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This article is written to help prepare people who are seeking to become DEA agents pass the New Agent's Mandatory Physical Fitness Test. The workout you can download is a six week program that ONLY has calisthenics and no weight training to prepare for the PTT. This workout was a request from a future DEA agent that did not have access to a gym and weights. You will also be required to perform what is called the DEA Special Agents PFT which is: Max Pull ups (no time limit) Trainee hangs from a horizontal bar, palms turned away from the...

Fire Fighter Conditioning for Career Fire Fighters as well as Volunteer Fire Fighters requires two different types of programs but they both must yield the same results – a Fit Fire Fighter who can handle the weight of his gear, the weight of an injured victim, and the hot working environment. Being unfit should not be an option for any fire fighter with the risks of life on the line. Fact: More than 100 fire fighters each year die from heart attack The differences in Volunteer Fire Fighters and Career Fire Fighters jobs requirements are minimal; however, fitness levels within...

This week I decided to answer a question I have been receiving from people using my workouts to prepare for the military and special forces training for over ten years. Your training programs are effective. I have been following the routines and can do a rather large amount of situps and pushups! The question I would like to ask is, would this program be more affective if I took creatine while doing these workouts? And would you see a difference in a short period of time?During the early 90’s, Creatine supplementation hit the scene and gyms, nutrition stores, and supplement...

Soldiers often contact me to update me on what they are doing for physical training. Their fitness training cycles usually vary a great deal from basic training to maintenance training while overseas or preparing to go overseas. Recently, in an AP article that was featured at Today Online, many combat veterans are adding sprints, agility drills and core exercises to build a better equipped combat soldier.Shorts bursts of sprinting carrying combat loads of 50-75 lbs or more is often the daily requirement when on combat patrols. Preparing for that eventuality can be as simple as setting up some cones to...

After doing research and writing about physical fitness tests for military and law enforcement agencies for the past ten years, I recognized a common appearance of the 1.5 mile run, pushups, and sit-ups test as a near universal basis for testing fitness levels. The groups who use the Common PFT are the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and more than 50% of federal, state, and local police agencies as a minimum standard for physical testing. In the military units, they also have alternate testing exercises such as bike or swim for the run if injury prevents a member from running...