The exercise demonstrated in this week’s firefighter fitness bulletin from Fire Service Warrior’s Chris Brennan combines the full-range dynamism of a burpee with the additional effort of a pull up.
Download this week’s fitness bulletin and suggested workout as a PDF HERE and share it with fellow firefighters.
For more information about firefighter fitness and similar issues, visit http://www.fireservicewarrior.com. Also, consider Michael Krueger’s monthly fitness columns on Fire Life, such as “How Much is Enough?“
CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN is a 14-year fire service veteran, a firefighter in the suburbs of Chicago, and the president of Spartan Concepts, Inc. He is a field instructor with the Illinois Fire Service Institute and has contributed articles to Fire Engineering. He maintains the Web site www.fireservicewarrior.com. He is the author of The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter Readiness (Fire Engineering, 2011).
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