CPAT Training Video

Equipment
This event uses a mechanized device located 39 inches (1 m) off the ground that measures a cumulative force and a 10-pound sledgehammer.

Purpose of Evaluation
This event is designed to simulate the critical tasks of using force to open a locked door or to breach a wall. This event challenges your aerobic capacity, upper body muscular strength and endurance, lower body muscular strength and endurance, balance, grip strength and endurance, and anaerobic endurance.

This event affects your aerobic and anaerobic energy systems as well as the following muscle groups: quadriceps, glutes, triceps, upper back, trapezius, and muscles of the forearm and hand (grip).

Event
For this event, you must use a 10-pound (4.54 kg) sledgehammer to strike the measuring device in the target area until the buzzer is activated. During this event, you must keep your feet outside the toe-box at all times. After the buzzer is activated, place the sledgehammer on the ground. This concludes the event. Walk 85 feet (25.91 m) within the established walkway to the next event.

Failures
If you do not maintain control of the sledgehammer and release it from both hands while swinging, it constitutes a failure. The test time is concluded and you fail the test. If you step outside the toe-box, one warning is given. The second infraction constitutes a failure, the test time is concluded and you fail the test.

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