Correlation between the test de 12 minutes in land plan and caused an accident in the military of 5º Regiment of Combat Cars

Abstract

Among the various Tests of Physical Fitness (TAF) to check the level of conditioning of troops from the Brazilian Army, the 12 minutes Test is that evaluates the cardiopulmonary capacity through distance covered converting it into grades, that had direct influence in Commissioned Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers careers when added to merit’s quantification, but in the 5th Regimento de Carros de Combate (5th RCC) the route is rough, contrary to the prescribing protocol of Cooper and the Army Ministerial Act that regulates its implementation. To check the correlation between the 12 minutes Test on the rough and in plan terrain in 5th RCC’s members, a group (n = 32; 23 ± 5.7 years) was evaluated in the two routes. On the first day, on the track of 400m, each military ran the maximum distance in 12 minutes, the test was conducted in a hard and plan floor, with the distances measured every 50 meters, considering final result the next mark exceeded by the military. After 72 hours, the second day of test, the race was on the rough road that is usually used by military of the 5th RCC, the rest of the assessment followed the same criteria as the first day. Whereas t test showed no differences between the first and second day of racing, it was found that no significant differences between the pathway plan and the rough road. The result indicates that the route used by the 5th RCC no significant difference in terms end to the military that are evaluated.