Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2011
Publication Source
Military Medicine
Abstract
Recent research has demonstrated body mass (M) bias in military physical fi tness tests favoring lighter, not just leaner, service members. Mathematical modeling predicts that a distance run carrying a backpack of 30 lbs would eliminate M-bias. The purpose of this study was to empirically test this prediction for the U.S. Army push-ups and 2-mile run tests. Two tests were performed for both events for each of 56 university Reserve Offi cer Training Corps male cadets: with (loaded) and without backpack (unloaded). Results indicated signifi cant M-bias in the unloaded and no M-bias in the loaded condition for both events. Allometrically scaled scores for both events were worse in the loaded vs. unloaded conditions, supporting a hypothesis not previously tested. The loaded push-ups and 2-mile run appear to remove M-bias and are probably more occupationally relevant as military personnel are often expected to carry external loads.
Inclusive pages
1032-1036
ISBN/ISSN
0026-4075
Document Version
Postprint
Copyright
Copyright © 2011, Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.
Publisher
AMSUS: Society of the Federal Health Professionals
Volume
176
Issue
9
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
allometric scaling, backpack, weight bias
eCommons Citation
Vanderburgh, Paul M.; Mickley, Nicholas S.; Anloague, Philip A.; and Lucius, Kimber, "Load Carriage Distance Run and Pushups Tests: No Body Mass Bias and Occupationally Relevant" (2011). Health and Sport Science Faculty Publications. 31.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hss_fac_pub/31
Comments
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article of the same title that ran in the journal Military Medicine; it is provided here with the permission of the publisher. The article available in the repository is the author's accepted manuscript; the version of record may contain minor differences that have come about in the copy editing and layout processes.
Permission documentation is on file.