Total Fitness Definition: The Marine Corps’ prevention strategy. MCTF delivers Warrior Readiness and Resilience through an innovative effort increasing overall fitness and wellness. Focusing on the whole person and their individual goals, emphasizing mental, social, spiritual, and physical fitness. Our integrated system invests in prevention and skill-building efforts, enhancing warfighter performance, readiness, lethality, and resilience. Total Fitness optimizes Service-wide force longevity and performance through holistic human performance programs designed to strengthen the Marine and Family
Spiritual Fitness is finding inner strength from a higher purpose. Includes being hopeful and positive about life and future. It is the ability to make sound moral and ethical decisions, respecting others, engaging in core values and beliefs, and connecting to something larger than oneself.
Social Fitness builds and maintains healthy, positive relationships with peers, unit leaders, friends, family members, and members of the community. Includes being kind and respectful to others and being able to forgive self and others.
Mental Fitness engages healthy thinking and behaviors and builds strong intellectual and emotional habits. Included are mindset, attitudes, and practices to help achieve optimal performance.
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.