The weakening of Beast Barracks

DS indicated that success at CBT was highly proportional to how well you prepared for it.
 
Civic29,

I'm a candidate for the Class of 2019, but my best advice to your question would be "the highest level you can achieve."

A thought I'm having is Old Grads told their sons how hard Beast is, so they prepared for it. When Beast was easy, their kids and young friends didn't know what to expect, so it was hard. Maybe something cyclical.

Personally, I hope Beast isn't a breeze. I believe my first post explained where I was at about this time last year. I couldn't do a pull-up, could hardly do situps or push-ups, and my best mile was over eight minutes. By the time of SLE, I managed to score at or above average on every event. It just takes dedication and hard work to get through some things, and I don't believe Beast will be an exception.
 
AcademyHopefulOne said:
Civic29,

I'm a candidate for the Class of 2019, but my best advice to your question would be "the highest level you can achieve."

A thought I'm having is Old Grads told their sons how hard Beast is, so they prepared for it. When Beast was easy, their kids and young friends didn't know what to expect, so it was hard. Maybe something cyclical.

Personally, I hope Beast isn't a breeze. I believe my first post explained where I was at about this time last year. I couldn't do a pull-up, could hardly do situps or push-ups, and my best mile was over eight minutes. By the time of SLE, I managed to score at or above average on every event. It just takes dedication and hard work to get through some things, and I don't believe Beast will be an exception.
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I did the exact same as you, I prepped all summer for the CFA and got above average in all areas an max in a few.


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DS did double workouts most days for the month prior to R Day and hiked 12 miles with a 50 pould pack a couple of times. Boots were now broken in and comfortable. He hit a 319 on the APFT 76 push ups, 78 sit ups, and 12:12 two mile on R Day. As Civic 29 indicates~DS went for the highest level he could achieve, as he did not know what to expect in many areas, but knew of some parts of the program. He worked on the parts he could. He wanted no regrets on his preparation, and it paid off.
 
Think ahead to APFT, add pullups & leg lifts, etc. Not just passing on the Army scale, don't stop training until you are confident you can get well into the 300's.

Historically, you'll take your first APFT for score in CBT. You'll want to do very well, as you'll need it to offset typical "most get a C" DPE grading in the plebe beating type courses.

And your physical grade impacts class rank, which then heavily impacts MIAD selection which occurs in January. Same for military grade performance in CBT. CBT performance won't make or break your USMA career, but it certainly has a very heavy impact on your summer activities as a rising Yearling the following summer.

If you do badly on your CBT APFT you normally have a chance to retake it in the fall, but usually much less time to train for it.

One other thing, the main risk to being unprepared PT wise in CBT is not just mediocre grades, it's injury. Seems to be a regular pattern that unprepared tend to get injured on the physical stuff (confidence courses, etc), and then get derailed for critical signoff items. Can't do APFT, Marchback, etc. Which again, often further derails you for most desirable summer activities. And you have to make up March-back, etc.
 
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