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ELMENDORF AIR Pry BASE, Alaska — A program to equip out-of-shape airmen with sentiments-rate monitors is yielding substantial improvements in fitness, base officials here say.

Since the vigour was launched a year ago, participating airmen have on average cut their run times by one minute and 57 seconds, slimmed their waistlines by 3.55 inches and wasted 19.18 pounds, said Leyla Kelter, director of Elmendorf’s haleness and wellness center.

The center is one of only a handful across the service that gives heart-gait monitors to airmen who fail their physical-training tests. The Air Force couldn’t give an consummate number of bases distributing the monitors but singled out Elmendorf and Aviano Air Mean, Italy, as two that are taking extraordinary measures to help airmen boost their PT scores.

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