Physical Readiness training FM 7-22

Question 1

What does PRT prepare soldiers and units for?

Answer 1

PRT prepares soldiers and units for the physical demands of combat.

Question 2

What is physical readiness?

Answer 2

The ability to meet the physical demands of any combat.

Question 3

Why is PRT a mandatory training program?

Answer 3

its essential for force readiness and it is a law.

Question 4

Where do the tasks, conditions, and standards for PRT activities derive from?

Answer 4

From WTBDs, core mission essential task list, and directed mission essential task list

Question 5

What are the 7 principles of training that PRT is linked to?

Answer 5

1) commanders and other leaders are responsible for training
2) NCOs train individuals, crews and small teams
3) train as you will fight
4) train to standard
5) train to sustain
6) conduct multi-echelon and concurrent training
7) train to develop agile leaders and organizations

Question 6

Who’s program is the PRT program?

Answer 6

The commanders program.

Question 7

Who is essential to the success of PRT programs and why?

Answer 7

Senior NCOs because they are often the most experienced trainers in the unit

Question 8

What are NCOs 3 responsibilities to accomplish the PRT mission?

Answer 8

identify task that PRT enhances within the unit

prepare, rehearse, and execute PRT.

Evaluate and conduct AARs

Question 9

What is the principle that all army training is based on?

Answer 9

Train as you fight

Question 10

What does the toughening phase of training provide?

Answer 10

Foundational fitness and fundamental motor skills, which lay the foundation for all other activities in the sustainment phase.

Question 11

How should PRT be conducted?

Answer 11

Should be tough, realistic, physically challenging, yet safe in its execution.

Question 12

What is the objective of PRT being tough, realistic, physically challenging.

Answer 12

To develop the soldiers physical capabilities to perform their duty assignments and combat roles.

Question 13

What are the fundamental skills that PRT activities include?

Answer 13

Climbing, jumping, landing, sprinting. Because all contribute to success in the more complex skills of obstacle negotiation, combatives and military movement

Question 14

What are the PRT components that make up strength?

Answer 14

Muscular strength and muscular endurance

Question 15

What are the PRT components that make up endurance?

Answer 15

Anaerobic endurance and aerobic endurance

Question 16

What are the 8 components that make up mobility?

Answer 16

Agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, posture, stability, speed, power

Question 17

What should be the goal of all training?

Answer 17

Mastery, not just proficiency

Question 18

What are 3 tenants of standards-based training?

Answer 18

1) leaders know and enforce standards
2) leaders define success in the absence of standards
3) leaders train to standard, not time

Question 19

How do commanders intensify training experience?

Answer 19

By varying the training conditions

Question 20

To prepare soldiers to meet the physical demands of their profession, a system of training must focus on what?

Answer 20

The development of strength, endurance and mobility, plus enhance the body’s metabolic pathways

Question 21

What is the key to maintaining unit proficiency despite personnel turbulence and operational deployments?

Answer 21

Sustainment training

Question 22

When you take the APFT, what is the minimum number of points you must score in each event?

Answer 22

60 points

Question 23

What FM covers Physical Fitness Training?

Answer 23

FM 7-22

Question 24

What are the three phases of physical conditioning?

Answer 24

Preparatory
Conditioning
Maintenance

Question 25

how long is the preparatory phase?

Answer 25

2 weeks

Question 26

how long is the conditioning phase?

Answer 26

until soldier is physically equipped

Question 27

What is MFT?

Answer 27

Master Fitness trainer

and the class is 2 weeks

Question 28

What is F.I.T.T

Answer 28

Frequency, Intesity, Type, Time

Question 29

Da Form 3349

Answer 29

Physical Profile

Question 30

What are the three periods of a normal daily exercise routine?

Answer 30

Warm-up
Conditioning
Cool-down

Question 31

What are the commands to get a unit from a normal line formation into an extended rectangular formation?

Answer 31

Extend to the left, march
Arms downward, move
Left, Face
Extend to the left, march
Arms downward, move
Right, face
From front to rear, count off
Even numbers to the left, uncover

Question 32

What are the seven basic principles of exercise?

Answer 32

Regularity
Progression
Overload
Balance
Specificity
Variety
Recovery

Question 33

What are the five components of physical fitness?

Answer 33

Cardio Respiratory Endurance
Muscular Strength
Muscular Endurance
Flexibility
Body Composition

Question 34

How many scorers should be supplied for the APFT?

Answer 34

A minimum of 1 per every 15 soldiers

Question 35

What is the DA form 705?

Answer 35

PT scorecard

Question 36

Fitness tasks provide the framework for accomplishing all training requirements. The essential elements of fitness tasks can be cataloged into what four groups?

Answer 36

Collective Tasks
Individual Tasks
Leader Tasks
Resources required for training

Question 37

Name the two physical fitness formations?

Answer 37

Extended Rectangular

Circular