Firefighter Functional Fitness

Firefighter functional fitness is a great place to learn the tools you need to prevent injury increase performance and build a healthier heart.

Firefighter functional fitness. It is the essential guide to optimal firefighter performance and longevity. It provides all firefighters with the knowledge mindset and tools to. It s all about being able to perform specific real life motions well so there is an alignment. Firefighter functional fitness is the essential guide to physical success for the job.

By adding the fourth fundamental nutrition and lifestyle you can begin to develop a roadmap to optimal firefighter functional fitness. Functional firefighter fitness is conceptually the same as regular functional fitness. Firefighter functional fitness will have a major impact on firefighter health well being fitness and injury prevention. I highly recommend this book to all our brothers and sisters in the fire service from our newest recruits to our chief officers.

However functional fitness for firefighters focuses on movements that relate to the job of fighting fires and related activities. Excerpt from the foreword of the firefighter functional fitness book firefighting is a team activity. Maximize their fire ground performance reduce their risk of injury and experiencing a line of duty death live a long healthy career and retirement designed for firefighters by firefighters this book shares the 4. We need the mental tools the physical tools health and fitness and the equipment to do this job.

It provides all firefighters with the. About the author dan kerrigan jim moss are the co authors of firefighter functional fitness. Firefighter functional fitness is the essential guide to optimal firefighter performance and longevity. As occupational athletes the choices individual firefighters make directly impact the risk other members of their crew face on the fireground.

The firefighter functional fitness program is an excellent program whether you are new to fitness or have been training for years. Functional fitness is much more than just being in shape dan and jim do an outstanding job not only explaining firefighter functional. The fire ground fitness test has been specifically designed to identify whether a trained firefighter with a level of cardiorespiratory fitness in the amber fitness category 35 6 42 2 mlo2 kg min has ability to undertake key firefighting tasks effectively. Now with firefighter functional fitness we can build ourselves into lean healthy firefighting machines.

Functional fitness has many options and approaches but it. While health choices are arguably personal for the average civilian the fire service is different.