Posted on Mar 20, 2023
Get the score, skip the tape: This fitness score waives body fat test
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Is this change perfect? No. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes.
To make even more sense, I think height/weight should be waived if someone can pass all events with an 80 or higher which is significantly above the minimum standard. From my professional viewpoint, the 80+ range is no easy feat for males/females and would fall within my definition of "Army Fit." 540 and higher and you're closer to being at the level of a pro-am athlete which not many at all will "consistently" achieve.
To make even more sense, I think height/weight should be waived if someone can pass all events with an 80 or higher which is significantly above the minimum standard. From my professional viewpoint, the 80+ range is no easy feat for males/females and would fall within my definition of "Army Fit." 540 and higher and you're closer to being at the level of a pro-am athlete which not many at all will "consistently" achieve.
Get the score, skip the tape: This fitness score waives body fat test
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That makes sense because the Canadians can have a fat body who can pass their army combat fitness test yet look like a fatbody in Animal House.
This means that those guys who get pumped up and muscular don't tip the scale on the body mass index if they are way stronger than their peers. This is a good thing!!
This means that those guys who get pumped up and muscular don't tip the scale on the body mass index if they are way stronger than their peers. This is a good thing!!
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However this is only good until the next ACFT a person takes. It's not you hit 540 you don't ever have to get taped again. People have to hit that requirement every test is the way I read it when it came out.
Honestly I think we need to get away from the BMI standard since it's archaic and is in no way based in medicine. The guy who invented it over 200 years ago wasn't even practicing medicine: "academic whose studies included astronomy, mathematics, statistics, and sociology. Notably, Quetelet was not a physician, nor did he study medicine. He was best known for his sociological work aimed at identifying the characteristics of l’homme moyen — the average man — whom, to Quetelet, represented a social ideal." I feel like we need to find a measurement tool that's not over 200 years old, since body types and how we get food has changed completely, and it should be based somewhere in medicine.
Also add in the fact that we (should) be all weigh lifting more so that means more muscle mass...so people are going to weigh more if they're building more muscle.
I have like 2-3 more height/weights til I retire though. Then maybe when I do I can find a healthy relationship with food and not this borderline eating disorder I basically have.
Honestly I think we need to get away from the BMI standard since it's archaic and is in no way based in medicine. The guy who invented it over 200 years ago wasn't even practicing medicine: "academic whose studies included astronomy, mathematics, statistics, and sociology. Notably, Quetelet was not a physician, nor did he study medicine. He was best known for his sociological work aimed at identifying the characteristics of l’homme moyen — the average man — whom, to Quetelet, represented a social ideal." I feel like we need to find a measurement tool that's not over 200 years old, since body types and how we get food has changed completely, and it should be based somewhere in medicine.
Also add in the fact that we (should) be all weigh lifting more so that means more muscle mass...so people are going to weigh more if they're building more muscle.
I have like 2-3 more height/weights til I retire though. Then maybe when I do I can find a healthy relationship with food and not this borderline eating disorder I basically have.
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