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Associations of Physical Fitness and Body Composition Characteristics With Simulated Military Task Performance

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Pihlainen, K., Santtila, M., Häkkinen, K., & Kyröläinen, H. (2018). Associations of Physical Fitness and Body Composition Characteristics With Simulated Military Task Performance. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 32(4), 1089-1098. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000001921
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Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Authors
Pihlainen, K. |
Santtila, M. |
Häkkinen, Keijo |
Kyröläinen, Heikki
Date
2018
Discipline
LiikuntafysiologiaValmennus- ja testausoppiExercise PhysiologyScience of Sport Coaching and Fitness Testing
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© 2017 National Strength and Conditioning Association. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.

 
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the associations of physical fitness and body composition characteristics with anaerobic endurance performance, tested in the combat load using the occupationally relevant military simulation test (MST). Eighty-one male soldiers, deployed to a crisis management operation in the Middle East, volunteered for the study and participated in a test battery consisting measurements of muscle strength, body composition characteristics, endurance capacity, and MST. A Spearman correlational analysis revealed that the strongest variable, correlated with MST time, was the countermovement jump performed with the combat load (CMJ2) (rs = 20.66, p , 0.001). Among the individual body composition variables, the MST time had the strongest relationship with fat percentage (rs = 0.53, p , 0.001) and skeletal muscle mass (SMM) (rs = 20.47, p , 0.001). The use of the dead mass ratio, which was calculated dividing body mass by fat mass accompanied with the weight of the combat load, increased body composition-based associations significantly, and this variable turned out to be the best single predictor for the MST performance (rs = 20.67, p , 0.001). Significant predictors of the MST time in the stepwise multivariate regression analysis included CMJ2, 3000 m, SMM, and push-ups. Together, these variables explained 66% (R2 adj ¼ 0:658, model p , 0.001) of the variance in the MST time. In conclusion, the novel MST is a promising military specific assessment method of muscle power of the lower extremities and endurance capacity, which are crucial performance components in anaerobic combat situations. ...
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; National Strength and Conditioning Association
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1064-8011
Keywords
obstacle course fyysinen kunto kehonkoostumus suorituskyky anaerobinen suorituskyky sotilaat
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https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000001921
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201803231824

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