chunk of gen z ain't passing this chief

Fast HRPs will not work with these. You have to go at a moderate pace un order to reach the max.

I have been awaiting a change to Military fitness protocols since grade school. Finally, something new! :-)

The problem isn't so much the exercise it's two fold. The exercise is stupid just in the way they implement it. Two and most important, they drop the requirements so quick getting 80% is what many will shoot for instead 100. As a young dude you only need like 40 to get 80%. What is the true motivation to push to get to 100. Sure pride... gotcha... when you are trying to get through something with some recorder being an ass not counting your crap when you did it right 100 goes out the window and 80 looks good. If anyone thinks otherwise you havent been in the military very long if at all. Push yourself to the limits but the army needs to fix this one

This is supposed to keep Russia off our ass?