Age, Gender and Performance on the U.S.ARMY Physical Fitness Test (Apft)

Tomasi, Lisanna; Requalos, P. R.; Fober, Gene W.

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“…Furthermore, a sample of active duty soldiers in the 17-to 21-year-old age group had a mean 2-minute sit-up test score of 60 to 65 repetition (males [mean ± SD] = 65.0 ± 9.7 repetitions, females [mean ± SD] = 60.5 ± 10.9 repetitions). 19 These findings bear testimony to the high level of physical fitness of all of the participants entering the current study. This consistent display of a high level of pretraining abdominal muscular fitness across all groups led us to consider a 5-repetition improvement or greater in 6 weeks as clinically significant.…”

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Improvement in Sit-up Performance Associated With 2 Different Training Regimens

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Moore²,

Pendergrass³

et al. 2003

J Orthop Sports Phys Ther

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Shannon Lynch, MPT, OCS 5Study Design: Factorial experimental design. Objective: To compare the outcomes of 2 different abdominal muscular fitness training regimens on sit-up performance across sex and abdominal muscular fitness level. Background: Researchers suggest that the curl-up, when compared to the sit-up, optimizes the challenge to the abdominal muscles while minimizing shear and compressive forces on the lumbar spine. Although researchers have compared curl-ups and sit-ups in many ways, a comparison of sit-up performance after training programs involving curl-ups and sit-ups has not been investigated. Methods and Measures:One hundred two active, healthy, college-aged subjects participated in this study. After stratification based upon maximal 2-minute sit-up performance during the orientation session, subjects were randomly assigned to either a training group using curl-up exercise, a training group using sit-up exercise, or a control group. Maximal 2-minute sit-up test performance was measured before and after a 6-week training program. Data were analyzed utilizing an ANOVA model. Significant interactions or main effects were analyzed utilizing Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference Test. Level of significance for all testing was at ␣ = 0.05. Results: The sit-up training group improved significantly (PϽ0.05). No significant difference in sit-up performance was noted for the curl-up or control groups after the 6-week training program. No statistically significant difference in improvement was noted between sex of subject and level of abdominal muscular fitness of subject. Conclusions: Short-term sit-up training with the Modified Kersey Method in this population significantly improved a maximum 2-minute sit-up test performance. Curl-up training utilizing the same method did not result in improvement in the number of sit-ups performed in 2 minutes. Specificity of training provides the primary explanation for our findings.

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Improvement in Sit-up Performance Associated With 2 Different Training Regimens

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Moore²,

Pendergrass³

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J Orthop Sports Phys Ther

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“…The Office of the Surgeon General non-concurred with the recommendation on the basis that: "morale impact on women, request for "criterion based" standards, increased risk for the 50+ year groups, psychological trauma on those who minimally pass, and a perception that the APFT will be used to downsize." 173 The proposed, more equitable (for some more rigorous) standards were never approved. In Chapter 5 he provided a detailed analysis of US Army fitness levels, in particular addressing the flight from combat-related PRT and assessment to a more "corporate fitness" model.…”

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A Historical Review and Analysis of Army Physical Readiness Training and Assessment

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Age, Gender and Performance on the U.S.ARMY Physical Fitness Test (Apft)

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Improvement in Sit-up Performance Associated With 2 Different Training Regimens

Improvement in Sit-up Performance Associated With 2 Different Training Regimens

A Historical Review and Analysis of Army Physical Readiness Training and Assessment

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