Monitoring Warfighter's Physical Performance During Sustained Operations Using a Field Expedient Jumping Test

摘要

A sensitive, reliable, field expedient physical performance test would be a valuable tool for monitoring training progress and experimental interventions. We hypothesized that repetitive unloaded jump tests could be used to monitor physical performance status. Twenty-nine U.S. Marines attending Infantry Officer Course performed 1, 5 and 30 repetition unloaded counter- movement squat jumps (UJ) to assess the efficacy of UJ for monitoring physical performance pre and post and 8-d field exercise composed of near continuous work, sleep disruption and underfeeding (SUSOPS). Peak jump height and power were highest using 1UJ.