Ep 562: AFSW Attribute - Fitness

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This episode kills one of the biggest misconceptions in Air Force Special Warfare prep: the IFT is not a measure of fitness. Aaron breaks down why fitness and endurance are evaluated as core attributes in selection—and how physical preparedness underpins everything else: leadership, communication, teamwork, survivability, and credibility. From diesel engines vs Lambos to unknown time, unknown distance missions, this is a blunt explanation of why being “fit enough” isn’t enoug...

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0:00.0	The reason we have that IFT is that is the bare minimum for the things that we are going to test you on. Pull-ups, sit-ups, push-ups, running, swimming, cows. We want to test you on that. It's an entry standard. That is not meant to be a bar of your fitness. If you can do an IFT in your development program right now, okay, you're way more fit than the average American and the people that are probably in your day-to-day orbit.
0:23.0	But I wouldn't say you're fit.
0:24.4	I wouldn't say that you're a person that is capable of violence and is a virtuous person.
0:30.0	One's ready.
0:33.1	Go!
0:36.7	So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.
0:39.3	It's an attributes-based selection model.
0:41.3	What does that mean?
0:42.3	Guys, are we running right now to get fit?
0:44.3	We're practicing, Robbie.
0:46.3	Practicing.
0:47.3	Right?
0:48.3	I can't.
0:49.3	So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.
0:53.3	The instructors are giving you input, and we're expecting an output.
0:57.0	And everything is for a reason.
0:59.0	If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do, every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do.
1:07.0	We don't want people at in-doc,fare, assessment selection, whatever they're going to call
1:14.6	the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.
1:17.6	I don't care what they call it.
1:19.6	What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into.
1:25.6	Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run.
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