HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOW 2015-04-27 Item 5C - Powerpoint Presentation Shown at Meeting - Police Fitness and Health ProgramTrainers
Brent Frank
• Program Specialist, Eastside Boys and Girls Club: 4 Years
• Coordinated and Implemented all physical actives for members
• Assistant Football Coach, Pacific Lutheran University: 3 Years
• Worked with college athletes daily on an individual and group basis
• Participated in the creation and implementation of strength & condition program
• National Academy of Sports Medicine CPT, Training Certificate: 3 Years
• Worked with a broad range of patients to structure and develop personalized fitness plans
• Created individual exercise regimens
• Evaluated and critiqued patient's progress and modified programs to improve performance
• College Athlete: PLU, Football: 2002 — 2006, 4 year letterman, 2 time all- conference
• B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University with emphasizes in Phys. Ed., Coaching, and
Kinesiology
What is a "fitness program "?
• Provide Officers /TPD staff with a positive resource for fitness and nutrition
information specific to the individual's goals and needs
• Provide as much accountability, Motivation, Direction, and assistance as the
participant desires
• The Implementation of a yearly fitness test which will help individuals develop a
base line to build from and to lay a foundation for a potential fitness incentive in
the future.
What it isn't:
• A test from the department to pull Officers off the street
• A means to embarrass /ridicule based upon their current wellness
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Why: Purpose
• Improve the quality of life for participants
• Reduce health risks and complications associated with our
line of work
• Improve the general fitness and nutrition of Officers /Staff to
improve at work performance and their safety
• Improve gym facilities in order to provide a space that
encourages and facilitates exercise
• Reward Officers for putting in the work to improve /maintain
health
Why continued...
Reduces stress: at work and at home
• Boosts Mental capacity / focus
• Increased blood flow, metabolic rate, lung capacity, endurance
• Promotes better sleep patterns
• Night Shift /Day Shift
• Increases Energy
• Your body responds to the demands that are made.
Prevents Injuries
• Strength and stability = less likely to suffer an injury
Increases Confidence
• I know I can do it because I've done it before
Law Enforcement Health Risks
Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease risk
factors:
- High blood pressure and cholesterol (Medications)
- Increased risk of hypertension /heart attack
Approximately 75% of first responders have high blood
pressure (2012 Harvard Study).
The same study noted that in 2011 -12 sudden cardiac
death was suffered by 441 LEO's. 12% of those deaths
were during struggles with a suspect and 23% occurred
during routine duties such as desk work.
Health Risks Continued
Obesity /Weight risks:
- Increased load on joints and ligaments
- Low back -pain: Desk chairs, patrol vehicles,
and duty belts.
- Mobility: Pain in everyday tasks or the inability
to perform them all together.
Fight Stress & Improve Your Mood
- Regular exercise has the unique ability to exhilarate
your mind along with countering depression and
dissipating stress.
The benefits for your mind are neurochemical in
nature: Exercise reduces levels of the body's stress
hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol.
Simultaneously it stimulates production of endorphins,
your body's natural painkillers and mood elevators.
Job Related Physical Risks
In our line of work you may be asked to do the
following after sitting in a patrol car for 11 hours
straight:
- Run, jump, climb, push, pull, crawl
Poor physical fitness could reduce your ability to
perform what look like simple tasks until it becomes:
Life after Law Enforcement
• Ultimately if you create and maintain good physical
and nutritional habits during your career then it will
prolong your life after retirement and potentially
increase the quality of those years.
Tukwila's Program
Assessment of current fitness level to include:
- Objective based physical test
- Body Fat percentage measurement and weigh in
(optional)
- Assessment of current plan /routine and nutrition
- Modification or creation of plan based upon goals
Exercise Programing
- Created and implemented in concert with personal
goals
- Accountability, progress, and programming based
upon participants desire
- Trainers to be available for instruction /guidance
Program success and involvement is a two way street.
Fitness Facility
- Expectation of higher level of fitness requires the tools
to achieve them.
- Increased comrade and teamwork.
- Facility that would allow Officers to have their equipment
accessible in a secure location.
A venue where Officers will not potentially encounter a
subject they've contacted on duty.
Healthier Officers = increased performance, greater job
satisfaction, and better service