The kneeling basketball throw is part of the Candidate Fitness Assessment for US Service Academies. Here's why—and how to do it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What the throw does, says Smith, is zone in on upper-body power. “It is a way to measure ballistic power and strength, but it’s ...

THE VARIOUS BRANCHES of the United States Military have fitness standards measured by a number of physical assessments, like the Army Fitness Test (AFT), the Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test (PFT), ...