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Effective October 2, 2006, the Army has adjusted its body fat tape test standards and methods.
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These changes are largely different circumference sites, calculation formulas, measurement rounding, and body fat estimate tables. The previous Army Weight Control Program standards, regulated by the AR 600-9, provided the same instructions and standards for nearly 20 years. The latest Army Regulation 600-9, published in September 2006, provides revised and new processes to gather an individual’s body fat content percentage.
These new changes to Army regulation require all Soldiers, Army wide, to quickly learn and adapt to the latest standards. The Army Tape Test Standards program not only clearly defines these standards, but is capable of calculating, printing and saving the body fat content worksheets through simple inputs.
Body fat content worksheets, which differ between males (DA FROM 5500) and females (DA FORM 5501), require numerous referencing and paging through different locations within the regulation. This tedious and complicated process is time consuming and can easily be miscalculated. Most tape tests are done after a unit APFT. Depending on a unit’s size, the process of testing against height and weight standards and calculating body fat percentage could lead to an extended amount of time and numerous mistakes.
Why use our Army Tape Test Standards Software?
Benefits of the Army Tape Test Standards program include bulleted and simple, yet understandable, instructions to explain these new standards. With the aid of pictures and illustrations, our program goes above and beyond the AR 600-9 by sifting through the large publication and providing only what you need to know to properly administer tape tests for either gender.
The largest advantage to our software is the body fat calculator. The program not only calculates the percentages from the updated tables, but allows you to either print out the worksheet or save the worksheet to your computer as a Microsoft® Excel® file* that could be opened and printed later. Also, while recording measurements into the program, it displays proper instructions for each circumference site so there’s no confusion. And rounding is no longer a headache because the calculator will correctly round each measurement according to the regulation standards.
Print-out Reference Materials
Along with being able to calculate, print out and save worksheets, our program also prints out reference materials from AR 600-9 data tables. For example, while the current publication uses nine pages for the "Percent fat estimates for females" data (Figure B–6), our program can print out the same information on one page making quick referencing easier. Other one page references include Height & Weight screening table and allowable percent body fat table and circumference site and landmark descriptions.
Changes to the Army Weight Control Program, AR 600-9:
One of the biggest changes to the new regulation is the revised circumference measurement sites for females. Previously females were measured at four sites. These circumference sites have change to only three; neck, waist and hip. With this new method requires completely new directions, procedures and formulas.
Along with the update includes new percent body fat estimation tables for both genders. The old method returned body fat percentages in decimal form. However, being that the maximum allowable body fat percentages are whole numbers this effort was unnecessary. For example, your body fat content is either 22% or 23%, not 22.67%.
In addition to these updates, the latest Army Regulation 600-9 has included revised illustrations for male and female tape measurements. Circumference sites and descriptions have been modified. However, each reader’s interpretation can lead to the common confusion on how to properly tape an individual. Our software has been developed to minimize miscalculations and clear up any confusion with the intent to help standardization.
* The Army Tape Test Standards program does NOT require Microsoft® Office® to be installed on your computer. However, the feature to open up saved worksheet files requires Microsoft® Excel® [version 2003, XP, 2007 or later] to view and print the saved files.
- AR 600-9 Army Weight Control Program
Price: $29.95
File Size: 2.74MB
File Type: EXE
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