I think the doughnuts keep a lot of police officers going!

video idea?: what about a 3 week 100m sprint specific training camp from you? 3 videos 1 a week going from maybe 15 seconds (id guess) to like 12 point something?? Id find it entertaining anyway something a bit different. 🤙

Good going. Next do military fitness tests. 😃

Advanced police bleep test, must scarf a donut at each bleep.

Do firefighters 20m and you have to get min of 8.8

Yeah at my school you need to have atleast a 6,5 to pass how is that logic to a 5.4 for the police

As a really unfit kid with asthma in secondary school, even I managed a 6,4 in the test.

I don’t start jogging until 8 lol

I'm ex-military and we have to get above level 10.2. however, its changed now that the new fitness test come in but still 10.2 is easy enough never mind 5.4 for the police. i have my Police fitness test on Saturday

It's not absurd. The response police is not elite. They have to scale with the population, meaning they have to hire enough ppl, meaning they can't be too picky. Every job that scales with the population is like that, teachers included: standards are where they need to be to fill the positions. If the standards are low that only means the general population standards are low.

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it helps if ur also in ur 40's and watched all of them a million times on vhs as a kid like mark obviously did.

​@@RealMeatyBalls as someone who is 21, I don't get most of these references.

Tackleberry! 🤪

@@AaronCurtin "I'm Too Old For This Sh#t". Sorry another movie reference! 😄

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just did mine almost died wake up call to push myself harder on cardio in the gym cause i actually trained for that bleep test. i thought 5.4 would be easy...

My issue isn't fitness, it's my horrific shin splints. I can cycle uphill for miles and miles, but the impact of running destroys my shins. Very frustrating.

Glad you tried ocr! Way more fun than just jogging! 👍🏼

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Much appreciated!

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I once trained an elite rugby player for this test by only working on the turns. Huge guy. He reached the required level during assessment, and made the first grade team. It really is all about the turns.

Yes and pacing out the test so that you don't run too fast in the early stages of it.

I'm Bigger built - always struggled with it. That said i've always passed it apart from one single time as a new recruit 7 years ago when I just stopped running and gave up. Never failed since. Never find it "easy" but always managed to do it. The last time I did it the girl running it before me looked super physically fit and yet missed two in a row, got cleared, but then stopped at level 4 anyway. I was probably double her weight and 1.5x her width but I still managed it.

Lol. Join the rejected club here 😁

I shudder at the word bronco. Its not that long but its pretty brutal.

At my fittest I could do 12.2 on a 20m test and I'm pretty sure I'd have failed 1.5 miles in 9.30. That's some going. It would be very difficult for a female to reach tactical level though. Do they have the same test? Here in the UK, coppers tend to be either super fit or move around like an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping. There doesn't seem to be a lot inbetween.

We do it in the Netherlands too, never knew it was a police test either.

I did the 20m test once back in the day when I was playing fairly serious rugby. It was a squad session and I was determined to do well if not win. Only two of us left and we'd got to 14.something and I thought I was going to pass out. Eventually couldn't go on and stopped, annoyed I'd been beaten. Only the other guy had dropped out 3 levels earlier and I hadn't noticed. 15+ is really good. Having been that fit once, I know what it takes and how relatively unfit I am now. I also respect anyone, from top athletes to gentle joggers who actually commit to their fitness. I doubt the average sofa-surfer has a clue.

Also, I'm too short and tiny(not enough chest) for our police and armed forces, sad youngster all those decades ago

One for the oldies 😂

Would be cool to see them try and break a PARE record!

A very long time ago I did bleep tests fairly regularly and found getting beyond L14 fairly easy, then it started to hurt a little. I was playing a lot of squash, and my squash talent was limited but my fitness was v high. Stopping, turning & accelerating is pretty much the core movement :) Best result I could trust was 15.10, I did one at uni scoring 17.2, but I believe the measurement was short.

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That’s what it was in 92 when I took it!

I might tweet Edgar and get his opinion 😂

Until you pass the annual OST you can't do frontline roles or wear the equipment, you'll be put on desk duty forever until you pass, most don't want that, so would say there's a consequence if you want to actually wear the uniform.

Absolute rubbish. I serve in a UK force.... New recruits who fail the test 4 times are dispensed with (sacked or "dismissed" from the force). Those who fail the test are not allowed to be operational.... meaning they are stuck behind a desk often doing boring tasks and most people hate it. They are also given management action to improve - if they fail to show improvement it can be pushed up to UPP regulations and they can be sacked that way. Usually if you fail the test the first time they give you 4-6 weeks to improve. I did mine 7 weeks ago and despite being 5'11, with a 38-40 inch waist and weighing between 96 and 102KG.. I can still manage it - yet I witnessed a much thinner, and fitter looking new recruit miss two shuttles in a row, clear on the third one, and then just stop at level 4. It would be ridiculous to dock officers pay for them failing the test.. I don't think you understand just how little most officers are paid. When I first started as a new officer in 2017 I was earning £28,850. New recruits now earn about £35k. Neither of those salaries are exactly "well paid" or "attractive" considering the amount of responsibility and risk you expose yourself to. You can be sacked and have a criminal record for arresting someone when it isn't necessary, and you can lose your job and be put on the college of policing barred list for not arresting someone when you should have... I nearly lost my job when a victim of crime I dealt with decided to commit suicide - she gave me zero indication of this and just did it. 2 years and 4 months later I am STILL subject to sanctions to this day as a result of her action to take her own life.... sound fair to you? I of course earn considerably more than both of those salaries, after 7 years in the job, but like most jobs, that comes with experience. In the first 5 years the police pay barely increases, only around £1,000 a year (about £65 a month extra each year after tax, NI and the huge deduction for your pension is factored into it). Police pension deductions are 14.4%. By contrast I used to work with a PCSO who told me he only pays 4% each month. The police pay scales only increase drastically in the last 2 years until paypoint 6 is reached.

I am 15 and did it a weak ago. Got 12,5 aswell

Going for a run in smokediving equipment is a special kind of hell.

Trust me, there were many clips left on the cutting room floor with this one 😂.