TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01universal fitness standards. The challenge is not just to improve Soldier performance, but ratherto tailor fitness efforts to specific physical performance requirements. Future physical fitnessassessment and training techniques must have parity with other training. Leaders should not haveto choose between fitness and tactical and technical proficiency.Physical Fitness Evaluation Prior to EnlistmentCurrently, Army recruiters and the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command review acandidate’s medical history to identify current or past behaviors or injuries to determine whetheran individual is a risk for completing their initial military enlistment. In the future, thisevaluation can align a Soldier’s physical abilities with those attributes required of a militaryoccupational specialty (MOS), focusing on the Soldier’s potential rather than current fitness.This will help in designing physical training programs in initial training to build on Soldierabilities.Prior to enlistment, the Army will utilize an initial assessment tool similar to the current cadetfitness challenge. This assessment addresses physical fitness through tests of work capacity,cardio-respiratory fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility. Theassessment covers five broad sections including cardiovascular Physical fitness training(aerobic) fitness, cardiovascular (high intensity) fitness, upper programs for deployed orbody muscular fitness, lower body and shoulder/midsection deploying units in supportmuscular fitness, and flexibility. The score scales are criterion of ongoing combatreferenced and gender-based.operations should bebased on the mostThe assessment of physical fitness focuses on physicalperformance, body composition, and aligning the potential recruitto appropriate MOSs. Implementation of successful preenlistmentphysical evaluation is one component of an on-goingand continuous physical training regime from IMT, to the firstassignment and throughout the Soldier’s career.Physical Fitness after Initial Military Training (IMT)physically demandingtasks from the unit’sMETL.- AR 350-1Adapting physical fitness training during IMT allows Soldiers to increase their fitnesswithout compromising standards. Recognizing that training cannot transform the average recruitinto an athlete in a few short weeks, the Army must continue to establish assessment goals thatensure Soldiers can achieve satisfactory performance and, more importantly, demonstrate thepotential for continued improvement.Once Soldiers complete their initial training, unit led fitness programs continue to develop theSoldier with emphasis on the unit tasks and the particular demands of the individual’s position inthe unit. To monitor and insure Soldiers’ health and fitness, the Army will continue to require ahealth risk assessment that evaluates not only aerobic and anaerobic fitness, but also flexibilityand body fat composition. Future health risk assessment may include automated medical recordreviews, remote vital signs measurement systems, and other diagnostic tools, but the purpose willremain to monitor health and fitness individually and, by extension, collectively. After that89