Navy PRT standards 2026 by age: push-ups, plank and run

How the tables are organized

Guide-5A names twelve levels for each age band and sex, from Outstanding-High (100 points) down to Probationary (45 points). In between are Outstanding-Medium (95) and Outstanding-Low (90), Excellent High, Medium and Low (85, 80, 75), Good-High, Good-Medium and Good-Low (70, 65, 60), and Satisfactory-High (55) and Satisfactory-Medium (50). Each level lists a raw value for push-ups, the forearm plank and the 1.5-mile run, with further columns for the 2-kilometer row and the 500-yard and 450-meter swims.

Probationary is the lowest passing level. Guide-5A says the PRT is passed with Probationary or higher on every event, and failing one or more events fails the whole test. Guide-1 (August 2026) adds that a non-combat-arms Sailor who scores Probationary on any one event is enrolled in the Fitness Enhancement Program until an official Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) shows Good-Low or better in every event the Sailor is medically cleared for. That is why Good-Low (60) is the second reference point here, and why Satisfactory-Medium (50) sits between the two.

Our reading of an in-between result is the lower row: a push-up count between two rows earns the lower level. Guide-5A prints no sentence about in-between results, so this is the convention our calculator uses, not a quotation from the Navy. Your command fitness leader scores the test of record.

Men: push-ups, plank and run

Push-ups, men, Table 4-1 (Guide-5A, December 2025):

Forearm plank (minutes:seconds), men:

1.5-mile run (minutes:seconds), men. A lower time is better, so the Outstanding-High column is the fastest:

Women: push-ups, plank and run

Push-ups, women, Table 4-1:

Forearm plank (minutes:seconds), women:

1.5-mile run (minutes:seconds), women:

A worked example: one birthday, one band

The bands are 17–19, 20–24, 25–29 and on in five-year steps to 60–64, then 65 and older. Take a male Sailor with 37 push-ups, a 1:10 plank and a 13:30 run. At age 24 (the 20–24 band) each result lands exactly on the Probationary row, so he earns 45, 45 and 45: the lowest passing level in every event, with an average of 45.00.

With the same three results at age 25 (the 25–29 band), the push-ups and plank still land on Probationary, because that band needs 34 push-ups and 1:09. The 13:30 run now beats the 13:45 Satisfactory-Medium row, so it earns 50 points. The average is 46.67, which falls between Probationary and Satisfactory, and Guide-5A does not say how to name an average that sits between two levels. That is the same gap described in the Navy PRT scoring guide. Both Sailors pass. Which band applies to you depends on how your command records your age for the test; Guide-5A’s tables give the bands but no rule for it that we found.

A second case: a 41-year-old female Sailor with 12 push-ups, a 1:23 plank and a 16:15 run lands on the Good-Low row in all three events (60, 60, 60), an average of 60.00, in the 40–44 band. Both examples are made-up inputs run through the same tables, not anyone’s results.

What these tables leave out

• Eight other levels. The levels between the four printed here (for example Good-High at 70 or Excellent-Medium at 80) are in Guide-5A and in the Navy PRT calculator, which scores any result you enter.
• Altitude. Table 4-2 applies at more than 5,000 feet above sea level and uses slower run times; in the tables we compared, the push-up and plank values are the same as in Table 4-1. Guide-5A defines the altitude and says PRT procedures are not changed for it. Our calculator has an altitude switch for Table 4-2.
• Row and swim. The 2-kilometer row and the 500-yard and 450-meter swims have their own columns in Guide-5A. They are not reprinted here, and the calculator scores them.
• Bike and treadmill. Guide-5A says the bike is calculated by the Navy’s PFA mobile application from the bike model and calories burned, and it prints no bike table. The treadmill has no column in Table 4-1 or 4-2, so our calculator does not score either.
• Combat arms, body composition and the overall category. Combat-arms occupations have their own policy guide (Guide-5B), and the waist-to-height screen is covered in military body composition 2026. The overall PRT score is the average of the event points (Guide-5A calls it “a category-level performance” corresponding to that average).

Guide-5A is the document these values come from; the Navy’s Physical Readiness Program (PRP) page said on October 7, 2026 that OPNAVINST 6110.1L CH-1 is the current version of the instruction. Department of Defense (DoD) pages since September 2025 also use “Department of War” as a secondary name, which you may see on related Navy material.

This is general information, not legal or medical advice. Your command fitness leader and the Navy’s Physical Readiness Program decide how your own test is scored and recorded.

Next step

Enter your own push-ups, plank and run time, your age and sex in the Navy PRT calculator to see the level and points for each event and the average.