The Marines Ditch Crunches, Go to Planks for Their Annual Fitness Test
5 Aug 2021
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
The Marine Corps has announced it will be phasing out crunches as part of its annual physical fitness test as part of a larger overhaul of the assessment.
Crunches will be replaced by planks -- which were added as an option in 2019 -- as the mandatory abdominal strength test in 2023, the service announced in a message Thursday.
The Marines will join the Navy in phasing out crunches as part of its fitness testing regimen. The Navy eliminated the exercise for the 2021 cycle of its test.
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