text: Chapter 2
  BASIC COMBAT TRAINING
  2-6. The 10-week H2F program for BCT provides foundational readiness and fundamental physical and
  mental skills. New Soldiers report to BCT with various levels of potential. The first weeks of training focus
  on general progression of physical readiness. To minimize the risk of injury, Soldiers must perform exercises
  correctly, precisely, and with gradually increasing intensity. To imprint the motor skills required for
  fundamental physical demand tasks, Soldiers repeat the exercises and drills, like the common Soldier tasks,
  as frequently and with as much attention to detail as possible. The schedules in this doctrine, when executed
  to standard, provide the proper training intensity and volume to improve training and testing outcomes and
  control attrition.
  2-7. H2F performance team in BCT includes physical therapists, registered dietitians, athletic trainers,
  strength and conditioning specialists, and H2F master trainers. The H2F performance team can train large
  formations using this doctrine and can evaluate Soldiers who fall below BCT and H2F goals. The H2F
  performance team gives Soldiers conditioning programs that improve their performance. Conditioning
  accounts for adaptive physiological changes that take longer than ten weeks. Soldiers who require longer
  than this to meet Army standards to progress to AIT will move to the fitness training unit (FTU).
  2-8. H2F physical training for BCT incorporates the following:
  * Weight training.
  * Seven-day schedules to include active recovery sessions to maximize response to training.
  * Strength, endurance and sprint training ability groups.
  * Sessions conducted in the ACU.
  * Running skill training.
  * Soft-tissue and joint mobilization techniques for recovery.
  * The ACFT.
  2-9. The nonphysical domains of H2F:
  * Nutritional readiness.
  * Mental readiness.
  * Spiritual readiness.
  * Sleep readiness.
  ADVANCED INDIVIDUAL TRAINING
  2-10. AIT focuses on technical and MOS-oriented subjects. Therefore, H2F training should prepare these
  Soldiers to meet the physical and nonphysical requirements of their FUA. H2F performance teams continue
  to conduct initial phase training until Soldiers meet Army standards before transitioning to sustaining phase
  activities. A 14-week AIT schedule is included in Part Four beginning on page 14-21.
  ONE STATION UNIT TRAINING
  2-11. OSUT follows similar progression as BCT for the first 10 weeks and then continues initial phase
  activities until Soldiers have met the Army’s standards for sustaining phase. Sustaining phase activities are
  more complex and prepare Soldiers to perform the requirements of their MOS assignments and multiple
  domain operations. MOSs with 22-week OSUT will be programmed by the H2F performance team in those
  schools. A 22-week OSUT schedule is included in Part Four beginning on page 14-27.
  FIRST UNIT OF ASSIGNMENT
  2-12. After completing IMT, Soldiers arrive at their first unit within a few days or weeks. The break between
  departure from IMT and arrival at the first unit may cause Soldiers’ readiness to degrade. Significant losses
  in strength, endurance, and mobility occur after 14 days of little or no training. The degradation is more
  significant in newly trained Soldiers who do not already have high levels of physical readiness. IMT leaders
  and H2F performance teams understand this and encourage and motivate Soldiers to accept responsibility to
  maintain their own readiness. H2F performance team members and unit leaders at the Soldiers’ first