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The ACFT challenges you to complete six events, each designed to test one or more fitness components. You need to prepare for these events to max out your ACFT score; I go into details on the fitness components in the following sections:

 3 Repetition Maximum Deadlift: The 3 Repetition Maximum Deadlift (MDL) represents your ability to safely and effectively lift heavy loads from the ground, bound, jump, and land. This event tests how well-conditioned your back and legs are; the better-conditioned those muscles are, the less likely you are to become injured when you have to move long distances under heavy load.Fitness components: Muscular strength, balance, and flexibility

 Standing Power Throw: The Standing Power Throw (SPT) represents your ability to throw equipment on or over obstacles, lift up your battle buddies, jump over obstacles, and employ progressive levels of force in hand-to-hand combat. It tests how well you can execute quick, explosive movements.Fitness components: Explosive power, balance, range of motion, and flexibility

 Hand Release Push-Up – Arm Extension: The Hand Release Push-Up – Arm Extension (HRP) represents your ability to withstand repetitive and sustained pushing that’s often necessary in combat tasks (like when your driver gets the HMMWV stuck in the mud and every vehicle in the convoy is mysteriously missing a tow bar). This modified push-up event tests your chest and core strength.Fitness component: Muscular endurance

 Sprint-Drag-Carry: The Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC) represents your ability to accomplish high-intensity combat tasks that last between a few seconds and a few minutes, such as building a hasty fighting position, reacting quickly in a firefight, carrying ammo from one place to another, or extracting a casualty and carrying him or her to safety. The Sprint-Drag-Carry tests your strength, endurance, and anaerobic capacity.Fitness components: Agility, anaerobic endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength

 Leg Tuck: The Leg Tuck (LTK) represents your ability to carry heavy loads, climb over walls and other obstacles, and climb or descend ropes. The strength required for this event can help soldiers avoid back injuries. (Note: Throughout this book, I often refer to this event by its abbreviation, LTK, to help distinguish it from the plain old exercise known as the leg tuck.)Fitness components: Muscular strength and endurance

 Two-Mile Run: The Two-Mile Run (2MR) represents your ability to conduct continuous operations and ground movements on foot, as well as your ability to recover quickly in preparation for other physically demanding tasks, like reacting to enemy contact or carrying ammo from Point A to Point B.Fitness component: Aerobic endurance

The ACFT doesn’t offer age brackets for scoring like the APFT did. That means whether you’re 18 and fresh out of Basic Combat Training or you’re a seasoned soldier with plenty of combat experience, you’re held to the same standard. The aim of this book is to get you to meet or exceed the standard so you can enjoy a full and illustrious (and injury-free) military career.