@article{ref1,
title="The effect of acute exercise on pistol shooting performance of police officers",
journal="Motor control",
year="2013",
author="Brown, Melissa J. and Tandy, Richard D. and Wulf, Gabriele and Young, John C.",
volume="17",
number="3",
pages="273-282",
abstract="Previous studies indicate that rifle shooting performance while standing is compromised when fatigued. Apprehension of suspects by police officers may involve foot pursuit and firing a weapon from a standing position. The purpose of the present study was to investigate pistol shooting performance in police officers under similar conditions of physical fatigue. Participants (mean age: 30.1 years; 4.4 years of experience as police officer) completed two shooting trials separated by an acute bout of exercise on a cycle ergometer to voluntary exhaustion. Each trial consisted of three rounds of five rapid-fire shots at a target, each round separated by a 15-second rest. Participants' backs were turned to the target between rounds. Despite physical exertion, with an average heart rate of 164 bpm, shooting accuracy (mean distance of the closest 4 shots from the center of the target) and precision (diameter of the tightest 4-shot grouping) remained unchanged on post-exercise trials relative to pre-exercise trials. This suggests that automatic shooting reactions override the adverse consequences of fatiguing exercise on shooting performance.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1087-1640",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}