FUEL THE MACHINE! The Warfighter Nutrition Guide-Strategies and recommendations for all aspects of performance nutrition for warriors in all branches of service. This guide covers the spectrum of nutritional needs of the warfighter so performance under the most rigorous conditions is optimized. Despite differences across military commands, this guide will provide the warfighter with scientific-based and effective nutritional strategies to optimize performance during operations and preserve health. Chapter 1- The Warrior Athlete Chapter 2- Balancing the Energy Tank Chapter 3- Fueling the Human Weapon Chapter 4- High Performance Catalysts Chapter 5- Nutrient Timing and Training Chapter 6- Optimal Choices for Home Chow Chapter 7- Optimal Choices for Eating Out Chapter 8- Healthy Snacking Chapter 9- Secrets to Keeping Lean as a Fighting Machine Chapter 10- Bulking Up Chapter 11- Looking for the Edge- Dietary Supplements Chapter 12- Enemy Agents Chapter 13- Combat Rations Chapter 14- Eating Globally Chapter 15- Mission Nutrition for Combat Effectiveness Chapter 16- Returning to Home Base Chapter 17- The High Mileage Warrior Athlete Chapter 18- Sustaining Health for the Long-Term Warfighter
HITT High Intensity Tactical Training Combat Fitness Test (CFT) Prep Guidance PFT Prep Program Matrixes PFT Standards: Push-Up/Pull-Up Crunches Crunches 3 Mile Run Run 3 Mile Run Altitude Run (Altitude) Rowing CFT Standards: MTC Movement to Contact Altitude MTC (Altitude) Ammo Can Lift ACL Maneuver Under Fire MANUF Maneuver Under Fire Altitude MANUF (Altitude) OCS Physical Training Preparation Pack Nutritional References: Fueled for Fitness Fueled To Fight Chart Fueled To Fight Coding Criteria Athlete's Guide to Nutrient Timing Athlete Plates Moderate Day Operation Supplement Safety USMC Warfighter's Guide to Performance Nutrition - Slides USMC Warfighter's Guide to Performance Nutrition - Speaker Notes USMC Warfighter's Guide to Performance Nutrition - Operational Rations Water Survival Basic: WSB 4 Week Program WSB 2 Week Program Water Survival Intermediate: WSI 6 Week Program WSI 4 Week Program WSI 2 Week Program Water Survival Advanced: WSA 6 Week Program WSA 4 Week Program
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are "Warrior Athletes," the ultimate athlete. The physical and mental demands imposed by SOF training and missions require appropriate nutritional habits and interventions so that, under the most rigorous conditions, performance is optimized, and health is preserved.
"This textbook is designed to help Marines link concepts of culture to the realities of planning and executing military operations around the world." -- p. 2.
This important military guide to nutrition provides authoritative, comprehensive information on all aspects of nutrition and fitness, with information suitable for athletes as well as soldiers! There is vital data on dietary supplements to avoid, menus for restaurants, and how to choose healthy snacks. The demands imposed by military service, training, and missions are unlike any athletic endeavor. Success requires the mustering of all strength and endurance-both physical and mental. Military service members, Warfighters (WF), are indeed "Warrior Athletes," the ultimate athlete, at the top of the athletic pyramid. One factor that will contribute to mission success and life-long health is good nutrition. It is well known that appropriate nutritional habits and interventions can enhance performance, and these successful approaches need to be known. All service members are Warfighters, regardless of duties. This manual is intended to be a resource for all Warfighters and includes a variety of materials ranging from short summaries to detailed information, with worksheets, links, and important tips for nutrition at home and when deployed. This Nutrition Guide evolved into the final product after multiple conversations, discussions, and interactions with military, fitness, and nutrition experts. The Guide is dense, but each chapter starts with key information, and an executive summary provides a "shortened" version. Chapters 2 through 4 provide general background information about energy expenditure, source of energy, essential nutrients and nutrition concepts. These are the backbone of the guide. Chapters 5 through 8 will help you select a healthy diet: they contain menus for eating at home, menus for eating in ethnic and fast food restaurants, choosing healthy snacks, selecting appropriate military rations, and combining commercial-off-the-shelf products with military rations. Chapters 9 through 13 review important information on being a warrior athlete. Detailed information that discuss dietary supplements, combat rations and products to be avoided are also provided. Chapters 14 and 15 explore nutritional strategies for various missions, how to optimize nutritional intake to combat challenging environmental and physiological conditions, and how to eat on the local economy when deployed. Chapter 16 discusses nutritional strategies to regain pre-deployment health and fitness after returning home from extended deployments. Chapters 17 and 18 provide information on how to be a warrior athlete for 20+ years and what the "high-mileage" warrior athlete should consider in order to maintain operational readiness and good health after years of physical abuse. Warfighters are a select group of warrior athletes who can benefit from nutritional guidance. Each command has specialized missions, with the duration of deployments ranging from 30 days to 12 months. Long missions in locations far from the central support hub pose very difficult nutritional challenges to Warfighters, and unfortunately, good solutions are not always possible. Despite differences across military commands, this guide has been designed to cover the spectrum of needs, so performance under the most rigorous conditions is optimized. The success of Warfighters require effective nutritional strategies to optimize performance during operations and preserve health during the golden years of retirement. Contents include: The Warrior Athlete; Balancing the Energy Tank; Fueling the Human Weapon; High Performance Catalysts; Nutrient Timing and Training; Optimal Choices for Home Chow; Optimal Choices for Eating Out; Healthy Snacking; Secrets to Keeping Lean as a Fighting Machine; Bulking Up; Looking for the Edge - Dietary Supplements; Enemy Agents; Combat Rations; Eating Globally; Mission Nutrition for Combat Effectiveness; Returning to Home Base; The High Mileage Warrior Athlete; Sustaining Health for the Long-Term Warfighter.
