Evaluation of a standardized physical training program for

Time between events was no less than 10 minutes and no
more than 20 minutes.
Injuries. Injuries were obtained from the Anny Medical
Surveillance Activity that warehouses data from the
Standard Ambulatory Data Record (SADR), which contains
all outpatient medical visits made by Army personnel.
Each time a trainee saw a medical care provider at
the Troop Medi24). For all categorical variables, simple contrasts
with a baseline variab]e (dcfined with a risk ratio
of 1.00) were used.
RESUI..TS
1'he physical characteristics of the CG and EG are sho\vn
in Table 4. ,!'he groups were very similar on all physical
characteristics. At the start of BCT, the proportion of
women in the CG was 42.4%, while that of the EG \vas
41.4rk (p = 0.66). At the conclusion of training, the proportion
of women in the CG was 39.9%, \vhile that of the
EG was 37.8"/c, (p = 0.40).
Physical Fitness Outcomes
Table 5 shows the Initial Fitness Assessment scores of the
2 groups. Men and women in the EG performed an average
of 2 more push-ups in a minute than those in the
CG, and this difference was statistically significant.
There were no group differences on sit-ups or the 1-mile
run.
Table 6 shows the APFT scores of the CG and EG at
weeks 5 and 7. Since there were initial group differences
on push-ups (Table 4), ANCOV A was used for analysis of
this test event with adjustment for push-up scores on the
Initial Fitness Assessment. The ANCOVA showed no significant
group-by-week interaction (p = 0.13 for men, p
= 0.58 for \vomen). There was an improvement from \veek
5 to week 7 (p < 0.01 for both men and women). The EG
demonstrated higher push-up performance than the CG
(p < 0.01 for men and p = 0.02 for women). Overall, the
results indicate that for both men and women, push-up
performance of the EG was higher than that of the CG at