WEST SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Army National Guard physician assistant Maj. Tommy Vu set a new world record May 23, 2025, for the most hand-release push-ups completed in one hour, achieving 1,422 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon military man has successfully broken the record for most hand-release push-ups completed in an hour. Major Tommy Vu, a physician assistant with the National Guard, ...

The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) has dropped the medicine ball toss, removed the word “Combat” from its name, and introduced higher scoring requirements for combat arms soldiers. The revised test ...

Not all pushups are created equal. In fact, some pushup variations do way more than just pump your chest. The pushup is one of the best bodyweight exercises for building upper-body strength, but ...

All soldiers can expect to do more push-ups, and women in combat jobs will have to pick up the pace in a two-mile run as much as three minutes faster, under the Army’s new fitness requirements. “There ...

(The Hill) — The U.S. military will impose the “highest male standard” for all combat roles in each service branch, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced during his Tuesday morning speech to ...

Soldiers will once again have to get familiar with a different physical fitness test, as the Army moves toward a renamed one that drops an event and alters scoring standards, the service announced ...

(The Hill) — The U.S. military will impose the “highest male standard” for all combat roles in each service branch, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced during his Tuesday morning speech to ...