Firefigher Fitness - Hose Exercises

Here is the second in our series of functional strength and conditioning videos to help improve firefighter fitness. As Jamie mentions in the video, used fire hoses can be a cheap, accessible tool for improving both strength and cardiovascular fitness. They can be used for a large variety of exercises from pulling and carrying exercises to "whip" exercises. With more than 1 hose, team events can be done as well.

If you have any fitness related questions, please e-mail them to us at info@biokineticsllc.com and we will address them in a future blog post.

Firefighter Fitness - Sandbag Carry

We spend a lot of time through the year working with state, county, and municipal employees who are involved with public safety, specifically firefighters and police officers. These are the people that do a very important job in helping to ensure the safety of the public should something go wrong. We take our work with these individuals seriously, because their job comes with risks that they willingly take on our behalf.

A lot of the feedback that we come across from firefighters, as well as police officers, is that they are unsure of what exercises they should do to make the time that they spend exercising as beneficial as possible. In order to try and help, we will be posting videos as well as other information to help fill some of these information gaps. Feel free to drop us a line at info@biokineticsllc.com if you have any fitness questions that you'd like to see answered. We'll do our best to get you questions answered.

Here is our first video on carrying sandbags to help improve functional strength and cardiovascular fitness.

Thanks for taking a look at the video and please drop us a line to let us know what you think.