(HealthDayNews) -- If you're an athletic coach, here's an interesting study you can take a page from. Researchers have found one way to judge which soldiers may drop out of Army basic training before the end of the program: Examine their legs.
According to the journal Military Medicine, the highest percentage of dropouts from basic training in the Australian army were people who suffered leg injuries. And most of those who hurt their legs had weak legs to begin with.
Researchers studied 1,317 recruits, and timed them on a 20-yard run. Of those who failed to run the distance in the required time, about half had suffered leg injuries during the training period. And 70 percent of those who had leg injuries dropped out of training before the instruction was complete.
