![]() Address author correspondence to Wissem Dhahbi at Chamari is with Aspetar, Qatar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar. Behm is with the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, NL, Canada. During the diverse operations/tasks performed by the commando soldiers in their daily activities, theyĭhahbi, Chaouachi, and Padulo are with the Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization,” National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Tunis, Tunisia. To be successful in this test, each soldier must attain a minimum standard score for each individual subtest.5 According to the analysis of physical requirements of Special Forces soldiers,3 strength and power of the upper-limb muscles is required. They also participated in sending international missions to combat terrorism in vulnerable areas in the world.1 Commandos are elite Special Operations soldiers who possess a high level of fitness are specialized in combat skills, sky diving, parachuting (static line and free fall), and scuba training and master various weapon qualifications.2 These soldiers are ground combatant forces, and they must maintain optimal physical attributes of strength, power, stamina, and endurance to be efficient.3 Identifying selection measures of Special Forces combatants is complex, but physical capability, motivation, and spatial ability have been recognized as key performance factors.3,4 Combat ability has been linked to the Army Physical Fitness Test, which has been used to determine fitness levels and promote health. Keywords: field test, muscle strength, sport army, upper-limb power test, validity and reliability Since the events of September 11, 2001, most countries in the world increased the pace of the process of training Special Forces units to combat terrorism in their territory. Conclusions: Considering the strong concurrent validity and excellent test–retest reliability, the RCT is simple to administer, has ecological validity, and is a valid specific field test of upper-body power for commandos and, in addition, can be accurately assessed with a stopwatch. The coefficients of variation for the ET, APO, and RPO were all under 10%. The SEM% values for the ET, APO, and RPO were all under 5% (range 3.73–4.52%), all being smaller than the corresponding smallest worthwhile change. Results: Stopwatch assessment had an excellent criterion validity (r =. ![]() The best individual attempt of 3 trials was kept for analysis, and the performance was expressed in absolute power output (APO) and body-mass relative power output (RPO). The stopwatch method related to the execution time (ET) was validated by comparison with video motion analysis. Methods: All participants were assessed on a 5-m rope-climbing test (RCT) and the following tests: pull-ups, push-ups, estimated-1-repetition-maximum (est-1RM), medicine-ball put, and handgrip-strength test. Participants: 21 antiterrorism commandos. Behm, and Karim Chamari Purpose: To examine the concurrent validity and absolute and relative reliabilities of a commando-specific power test. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2015, 10, 509 -515 © 2015 Human Kinetics, Inc.įive-Meter Rope-Climbing: A Commando-Specific Power Test of the Upper Limbs Wissem Dhahbi, Anis Chaouachi, Johnny Padulo, David G.
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