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17 pounds
10.15.04 (12:25 am)   [edit]
Well, I gained 17 pounds today. It was mostly around my midsection. It wasn't from overeating, though. I was not priveleged to gain weight due to some pleasurable indulgence. 17 pounds is the weight of the belt they strapped around me today as I took my physical agility test for th City Police Dept. It's supposed to simulate the weight of your gun, handcuffs, extra magazines, tazer, asp, radio, and bullet resistant vest. Basically it just weighs too much.

The excercise is simple enough:

Begin by having the belt strapped on. Suddenly feel really awkward since you only weigh 165 pounds. Get in a patrol car, and nervously wait for your radio call. Hear Officer Ross on the radio give you a description of a black male, white shirt, blue jacket, with a gold chain and a weapon. Hear the word "go" and jump out the patrol car, and try your best to sprint around the car and up the beginning of the trail through the woods. Realize that 17 pounds feels like a lot when you're sprinting. Run about 10 yards on slick pine needles up a slope. It has just rained the night before, so everything is wet. Jump through a window that is 48 inches off the ground. See a bunch of paintings of men with numbers beside them. Pick out your suspect from the description you were given, and try to commit his number to memory. Run about 80 yards, then slide under a sawhorse. Run around the corner, and try hard not to fall because the grass is wet. Scale a 6-foot wall. Run another 20 yards. Grab a 150-pound dummy and carry/drag/coerce him 10 feet or so and slam him against another cruiser. Hear the word "Stop!" and thank God that your test is over. Did you pass? You had to cover 150 yards of obstacle course in 64 seconds or less. You're fighting for breath as you say "That fucking dummy weighs more than I do." [Well, the weight belt and the dummy together weigh more than you do.] Hear someone ask you your suspect number. It's #4, you say. Hear your time come over the radio, channel Tac 3, saying "50 seconds". They hand you a slip of paper to fill out for the next stage of testing. It means you passed. You spend the next 15 minutes coughing up phlegm that you didn't even realize was in your system.

Your written test was this past Tuesday, and your next test is a ride-along in two days. You hope you'll be a cop in no time.
 


posted by: SheSpecies (reply)
post date: 10.15.04 (12:44 am)

Hell yeah it feels like a lot...(good blog by the way) I used to work in the fitness industry...was at a huge spa-type facility which was just under 50K SQFT with a large staircase. When I'd be counselling with people who wanted to lose excess weight, I'd use a 10 lb. analogy (generally cause they wanted to lose at LEAST 10 lbs, though usually 20-40). I'd hand them a 10-lb plate in my office and have them tote it around the whole facility as I toured them through. By the time they'd get back downstairs they'd usually say something along the lines of, "Damn...glad to put that down." And I'd use that as a selling point to correlate how relieved they'd be once they dropped that extra 20 lbs or so.

I can see how it'd absolutely improve your speed and agility in the field once you've been training with the excess weight...good luck with that!



posted by: Believe (reply)
post date: 10.15.04 (12:58 am)

lmfao i had to do something diff to get in mine., they had us dressed up in uniform sittin g a patrol car hands on 10 and 2 they say go you have to unbuckle the seat reach in the glove box grtab the trunk key close the glove box run to the trunk while shuting the doors in teh car open the trunk take your right hand behind your back remove the left handcuffs take your left hand and remove your right handcuff, grab a flashlight run 220 yards to a poll run back 220 yards to a window jump threw a 6 foot window about 3 feet wide and 3 ffet tall. jump 3 hurdles ranging from 24 inches to 32 inches run a zig zag 50 yards of polls under a 27 inch low crawl threw the sugar sand drop your flashlight scale a 6 foot chain link fence then a 8 foot wood fence run up 3 flights of stairs turn around go back up the stairs grab your flashlight crawl back under the low crawl do the 50 yard zig zag back over the hurdles back threw the window 220 yard sprint back to the poll run around it run back 220 yards with a 185 pound dummy to the patrol car grab your hand gun and fire it 6 times with your left hand and 6 times with your right hand to make sure your still accurate open the trunk put the flashlight back in it run to the drivers side sit down buckle up and put the key back in the glove box and puyt your hands on 10 and 2 all in 4 mins lmfao. i did it in 3 mins flat dont know how but i did.



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 10.25.04 (1:15 am)

Well good luck sir. I hope you make it. Well I know you will. Keep me updated...give me a call soon and let me know how it goes in the life of Attorneykid



posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 10.25.04 (1:15 am)

PS. That was from Lori :)



posted by: AttorneyKid (reply)
post date: 10.25.04 (7:50 pm)

Reply to: Believe

Good GOD! No, we're a small town of about 70,000. No need for that sort of training. We're basically a residential area that's a suburb of a larger city.



posted by: AttorneyKid (reply)
post date: 10.25.04 (7:52 pm)

Reply to: SheSpecies


That's an excellent strategy. I need to find a gym...The station just has weights. Swimming is the only excercise I enjoy, but the YMCA is the only gym in town with a pool, and it's overpriced for what you get.

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