Some airmen struggle with new fitness tests, By Charlie Coon, Stars
and Stripes

(EXCERPT) European edition, Sunday, April 11, 2004

AVIAN AIR BASE, Italy — Nearly 30 percent of Europe’s airmen who took
the new Air Force fitness test in January and February scored either
“poor” or “marginal.”

According to U.S. Air Forces in Europe, 968 out of 5,704 airmen who
took the test of push-ups, sit-ups, waist measurement and 1.5-mile run
scored “poor” by the Air Force standard, while another 708 barely
passed.

The new test bases 50 percent of airmen’s scores on their run time and
30 percent on their waist size. The sit-ups and push-ups count 10
percent each. The test replaced one that measured airmen’s heart and
breathing rates while they rode a stationery cycle.

“It’s definitely more challenging, for sure, than the bike test,”...

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