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2 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 25-28

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... Within the range of body composition exhibited by current military personnel, there is no consistent relationship between body fat content and physical performance. There is, however a direct relationship between physical performance as measured by tests of load carrying ability and lifting abilities and the amount of lean body mass.
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... presents the following recommendations to the Army Medical Research and Development Command regarding body composition and physical performance as it relates to accession and retention standards for the military services: · All services should develop job-related physical performance tests to use for accession into military service.
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From page 27...
... as proposed went into effect on October 1, 1991. These changes result in the Army switching to a body fat standard for accession, reducing the accession standard for men to not exceed 4 percent body fat units over retention fat standards, and make the body fat accession standards for women the same as the newly revised retention standards (Appendix E)
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... Research on the following topics is recommended: · the development of service-specific standard tests of military performance that more accurately reflect military activities; · the relationship of body composition to military and physical performance among men and women, including consideration of the relationships of lean body mass, height, and physical performance; · the relationship of body fat distribution and body composition to long-term health outcome in career military personnel, specific for race and gender; and · the relationship of injuries to components of body composition (specifically bone density and lean body mass)
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