Results From 1st Fitness Test

Hi gang,

well on the 16th of November Victoria Police conducted the first of the new fitness tests for police applicants. 33% of female applicants were unsuccessful and 41% of male applicants were unsuccessful. Not that flash given that the required standards are representative of the "average" fitness level of the Australian population for that given age and gender.

Most had issues with the beep test, some had problems dragging the 75kg dummy and quite a few struggled with the grip strength and a small number of applicants were unable to meet the time frame required for the Illinois Agility Test. There, that covers all the tests!

Bottom line, SPECIFIC preparation. The next and last fitness test for 2008 is the 14th of December. Those letters have gone out to applicants now so go and check your letter box!

Thank you to those who attended our last group session for the year at Knox on the 23rd of November. Our next group session won't be until the end of Jan, early Feb now. Don't forget personal training sessions are always available by appointment.

For your info, I've also had a lot of questions about finding the "right" beep test audio recording and how much does it cost. So, I've added another page to my menu on the site with a link where you can download the same file we use at the academy for the official testing and it's FREE:)

As usual I'm happy to answer any questions you may have and I'll stick another post up when there's something I think you can benefit from knowing.

Kind regards,

Russ.