But, still, a soldier’s fitness came primarily from the fact that he was put to work all day. Train as you fight, circa the first century, A.D. A soldier needs to throw a javelin? Then the soldiers will practice throwing javelins while in garrison.Īn analysis of the history of military physical training from the Army War College quotes a Roman legionnaire, saying, “every soldier is every day exercised… with great diligence, as if it were in time of war, which is the reason why they bear the fatigue of battles so easily… nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.” A soldier needs to march? Then the soldiers will march in garrison. And for centuries that mostly consisted of just doing what soldiers are expected to do. As much as PT is a fixture of modern military life, it both has and hasn’t always been that way.Īs long as there have been soldiers, there has been an essential understanding that those soldiers need to be physically fit.
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