We always do PRT, which was not meant to improve our fitness but only to sustain it. These PRT exercises do not actually help soldiers pass their AFPT tests. We do various 10 count exercises in the exact same order all the time which gets pretty monotonous, with one sergeant paramount us while a bunch of other sergeants are just standing in the background and talking and looking at us, or walking through the formation and critiquing us. When we have run days, these other sergeants will run with us, but when it comes to actually doing PRT themselves, they apparently dont do PRT at all and instead just work out at the gym if they do exercise at all (we have some fat sergeants too)
Some of the PRT exercises like the bent leg body intertwine, really hurt ones back if theyre having to do it on a concrete basketball court. And having to do these and other PRT exercises like the "prone row" out in the rain just doesnt work well at all. Could we at least do workouts inside instead of on a hard uneven concrete surface like a basketball court?
Could there some kind of alternative to PRT?
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