If you are attempting a PFA soon, you need to consider this. So if you are attempting your PFA, I would say in the near future, then I really want you to understand that the PFA is absolutely not the minimum standard. It's actually less than the minimum standard because the minimum standard is your BFA or PFT or whatever your service equivalent is. So the minimum standard of your PFA is actually not a measure of how fit you need to be, which is quite frustrating because the messaging that comes across when you're at that stage in your application is different to what it's really like on the other side of your listener appointment.
So what I want to get across is that you are not tricked into thinking that by reaching that standard you're going to be fit enough for service because you're just simply not. The standard that you are required to reach for your PFA is not going to be enough to get you through basic training. I mean, sure, you know, it's going to get you to get on the bus, that's pretty much it. You can get on the bus after that, you can get down on the plane or bus or whatever, take a poo car, e-sale, Cerberus, one R2U, wherever you're off to.
But are you going to get through training? Are you going to get through that three month, two month, four month, five month rigorous training that is expected of you at that very minimum fitness standard? Now, here's why this subject is super important, right? So once you get down to basic training, PTI is going to be really strict on your technique, especially for push-ups and essentially for beat test turnarounds as well.
But if you're barely passing out and you get some push-ups taken away from you, do you have any spare? Like, do you have any up your sleeve or was the four that you gave or you had? So if you don't have any extra push-ups up your sleeve and they take some away from you, you're doomed, right? You don't want that.
You want to be able to smash your push-ups and know that you can pass. You can also pass if they take away some incorrect technique. But you can also smash it out of the park because isn't that pride and that joy and that knowledge that you are an effective member of your team, is that not just pretty awesome? So the second point is that your instructors, now that basic training, are going to expect more from you now that you're a serving member.
So the treatment that you've got when you're going through the recruitment process is different to one's serving member. You know, you kind of got like your handheld and a few hugs while you're a sivi, coming through that process, making it all real nice and appealing for you. And then now that you're a serving member, that's over, like shits on now. We're wanting you to make sure that, you know, you can smash it, that you can do well, that you can absolutely work super hard and not only be able to do your job, but really, really good at it and be a reliable and effective member of your team.
So things that you might have gone away with at your sivi gym, probably not if you're trained at the bar X gym, because you didn't get away with much there, but the things that you got away with at your sivi gym won't fly now that you're in military and it's as simple as that. And the third point is that you're expected to be part of a team. And if you can't keep up and everyone has to come up for you, then does that make you an effective member of the team? Or does that make you someone that's dragging us that everyone has to carry your equipment?
They have to, you know, keep coming back to encourage you to get through. Like it's just not how anyone wants to be getting through that, right? You want to be an effective member of your team. So this is why you need to train to reach beyond those minimum standards and, you know, we want to help you guys with that.
So if you're looking to train to smash out those minimum standards, click the link in the show notes and head to our website and you'll be able to apply to train with us. Because the job that you have applied for means that you're essentially the elite of your country and your community. Like part of the job criteria is a fitness test for policing and for ADF, you can't get in without meeting that fitness criteria, right? So you're essentially out there to keep us safe.
You keep Australia safe. You keep our communities safe. You are serving your country and that is a very serious responsibility. And I hope that you can all understand that and take it as seriously as it needs to be.
If you can't step up and do what is required of you at any given point in time, then you're essentially not giving 100% effective service. And when you sign on the dotted line and you're in the center appointment day, you're essentially signing to be able to give 100% effective service. So if you're not, then you're kind of reneging on your agreement. Your training needs to not only get you across the line, but get you well above those minimum standards.
And if not, then you need some help. And we want to help you. We can help you. We've helped thousands of you get across the line and more.
I've had people leave our GM or leave our online training being the absolute best in their platoons or squadrons and take out awards for PT and best soldier and whatnot. We turn over an exceptional amount of people every year. And I don't mean, oh, we just turn over a lot of people. We turn over a lot of exceptional people.
And when you're at Kapuka, there is no requirement to pass a BFA, which I find quite frustrating, because it means that the burden then just continues to roll downhill. So it doesn't, just because you don't have to pass it at Kapuka doesn't mean that it's an accepted standard once you are serving in the ADF. So if you showed up to a regiment, a battalion, a squadron, whatever you're going to, and you said to your new boss in your chain of command, you know, hey, I haven't passed my BFA yet, they'd be pretty unimpressed. I know why would be.
If someone came to me and said, for no particular reason, like, you know, injury aside, I can't pass a BFA, I'd be like, oh, okay. Many, many applicants have been conditioned to believe that this is okay, because that's how it's sold to you when you're going through the recruitment process. Oh, you don't even need to pass a BFA when you get through. When you go to Kapuka, like no big deal, it is a big deal.
It's a very big deal. You know, your condition to believe that it's okay. And that this standard is what is acceptable because it's acceptable while you're a recruit, while you're a recruit. But once you get to your units, it's just no longer acceptable.
And I can tell you now that once you post into a new unit, no one's really going to find it amusing, okay? And here is why. No one in your unit is going to like hearing that. And if anything, they're likely to be pre-annoyed that they now have an additional training burden of putting you through remedial training to get you up to passing a BFA, which you should already be able to pass because it's the basic fitness assessment.
So every unit out there is extremely busy with their normal day-to-day work, not to mention throwing in operations, both domestic and overseas, going field, going to see, doing courses and the like, and having a new member show up without the required proficiency is just, add to the training learning of your training and it can be quite frustrating. And it means that other training is kind of missed out on while they're getting you up to speed and it doesn't need to be like that if you just put in the effort at the right end of your application. So just like the PFA being the least fit that you ever want it to be, the BFA is essentially a baseline level of fitness. The B stands for basic.
It is a fitness standard that you should always be maintaining and not have to train for. So you should just always be fit enough to pass, always. Like your chain of come up and be like, well, join a BFA today's surprise. And you should just be able to go, okay, no worries.
You know, like it just shouldn't even be a thing. So once you have passed your PFA, your next goal should be to get yourself BFA fit, or your service equivalent. So I talk in Army terms because that's my background, such as natural to me, but I also mean PFTs and like. So beyond that, you should be aiming for combat effectiveness so that you can be called upon it any time to serve your country in whatever capacity is needed of you.
Like you don't want to be the person that turns around and goes, I still have a pass that BFA. I can't go on that deployment to Fiji or wherever. The bottom line is that you should be listening at the fittest you have ever been in your entire life, the fittest, okay, well beyond the PFA standards and either passing or very, very close to passing a BFA. You don't want to get to your unit and have to tell them that you can't pass a BFA.
No one is going to be amused by that information. So if you want some help in getting yourself in enough for service, just head to the show notes and click the link or head of try Instagram, have a read through things, click the link in bio, you know, it's not hard to get in contact with us. So if you're really keen to get started on your training journey with TVG, then get in contact, go through the website, click all the right links and get yourself organized and yeah, we'll give you a call and get you started with your training. Thanks for listening team.