{"doi":"10.3390/jfmk7010027","title":"Baseline Physical Activity Behaviors and Relationships with Fitness in the Army Training at High Intensity Study","abstract":"United States Army soldiers must meet physical fitness test standards. Criticisms of the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) include limited testing of only aerobic and muscular endurance activity domains; yet, it is unclear what levels of aerobic and muscle strengthening activity may help predict performance in aspects of the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT). This study explored relationships between baseline self-reported aerobic and muscle strengthening activities and APFT- and ACFT-related performance. Baseline participant data (N = 123) were from a cluster-randomized clinical trial that recruited active-duty military personnel (mean age 33.7 ± 5.7 years, 72.4% White, 87.0% college-educated, 81.5% Officers). An online survey was used for self-report of socio-demographic characteristics and weekly aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity behaviors. Participants also completed the APFT (2 min push-ups, 2 min sit-ups, 2-mile run) and ACFT-related measures (1-repetition maximum deadlift, pull-up repetitions or timed flexed arm hang, horizontal jump, and dummy drag). Bivariate logistic regression found greater aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity predicted better APFT performance, while better ACFT-related performance was predicted by greater muscle-strengthening activity. Although our data are mostly from mid-career officers, command policies should emphasize the new Holistic Health and Fitness initiative that encourages regular aerobic and muscle-strengthening physical activity for soldiers.","journal":"Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology","year":2022,"id":272538,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":11,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9646,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":939090,"name":"Aspen E. Streetman","orcid":"0000-0002-5862-4823","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939091,"name":"Filip Kukić","orcid":"0000-0002-8625-5375","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":405150,"name":"Chunki Fong","orcid":"0000-0001-7026-5117","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":922698,"name":"Brittany S. Hollerbach","orcid":"0000-0002-6350-8210","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939092,"name":"Blake D. Goodman","orcid":"0000-0002-1931-5374","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939093,"name":"C. Keith Haddock","orcid":"0000-0002-4885-8335","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939094,"name":"Walker S. C. Poston","orcid":"0000-0002-6610-3649","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939089,"name":"Katie M. Heinrich","orcid":"0000-0002-6837-408X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":20,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:27:47.926496Z","pmid":"35323610","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}