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The Fitness Thread

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  • #32
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    If I dont get into the same squad as Ali and Fo I dont want in at all ;-)

    Hahahaha ha! You just wanna play with our toys :D.


  • #33
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    Ali08 wrote: »
    Hahahaha ha! You just wanna play with our toys :D.
    Actually I think I'd rather watch;)


  • #34
    conor123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭conor123


    bobbin88 wrote: »
    Do many people fail the push/pull, particularly woman? I'm really worried I won't pass it?

    a few people fail it so just get working on building up your strength. most who fail it only fail by a small amount. a good bit of it is just down to technique though. plus it is set to just one height which some people find awkward because they are a bit smaller


  • #35
    pb999
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭pb999


    yeah the push pull is set to replicate the height of an average person which is 5ft 10ins, so if you are taller than that then its easier than if you were shorter. pushups (proper man ones) and some leg work such as squats would help build up the strength needed, but as connor says alot of it is technique.


  • #36
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    Actually I think I'd rather watch;)
    :eek:


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  • #37
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    Ali08 wrote: »
    :eek:
    thats just how wide my eyes would be open


  • #38
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    thats just how wide my eyes would be open
    You must have tiny eyes.


  • #39
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    Ali08 wrote: »
    You must have tiny eyes.
    i have other things that make up for them, really big ears:p


  • #40
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    i have other things that make up for them, really big ears:p

    You know what they say about people with big ears????
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    Shush he'll hear you :)


  • #41
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


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    Pardon!


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  • #42
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    thumbnail.aspx?q=277238581778&id=fb55c444ea7b11fd1d713e7337911de5
    Pardon!

    SORRY I FORGOT YOU WERE OLD!


  • #43
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    once again Ali hijacks a thread and then tries to blame it on the fit old guy, tut tut tut


  • #44
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    I'm sorry folks for degrading this thread. Someone is a very bad influence on me and on boards in general!!!:pac:

    Anybody else lettin themselves go un-exercised over Christmas?? Please some one make me feel better!!


  • #45
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    I have cut down I am only running 2 miles every other day now up at 6 tomorrow morning hope its another lovely morning like usual:(


  • #46
    Oursole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Oursole


    Im just training with my football club as norm. Im hoping this will see me through alright. Fingers crossed


  • #47
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    It was bloody freezing this morning when I went out for a run and very windy so I only ran half my usual distance then I ran home:)


  • #48
    inspector71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭inspector71


    MORRI wrote: »
    It was bloody freezing this morning when I went out for a run and very windy so I only ran half my usual distance then I ran home:)

    I had the same experience, 6am is a nice time to be up and about on a sunday though. although I ran my usual amoun that's probably not a whole lot


  • #49
    PandaPants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭PandaPants


    I was going to go to the gym today, but I couldn't be arsed. lol

    Hard-core training starts on 27th December. I can't wait. :(


  • #50
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    To be honest i think everyone would be better not training at all before they start, imagine all the hours wasted to find out you didnt really need to put in that much effort. All the time you could have spent with family and friends that you can never get back, relationships torn apart by the urge to be faster and stronger for what? Money? Power? Yes money and power thats it run everybody RUN:D


  • #51
    bobbin88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭bobbin88


    MORRI wrote: »
    To be honest i think everyone would be better not training at all before they start, imagine all the hours wasted to find out you didnt really need to put in that much effort. All the time you could have spent with family and friends that you can never get back, relationships torn apart by the urge to be faster and stronger for what? Money? Power? Yes money and power thats it run everybody RUN:D
    You tell 'em Morri!:D


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  • #52
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    To be honest i think everyone would be better not training at all before they start, imagine all the hours wasted to find out you didnt really need to put in that much effort. All the time you could have spent with family and friends that you can never get back, relationships torn apart by the urge to be faster and stronger for what? Money? Power? Yes money and power thats it run everybody RUN:D

    Wheres the innuendo? you feelin alright Morri?


  • #53
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    Dearest Ali your opinion of me is without justification, I am more than a one dimensional person. I am a multi faceted gem of a being and if you see a shallow creature full of innuendo then mayhap I am merely doing what all true gems do and reflecting back that which is within you.
    Within you, get it?;)


  • #54
    Ali08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Ali08


    MORRI wrote: »
    Dearest Ali your opinion of me is without justification, I am more than a one dimensional person. I am a multi faceted gem of a being and if you see a shallow creature full of innuendo then mayhap I am merely doing what all true gems do and reflecting back that which is within you.
    Within you, get it?;)

    No!?!


  • #55
    TSG 15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭TSG 15


    Hi Guys, as a serving Cop in TSG I can assure you all that the basic fitness test in Garnerville is harder to fail than it is to pass. The 5k run is not counted as part of the fitness test so it does not count against you if you cant finish it in time. By the end of the 5 months course they will expect you to have improved your time, thats all. The PCA is a light obstacle course and if you go round it at just above a fast walk you will still complete it on time. If it was not for the steps you walk up in the middle of it even Steven Hawking could pass it. After the PCA is completed you will have about 20 mins rest before you do the push pull which all the guys and about 95% of girls pass first time.
    You get a go at it first week at the fun factory to let you see how it is, if by some miracle you dont pass they give you a fitness programme to work to over the 5 months so if you cant pass by then you dont deserve to be in the job. Its up to the fit people in the squad to kick the arses of the lazy ones and help them.
    To, their shame, the PSNI is the only force that does not have a fitness test as part of the selection process which makes us a laughing stock in the rest of the uk, so, in effect, they will be paying you to get fit. When they devised the PCA they tested it on us and we really did think they were having a laugh.


  • #56
    TSG 15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭TSG 15


    Hi Guys, as a serving Cop in TSG I can assure you all that the basic fitness test in Garnerville is harder to fail than it is to pass. The 5k run is not counted as part of the fitness test so it does not count against you if you cant finish it in time. By the end of the 5 months course they will expect you to have improved your time, thats all. The PCA is a light obstacle course and if you go round it at just above a fast walk you will still complete it on time. If it was not for the steps you walk up in the middle of it even Steven Hawking could pass it. After the PCA is completed you will have about 20 mins rest before you do the push pull which all the guys and about 95% of girls pass first time.
    You get a go at it first week at the fun factory to let you see how it is, if by some miracle you dont pass they give you a fitness programme to work to over the 5 months so if you cant pass by then you dont deserve to be in the job. Its up to the fit people in the squad to kick the arses of the lazy ones and help them.
    To, their shame, the PSNI is the only force that does not have a fitness test as part of the selection process which makes us a laughing stock in the rest of the uk, so, in effect, they will be paying you to get fit. When they devised the PCA they tested it on us and we really did think they were having a laugh.


  • #57
    TSG 15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭TSG 15


    Thats a large stutter I have :D


  • #58
    integra1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭integra1


    good info but cheers TSG


  • #59
    smyff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭smyff


    TSG 15 wrote: »
    Thats a large stutter I have :D

    haha. what is TSG can i ask!?


  • #60
    TSG 15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭TSG 15


    Tactical Support Group..... Used to be called MSU or DMSU. riots and general public order duty mainly


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  • #61
    MORRI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭MORRI


    smyff wrote: »
    haha. what is TSG can i ask!?
    TSG you shouldn't have told him you should have tried to add a bit of mistery to it, plus you left out the bit about TSG going to domestics and banging a few heads together and handing it all over to response :D.
    Is H2 stilll going?


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