The Marine Corps considers physical fitness an indispensable aspect of leadership. Fitness is essential to the day-to-day effectiveness and combat readiness of the service. Marines who are not ...

Being a Marine requires a level of fitness the average military member does not have. The fitness tests are more difficult and the training is challenging, requiring Marines to stay in above-average ...

A United States Marine takes on the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to see how well Marine Corps training stacks up against ...

Marines will need to start preparing for more challenging fitness tests after the Corps announced changes to its physical fitness and combat fitness tests beginning this month. Late last year, a ...

The Marine Corps launched the first phase of a force fitness web application designed to help Marines schedule and monitor workouts. (Lance Cpl. Trever Statz/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps launched ...

Ask Marines deployed aboard the USS Iwo Jima what they think of a new Marine Corps test to assess their combat fitness, and one might be surprised by the lack of complaining. After two deployments to ...

As you’re dishing up your big Thanksgiving meal, be sure to save room for this big ol’ helping of motivation. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps, dropped a quick video on ...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) canceled much of 2020, and the Marine Corps is now canceling its combat fitness test as a result. The service announced on Friday that its requirement that Marines ...

WASHINGTON — A Marine Corps sergeant on reserve duty died after collapsing during a physical fitness test in Florida, according to a Naval Safety Command report. Sgt. Gordon Reed, a motor vehicle ...

Non commissioned officers with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit sprint as a warm-up for a Force Fitness Instructor led High Intensity Tactical Training session at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 8 ...