{"id":75967,"date":"2024-10-28T16:29:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/10\/28\/marine-gender-study-reveals-importance-of-explosive-strength\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:23:04","slug":"marine-gender-study-reveals-importance-of-explosive-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/10\/28\/marine-gender-study-reveals-importance-of-explosive-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine gender study reveals importance of \u2018explosive strength\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years after the publication of a wide-ranging independent study on best practices for integrating men and women at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/04\/30\/how-a-former-army-captain-fared-at-marine-boot-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Corps boot camp<\/a>, the service has yet to implement a key recommendation: integrating the genders at the platoon level in training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But researchers say certain findings about how to test and build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/10\/22\/trimming-a-fat-force-could-anti-obesity-drugs-shape-up-the-military\/\" target=\"_blank\">fitness for injury prevention<\/a> may work their way into future service protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/11\/04\/marines-still-oppose-integrated-boot-camp-platoons-after-2m-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 700-page, $2 million study<\/a>, commissioned by the Marine Corps and completed by the University of Pittsburgh, was completed in summer 2022 and released to Military Times several months later in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This summer, after a lengthy publication review process, the study\u2019s key findings were published in a special issue of the journal Military Medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/10\/22\/trimming-a-fat-force-could-anti-obesity-drugs-shape-up-the-military\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thumbnail_WeightLoss_Header_Final.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Weighing benefits: Could anti-obesity meds help troops\u2019 weight issues?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Advocates argue that anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic could help overweight troops, but the services have no uniform policy for such treatments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One major observation that emerges \u2014 applicable to both genders \u2014 is the value of testing \u201cexplosive strength\u201d to assess overall fitness and predict future military performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the recruit training study, which involved 584 volunteer Marine recruits \u2014 183 female, 401 male \u2014 at Marine Corps Recruit Depots Parris Island, South Carolina, and San Diego, researchers collected \u201cbaseline data\u201d on factors they believed might predict attrition or injury before tracking the recruits through training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One risk factor researchers quickly pinpointed isn\u2019t terribly surprising: cigarette smoking. In the population studied, smokers were over 110% more likely to drop out of training than non-smokers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this contrast may be about more than the effects of smoke on young recruits\u2019 lungs; researchers said smoking may be a top-off to other behavioral or psychosocial factors, \u201csuch as risk taking or resistance to authority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other major finding researchers identified is specific to physical training: a major predictor of training injury and attrition was reduced muscular power and lower relative peaks in explosive strength. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh team studied these factors by applying a pair of physical tests at the start of the research period. The first of these tests was a \u201ccountermovement jump,\u201d in which participants placed their hands on their hips and attempted to jump \u201cas high and fast as possible\u201d for three peak efforts in a row. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their efforts were judged not only in the height achieved in the jumps, but also in relative peak power and force of deceleration, assessed by software readings from \u201cforce plates\u201d recruits stood on during the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second test was an \u201cisometric mid-thigh pull,\u201d also done on top of the force plates. For this test, recruits were told to grip a steel testing apparatus simulating a heavy weight and \u201cpull as hard and fast as possible\u201d for five seconds at a time. After warmups and familiarization, recruits performed this test for two reps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, these tests do not precisely replicate anything in the existing standard Marine Corps fitness assessments. The Marine Corps physical fitness test includes pushups or pullups; planks for time; and a three-mile run or equivalent rowing session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service\u2019s combat fitness test, meanwhile, contains more power and agility elements, including maximum reps on lifting a 30-pound ammunition can and a maneuver-under-fire event with a shuttle run, grenade throw and agility course in addition to a half-mile run in battle dress uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of boot camp, under current standards, Marines must pass an \u201cinitial strength test\u201d that more closely resembles the PFT. They perform maximum-repetition pull-ups or push-ups, crunches or planks, and a 1.5-mile run. Ammo can lifts are added for recruits planning to enter a ground combat military occupational specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the jump and pull tests introduced by the Pittsburgh team are not as physically depleting as the Marines\u2019 current assessment battery, researchers found the exercises to be highly predictive of injuries and attrition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recruit whose peak power was lower and who had a shorter deceleration period was more likely to sustain a lower-extremity injury in training, they found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversely, for each \u201cunit increase\u201d in peak power, likelihood of injury went down more than 8%. Recruits who took longer to reach peak force and less time to decelerate were more likely to drop out of training at a rate of 2% per each unit change, they found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, the research also confirmed that subjects\u2019 performance on these tests can improve with training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While female recruits are still significantly more likely to sustain musculoskeletal injuries, or MSIs, than their male counterparts, it remains a Corps-wide problem. The study found these injuries are estimated to cost the Corps $111 million and 356,000 lost duty days each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe advocate for neuromuscular training programs to bolster strength and power, integrated nutrition and exercise strategies for optimal body composition, and support for smoking cessation to alleviate the incidence of MSIs and curtail attrition,\u201d the study concluded. \u201cEffectively addressing these risk factors is pivotal for diminishing the rates of MSIs and attrition among recruits, thereby enhancing overall military readiness and operational efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a September round-table interview with the study\u2019s authors, Bradley Nindl, director of the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s Neuromuscular Research Laboratory\/Warrior Human Performance Research Center, said he believed the explosive-movements tests could be adapted away from the sophisticated pressure-plate setup so they could be performed anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s something that you can take from the laboratory to the field,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, I do think you\u2019ll see more and more studies for the military, specifically, assessing performance using these two technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karl Friedl, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and a guest editor on the study, gave credit to the Corps for incorporating lifting, carrying and pull-ups, all of which require musculoskeletal power, in their existing fitness evaluations. He said further expansion of explosive-strength assessments may already be in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Marines are actually considering some kind of jump test that Marines might be able to do on a regular basis voluntarily and track on their own, to track their fitness over their whole career,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re still considering those sorts of technologies they\u2019re always looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesman for Marine Corps Training and Education Command, however, said not to expect any near-term changes to the Corps\u2019 standard tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo changes are planned for the PFT or CFT,\u201d Maj. 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