Is name is Vince and his mission is to push us beyond the comfort zone and then some.
The class consists of a wide variety of people, some are applying for different police forces..RCMP, EPS etc, and some are there just for the fitness aspect, something different.
I have always been at a certain level when it came to cardiovascular conditioning. I usually last 20minutes of sparring and then I start to run out of gas.
Vince guarantees after 12 of his classes your conditioning will improve and he supplies you with the knowledge and tools to upkeep your conditioning.
Tuesday night was the first class. It lasts 90 minutes and you hardly have time to take a sip of water. His idea of taking a break is pushups! Perfect!
He timed us on some drills to give us a baseline, something to measure our progress with.
5 laps around the track with 15 pushups and 20 lunges in between each lap.
My time 9:17
I achieved 3 chinups (palms facing out with a wide grip) he says palms facing inwards is easier, the bicep is incorporated more in this kind of chin up . Palm facing out flattens the bicep making it more difficult.
I achieved 55 situps in one minute.
So that is my starting point, we will see what my numbers are like by the end of February.
After recording where our starting point was then the fun began.
He likes stairs, sprinting, pushups, plyometrics, more stairs and then abolicihous drills (his term)
Seems to me conditioning is all about putting yourself outside the physical comfort zone. So far the class is pretty uncomfortable so I must be doing something right.
On a completely different note. As I was writing this blog, I was listening to the radio. They were interviewing a pilot and his take on the accident that occured yesterday in New York.
The radio guy asked the pilot "it must take a special person to be an airline pilot?"
The pilot answered "No, its all about the training, anybody who has the discipline to apply themselves can be an airline pilot, if the time comes where you need to apply your training for real you should handle it in a calm fashion and everyone should survive."
Sounds like kung fu, sounds like good advice.
2 comments:
That class sounds awesome. Too bad I didn't know about it sooner... A friend of mine who wants to be a firefighter thinks he's in great shape and doesn't listen to me when I tell him his conditioning needs work... that would have done it :) Does he do these classes often?
I think there is another one in March??
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