Navy PRT Calculator

Put your age, cardio time, push-ups and plank hold in, and this Navy PRT calculator reads your score off the same Guide-5A tables your command fitness leader scores from. Each event is worth 45 to 100 points, your overall score is the average of the three, and you need 45 minimum on every one to pass.

What the Navy PRT Actually Scores

Three events. That's the whole test.

• Push-ups — as many as you can do in two minutes, to standard.
• Forearm plank — one timed hold, no rest.
• One cardio event — the 1.5-mile run by default, or an approved alternate.

There is no fourth event. If a calculator asks you for curl-ups, it is scoring you against a test the Navy retired: NAVADMIN 024/21 confirmed the forearm plank "has replaced curl-ups as the abdominal muscular endurance assessment," and the Navy's stated reason was blunt, the repeated spinal flexion of a curl-up is not operationally relevant to shipboard work.

Every event is scored against your sex and your age group on test day. The Navy uses eleven brackets, from 17–19 through 65 and older, and the standards ease at every step up.

How This Navy PRT Calculator Scores You

Every event is worth 45 to 100 points

The Navy does not score on a smooth curve. Each event has twelve published performance levels, each worth a fixed number of points:

Hit the published standard for a level and you get that level's points. Fall one rep or one second short and you get the level below, there is nothing in between. Probationary, at 45 points, is the lowest passing score. Drop under it on any single event and the whole PRT is a failure, no matter how strong the other two are.

Your overall score is the average of your three event points, and your overall category is the highest level that average fully reaches.

This is worth knowing because it explains something that frustrates a lot of Sailors: two Navy PRT calculators giving two different answers for the same performance. Many tools store only the pass minimum and the max, then interpolate a straight line between them. That is fast to build and quietly wrong in the middle of the range, where most people actually land. This one carries all twenty-two published sub-tables instead.

A worked example, start to finish

Take a 27-year-old male Sailor at sea level. He runs 10:55, does 66 push-ups and holds a 2:34 plank. Solid numbers.

• Run 10:55 — the 75-point standard for his group is 10:52. He is three seconds over, so he scores 70.
• 66 push-ups — 75 points needs 67. One rep short, so 70.
• 2:34 plank — 75 points needs 2:37. Three seconds short, so 70.

Average: 70.0 — Good High.

Now look at what he left on the table. One more push-up, three seconds off the run, three seconds more on the plank, and all three events move to 75. His overall jumps to Excellent Low, a full tier, for six seconds and one repetition spread across three events. That is the number the calculator's "next level up" panel is built to show you, because on the PRT the gap between categories is usually much smaller than it feels.

Navy PRT Minimum Passing Standards by Age

These are the Probationary standards, the least you can do on each event and still pass. They apply at elevations below 5,000 feet.

Maxing out is a different world. A 25–29 male needs 84 push-ups, a 3:16 plank and an 8:55 run for 100 points on each; a 25–29 female needs 46 push-ups, a 3:06 plank and a 10:17 run.

Notice how much more room the plank gives you than the run. The pass standard for a 25–29 male is a 1:09 hold, but 100 points needs 3:16, nearly three times as long. Push-ups run from 34 to 84. The run only spans about five minutes. For most Sailors sitting in the Good range, the plank is the cheapest place to buy points, because holding position is a trainable skill in a way that shaving a minute off a mile and a half is not.

Your Cardio Options Beyond the Run

The 1.5-mile run is the default, but it is not the only scored option. Guide-5A prints full point columns for the 2,000-meter row on a Concept 2, the 500-yard swim and the 450-meter swim, right beside the run. These are not pass/fail alternates, they earn graduated points exactly like the run, and this calculator scores all four. A treadmill version of the 1.5-mile run and a 12-minute stationary bike test are also approved options.

For a 25–29 male at sea level, the minimums are a 9:30 row, a 13:08 500-yard swim or a 12:58 450-meter swim. To max, he needs 7:10, 6:38 and 6:28.

One condition matters: your CO or OIC decides whether you may use an alternate cardio event. It is a command call, not a personal preference, so clear it with your CFL before you plan a cycle around the rower.

If you test somewhere above 5,000 feet, switch the elevation selector. Push-ups and plank standards are identical at altitude, only the cardio times relax, by roughly nine percent.

Riding the bike instead? This calculator cannot score it, and neither can any other. The bike standard is worked out by the official PFA app from your bike model and your calorie burn, so it has no published table to calculate from.

