FITNESS

Fitness is a key ingredient to a long, healthy firefighting career. The prevention of injuries is provided in the framework of fitness. Enhancing the fitness regimes of those who are already on the fitness train, while inspiring those who aren’t to join in. We aim to provide effective firefighter exercises and training workouts, the latest diet and nutrition recommendations, and awareness about the importance of developing a healthy mind, body, and soul connection.

Latest: FITNESS

Find Your Phase

We need to be smart about how we prescribe exercise. Words like “functional”, “multi-joint”, and “multi-planar” are just that – words, not prescriptions for healthy training. We all walk, squat, bend, and lift every day so our exercise routines should mimic those daily movements and be based on our current fitness goals and, most importantly, the career phase in which we find ourselves.

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HELP! I AM OUT OF SHAPE

One of the biggest mistakes we make with our fitness goals is that we set “monstrous” goals that are extremely hard to obtain.  You do not know exactly when it happened but one day you look down toward your feet and they are not there. Instead of seeing shoes, you see this mound of clothing …

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DUMB BEERS OR DUMBELLS? CHOOSE WISELY

One turns into two and two turns into six and before you know it, you’re three hours deep into the day, buzzed and unmotivated to do much else. Firefighters do a lot of talking about what they used to do, what they could do if they tried and what they want to do. But, many …

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