Owning the Expertise: The Way Ahead for Fitness in the Army’s H2F Program : Association of the United States Army , August , 2025
Owning the Expertise: The Way Ahead for Fitness in the Army’s H2F Program : Association of the United States Army , August , 2025
From the report: "The U.S. Army continues to invest heavily in the fitness domain of its new Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program. Fitness within H2F is governed by doctrine—Field Manual (FM) 7-22—and executed in major part by outside strength, conditioning and health coaches in the “largest personnel contract in Training and Doctrine Command history.”1 H2F, while well-intentioned, well-resourced and a welcome focus topic for our Army, is unfortunately beholden to insufficient doctrine and ill-conceived expertise models, not ideally suited to improving the long-term fitness of our force. The Army must refocus H2F’s physical domain energy and resources on reclaiming ownership of its fitness expertise.
At present, the Army’s H2F initiative lacks a standardized physical training program accessible to everyday Soldiers and leaders. Despite extensive doctrine, there is no clear, scalable template for building effective unit-level training. In practice, leaders are left to develop plans independently, often relying on commercial programs or examples submitted by other units. This decentralized approach reflects a broader absence of doctrinal leadership and sets the stage for the challenges explored in the sections that follow—challenges rooted in unclear guidance, technical overreach and a reliance on external support."
Authors - Crayne, Ryan, Webster, JoshSubjects
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