Association of military-specific reaction time performance with physical fitness and visual skills Janicijevic, Danica Miras Moreno, Sergio Pérez Castilla, Alejandro Vera Vílchez, Jesús Redondo Cabrera, Beatriz Jiménez Rodríguez, Raimundo García Ramos, Amador Bench press L-V relationship Shuttle run test Simple reaction time Squat Go No-Go reaction time Background: The aim of the present study was to explore whether military-specific reaction time (RT) test performance is affected by individuals’ physical and visual skills. Method: In a single testing session, the military-specific Simple and Go, No-Go RT, aerobic power (20-m Multistage Shuttle Run test), maximal upper- and lower-body mechanical capacities (bench press and squat against different loads), and visual skills (multiple object tracking and dynamic visual acuity) of 30 young men (15 active-duty military personnel and 15 sport science students) were evaluated. Results: The main findings revealed that the Simple RT and Go, No-Go RT presented (1) with aerobic power non-significant small correlations in military personnel (r = −0.39 and −0.35, respectively) and non-significant negligible correlations in sport science students (r = −0.10 and 0.06, respectively), (2) inconsistent and generally non-significant correlations with the maximal mechanical capacities of the upper- and lower-body muscles (r range = −0.10, 0.67 and −0.27, 0.48, respectively), (3) non-significant correlations with visual skills (r magnitude ≥ 0.58) with the only exception of the Go, No-Go RT that was significantly correlated to all visual variables in the group of students (i.e., students who achieved better results during visual tests had shorter RT; r magnitude ≥ 0.58), and (4) none of the physical and visual variables significantly predicted the Simple RT or Go, No-Go RT. Conclusion: Altogether, these results indicate that military-specific RT performance is generally independent of physical and visual skills in both military personnel and active university students. 2022-12-16T09:57:47Z 2022-12-16T09:57:47Z 2022-09-01 journal article Janicijevic D... [et al.] 2022. Association of military-specific reaction time performance with physical fitness and visual skills. PeerJ 10:e14007 DOI [10.7717/peerj.14007] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78498 10.7717/peerj.14007 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional PeerJ