Yes, there are both fitness and fatness hurdles, or at least there were a few decades ago. If you were reasonably fit but quite fat, you would go through Army B

Yes, there are both fitness and fatness hurdles, or at least there were a few decades ago. If you were reasonably fit but quite fat, you would go through Army Basic Training but be on a restricted diet. People would lose 30-40 pounds in six weeks, so it was effective. If you were sufficiently unfit that you could not exercise, that was when they sent you to remedial training before you could join Basic Training.