Push Press
5 sets of 3
“Michael”
Run 800m
50 sit-ups
50 back extensions
“Because of anti-discrimination laws based on age, sex or disability, it’s hard to force officers to keep a certain body fat percentage or require them to lift a certain amount of weight, state police chiefs and sheriffs said.”
read more… ““Fitness Standards Tough To Implement” in this week’s Coloradoan.”
Read the whole article and post thoughts to the comments.
Come out and bring a friend to City Park tomorrow for our free Suffer on Saturdays work out. We meet at 9am in city park just off Jackson and N Mulberry.
Sad but true on the fitness standard.
BTW, that is a TON of weight! How much is that anyway?
Because of crossfit and biking, I know women, older men/women, smaller men, etc., who can meet stringent fitness/strength standards. It seems counter to the mission of law enforcement to eliminate standards just because some cannot or will not meet them. I am sure passengers would be less than happy were we airline pilots to successfully lobby away our semiannual proficiency checks just because we passed them years ago–I see no difference in having potential 911 responders at less than a very high physical fitness standard . In what could easily be a life or death situation, a positive outcome might be highly correlated to the fitness of the responders. It might even serve the public good as a deterrent if the bad guys knew ALL police were equivalent to crossfit monsters, regardless of size, age, gender. Would be interesting to have an independent audit of past cases to see whether fitness/strength have been issues.
chris is a monster