Research Paper Title Correlations between Physical Fitness Tests & Performance of Military Tasks – A Systematic Review & Meta-Analyses. Purpose To help evaluate the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) and ensure a future test is associated with Soldiers’ performance of common physical job requirements, the USAPHC applied a Systematic Review (SR) methodology to identify and synthesize published… Read More
Research Paper Title Abdominal and hip flexor muscle activity during 2 minutes of sit-ups and curl-ups. Background Previous studies have compared muscle activity between different types of sit-ups and curl-ups. However, few have examined the exercises used by the armed forces or investigated the influence of exercise duration on muscle activation. Therefore, the aim of… Read More
Research Paper Title Modifying the U.S. Air Force Fitness Test to Reflect Physical Combat Fitness: One Study’s Perspective. Background Within the past few years, the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps have either incorporated or are in the process of incorporating physical fitness tests that assess a soldier’s fitness capability in a combat environment. In… Read More
A new page ‘Easy-to-use Outdoor Exercise & Fitness Tests & Assessments’ can be found under the main page heading of ‘Fitness Assessments’.
This sub-section provides the reader with the tables necessary to convert BPFA raw scores into a final readable score.
This section provides the reader with everything they need to know about the fitness assessments and tests utilised by the British Armed Forces.
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