{"id":51497,"date":"2025-04-22T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/04\/22\/army-to-replace-athletic-trainers-with-strength-coaches-on-h2f-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:22:24","slug":"army-to-replace-athletic-trainers-with-strength-coaches-on-h2f-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2025\/04\/22\/army-to-replace-athletic-trainers-with-strength-coaches-on-h2f-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Army to replace athletic trainers with strength coaches on H2F teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is swapping athletic trainer positions from its Holistic Health and Fitness teams for more strength and conditioning coaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. 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Those requirements are proving difficult to fill as the service spreads the program from its original 111 combat arms or combat arms support brigades to the entire Army over the coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The athletic trainers focus primarily on returning soldiers to duty following injury and focusing training on injury prevention, Mingus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strength coaches are more focused on optimizing human performance, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mingus told Army Times he was confident that a combination of injury prevention and mitigation by proper instruction and monitoring by strength coaches, battalion and brigade surgeons and medics could keep injuries down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fitness program covers five health domains \u2014 physical, sleep, nutrition, spiritual and mental \u2014 for an all-around approach to soldier health and performance. Each domain is overseen by experts in the field from strength and conditioning coaches to behavioral health professionals, registered dietitians and chaplains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At every level, the Army has touted its H2F program, highlighting improved metrics for H2F-resourced brigades compared with brigades that lack support teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data has shown a 30% decrease in musculoskeletal injuries, a 140% decrease in injury referral; a 22% reduction in behavioral health problems and a 26% increase in rifle expert qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFit people are harder to kill,\u201d Mingus said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March, Lt. Gen. 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The original goal was to reach 111 active duty brigades by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A series of six pilot studies in both the Guard and Reserve will examine how best to implement the program at smaller or dispersed units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are committed to making sure that our Guard and Reserve folks are taken care of because when they go [deploy], they got to be just as strong and fast as everybody else,\u201d Mingus said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilots will examine using both Area Support Teams and H2Fast concepts to determine how best to build teams to support such units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An active duty pilot will convert a former embedded H2F team at Joint Base Lewis\u2013McChord, Wash., to support the installation commander and smaller brigades at the base that did not have teams to look at dispersed coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 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