由于新兵体重超重和体能不达标等原因，美军今年的新兵训练计划取消了仰卧起坐等传统项目，引入了类似瑜伽或普拉提的训练方式，同时，让新兵胆寒的长跑项目也被缩减。

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Soldiers at Fort Jackson, like Pvt. Alyssa Leggat, work on push-ups. The fitness regime involves more agility and balance training.

"Army Strong" may be the recruiting （招聘，招募）slogan, but these days the US Army seems less focused on new recruits' strength than on their excess（额外的，过量的） weight.

In fact, the Army has just rejiggered（重新安排） its basic physical training program, making allowances for recruits who are fat and out of shape（走样，身体状况不佳） when they show up for basic training.

That familiar standby, the situp（仰卧起坐） , is gone, or almost gone. Exercises that look like pilates or yoga routines are in. And the traditional bane of the new private, the long run, has been downgraded.

This is the Army’s new physical-training program, which has been rolled out this year at its five basic training posts that handle 145,000 recruits a year. Nearly a decade in the making, its official goal is to reduce injuries and better prepare soldiers for the rigors²（严格） of combat.

But as much as anything, the program was created to help address one of the most pressing issues facing the military today: overweight and unfit recruits.

"What we were finding was that the soldiers we're getting in today's Army are not in as good shape as they used to be," said Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, who oversees³ basic training for the Army, told the Times.

The Army has long rejected potential recruits who are overweight. But the number of potential recruits deemed too fat to fight has been growing in recent years, the result of America's obesity⁴ epidemic⁵, says the Times.

Between 1995 and 2008, the proportion of potential recruits who failed their physicals each year because they were overweight rose nearly 70 percent, according to a recent report issued by a blue-ribbon panel of retired⁶ generals and admirals（海军上将） .

The report found that 27 percent of young adults between the ages of 17 and 24 were too fat for military service, according to Scripps News.

Even those the Army deems slim enough to serve tend to be weaker and to have less stamina⁷（毅力，精力） than recruits of previous generations - the result of years spent indulging in（沉溺于） junk food and video games, according to Army officials who spoke⁸ with the Times.

"Kids are just not able to do push-ups," Curt⁹ Gilroy, the Pentagon's director of accessions, told the Army Times last year. "And they can't do pull-ups. And they can't run."