Firefighter Fitness Bulletin: Hollow Rocks

In this firefighter fitness bulletin, Fire Service Warrior’s Chris Brennan brings another exercise to challenge your body’s ability to maintain core stability.

Download this week’s free firefighter fitness bulletin and sample 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 “Tactical Strength and Conditioning.”

Chris Brennan: Fitness tips from the Fire Service WarriorCHRISTOPHER 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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