exercise
Create an Effective Firefighter 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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The 5 Steps to Get More Fit for Duty
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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Get Leaner, Stronger and Moving Better on the Fireground with these 10 Tips.
These 10 tips will not only help your uniform fit better this year, they will also improve your performance on and off the fire/rescue scene. Would you agree that a leaner athlete is a better athlete? I know this is a “loaded” question. A lot of the answer has to deal with the sport in…
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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 NEW FRF “Fit for Duty” Fat Loss for Firefighters Workout Program (now with the FRF Workout App) This is a great Firefighter Body weight workout that doesn’t require…
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How to Resist the Sweets in the Firehouse
If you are “jonesing” for some sweets, you might think it’s best to have just a tiny bit. Don’t! You will only wind up craving more. A study published by Obesity showed that we tend to associate food with internal feelings, like anxiety, stress or happiness. Or external stimuli, like the sirens or bells. Whenever…
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FRF (Fire Rescue Fitness) Thanksgiving Workout to burn some calories…
Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a great “FRF” way to celebrate. This is a little workout that will burn some early morning (or afternoon) calories, ignite your metabolism, and make room for some good Thanksgiving food. I always like to do some morning workout or fun run with the family on the Holidays, I find that…
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Is The Keto Diet Good for Firefighters?
If you believe the buzz, ketosis — whether via the almost-zero-carb ketogenic diet or via ketone supplements— can curb appetite, enhance performance, and cure nearly any health problem that ails you…. Sound too good to be true? It probably is. Today I wanted to address the keto diet and give some insight to those fire rescue…
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One of the Best Exercises for Firefighters- The Carry
We as fire rescue athletes are generally moving in unbalanced positions. Whether its climbing a ladder, pulling hose, or ventilating, we are usually in an unbalanced, split stance. Therefore one area of focus should be the deep balancing muscles of the core. These muscles play an important role in holding and stiffening the pelvis to…
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