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Physical fitness: Differences between initial hiring to academy in law enforcement recruits who graduate or separate from academy
- Source :
- Work. 68:1081-1090
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- IOS Press, 2021.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Law enforcement agencies often include fitness testing as part of the hiring process. However, it can be months from this testing to when a recruit starts academy. OBJECTIVE: To determine fitness changes from hiring to academy in recruits who graduate (GRAD) or separate (SEP; do not complete) from academy. METHODS: Analysis on recruits from one agency, split into GRAD (n = 436) and SEP (n = 78) groups, was conducted. These tests were conducted during initial hiring and academy: push-ups, sit-ups, and arm ergometer revolutions in 60 s; 75-yard pursuit run (75PR); and 2.4 km run. Data were analyzed via a two-way repeated measures ANOVA. Change scores were derived between hiring and academy data for both groups, and analyzed via independent samples t-tests. RESULTS: Push-ups, 75PR, arm ergometer, and 2.4 km run generally improved (p≤0.001). There were no significant between-group interactions or differences in performance changes for GRAD and SEP recruits. SEP recruits tended to have lesser fitness test performance compared to GRAD recruits. CONCLUSIONS: GRAD and SEP recruits showed some fitness improvements between initial hiring through to academy. However, SEP recruits with lesser muscular endurance, running speed, and aerobic capacity during hiring did not substantially improve by academy, which likely impacted their academy survivability.
- Subjects :
- Applied psychology
Physical fitness
03 medical and health sciences
Law Enforcement
0302 clinical medicine
Independent samples
medicine
Humans
Attrition
Aerobic capacity
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Rehabilitation
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Law enforcement
Repeated measures design
Fitness Testing
030229 sport sciences
medicine.disease
030210 environmental & occupational health
Police
Fitness test
Physical Fitness
Exercise Test
Physical Endurance
population characteristics
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18759270 and 10519815
- Volume :
- 68
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Work
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....818f613267fe67fdaa9047362f4072a0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3233/wor-213438