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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD Tuesday, January 30, 1996 A4 ArmyStudy: WomenCarry Their Weight Th women lifted 40-pound ts of 52 inches — boxes to hi @ Continued from A-1 ders the Army ough a averag: flatbed truck — jc 2-mile earing a i per wooded 75-pound bac get back in reational $500 for military tasks — backpacking and inst previous Army tests. an average 1 could lift vox of 5 pounds to a height of 52 hes. Before the study, the woeers could lift 70 per After. they averaged esent the aver performing gth tests designed to simu t asks. Four nationally certified onditioning because they never been professionally trained had in a bench press. is going to be very difficult.” 91 percent of what the men On aver men tend lifted Harman said, wohave about 70 per- cent f the lower-body strength of men and 55 percent to 60 percent of men’s Lo upy body strength a strength and Gilstrap you spend moneytraining women when you can get men off the street?’ he said Harman argues that Army wo- mentend to have more education than Army men, andthat it’s less she said Critics charged last year that — the women improved en on active duty ninutes a day cially repetitive lifting of heavy t ent overall Harman measured the women’s ning in May that the women improved. espe. levels of testosterone. For womento lift the exact amount that a malecouldlift. say ift a weight in a set period For the tests most relevant to to not so t said she wasn't surprised The women also were tested on the number of times they could d Diego. But, she said. womencannot be expected to match men’s strength because they have much lower 100-pound bar ntly had chil US. Olympic Committee in San juats holding a on their shoul formed dozens of reised before conditioning coordinatorwith the the study. conducted by the Army Research Institute of mental Medicine. was a prelude to expensive and time-consumingto increase a woman's strength than it is to teach anilliterate male to read Lisa Palmer, 28, of Northboro. couldbarely runa mile when she first joined the study. Now, she said, she runs four with little effort If a woman wants to do the best they can do, they can doalmost anything.” plansto allow women to engage in hand-to-hand combat. Becauseof that. the $140,000 study was shesaid DON’T WAIT placed on hold for about five weeks until the controversy subsided Women noware excluded from ground combat in the Army and often are rejected for other jobs because they cannot perform the lifting tasks. 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