The Army’s strategic leaders are responsible for the readiness of the Army and the overall governance of the H2F System.
Strategic leaders establish the policies and regulations, define objectives, allocate resources, and implement quality controls to deliver performance readiness. This is the governance process.
The H2F System aligns and integrates numerous health and fitness programs in the Army under a single governance structure.
The governance process ensures efficient and effective H2F programming, provides the necessary emphasis and support to secure resources, and prioritizes effort based on strategic objectives.
All performance optimization efforts coalesce under the single governance of the H2F System to integrate evidence-based approaches for optimized performance readiness.
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When properly designed, governed, and adopted, the H2F System creates a performance readiness platform that prevents physical and nonphysical stress from overwhelming the Soldier.
The most important component of the governance process is compliance.
Leaders at all levels must comply with policy, regulation, doctrine, and intent of H2F to enable Soldiers to reach the goal of H2F: optimized performance.
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Volatility in programming, disparate approaches, and deviations from the standard become evident in units very early in training cycles.
In the H2F System, high performing units are encouraged to share their best practices.
The Army’s H2F leadership, Centers of Excellence, and H2F schoolhouse will disseminate the training doctrine across the enterprise and professional military education.
This approach will reduce the unpredictability in readiness training that Soldiers currently experience as they move among units and across operational environments.
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The ability to provide oversight and support, collect and disseminate best practices, develop funding requests, and conduct assessments depends upon the H2F personnel in the unit and their unit leadership.
However, without command authority, no accountability exists to assess and reset H2F initiatives, effectiveness, or redundancy.
This Army’s H2F special staff provides strategic leadership and future direction for H2F doctrine, policy, personnel training, and development.
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The United States Army Center for Initial Military Training (USACIMT) is the Army lead for Holistic Health and Fitness.
USACIMT’s H2F Directorate is responsible for doctrine and training development.
The H2F Directorate coordinates H2F personnel, equipment, facilities, and services contracts.
The H2F Directorate collects and analyzes data relating to H2F operations across all locations and with all supported elements.
USACIMT develops and promulgates lessons learned and best practices as well as provides technical expertise and quality control for the H2F System.
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Governance includes providing program standards, surveillance, analysis, research and evaluation of the H2F System.
This is a critical priority.
It informs leaders on the status of the force as well as readiness of the Army.
Effective assessment and analysis of the system outcomes prevents the diversion of resources and energy into ineffective programming that does not support the continuous progress of a Soldier’s readiness from unit to unit, installation to installation, across his or her Army career.
STANDARDS
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As described in Army and Department of Defense (DOD) regulations, commanders and other leaders are responsible for training to regulatory and doctrinal standards.
They execute the planned training described in this doctrine.
Standards remain constant as performance levels increase, but the conditions become more demanding.
SURVEILLANCE
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The H2F surveillance system aims to develop tangible, results-oriented, actionable information designed to answer the commander’s critical information requirements:
“What forces do I have, what is my surge capability, what is my risk if I reallocate force, what is the readiness of my force, and do all my subordinate commands have the same readiness picture?”
BIOMETRIC DATA
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Centralized collection and analysis of data from wearable technology, H2F personnel observation, and Soldier inputs or surveys allows coaches and mentors to set training goals, develop training programs, track the effects of training, and adjust training to improve performance.
Examples of H2F biometric data points include sleep efficiency and duration, foot time, training intensity and duration, exercise heart rate, and power output.
SURVEY DATA
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Survey data focus on the individual Soldier’s health and fitness outcomes to direct changes to improve his or her deployability.
Surveys conducted by H2F performance experts and Soldier self-reports identify the early onset of physical and psychological dysfunction.
INSPECTION DATA
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Staff assistance visits and unit inspections give commanders real-time knowledge of the unit’s program and readiness status.
See AR 1-201 for details on inspections.
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
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Analysis informs decisions about changes to individual Soldier and collective programming.
Regularly conducted, empirical research and analysis allows for immediate adjustments to training cycles.
These data permit adjustments to training and testing standards as well as development of unbiased health and fitness recommendations to improve readiness.