Aaron Zamzow (ZAM)
Are you FRF (Fire Rescue Fit)?
Are you FRF (Fire Rescue Fit)? We all may answer that question differently. The reason behind that question though is simple… Are you ready for the demands of the day, of the job, of the tasks that you must do as a fire rescue athlete? Sometimes our fitness gets away from us and we may…
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How Fit Firefighters Schedule Workouts around Shifts
Do you workout on shift? Should you workout on shift and what is the best workout to perform? How do you schedule your workouts around your shifts or calls? This is a major concern for the fire rescue athlete. On one hand we know we should be working out to stay and get fit for…
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Five Steps to Getting Fire Rescue Fit in the Next 40-days.
The last five years, I have been sponsoring the FRF “Fit for Duty” Challenge. This past year there were over 100 submissions from firefighters, EMTs and medics from all over the world (the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) that made some great fitness progress and helped change their lives with improved health and…
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How to Create a Workout for Your Crew…
Let’s face it, working on your cardiovascular conditioning can be very boring. Personally, I suffer from workout ADD, I constantly like to change things up to keep me interested in the workouts. Over the last couple of years, I have toyed with various workouts on shift; high intensity, heavy lifting, stretching only, and even some…
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The “Golden” Rules of Firefighter Nutrition
Eat This. Don’t Eat That. Eating healthy or figuring out how to eat healthy, can be a very frustrating thing. So today, I wanted to give you some great rules (and a golden rule) to help you simplify “healthy” eating. First of all, there are a couple of basic rules of healthy eating that every…
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Get Fire Rescue Fit with this Firefighter Workout Option.
I get a lot of requests for example workouts from the various Fire Rescue Fitness Programs. This is one of the workouts you will find in the our FRF workout programs. Click here for more information on FRF Workout Programs. All programs include workouts, eating guide, app, coaching and more… This is a great…
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How to Create a Fitness Program for Firefighter Recruits…
As firefighters we protect life and property by any means necessary. And by “any” we mean the “safest and the best.” This means we do not marry ourselves to any one response modality or school of thought. We don’t always go interior on a fire attack…or always use a Halligan to force open a door…
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Firefighter Fitness Myth- Never Let your knees go past your toes during a squat.
Every once in a while I will get a question about fitness that stirs up some great conversations. One question I get asked often is about squat form and if we, as fire rescue athletes, should never let our knees go past or over the toes when squatting. Here is a great answer to that…
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Eating out Guide for Firefighters, EMTs and Medics…
Eating Out Guide for Fire Rescue Athletes Maybe it’s for business, maybe it’s for school, maybe it’s a date, maybe it’s a special occasion or maybe you and the crew don’t have time to prepare food. It doesn’t matter. The last-minute restaurant meal will likely occur at some point. Instead of sabotaging your health, here…
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