Correction Factors for Body Mass Bias in Military Physical Fitness Tests
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Correction Factors for Body Mass in Military Physical Fitness Tests
Recent research findings combined with the theoretical laws of biological similarity make the compelling case that all physical fitness test items for the Army, Air Force, and Navy impose a 15-20% physiologic bias against heavier, not fatter, men and women. Using the published findings that actual scores of muscle and aerobic endurance scale by body mass raised to the 1/3 power, correction fact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed.172.7.738