Efeitos do treinamento físico militar na aptidão física de jovens no ano inicial de serviço militar

Abstract

Introduction: Many young people arriving at a barracks to perform military service; they had not yet experienced any type of vigorous, planned physical activity, nor did they know their own performance possibilities. Military Physical Training (TFM) proves to be an excellent tool to help develop this performance. Objective: To verify the effects of Military Physical Training on the physical performance of soldiers in the initial year of military service. Methods: Longitudinal study; 71 male soldiers from two military organizations of the Brazilian Army participated. Anthropometric assessments were performed: height, body mass, BMI, skin folds (chest, abdominal and middle thigh) and physical performance using the Brazilian Army Physical Fitness Test (TAF) (12-minute run, flexion on the fixed bar and on the ground and abdominal supra). The evaluations occurred in two moments: one in the 12th week of training and another in the 36th week of training. The normality of the data was verified by the Kolmogorov-Smirrnov test. To compare the data between pre and post-test, the McNemar test was used. Results: It was possible to verify that in the pre-test there was 57.7% of the soldiers considered fit, in the post-test the amount was 78.9%. Which reveals an increase of 21.1% of individuals considered fit. Conclusion: Military Physical Training exerted a strong influence on the physical performance of the individuals in this study, considerably improving the rates of at least one fifth of the staff to make them fit at the end of the school year and keeping just over half of them in positive concepts among the beginning and end of the year.