This episode outlines the Army’s nine principles of training, which serve as a foundational guide for leaders in developing effective and challenging unit instruction. These principles emphasize that commanders are the primary trainers responsible for unit proficiency, while Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) train individuals and small teams and advise commanders. Key training concepts include using multiechelon techniques and training as a combined arms team to maximize efficiency and realism. Additionally, the principles direct units to train to standard using appropriate doctrine and to train as you fight by creating realistic, combat-like environments. Finally, the text stresses the importance of leaders working to sustain levels of training proficiency over time by mitigating skill decay, employing the principle to train to maintain personnel and equipment readiness, and emphasizing the need to fight to train by protecting approved training time from distractions.

This episode outlines the senior leader and commander responsibilities for ensuring effective unit training. It emphasizes that direct involvement from senior leaders is critical for training to be well-planned, resourced, and effective, often requiring them to issue annual training guidance (ATG) that clarifies objectives and required proficiencies. The document explains a sequential, top-down process for training, where commanders train one echelon down while evaluating two echelons down, ensuring subordinate leaders understand their roles. Furthermore, the source stresses the inextricable link between training and leader development, asserting that training events are the most effective means for senior leaders to teach, coach, mentor, and guide their subordinates toward competency and success. This process is reinforced by a standards-based, top-down, bottom-up approach that coordinates efforts and resources across command echelons.

This episode outlines the U.S. Army's training doctrine and its importance in fulfilling strategic roles amid global challenges. It details the training fundamentals that leaders must employ, emphasizing the need to prioritize tasks given limitations in time and resources. The document separates training into individual training, which focuses on Soldier-level skills and proficiencies guided by Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs), and collective training, which focuses on teamwork and unit cohesion, rated as Trained, Practiced, or Untrained. Ultimately, unit proficiency is measured by mastering Mission-Essential Tasks (METs), weapons qualification, and collective live-fire task proficiency, all while integrating emerging training technologies and adapting to continuous transformation to maintain relevance.

This episode outlines the Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) System for U.S. Army soldiers, detailing structured physical training schedules and considerations across various phases of a soldier's career. The text focuses on the Initial Phase of training, including the Future Soldier Program (FSP) and Basic Combat Training (BCT), emphasizing safety, nutrition, and injury control. Furthermore, it provides specific workout templates for the Fitness Training Unit (FTU) for improving Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) scores, and for Advanced Individual Training (AIT) and One Station Unit Training (OSUT). Finally, the document presents sample endurance, power, and hybrid schedules for a soldier's First Unit of Assignment (FUA) and the long-term Sustaining Phase of readiness.

This episode details Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) Coaching doctrine, focusing on improving Soldier readiness across five domains: physical, nutritional, mental, spiritual, and sleep readiness. The text outlines how coaching teaches Soldiers techniques for maintaining high levels of health, emphasizing that attention, perception, and expectation significantly impact overall well-being. A large section is dedicated to mindfulness as a key component of H2F, explaining its physiological and psychological benefits, alongside the importance of proactive health, physical exercise, and a Soldier's surroundings. Furthermore, the document discusses the value of personal development, good nutrition and recharge practices, strong social support networks (family, friends, colleagues), spiritual readiness, and leveraging the power of the mind to achieve optimal performance and health.

This episode covers the Special Conditioning Programs utilized by the Army's Human Performance (H2F) System, which are designed to restore Soldier readiness and enable a safe return to full duty following illness, injury, or deconditioning. The guidelines draw a critical distinction between rehabilitation, which is medical-supervised training focused on achieving a physical baseline, and reconditioning, a unit-owned program aimed at restoring mission-capable fitness. These programs are meticulously structured using medical profiles (like DA Form 3349) to categorize restrictions, detailing modifications for Soldiers ranging from Category 1 (severe restrictions) to Category 3 (minimum restrictions). Furthermore, the document lays out extensive guidance for the Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Training (P3T) program, including necessary safety precautions, specific exercise schedules, and mandatory educational curricula. Throughout all these specialty efforts, commanders are instructed to prioritize Soldier health, coordinate closely with medical staff, and ensure consistent participation to maintain overall unit readiness.

This episode covers Chapter 11 of FM 7-22, which establishes that rest is the brain's unique physiological requirement and is essential for maximizing Soldier health and operational effectiveness. It structures optimal rest around three core principles: maximizing sleep duration (ideally 7–9 hours), adhering to proper sleep timing (circadian rhythm alignment), and ensuring sleep continuity (uninterrupted cycles). Leadership is tasked with treating rest as a crucial logistical priority, actively setting conditions, and modeling good habits to foster a supportive sleep culture using the SLEEP acronym framework. The text details strategies for managing challenges like shift work and jet lag, emphasizing pre-sleep routines and maintaining an optimal sleep environment. Furthermore, it recommends specific fatigue countermeasures, such as strategic napping and the controlled use of caffeine, to temporarily sustain cognitive performance when full rest is unattainable during continuous operations. Ultimately, the resource stresses that although countermeasures exist, only actual sleep can resolve accrued sleep debt and fully restore readiness.

This episode establishes spiritual readiness as a core component of overall Soldier health, defining it as the inner strength and resilience drawn from an individual’s personal values, philosophy, or religion. The document details how leaders must foster this readiness while adhering strictly to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ensuring both the free exercise of religion and strict neutrality under the Establishment Clause regarding any particular belief system. Leaders are guided on how to accommodate diverse spiritual practices, including those related to dietary needs, religious attire, and grooming standards, to support personnel across all backgrounds. The source lists numerous methods used to develop this domain, such as meditation, prayer, journaling, and community service, and emphasizes that spiritual growth is largely self-directed. Furthermore, the chapter identifies the Chaplain Corps and Unit Ministry Teams (UMTs) as primary resources for advising commanders and facilitating support in this complex, pluralistic environment. Finally, it notes that spiritual readiness assessment is a subjective, self-selected process focused on evaluating personal elements like identity and coping strategies.