Anthropomorphic and Physical Fitness Characteristics of United States Air Force Basic Military Training: Special Warfare Versus Nonspecial Warfare Recruits, Fiscal Year 2019-2023.

Introduction: Each year, thousands of individuals enlist in the Department of the Air Force (DAF), with some seeking to become DAF Special Warfare (SW) candidates. This study aimed to compare the anthropomorphic and physical fitness characteristics between these groups during fiscal years (FYs) 2019-2023.

Methods:  The sample includes male candidates below the age of 30 who attended the DAF basic military training (BMT) from FY2019 to 2023 (N = 119,415).

Force plate vertical jump scans are not a valid proxy for physical fitness in US special warfare trainees.

The United States Air Force Special Warfare Training Wing (SWTW) administers a comprehensive physical fitness test to active duty Airmen entering the Special Warfare training pipeline. The Sparta Science™ system utilizes proprietary software to analyze the force-time curve of a vertical jump and purports to serve as a proxy for traditional military fitness tests. The Sparta Science™ system produces four proprietary metrics, including the Sparta™ Score, which is correlated to high magnitudes of force production purportedly This study investigated how Sparta™ Jump Scans correlate to components of a physical fitness test utilized within the SW training pipeline.

Joint-Level Analyses of the Back Squat With and Without Intraset Rest.

To provide a joint-level analysis of traditional (TS) and cluster (CS) set structure during the back-squat exercise. Eight men (24 [3] y, 177.3 [7.

Changes in Creatine Kinase and Hormones Over the Course of an American Football Season.

Stone, JD, Kreutzer, A, Mata, JD, Nystrom, MG, Jagim, AR, Jones, MT, and Oliver, JM. Changes in creatine kinase and hormones over the course of an American Football Season. J Strength Cond Res 33(9): 2481-2487, 2019-The purpose of this study was to examine changes in creatine kinase and hormones over the course of an entire season of American football.