PRT
Fitness Standards for New PFA
While I had posted on the new PFA with planks and rows, I don’t think I had posted the new standards, which are in this file:
Admiral Announces Plan to Restart Navy Fitness Tests
Here’s a link to this article:
2020 PFA Cycle 2 Fact Sheet
Here’s a fact sheet on the 2020 PFA cycle that has been excused:
Navy Suspends Fall 2020 Fitness Cycle
WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Navy has suspended the fall 2020 Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) to minimize risk of Sailor exposure to the COVID-19 virus.
The suspension was announced in NAVADMIN 193/20 on July 7, and is the second consecutive fitness cycle suspended because of COVID-19 mitigation concerns.
When fitness testing does resume in January 2021, the plank will replace the curl-up for the first time and the rowing machine will become an alternate cardio option as well, the message said.
“The COVID-19 situation requires that we continue to minimize risk to personnel, therefore all personnel will be “EXCUSED” from participation in Navy PFA Cycle 2, 2020,” wrote Vice Adm. John B. Nowell, Jr., the Navy’s top uniformed personnel officer, in the message.
“Suspension includes both the official Body Composition Assessment and Physical Readiness Test components of the PFA.”
Sailors will automatically be marked as “EXCUSED” in the Physical Readiness Information Management System (PRIMS) for the cycle. As a result, Command Fitness Leaders must not make any official PFA entries in PRIMS for the official Navy PFA Cycle 2, 2020 because the Physical Readiness Program (PRP) office will handle those updates.
The suspension also applies to organized or group physical training at the command level, including the Fitness Enhancement Programs, until further notice.
The only exceptions allowed will be for recruit training or if unit mission training requires such physical training sessions. In those cases, the exception must come from the appropriate Echelon II commander, who can also delegate the authority down to the first flag officer in the chain of command.
Unlike last cycle, mock PFA’s will be allowed for Sailors needing to regain advancement and retention eligibility as long as any local area and installation guidance as well as COVID-19 guidelines in effect are followed.
Also, all mock PFA’s must be conducted as outlined in OPNAV Instruction 6110.1J, the governing guidance of the Navy Physical Readiness Program with modifications as detailed in the NAVADMIN. The curl-up will not be performed to minimize risk to Sailors.
Though the fall cycle is now excused, Sailors still must make good choices in maintaining a healthy diet and exercise program to keep within Navy physical fitness standards, Nowell wrote in the message.
The message recommended Sailors use the Navy Operational Fitness and Fueling 5-week conditioning plan. This is available online at https://www.navyfitness.org/fitness/5-week-training-plan. The plan was developed by Navy Installations Command’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation Fitness Program to help Sailors maintain Navy physical fitness standards while reducing the chances for injuries.
When fitness assessments do resume in 2021, the Navy will begin phasing in previously announced testing changes. This means, for the first time, curl-ups will replace by the plank exercise along and the rowing machine will become an alternative cardio option. To give Sailors time to adjust to the new exercise, no plank failures will be counted during the first cycle the plank is implemented. Separate guidance on the implementation of the new events will be issued separately in September.
Promotion Boards Postponed, PFA Cancelled, and Hair Standards Relaxed
Here are all the NAVADMINs that deal with these issues:
- Postponement of Selection Board Schedule
- Physical Readiness Policy Update
- Temporary Relaxation of Hair Grooming Standards
No, you cannot grow a beard. Sorry.
PRT Shift: What You Need to Know Now About Planking and Rowing
Here’s a link to this Navy Times article:
PRT Shift: What You Need to Know Now About Planking and Rowing
Navy’s Fitness Test Overhaul Enters Next Phase
Here’s a link to this Military.com article about the upcoming revised PFA/PRT:
Navy Votes Down the Sit-Up for PRT
Here’s a link to the article:
Physical Readiness Program Policy Changes
Those who like reading NAVADMINs (like me) can read it here. Those who don’t (the rest of you) can read a Navy Times article about the changes here. My quick summary of relevant bullet points for readers of this blog is:
- All commands will discontinue processing members for separation as a result of Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) failures.
- Officers with approved separation orders for PFA failure with a directed separation date prior to 1 March 2018 can request their separation orders be cancelled in order to remain in the Navy by contacting PERS-834, subject to Secretary of Navy (SECNAV) approval.
- MILPERSMAN 1910-170, Separation by Reason of PFA Failure, is cancelled.
- The following applies to all officers who:
- Fail one PFA will:
- Not be eligible for promotion. Commands are required to delay promotion and inform PERS-833. Members will regain eligibility for promotion by passing the next command-directed monthly FEP mock PFA.
- Be issued a Letter of Notification to inform them of the PFA failure.
- Be enrolled in the FEP until passing the next official PFA.
- Fail two or more consecutive PFAs will be submitted to PERS-834 for administrative separation processing under reference (e).
- If SECNAV determines the officer is to be separated (or retired), this action will occur at the PRD of the officer or upon the determination of SECNAV, whichever is later.
- If an officer passes an official PFA prior to the decision of SECNAV on retention or separation, processing will cease and the member will be retained upon notification to PERS-834. A special fitness Report may be submitted to document the officers satisfactory physical readiness status
under reference (c). - Additionally, officers who fail two or more consecutive PFAs will receive an adverse report that states Significant Problems on their fitness report under reference (c).
- Fail one PFA will:
- Additional information that applies to all members:
- Effective 1 January 2018 all PFA failures will reset to zero only for enlisted reenlistment policy and officer administrative separation policy as outlined in paragraphs 3.a and 4. No other records will be changed such as PRIMS, Fitness Reports or Evaluations.
- All members must have a Body Composition Assessment (BCA) completed within five work days of reporting to a new command. This BCA spot-check will not count as the official BCA for newly reported members during the command PFA cycle, regardless of the status of the official command PFA cycle. Members exceeding Age Adjusted Body Fat Standards (AAS) during spot-checks must be enrolled into Command FEP.
- FEP enrollment and disenrollment determination: Upon either a BCA spot-check failure or PFA failure, members must participate in FEP until they pass an official PFA and are within AAS.
- All members who have regained promotion/advancement eligibility are reminded of their ability to communicate in writing to promotion and selection boards as outlined in MILPERSMAN 1420-010 of reference (b) and reference (d).
- Anyone with questions about these policies is referred to Physical Readiness Program, Mr. Bill Moore at
(901) 874-2210 or PRIMS < at > navy.mil. For all other personnel related policies: NAVPERSCOM at 1-866-827-5672 (U-ASK-NPC).
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