A physical fitness profile of state highway patrol officers by gender and age
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...4 km run) [6,15,42,52], which could influence the relationships demonstrated with job-specific tests....
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...Partial correlations were used because numerous studies have documented sex differences in the physical performance of law enforcement populations [15,16,38,39], even though there are no corrections for sex in the WSTB [19]....
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...In a police specific population, Dawes, Orr, Flores, Lockie, Kornhauser and Holmes [28] found that female police officers presented with a mean grip strength of 37....
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...In a police specific population, Dawes, Orr, Flores, Lockie, Kornhauser and Holmes [28] found that female police officers presented with a mean grip strength of 37.875 ± 5.34 kg and male officers with a significantly greater mean grip strength of 55.04 ± 7.77 kg—a range that brackets the findings of this study, which included female and male data combined....
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...METHODS Experimental Approach to the Problem In accordance with previous research (14-18, 31), a retrospective analysis of existing data was performed to investigate the effects that sex and a ge may have upon physical upper- and lowerbody power in LEA recruits prior to academy trainin g....
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...This has also been seen in o lder incumbent officers when analyzed in cross-sectional studies (18, 31), and may reflect a ge-related changes in fast-twitch muscle fiber size (23) and lean tissue mass (22)....
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...4-kilometer run time), which has been linked to age-related decline s i aerobic and anaerobic fitness (18, 31), with some research suggesting that the nature of th e law enforcement occupation itself has a negative impact on fitness (38)....
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...This result was in line with the study’s hypothesis, given that males, in genera l, tend to carry more lean body mass when compared to females (22), and previous research has shown that male incumbent officers tend to perform better in tests of power when compared to f emale incumbents (7, 18, 38)....
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...There were more males than females analyzed in this study, although this is typical for LEA populations (9, 11, 18, 31, 41)....
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...When investigating the results by gender there were significant differences in height and body weight between male and female police officers, which is to be expected given previous research investigating gender differences in height and body weight [21]....
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...Given that males tend to have greater skeletal muscle mass [21] and that greater muscle mass is a major factor in gender-related differences in strength [22, 23], the differences in strength (leg/back dynamometer, grip strength), strength endurance (pushups) and strength influenced movements (e....
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...Given that males tend to have greater skeletal muscle mass [21] and that greater muscle mass is a major factor in gender-related differences in strength [22, 23], the differences in strength (leg/back dynamometer, grip strength), strength endurance (pushups) and strength influenced movements (e....
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...A potential reason for this lack of difference with aging lies in research suggesting that older females may be able to maintain stretch-shortening function better than men [35], a physiological function which could benefit VJ performance....
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...A reduction in VJ ability, and hence power, can be linked to the reductions in Type II muscle fiber size, muscle force output, and rate of force development that can occur with aging [34, 35]....
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...Given that males tend to have greater skeletal muscle mass [21] and that greater muscle mass is a major factor in gender-related differences in strength [22, 23], the differences in strength (leg/back dynamometer, grip strength), strength endurance (pushups) and strength influenced movements (e....
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...Isometric leg/back strength Although potentially not as precise an isometric midthigh pull on a force plate, the leg/back chain dynamometer does provide the advantage of being less expensive, more efficient, and easily transportable, and still capable of providing quantitative data [19]....
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