Physical Readiness Training (PRT) View on Mobile Flashcards
What does FM 7-22 Cover?
The Army’s Physical Readiness Training Program
What FM covers Physical Readiness Training Program?
FM 7-22
What does PRT stand for?
Physical Readiness Training
What does PRT prepare Soldiers and units for?
for the physical challenges of fulfilling the mission in the face of a wide range of threats, in complex operational environments, and with emerging technologies
Para 1-3 What is Physical readiness?
Physical readiness is the ability to meet the physical demands of any combat or duty position, accomplish the mission, and continue to fight
Para 1-4 Why is Physical readiness training a mandatory training requirement?
- It is Considered by senior leaders to be essential to individual, unit, and force readiness
- It is Required by law for all individuals and units
Para 1-5 Where do The tasks, conditions, and standards of PRT activities derive from?
The tasks, conditions, and standards of PRT activities derive from C-METL, D-METL and WTBDs
Para 1-5 What does C-METL stand for?
core mission essential task list
Para 1-5 What does D-METL stand for?
directed mission essential task list
Para 1-5 What does WTBDs stand for?
warrior tasks and battle drills
Para 1-6 What are the seven principles of training that PRT links to?
- Commanders and Other Leaders are Responsible for Training
- Noncommissioned Officers Train Individuals, Crews, and Small Teams
- Train as You Will Fight
- Train to Standard
- Train to Sustain
- Conduct Multi-echelon and Concurrent Training
- Train to Develop Agile Leaders and Organizations
Para 1-7 Who’s program is the Physical readiness training program?
The Commander’s Program
Para 1-7 Who is essential to a successful PRT program and why?
Senior NCOs because they are often the most experienced trainers in the unit
Para 1-8 What nine things commanders must do to optimize the effect of PRT?
- Incorporate mission command in PRT
- Supervise the planning, preparation, execution, and assessment of PRT
- Align PRT with mission/METL (mission-essential task list) requirements in support of full spectrum Operations
- Train to standard according to FM 7-22
- Assess individual and unit physical readiness according to FM 7-22
- Provide resources required to execute PRT
- Incorporate safety and composite risk management (CRM)
- Ensure training is realistic and performance-oriented
- Ensure training replicates the operational environment as closely as possible
Para 1-9 What do Noncommissioned officers serve as the primary trainers for?
enlisted Soldiers, crews, and small teams
Para 1-9 What are NCO’s three responsibilities to accomplish the PRT mission?
- Identify specific tasks that PRT enhances in support of the unit’s C- or D-METL for individuals, crews and small teams
- Prepare, rehearse, and execute PRT
- Evaluate PRT and conduct AARs to provide feedback to the commander
Para 1-10 Who is responsible to train junior NCOs and aid in developing junior officers, ensuring mastery of PRT drills, exercise activities, and assessments?
Senior NCO’s
Para 1-12 What is the Principle that All Army training is based on?
“Train as you will fight”
Para 1-13 What does the Toughening phase training provide?
provides foundational fitness and fundamental motor skills, which lay the foundation for all other activities in the sustaining phase
Para 1-14 What are the eight tenets of train as you will fight, as they relate to PRT?
- PRT must support full spectrum operations and promote quick transitions between missions
- PRT must support proficiency in combined arms operations and unified actions
- PRT focus is on training the fundamentals first
- PRT must be performance-oriented, conducted under realistic conditions, and mission focused
- PRT should incorporate challenging, complex, ambiguous, and uncomfortable situations
- PRT must incorporate safety and CRM
- PRT must be conducted under conditions that replicate the operational environment
- PRT must be conducted during deployments
Para 1-15 How should Army PRT be conducted?
Army PRT should be tough, realistic, and physically challenging, yet safe in its execution
Para 1-15 What is the Objective of PRT being tough, realistic, and physically challenging?
The objective is to develop Soldiers’ physical capabilities to perform their duty assignments and combat roles
Para 1-15 What are the fundamental skills that Physical readiness training activities include?
fundamental skills such as climbing, crawling, jumping, landing, and sprinting, because all contribute to success in the more complex skills of obstacle
negotiation, combatives, and military movement
Table 1-2 What are the Physical requirements to perform WTBD task React to contact?
Run fast under load, jump, bound, crawl, push, pull, squat, roll, stop, start, change direction, and get up/down
Table 1-2 What are the Physical requirements to perform WTBD task Evacuate a casualty?
Squat, lunge, flex/extend/rotate trunk, walk/run, lift, and carry
Para 1-17 What are the critical components of physical conditioning?
strength, endurance, and mobility
Table 1-3 What are the PRT Components that make up Strength?
