Method of Formulating the Physical Fitness Standard of Serviceman

Abstract

Basic physical fitness standard refers to the criteria that all servicemen are supposed to reach, according to the gender and age of individuals. This chapter focuses on developing the method to formulate military basic physical fitness standard. Specifically, sampling survey of male servicemen was made in accordance with eight different age classes, in which push-up, sit-up, 10 m × 5 shuttle run, and 3,000 m long-distance running are involved as the fundamental test items. As for the methodology, this thesis adopts normal distribution theory to determine and calculate how individual serviceman performs in the several test items mentioned previously can reach 70, 75, 80, and 90 %, respectively, which enables the physical fitness test criteria to be more scientific and reliable.