Height/Weight Requirements for Navy HPSP, reminder to get in shape

[adamg]

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/nrotc/orientation/heightweight.html

Just a friendly reminder to all those interested in Navy HPSP of what they need to get their weight to.

Or get below 20% body fat and your golden.

I have to say, when I found out the limits it scared the hell out of me.

I couldn't remember if I was 6'2 or 6'3, I measured myself and at first got 6'2.5! The most ambiguous answer! The difference between being required to be 211 and 216 was .1 inches and which way they round it!

Then I had my grandpa measure me, twice, got 6'2.75 both times! So yay 6'3, 216 is the magic number.

Of course that still leaves me 41 lbs to lose, but I have been training for 5 months and have lost 31 lbs already, so I am confident I can hit the mark.

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[EMH]

This might be a good time to ask someone to explain the tape measurement pathway to getting past this. All I know is they measure your neck and abdomen at it's narrowest point and put these into a table to come up with a pass/fail. Someone said if you've got a fat neck you have an advantage. Who knows more about this?

 

[NavyFP]

This might be a good time to ask someone to explain the tape measurement pathway to getting past this. All I know is they measure your neck and abdomen at it's narrowest point and put these into a table to come up with a pass/fail. Someone said if you've got a fat neck you have an advantage. Who knows more about this?

Another thread that needs the link to the PRT instruction:

http://doni.daps.dla.mil/Directives...s/06-100 General Physical Fitness/6110.1H.pdf

 

[BigNavyPedsGuy]

Pretty sophisticated research. I googled "Navy body fat calculator"

Get the google toolbar, you'll be more knowledgable in no time

http://zone.cust.he.net/prothd2.html

 

[MaximusD]

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/nrotc/orientation/heightweight.html

Just a friendly reminder to all those interested in Navy HPSP of what they need to get their weight to.

Or get below 20% body fat and your golden.

I have to say, when I found out the limits it scared the hell out of me.

I couldn't remember if I was 6'2 or 6'3, I measured myself and at first got 6'2.5! The most ambiguous answer! The difference between being required to be 211 and 216 was .1 inches and which way they round it!

Then I had my grandpa measure me, twice, got 6'2.75 both times! So yay 6'3, 216 is the magic number.

Of course that still leaves me 41 lbs to lose, but I have been training for 5 months and have lost 31 lbs already, so I am confident I can hit the mark.

I remember when I was getting ready to go to MEPS I was supplementing with Creatine and lifting 4X per week. I weighed myself 3 days before MEPS at 184 with a weight limit of 186. I sort of freaked out bc it's not uncommon for weight to fluctuate by a few lbs each day. I immediately stopped creatine, and on my weigh-in at MEPS, I had dropped to 178! I've been just working out without it and I'm down to 174 even though I'm still getting stronger (albeit at a slower pace...). I just told this story to reinforce what a difference holding water weight can make.

The diuretics/ex-lax plan when within 10 lbs prob would actually work...

 

[Natya]

One thing: the Navy rounds DOWN! I am 5'1.5" in the civilian world, 5'2" according to the Air Force, and 5'1" according to the Navy. They round down. Every guy in my division wound up being shorter than they've ever been measured before. Be aware of this, and plan accordingly!

 

[BlueIsis]

One thing: the Navy rounds DOWN!

Mmmm...methinks someone at ODS needs to read the instruction. I wrote the instruction. (The worst way to spend three months at PERS by the way.)

Round up to the nearest inch for the height/weight chart, ie. 5'.11" is 5'2". Round up to the nearest half inch if doing the tape for body composition, ie. same individual is 5'1 1/2".