This manual, TRADOC Pamphlet TP 600-4 The Soldier's Blue Book: The Guide for Initial Entry Soldiers August 2019, is the guide for all Initial Entry Training (IET) Soldiers who join our Army Profession. It provides an introduction to being a Soldier and Trusted Army Professional, certified in character, competence, and commitment to the Army. The pamphlet introduces Solders to the Army Ethic, Values, Culture of Trust, History, Organizations, and Training. It provides information on pay, leave, Thrift Saving Plans (TSPs), and organizations that will be available to assist you and your Families. The Soldier's Blue Book is mandated reading and will be maintained and available during BCT/OSUT and AIT.This pamphlet applies to all active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard enlisted IET conducted at service schools, Army Training Centers, and other training activities under the control of Headquarters, TRADOC.
Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, the Department of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of the nutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-Term, High-Intensity Combat Operations considers military performance, health concerns, food intake, energy expenditure, physical exercise, and food technology issues. The success of military operations depends to a large extent on the physical and mental status of the individuals involved. Appropriate nutrition during assault missions is a continuous challenge mainly due to diminished appetites of individuals under stress. Many less controllable and unpredictable factors, such as individual preferences and climate, come into play to reduce appetite. In fact, soldiers usually consume about half of the calories needed, leaving them in a state called "negative energy balance." The consequences of being in negative energy balance while under these circumstances range from weight loss to fatigue to mental impairments. An individual's physiological and nutritional status can markedly affect one's ability to maximize performance during missions and may compromise effectiveness. With the number of these missions increasing, the optimization of rations has become a high priority.
Includes a foreword by Major General David A. Rubenstein. From the editor: "71F, or "71 Foxtrot," is the AOC (area of concentration) code assigned by the U.S. Army to the specialty of Research Psychology. Qualifying as an Army research psychologist requires, first of all, a Ph.D. from a research (not clinical) intensive graduate psychology program. Due to their advanced education, research psychologists receive a direct commission as Army officers in the Medical Service Corps at the rank of captain. In terms of numbers, the 71F AOC is a small one, with only 25 to 30 officers serving in any given year. However, the 71F impact is much bigger than this small cadre suggests. Army research psychologists apply their extensive training and expertise in the science of psychology and social behavior toward understanding, preserving, and enhancing the health, well being, morale, and performance of Soldiers and military families. As is clear throughout the pages of this book, they do this in many ways and in many areas, but always with a scientific approach. This is the 71F advantage: applying the science of psychology to understand the human dimension, and developing programs, policies, and products to benefit the person in military operations. This book grew out of the April 2008 biennial conference of U.S. Army Research Psychologists, held in Bethesda, Maryland. This meeting was to be my last as Consultant to the Surgeon General for Research Psychology, and I thought it would be a good idea to publish proceedings, which had not been done before. As Consultant, I'd often wished for such a document to help explain to people what it is that Army Research Psychologists "do for a living." In addition to our core group of 71Fs, at the Bethesda 2008 meeting we had several brand-new members, and a number of distinguished retirees, the "grey-beards" of the 71F clan. Together with longtime 71F colleagues Ross Pastel and Mark Vaitkus, I also saw an unusual opportunity to capture some of the history of the Army Research Psychology specialty while providing a representative sample of current 71F research and activities. It seemed to us especially important to do this at a time when the operational demands on the Army and the total force were reaching unprecedented levels, with no sign of easing, and with the Army in turn relying more heavily on research psychology to inform its programs for protecting the health, well being, and performance of Soldiers and their families."
