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Remember the difference you and your family noticed in your physique after you graduated from Basic Combat Training (BCT)? When you joined the military, you may have already been strong — but you weren’t “Army Strong.” The ACFT measures your muscular strength and endurance in ways that you may not have trained for in BCT, and its demands are serious. It checks your muscular strength in four key areas: your legs, your core, your chest, and your upper back. You see muscular strength and endurance testing on the 3 Repetition Maximum Deadlift, Hand Release Push-Up – Arm Extension, Sprint-Drag-Carry, and LTK.

Muscular strength and endurance are related, but they’re not the same thing. You need endurance for tasks like lugging fuel cans around the motor pool, while strength ties into the maximum amount of weight you can lift one time. (In the gym, it’s called a one-rep max.)