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This headline mentions body fat, and the 2nd paragraph mentions specific body fat percentage thresholds. But from what I understand, they're shifting _to_ a sys
by abeppu 4y ago
This headline mentions body fat, and the 2nd paragraph mentions specific body fat percentage thresholds. But from what I understand, they're shifting _to_ a system which measures height and waist size with a tape measure, _from_ a prior system which measured waist and neck size with a tape measure. I.e they're throwing around "body fat percentage" as a term, but they're not measuring it with any kind of accuracy, and are favoring a very low tech (and perhaps transparent) measure over one which would be more accurate but expensive, such as hydrostatic weighing or DEXA. To me it's a little crazy that they use a tape measure given how much we spend on the military.
https://www.military.com/military-fitness/fitness-test-prep/body-composition-test-prep https://www.military.com/military-fitness/fitness-test-prep/...
- vlovich123 4y agoYou think that money goes to grunts?
- throwaway173738 4y agoHydrostatic weighting would be a huge mess for MEPS stations.
- Olreich 4y agoThis system change improves accuracy without increasing cost or complexity. They already are doing these measurements, just adjusting the threshold based on height. The previous system made it so very short people could be very fat so long as they could do the other components, but very tall people had to be rail thin or else automatically fail the test.