How do you plan and build a routine if you want to become a firefighter and do well during its training and overall career?
Most lifting resources out there focus on either strength training or hypertrophy training, but ideally you should throw these away in favor of more endurance related exercises?
So, you basically just pick your average powerlifting routine and replace increasing the weights with increasing the volume instead? (Sounds a lot like hypertrophy training, though)
And then you throw a lot of huge calisthenics volume and huge cardio volume 6 times a week?
Any experienced anons?

>>76351538 (OP)
I had a buddy training for the fireman exam. He would do his PPL routine, and then do like 30 minutes of the stairmaster with a weighted backpack

>>76351538 (OP)
Stair master in a sauna suit with intermittent pullups until you can do at least 10 and 5/3/1 For strength training
I could go into more but If you do those two things for four months l, you'll be ahead of everyone else in your academy.
The sauna suit stairs are the most important if you can only do one.
Also, get your EMT. Ain't nobody hiring you without it.

cardio every day

Lots of heavy sandbag lifts and carries probably
>experienced
No, but I've considered this before, and I would focus on heavy weighted pullups, heavy sandbag work (including sandbag to shoulder, sandbag cleans and bear hug squats) and carries

>>76351781
>Stair master
is stairmaster really that good
seen lots of people heavily praising it
i thought it was just a flavor of the month thing

>>76354198
You tell me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6ClY7Gsmk&pp=ygUZZmlyZWZpZ2h0ZXIgcGh5c2ljYWwgdGVzdA%3D%3D
I recommend the sauna suit because it will condition you to tolerate the heat of your bunker gear. If you throw up once or twice it means it's working.

>>76351538 (OP)
This guy is a firefighter and all he does is kettlebells and sandbags. You can check out his yt channel.
https://youtu.be/9Ya70Vie8JQ?t=31

>>76353309
Retard

Rolling for pushups

>>76355377
Nah man, is it just me, or does that look easy af. The hardest part looks like dragging that dummy which I'm gonna assume is like 200lbs

>>76355921
Post body

>>76355921
You would give up on the first 3 minutes.

>>76351538 (OP)
You should get ready for a Cal-JAC Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT).

There are many CPAT preparation guides on the internet. Pick one, because they are very similar. Don't pick a powerlifting routine, because they don't have any cardio. Any, you need endurance. The hose won't run itself.

>>76351538 (OP)
To pass the initial fitness test I would say definitely tailor your training to pass the published test criteria of whatever department youre trying to join. Play the game rather than trying to be the perfectly rounded elite athlete.

To do well in training school and in the job going forward, the truth is you can actually get away with being fairly unfit, but if you want to aim for the gold standard focus on cardio, endurance, strength with a focus on low weight high reps, calisthenics, mobility. You'll very rarely need to lift 200lbs solo, or sprint 100m in 10 seconds, but between those two extremes you should be capable. Most of the "difficult" stuff is psychological and stress-based, or repetitious mildly uncomfortable tasks - think carrying 50lbs up ten flights of stairs, or kneeling in cold ash for half an hour, or working with hydraulic tools above your head for extended periods.

If you can swim, climb, hike and camp in inclement weather, grind out a few pull ups, and perform boring repetitive tasks in the cold, dark and wet while sleep deprived, then you're on the right tracks.

T. Firefighter, 3 years in

>>76351538 (OP)
>firefighter routine
>get sued for the death of multiple 500lbs women X failure

Look up dan john's stuff.
TLDR ; pull something off the floor, push something over your head, carry heavy things for a distance.

>>76351538 (OP)
I got just the thing for you boss.

If you get accepted into a school, start training with your gear as soon as you can.

Just lift weights and do cardio a few times a week.
Don’t over think it dude. Lift however you want. Anything is better than just getting fat like a lot of firefighters do as they age.

>>76357502
Ever department I've worked for runs rescue and fire. We show up with an ambulance and an engine with at least 3 AEMTSs and a paramedic to each call. This is especially important in motor vehicle accidents. I can't imagine being a paramedic working a car crash and waiting 30 minutes for a volunteer fire department to muster and cut the crushed dashboard off of your lower body. Even in minor crashes, if the airbags haven't gone off, I'm waiting for someone with the tools to show up and cut the battery. And if you have a spinal injury and nobody is around to cut the roof off, you'll get extracted in ways that will probably not be good for your already damaged spinal cord.
But it's true that structure fires are not as common or dangerous as they once were. Most departments should probably run and staff two ambulances for every one engine if not 3:1. And maybe have an extra ambulance running inter facility transfers to provide experience and get some extra scratch for the department.
I will take umbrage with the comparison of private ambulance services. They are always calling fire deparments for lift assists and mass casualty events. If they actually had to staff enough personnel to handle the once a week multi car pileup or obese bitch who got stuck between her toilet and tub, they wouldn't be anywhere near as cost effective.
The private ambulance service I trained with had a saying
>don't lift with your back–lift with your fireman.
and we had them dispatched to help us for nearly everything that wasn't a simple rescue. It's actually what made me want to become a firefighter. Emergency medicine is my passion, combining it with firefighting just seemed natural.

>>76354198
Stairs are good.
Running gets you places faster but it's stupidly efficient because all your doing is maintaining momentum, you don't add much energy with each step.
With stairs you're lifting your body weight 6 to 8 inches with one leg every half a second.
The ROM is far greater and there's no momentum for you to preserve.

Comparing the two, it's quarter-repping body weight squats for 40 minutes instead of walking fast for the same amount of time.

bump for interest

>>76355651

>>76355651
Roll

>>76351538 (OP)
>How do you plan and build a routine if you want to become a firefighter
Find a strongman program online that is specialized for endurance, or hire a coach to make you one.
Stongman is a sport that heavily involves running while carrying heavy objects

>>76361286
Fat fingers typed this post

>>76357502
Yes and no. Fire departments have almost become victims of their own success due to improved prevention and protection. Fewer people smoke. Dying in a fire simply isn't as common now as it used to be. I'm also sure the unions are to a degree self serving and constantly need to justify their own existence.

However, when you have a road traffic collision, urban search and rescue, gas explosion, rescue from height/depth/water, bariatric patient, hazmat incident, or need support at a mass casualty event, suddenly those useless lazy firefighters come in handy.

>>76361286
minus the eating of course, strongmen eat like pigs
kills the point of firefighting by being a fat fuck

>>76362182
Not to mention all the electric car that are essentially bombs on wheels scooting around

>>76362182
You basically get paid to workout during the first half of the day, then laze out the remaining half
It isn't like your pay is getting lower because there's less accidents
How is that not the dream job to the average /fit/zen

>>76355611
>Yeah bro *stretches and subtly flexes* I just do a bit of pickleball and run club haha *winks at your girl*

>>76356995
>The hose won't run itself
What, you gonna be squirting the water through it with a hand pumpp?