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We are at a strange place in the fire service. We are juggling 4 generations, 2 of which most likely never had a truly laborious job prior to making the choice to join the fire service. Not that there is anything wrong with that, it simply makes the generational shift more difficult for the late […]

I originally drafted this almost 2 years ago. A lot has happened since then….so bear with the quirky dates as you read. I started to delete and start over, but realized it offered a lot of context to leave what I was thinking about at the time, so here we go. Happy New Year 2022! […]

Family vacation time! For many of us, it is time to get away and unwind before the hustle and bustle of kids getting back to school in in full swing. The same for us. With a trip planned for both business and fun, we were on our way east from Texas to North Carolina to […]

What a year (well, more than a year) we are having! Between the pandemic and last weeks winter deluge, we are getting our butts kicked quite frankly. Life events like these can easily sidetrack a fitness routine, if not take it out of commission entirely, We need to be diligent about getting ourselves back on […]

Most of us follow professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, etc. We see these men and women as they are in the pinnacle of their athletic performance on their respective fields of play. When in off season training, these athletes will perform task-based training. Whether its hundreds of hours of throwing a football, catching fly […]

The fire service. While I know this site is supposed to be about fitness, it’s probably a good idea to talk about firefighters a little bit, as opposed to just jumping feet first into the fitness side of things. I think it will help you understand why fitness is so important for firefighters. Type-A. The […]