Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) PDF

U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362 11 January 2023 020-T104-v19.2 The Army Ethic Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Action: Identify the benefits of Holistic Fitness. Conditi...

U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362 11 January 2023 020-T104-v19.2 The Army Ethic Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Action: Identify the benefits of Holistic Fitness. Conditions: In an academic and/or field environment, given PowerPoint presentation, student handout, lecture and discussion. Standards: Identify the Benefits of Holistic Fitness, achieving 70% or better on a Blackboard administered examination within 50 minutes. Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) FM 7-22, Holistic Health and Fitness, establishes the Army’s doctrine for the readiness training of Soldiers. It is a full revision and expansion on physical readiness training doctrine. FM 7-22 presents individualized training and testing that builds peak performance in all Soldiers. It is the foundation of unit readiness. In an era of multi-domain operations all Soldiers must be able to fight and win in both defensive and offensive operations that occur without notice. The goal of the Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) System is to build physical lethality and mental toughness to win quickly and return home healthy. Five Domains of the H2F System The five domains of the holistic health and fitness (H2F) program build the Army’s readiness goals and are based on the principles of optimization, individualization, and immersion. The goal is to improve each Soldier’s physical lethality and mental toughness through the linking of physical readiness, nutritional readiness, mental readiness, spiritual readiness, and sleep readiness. 1 U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362 11 January 2023 020-T104-v19.2 The Army Ethic 1) Physical Readiness – Physical readiness is the ability to meet the physical demands of any duty or combat position, move lethally on the battlefield, accomplish the mission and continue to fight, win, and come home healthy. If the overarching goal of H2F is Soldier readiness, then the overarching physical training goal is movement lethality—the ability to physically engage with and destroy the enemy. Movement lethality is the ability to apply and sustain the right amount of strength, endurance, and speed to meet the demands of training and combat physical tasks. This physical goal is supported by optimal mental function. The goal and the function are inseparable, linked together. The ability to tolerate physical duress is a function of mental toughness. It is generated by training the critical components of physical readiness and the tasks they support (see table 3-1). 2) Nutritional Readiness - Nutritional readiness is the ability to recognize, select, and consume the requisite food and drink to meet the physical and nonphysical demands of any duty or combat position, accomplish the mission and come home healthy. The goal of nutritional readiness is to promote optimal performance readiness. For Soldiers to perform optimally throughout their careers in assignments with varying levels of mental and physical difficulty, they must place as much emphasis on nutrition programming to support that performance as they do on physical and mental health. Nutritional readiness intertwines with the other readiness domains since it promotes and is supported by optimal physical readiness, mental readiness, spiritual readiness, and sleep readiness. A comprehensive performance nutrition program is proactive, active, and reactive: Proactive. Proactive nutrition provides the foundation for baseline health and homeostasis (physiological equilibrium)—the proactive prevention of nutrition deficiency, chronic disease and immune system compromise. Active. Active nutrition fuels the arduous activities and events Soldiers perform as part of their occupations and covers fueling before during and after these events. It comprises the largest portion of this section. Reactive. Reactive nutrition centers on specific dietary interventions to treat illness, injury, or medical conditions and spans hospitalization through rehabilitation to return to full duty. 3) Mental Readiness - Mental readiness is the ability to meet the mental demands of any combat or duty position, adapt successfully in the presence of extreme risk and adversity, accomplish the mission, and continue to fight and win. Whether Soldiers think of mental readiness as something they have (such as a personality trait or disposition), something they do (such as a plan, strategy, or way of behaving), or something they believe (such as a faith, positive outlook, or neutral outlook), it will help Soldiers better understand uncertain situations and will make them aware of their own mental processes. Under extreme duress, mental readiness is the ability to create a sense of total control and confidence. In the presence of chaos and uncertainty, possibility for flawed judgment increases. Mental readiness reduces miscalculation and errors of judgment. Soldiers who are mentally ready can manage severe stress and grow mentally tougher in the process. Mental readiness depends on a range of the following factors: 2 U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362 11 January 2023 020-T104-v19.2 The Army Ethic Character - a Soldier’s true nature including identity, sense of purpose, values, virtues, morals and conscience. Behavior - Behavior is the outward expression of character. It combines a Soldier’s verbal and nonverbal actions, writings, photos, and videos that inform the world about that Soldier. Resilience - the ability to face and cope with adversity; adapt to change; and recover, learn, and grow from setbacks. Cognitive skill - the ability to expand and integrate knowledge into decisions. It drives the ability to make sound decisions. Social Acuity - the awareness of, control over, and ability to manage interactions with others. High social acuity or social intelligence is the ability to read other people’s cues and then act appropriately. 4) Spiritual Readiness - Spiritual readiness includes the development of the personal qualities needed to sustain a person in times of stress, hardship, and tragedy. These qualities come from religious, philosophical, or human values and form the basis for character, disposition, decision making, and integrity. Spiritual readiness is the ability to endure and overcome times of stress, hardship, and tragedy by making meaning of life experiences. Individuals find meaning as they exercise beliefs, principles, ethics, and morals arising from religious, philosophical, and human values. Soldiers who successfully develop, sustain, and repair their state of being while facing adversity demonstrate spiritual readiness. Leaders who understand spiritual readiness can encourage personal spiritual readiness by creating a climate of mutual respect and dignity that promotes dialogue, fosters team cohesion, and enables healthy free exercise of religion or no religion. This approach enables collective and individual readiness. 5) Sleep Readiness - Sleep is the critical requirement for brain health and function. Sleep readiness is the ability to recognize and implement the requisite sleep principles and behaviors to support optimal brain function. In turn, sleep readiness underpins a Soldier’s ability to meet the physical and nonphysical demands of any duty or combat position, accomplish the mission, and continue to fight and win. The goal of sleep readiness ensures that the Soldier’s brain and body have adequately recovered so that he or she can tolerate repeated exposure to physical and mental stress. Like the rest of the body (muscles, skin, and internal organs), the brain has physiological needs for food, water, and oxygen—basic needs that must be met not only to ensure proper brain functioning, but also to sustain life itself. However, unlike the rest of the body, the brain has one additional physiological need: sleep. The brain requires sleep to maintain normal function. Sleep is necessary to sustain not only alertness, but also higher order cognitive abilities such as judgment, decision making, and situational awareness. In short, sleep makes Soldiers better at being Soldiers. 3 U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, Alabama 36362 11 January 2023 020-T104-v19.2 The Army Ethic 4