What Changed for 2026

The Physical Readiness Program changed shape for the 2026 assessment year, announced fleet-wide in NAVADMIN 264/25. The scoring tables themselves are unchanged since Guide-5A was published in December 2025, but the rules around them moved a lot:

• Two assessment cycles a year for the Active Component, TAR, and Reservists on orders of twelve months or more. Cycle one runs January through June, cycle two July through December.
• A one-time reset. PFA failures before 1 January 2026 reset to zero for reenlistment, advancement, promotion and continuation decisions. From that date, administrative action follows a failure, and three failures inside four years means separation processing.
• A Combat Fitness Assessment for combat arms ratings. NSW, EOD, SWCC and Fleet Divers, replacing one of the two annual PFAs with occupation-specific events.
• A harder route back from a BCA miss. A Sailor who is not within body composition standards can still pass the overall PFA through the High-Performance BCA Exception, but it now takes an Outstanding-Low overall plus Excellent-Medium or higher in all three PRT events. That is a demanding bar, and it is why the sub-level matters: this calculator reports "Good High," not just "Good," so you can see exactly where you stand against it.
• PT during the workday. Commanders are now responsible for building physical training into every workday.

Guide-5A remains the current PRT guide as of August 2026, sitting alongside the rest of the program guides covering the BCA, medical waivers, PRIMS and combat arms testing.

Why Push-ups, a Plank and a Run

These three events are not arbitrary. Each one is a cheap proxy for something that predicts how long you stay healthy.

Cardiorespiratory fitness is the heavyweight. A 2025 meta-analysis pooling 3.8 million observations found that each one-MET increase in fitness was associated with a 14% lower risk of death from any cause and a 16% lower risk of cardiovascular death. The same analysis found that fitness estimated from a field test predicted mortality about as well as fitness measured in a lab, which is the entire justification for timing a run instead of wiring Sailors to a metabolic cart.

Push-up capacity carries its own signal. In a ten-year cohort of 1,104 male firefighters, men who could complete more than 40 push-ups had a markedly lower rate of cardiovascular events than men who managed fewer than ten. Read that one with care: it followed occupationally active men, recorded only 37 events, and the confidence interval was wide. It suggests push-up capacity is a useful marker of functional status, not that push-ups themselves are a treatment.

The plank earns its place on repeatability. A 2025 validity study found the front plank test reproduced with an ICC above 0.98 across sexes and age groups, the same person tested twice gets nearly the same time. For a test scored to the second across a fleet of hundreds of thousands, that consistency matters more than elegance. Isometric holds may also do something useful for blood pressure: a network meta-analysis of 270 randomized trials found isometric training produced the largest resting reductions of any exercise mode at −8.24/−4.00 mm Hg, though the wall squat, not the plank, topped the sub-mode ranking.

Where a PRT Score Can Mislead You

A high PRT score is good evidence of muscular endurance and aerobic capacity. It is not a health check-up, and a few honest caveats belong here.

It says nothing about strength. You can score Outstanding on push-ups and still struggle with a heavy awkward load, because two minutes of bodyweight reps measures endurance, not maximal force. If that is what you are training, a one-rep max estimate tracks a different quality entirely.

It does not measure body composition. That is the BCA's job, and the two are scored separately.

It cannot see injury risk, blood pressure, blood sugar or sleep. Plenty of Sailors pass a PRT while carrying something a physical would catch. Passing is not clearance to ignore symptoms.

And a single test is a snapshot on one morning. Heat, altitude, illness, a bad night and a rushed breakfast all move your number without moving your fitness.

The PRT Is Only Half the PFA

Passing the PRT does not pass your Physical Fitness Assessment. The PFA has two parts, and the Body Composition Assessment comes first.

Since January 2026 the BCA runs as a two-step process: a sex-neutral waist-to-height screening, then the Navy's body fat equations only if you miss it. If you want to run your own numbers before your CFL does, the Navy body fat calculator applies the current rounding rules and tells you the maximum waist allowed for your height.

Miss the BCA and a decent PRT will not carry you. The High-Performance BCA Exception is the one narrow way back, and as of 2026 it demands an Outstanding-Low overall with Excellent-Medium or better in every event. Plan on passing both.

If you are actively training between cycles, recovery does more work than most people credit. Getting enough protein is the least glamorous and most reliable lever, a daily protein target is a reasonable place to start.

Why Use This Navy PRT Calculator

Most of the tools ranking for this search are behind. Some still score against the January 2023 tables. At least one still asks for curl-ups, an event the Navy dropped in 2021.

This one is different in four ways:

• Current standards. Guide-5A, published December 2025, checked against MyNavyHR in August 2026 and still the live PRT guide.
• Table lookup, not guesswork. All twenty-two published sub-tables, both elevation sets, and every one of the four scored cardio events.
• The sub-level, not just the tier. You get "Excellent Medium," not a vague "Excellent", the part that actually counts toward your record.
• The gap to your next level. Reps and seconds, spelled out per event, so you know what to train.

No sign-up, no email, nothing stored. It runs in your browser and the numbers never leave your device.

This Is a Screening Tool, Not Your Official Score

This calculator is for informational and screening purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, a medical diagnosis, or an official Navy record. Your official PRT score is the one your command fitness leader records in PRIMS. Standards change, verify against current Navy guidance before making any decision that affects your career. If you have a medical condition, an injury, or a medical waiver on file, speak with your medical department and your CFL before testing. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your health.

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