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The Ultimate Firefighter Tribute Workout
A lot of people have taken advantage of the Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout Cold Water Challenge, but, time is running out. Just to recap, I am giving $10 (all profits) for each Ultimate Fire Athlete Program sold to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation for the next week. You can read more about that here. Today I want to give you a taste of the type of workouts that you will find in the Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout and it comes with great timing and a lot of significance… The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation provides resources and funding (via grants and donations) towards remembering our fallen and protecting our current firefighters. This “tribute” workout is difficult and will be re-introduced later this year but I felt that this week (with the NFFF campaign) that it was a great time to introduce it. So, give this challenge a try and please comment…
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Get "Firefighter Fit" and Give Back…Now is the time!
Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout and the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Have you heard about the Cold Water Challenge? Basically, its a challenge by firefighters to each other to video themselves taking a cold bucket of water to raise funds for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Well, recently my crew “called” me out… and I wimped out. So, I decided to contact the NFFF and do one (or many) better. For the next week, I will donate $10 (which is my profit) for each Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout Program sold! What is the Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout? It is the most comprehensive, efficient, effective program for fire rescue athletes. The program includes 12-weeks of strength workouts, exercise videos, eating guidelines, fire-ground workout options, crew workouts, cardio interval workouts along with printable guides and mobile pdf versions….and much more. Check out the video below. Just like firerescuefitness.com, the NFFF strives to improve the…
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Get "Firefighter Fit" and Give Back…Now is the time!
Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout and the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Have you heard about the Cold Water Challenge? Basically, its a challenge by firefighters to each other to video themselves taking a cold bucket of water to raise funds for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation. Well, recently my crew “called” me out… and I wimped out. So, I decided to contact the NFFF and do one (or many) better. For the next week, I will donate $10 (which is my profit) for each Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout Program sold! What is the Ultimate Fire Athlete Workout? It is the most comprehensive, efficient, effective program for fire rescue athletes. The program includes 12-weeks of strength workouts, exercise videos, eating guidelines, fire-ground workout options, crew workouts, cardio interval workouts along with printable guides and mobile pdf versions….and much more. Check out the video below. Just like firerescuefitness.com, the NFFF strives to improve the…
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The Firefighters Daily Fitness Check off…
Be Physically Ready for Duty- Your Daily Fitness Checkoffs. At the beginning of each and every shift firefighters, EMTs and medic meticulously go through and check their gear (or at least they should be) to make sure that it is ready for the challenges of the day. Our equipment must be functioning properly and our rigs must be fueled and ready to go. The question that I also want you to think about is whether or not your physical equipment- brain, body, muscles are ready to go? Are you fit? Are you fueled? Here are three quick and easy things you can do at the beginning of the shift that will help you be “fit for fire.” 1. Drink some water. Around most firehouses (and offices) the day and the shift starts with some coffee. We all need a pick-me-up from time to time but before you reach for that…
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One of the Top 10 "Best Exercises" for Firefighters, EMTs and Medics
I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 exercises for Fire Rescue Athletes. This list is the culmination of over 10 years of research on fire-ground movements and over 20 years experience working with athletes. You can click here to get a copy of that list. Here is one that made the list. 1. Plank (s)—It’s no surprise that the one of the exercises on this list is a core exercise. Back injuries are the number one reason firefighters and medics go on early disability so it’s imperative that as a fire rescue athlete you focus on strengthening the core. The plank exercise requires no equipment and is an incredible exercise for improving core strength, endurance, and power. As mention previously, core strength is integral for the fire rescue athlete, as all movement occurs around the core. The plank will increase core efficiency allowing the body to have greater control…
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One of the Top 10 "Best Exercises" for Firefighters, EMTs and Medics
I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 exercises for Fire Rescue Athletes. This list is the culmination of over 10 years of research on fire-ground movements and over 20 years experience working with athletes. You can click here to get a copy of that list. Here is one that made the list. 1. Plank (s)—It’s no surprise that the one of the exercises on this list is a core exercise. Back injuries are the number one reason firefighters and medics go on early disability so it’s imperative that as a fire rescue athlete you focus on strengthening the core. The plank exercise requires no equipment and is an incredible exercise for improving core strength, endurance, and power. As mention previously, core strength is integral for the fire rescue athlete, as all movement occurs around the core. The plank will increase core efficiency allowing the body to have greater control…
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Firefighter Workout Tip- Proper Firefighter Hydration
Its that time of the year where temperatures climb and so does the chances for dehydration. This is an insert from an article I wrote from FirefighterNation.com (you can read the entire article by clicking here). Please take note at how quickly a dehydrated fire rescue athletes’ performance can diminish. In most stations, your shift starts with checking your gear, SCBA, med supplies and looking over the apparatus (usually with a cup of coffee in hand), but do you ask yourself, Am I physically ready to do my job? I imagine 100% of you nodded your head in affirmation to that seemingly rhetorical question.Hydration & the Human BodyThe human body is 66–70% water. Under normal circumstances, the human body loses about 35–90 oz. of water a day through body waste, sweat and breathing (Maughan, 2003). During normal athletic activity, the body can lose 8–16 oz. of water per hour. The…
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Firefighter Workouts on Shift– To workout or not?
Do you workout on shift? Should you workout on shift and what is the best workout to perform? 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 duty. Yet , if we burn out in the gym we won’t be able to perform when it really matters. I recently posted an interval workout (Click Here to Read it) that received a lot of hits and emails. Most of the emails dealt with this question more importantly asked “what is the best form of exercise to perform on duty?” Here is my take on the question. We all know that when the bell goes off the fire rescue athlete MUST be ready to perform. With that in mind, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to perform a grueling workout on duty. I personally prefer some lighter…
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How to Incorporate Fire Ground Movements into Your (firefighter ) Workout…
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 interval Overhauls are a combination of exercises that challenges the total body, allows me to work on firefighter skills and simulates work on the fire ground. And they can really “jack-up” your metabolism too! You’ll discover these Overhauls can more realistically simulate the exhaustion felt on the fire ground and rescue scene. There are thousands of options for these overhauls (which I blog about often). If you create your own, I would like to know about it so please email me your ideas. Remember these 10- minute intervals are done at the end of your…
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