How is the Navy Boot Camp PFT?

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Ashlee

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I am a 21 year old female and im not in shape...I just wanted to know if the running portion of the PFT in bootcamp had to be ran or will they allow you to combine fast paced walking, jogging, and running to complete it in the required time??
 
I am 26 and having trouble with the running myself. As long as you make the time you CAN technically do that, but trust me you won't. I started out thinking maybe I can "fast walk" a little. Get your body used to running first, then worry about your time later. You will get it! Don't worry.
 
Ashlee, I don't know what the current physical fitness program consists of at Navy boot camp. But when I was last a Navy DI (RCC), in the early 90s at Orlando, our CO completely changed the running portion of the PT. New recruits were required to run, not walk, for a period of time. I'm thinking it was 9 or 10 minutes. No one ran in formation. It was run at your own pace, but run, or jog.
After a couple of weeks of training, that time moved up to 12 minutes.
And so on, until most recruits were running for 18-20 minutes. Then, when the final test came, almost all could pass the 1.5 mile run, since it only took about 16 minutes.
Once in the Fleet, the 1.5 mile is a run/walk event. I used to run 3 minutes, walk a minute, run 2 minutes, walk a minute, run 1 minute and look to see how far from the finish line I was.
Good luck. Start running now. Just a jog. Don't run for distance, just for a length of time. Start slow, work your way up.
 
The minimum time is very hard to make without running the whole time. You'd have to sprint pretty fast to make up for walking/jogging.
 
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