Firefighter Fitness Bulletin: L-Sit Pull-Up

This week’s firefighter fitness bulletin from Chris Brennan focuses on the L-Sit (or L-Hang) pull-up, which is an additional way of developing midline stabilization and challenging the abdominals.

Download this week’s bulletin and sample exercise workout as a PDF HERE and share it with your crew.

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 “Rest and Rehabilitation.”

Christopher BrennanCHRISTOPHER 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 Readiness The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter (Fire Engineering, 2011).

 

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