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Recipes, resources and workouts to help you and your crew get fit for duty.
Incorporate Fire Ground Movements into Your Workouts…
If you’ve been following my blog posts you know that I think interval training is very applicable to what we (as fire rescue athletes) do on the fire ground. Many of the programs that I create (FRF Ultimate Fire Athlete) incorporates intervals at the completion of each workout, I call them 10-minute Interval Overhauls. These…
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Firefighter "Fit for Duty" Workout Schedule
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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Firefighter "Fit for Duty" Workout Schedule
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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Fast and Efficient Firehouse Challenge Workout…
Total Body Challenge Workout. Here is a great assessment and/ or workout to challenge your entire body. The workout does not require a lot of equipment so you can do it at the firehouse (or your house). You can substitute these exercises if you want based on your available equipment. You must perform the active…
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Nutrition Tips for the Firehouse
Eating healthy in the firehouse (or any house) can be a difficult task. But, in order to change the culture of the fire service (to a healthier one) cooks and food choices in the firehouse need to get better. Here are 3 easy and healthy tips that can help. 1. Serve meals on smaller plates.–…
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Post Holiday Metabolic Firefighter Workout
Its now July, hope you enjoyed America’s Birthday! I do not hope you carry the extra weight and lethargy that can occur after Holiday weekends. We all have a tendency tendency to overindulge and workouts seem to take second place during any Holiday weekend. To combat the accumulation of holiday pounds and feelings of…
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Fire Rescue Fitness Holiday Weekend Workout
Here is a great way to start your 4th of July weekend. This is a little workout that will burn some early morning calories, ignite your metabolism, and make room for some good summer food and spirits. I always like to do some morning workout or fun run with the family on Holidays, I find…
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The Most Important Firefighter Fitness Component?
I often get asked by Firefighters, EMTs and Paramedics to evaluate their current fitness programs and to possibly give some suggestions. I always try to explain to the individual or group that in order to evaluate the program we must understand the physical demands of the job. Research conducted by York University (Ontario) about the physical demands of Firefighting stated–…
Read MoreFire Station Workout- Intervals for Cardiovascular Fitness
I’ve had a lot of requests for workout options that can be performed at the station with minimal equipment. Here is an option I created for a firefighter/medic that has no equipment and only some stairs and a parking lot. This can be used as a cardio interval training workout day (for those following the…
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