Air Force getting Fit to Fight

"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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The weird/stupid part about the waist measurement thing is that they
don't
take height into account. If a guy is 5ft 8in tall and has a 32-inch
waist
he's good to go. Make the same guy 6ft 6in and I guarantee he won't have
a
32-inch waist. The tall guy will lose points in a fitness assessment
purely
because he's tall.

I brought this issue up and, according to an exercise physiologist in my
office, height and waistline are not inter-related except in the extremes.
In
other words, every guy between 5'-2" and 6'-5" should have the same
waistline.
In extreme cases like Shaq at 7'-2" (is he taller than that?), his waist
may be
larger, but not greater than 40". Not really an issue for most people I
know,
but I was curious.

I suspect the guy was parroting the party line. But look at the tables for
running and pushups/situps. There are some really weird things happening
there.

1. I can get 7.5 points in situps if I do 29 OR 30 of them in 1 minute.
But I can get 8.0 points for doing 31. Why doesn't 30 count as 7.75?
2. If I run the 1.5 mile in 12:00 I get 50 points. Then the "window" for
49 points is 12:11 to 12:25. Then, somehow the "window" for 48 points is
12:25 to 12:49. Huh? Literally none of the "windows" are consistent - some
are 12 seconds, some 17, others 24, even one of 39. And forget trying to
score 45 points on the run - in my table the score of 46 is followed by 44
points, with no window in between for 45. Huh?

I suspect the guy was parroting the party line.

I doubt it. I work in an office where "spouting the party line" is not a
positive attribute, out of the box thinking is.

1. I can get 7.5 points in situps if I do 29 OR 30 of them in 1 minute.
But I can get 8.0 points for doing 31. Why doesn't 30 count as 7.75?
2. If I run the 1.5 mile in 12:00 I get 50 points. Then the "window" for
49 points is 12:11 to 12:25. Then, somehow the "window" for 48 points is
12:25 to 12:49. Huh? Literally none of the "windows" are consistent - some
are 12 seconds, some 17, others 24, even one of 39. And forget trying to
score 45 points on the run - in my table the score of 46 is followed by 44
points, with no window in between for 45. Huh?


Yeah, I haven't looked at these issues in any kind of detail, but does it
surprise you? I mean, for the most part the people inventing this stuff are
still the people that brought you the bike test.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"