Company description
The health related components are those tested to determine an applicant’s fitness level. This approach emphasizes
basic, functional fitness, not agility tasks. The controlled tests that are performed and the fitness norms used to
determine these fitness levels are prescribed from Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s Institute of Aerobics Research in Dallas,
Texas whose expertise in the area of exercise physiology is well known.
The following tests and their descriptions are used to determine the health related fitness levels of the applicants.
The accompanying tables for each test list the percentile levels of the population norms. It is expected that
participants will perform their optimal level on each event, as this process is a physical fitness assessment. For
qualification, each candidate must rank at the 50th percentile or higher in all events except the water-related event,
which is pass/fail.
