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Halifax Tar said:No doubt. And smoking causes cancer. But if you meet the required standard, i.e. the FORCE test, then why take a waist measurement ?
I have been a rugby player for 25 years now. I know some very large men who can move around a rugby pitch for 80 minutes, at pace, driving in scrums, rucks, tackling, being tackled, whose waist line is no indication of what they are capable of and regularly preform physically or fitness wise. Hell I am one of them.
And I would put the fitness required for Rugby up against any sport out there and head and shoulders above what the CAF teaches and provides.
IMO, there is not necessarily a direct correlation between (1) a members' ability to do things like rugby, or the FORCE test, EXPRES test, BFT, 2 x 10s etc and (2) the members actual 'medical fitness' state.
I've known at least one army type who was EXTREMELY overweight but who passed the BFT every year. There was NO way he was medically fit though. Not everyone who can pass the FORCE test is "fit", let's face it.
Is this waist measurement the best tool? Hell no. It is one that can be done to everyone, though, by some PSP staffer and entered on a piece of paper. Fact of the matter is, on average, fit people (in the medical and PT sense) do not have extremely large waists. So, this is a XX % tool used to get to that "no more than 50% shall be bronze!" bs or something.