Medical

[Dawber]

whats involved with the medical? and what is the main area people usually fail on or have problems with ?

Thanks
Dawber

[jstagg]

Heart murmers, seems their quite common aslong as their 'inocent' ones, usualy people get failed for this because of a high cafine intake (coffees, Coke, Pepsi), or it can be down to beeing nervous or just a common little bit of back flow of blood to the heart when it pumps...


If its innocent you're ok
If it isn't you will be declined a place in the military.

[adamb]

Hearing Test (Sat in a booth with headphones on and press a button when you hear a noise, Eye test, quick check of your teeth, check your joints, do a test where you blow into this thing not sure what its called and i think they do things like your blood pressure, height obviously, weight etc.

[jstagg]

A cock adam, its called a cock. haha joking

Yeah basicly everything adam said..

[OrcinusOrca]

You could fail on bodyfat percentage aswell, i'm going to the adsc in december and the medicals the bit im most concerned about.

[adamb]

lol josh we all know thats what your hoping to blow.

I forgot to mention you have a 'cough n drop', I'm sure you will know what this means.

Orcinus, would it be a fail if your body fat percentage is too low,too high or both?

[jstagg]

No you can't fail on body fat, peoples bodys are difference especialy motabolisum, some people can brun fat off like no tommorow and some others cant, you can fail on weight but you have to be seriously heavy to fail..i weigh 86.5KG's and i think that was cutting it close to a weight limit, but im more muscle than fat ( thankfully )

Youll need a sertain dagree of fat whilst in the army, the meals are designed to make you're body perform in different situations same as the ration packs.

[adamb]

I think my body fat is 14.2%, Don't know if thats high or not just worked it out online.

[Dawber]

checkin teeth can you actually fail on that?

[jstagg]

No.

Body fat = no

Teeth = no

biteing nails = no


You need to maintain a high level of hygene.. if you dont youre out.

[Dawber]

oh right jus i have had gum problems recently would seem unfair for that to cause me to fail lol

[mozza]

you cant fail on body fat because when i done my selection there was this tall skinny guy was and he got sent home and asked to put on some more weight lol so stuff you'reself with cakes lol but he did get the chance to come back so no you cant fail on this!

[adamb]

He must of been really tall and really skinny then. Im 5ft8" and 62kg so im hoping to be ok on that, its good enough for the RM.

[OrcinusOrca]

Well i'm around 100kg and the guy at the AFCO said to me aslong as you're not 20% BF then your weight won't be an issue. So it may only matter when your BMI is borderline obese. I don't see how you could fail if your bodyfat was too low, it would take alot of effort to get your bodyfat below say 8% because your organs have fat on them which usually equates to around 2%.

[OrcinusOrca]

Good luck at Lichfield guys.