In today’s post, I want to address how important it is to stay in great shape.

Hopefully, you took my advice months ago and got into the best shape of your life in order to do your personal best on your military fitness tests.

Even though the fitness tests vary somewhat in their importance in the selection process (both for ROTC programs and the academies), the process is so competitive these days that you can’t afford to slough off on anything. Nor should you.

You should...