Muscular Strength and Muscular Endurance
Table 1-3 What are the PRT Components that make up Endurance?
Anaerobic Endurance and Aerobic Endurance
Table 1-3 What are the eight PRT Components that make up Mobility?
- Agility
- Balance
- Coordination
- Flexibility
- Posture
- Stability
- Speed
- Power
Table 1-4 Name 6 PRT Activities?
Conditioning Drill 1, Conditioning Drill 2, Conditioning Drill 3, Guerrilla Drill, Climbing Drill 1, Climbing Drill 2, Strength Training Circuit, Military Movement Drill 1, Military Movement Drill 2, 30:60’s, 60:120’s, 300-yd Shuttle Run, Ability Group Run, Unit Formation Run, Release Run, Terrain Run, Hill Repeats, Foot Marching, Obstacle Course Negotiation, Combatives
Para 1-18 What should be the goal of all training?
A: mastery, not just proficiency
Para 1-18 What are the three tenets of standards-based training?
- Leaders know and enforce standards
- Leaders define success in the absence of standards
- Leaders train to standard, not time
Para 1-20 How do Commanders intensify training experiences?
by varying training conditions
Para 1-20 To prepare Soldiers to meet the physical demands of their profession, a system of training must focus on what?
the development of strength, endurance and mobility, plus the enhancement of the body’s metabolic pathways
Para 1-20 Standards are achieved through precise control of what four things?
- Prescribe appropriate intensity and duration to which Soldiers perform PRT
- Properly distribute external loads across the major joints of the body
- Integrate and balance the components of strength, endurance, and mobility
- Provide adequate rest, recovery, and nutrition
Para 1-22 What is the key to maintaining unit proficiency despite personnel turbulence and operational deployments?
Sustainment training
Para 1-23 What is Multi-echelon training?
Multi-echelon training is the simultaneous training of more than one echelon on different tasks
Para 1-23 What are the distinct characteristics of Multi-echelon training?
- They require detailed planning and coordination by commanders and leaders at each echelon
- They maintain battle focus by linking individual and collective battle tasks with unit METL tasks and within large-scale training event METL tasks
- They habitually train at least two echelons simultaneously on selected METL tasks and require maximum use of allocated resources and available time
Para 1-24 When does Concurrent training occur?
Concurrent training occurs when a leader conducts training within another type of training
Para 1-25 What are three training phases of PRT?
- Initial conditioning
- Toughening
- Sustaining
Para 1-26 Who has an opportunity to lead every day during PRT?
Noncommissioned officers have an opportunity to lead every day during PRT
Para 1-27 What is the objective of PRT?
to prepare Soldiers to meet the physical demands related to mission and C- or D-METL
Para 1-27 Why are exercises, drills, and activities methodically sequenced?
to adequately challenge all Soldiers through progressive conditioning of the entire body while controlling injuries
Para 2-1 What is the definition of Army physical readiness?
the ability to meet the physical demands of any combat or duty position, accomplish the mission, and continue to fight and win
Para 2-1 What is the goal of the Army Physical Fitness Training Program?
to develop Soldiers who are physically capable and ready to perform their duty assignments or combat roles
Para 2-2 What does the initial conditioning phase do?
prepares future Soldiers to learn and adapt to Army PRT
Para 2-2 What does the Toughening phase activities develop?
foundational fitness and fundamental movement skills that prepare Soldiers to transition to the sustaining phase
Para 2-2 What does the Sustaining phase activities develop?
a higher level of physical readiness required by duty position and C- or D-METL
Para 2-2 What does Reconditioning do?
restores Soldiers’ physical fitness levels that enable them to safely re-enter the toughening or sustaining phase and progress to their previous level of
conditioning
Para 2-2 What are the types of PRT training?
Types of PRT training include on-ground, off-ground, and combatives
Para 2-2 What are three fundamental components within the types of training?
strength, endurance, and mobility
Para 2-2 What principles does Phase training follow?
precision, progression, and integration
Para 2-3 What is the purpose of the initial conditioning phase?
to establish a safe starting point for people considering entering the Army
Para 2-3 When is the initial conditioning phase conducted?
it is conducted before enlistment or pre-commissioning
Para 2-4 What is the purpose of the toughening phase?
to develop foundational fitness and fundamental movement skills
Para 2-4 During the toughening phase what does a variety of training activities with precise standards of execution ensure?
that bones, muscles, and connective tissues gradually toughen, rather than break
Para 2-4 What do the essential skills of the Toughening phase activities develop?
jumping, landing, climbing, lunging, bending, reaching, and lifting