Functional Circuit Training Fitness Program

About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2011

The York County Department of Fire and Life Safety, in an effort to improve the health, wellness, and safety of its firefighters, developed Functional Circuit Training Equipment and inaugurated an on-duty Functional Circuit Training Program for its personnel during 2010 Fire/EMS Health, Safety and Survival Week. The program was created to specifically help the department’s firefighters achieve their goal of whole body conditioning. Using low-cost items such as tires, ropes, webbing, plywood, rubber mats and rubber balls, chain, fastening hardware, use fire-hose and sledge hammers, staff created props that could be used by firefighters to perform functions similar to those performed on emergency scenes. These functional exercises were then integrated into a circuit to help the firefighters simulate some of the physical strength, endurance, and cardiovascular demands required of their bodies in an emergency.