Physical and Mental Fitness for Military

Physical health is not the only important part of a soldiers training anymore. A new emotional resiliency training program is being implemented on all branches of the U.S. Army to ensure that they're mental and emotional health is in as good of shape as they're physical health.

Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum, PhD, MD, and director of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program is leading all 1.1 million soldiers to mental-health in hopes of preventing mental-health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicide as well as improving combat performance.

Increasing resiliency in the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and family elements of a soldier is a way to catch mental illness before an occurrence. "The best way to treat a death by heart attack is not CPR. The best way is to prevent the heart attack. It's a lifestyle and culture change. And that's how we should look at mental health. Look at it with a preventative model and enhanced health model, not a 'waiting-until-we-need-therapy model,'" says Cornum.

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