Marine Corps Total Fitness
Marine Corps Total Fitness (MCTF) delivers Warrior Readiness and Resilience through an integrated system that invests in prevention and skill-building efforts to optimize warfighter performance, readiness, lethality, and resilience. Total Fitness optimizes Service-wide force longevity and performance through holistic human performance programs designed to strengthen the Force and Family.
Benefits of
Total Fitness
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MCTF enables Marines, units, and families to strengthen core performance in any environment and recognize what supports—and hinders—their overall wellness and ability to perform.
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MCTF defines what it means to be healthy and can help strengthen the whole Marine and the Marine’s family, a benefit throughout the career continuum.
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MCTF invests in strengthening prevention. Its domains are interconnected and mutually supporting, equipping commanders with a seamless system to boost readiness.
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Fitness of mind promotes self-confidence and adaptability. Fitness of spirit provides a sense of purpose and endurance. Social fitness creates positive interactions and a sense of connectedness with others. Fitness of body allows Marines to focus on the mission, assist others in need, and display healthy mental toughness when circumstances get rough.
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Department of Defense Instruction 1010.10 also keeps nutritional fitness, financial fitness, medical (and dental) preventive care, and environmental fitness on the radar, along with the critical factor of sleep.
Our Services
Physical Fitness
Physical Fitness develops functional strength, agility, aerobic capacity, endurance, mobility, and a well-rounded fitness program. Possessing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and resources necessary to build and sustain optimum performance, and avoid injury or rehabilitate injuries.
Spiritual Fitness
Spiritual Fitness develops and engages in life’s meaning and purpose. Hopeful and positive about life and the future. Ability to make sound moral and ethical decisions, respecting others, expressing gratitude, able to forgive self and others, engaging in core values and beliefs, and connecting to something larger than oneself.