{"id":7299,"date":"2022-08-17T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthwatchminute.com\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2022-08-17T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:13:00","slug":"what-it-takes-to-pass-the-idaho-falls-police-physical-fitness-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthwatchminute.com\/?p=7299","title":{"rendered":"What it takes to pass the Idaho Falls Police physical fitness test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/localnews8.b-cdn.net\/2022\/08\/PKG.00_00_06_26.Still001.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) &#8211; The Idaho Falls Police Department is looking for new recruits, starting with its upcoming entry and physical fitness tests.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested in joining the department, hiring Captain Joel&nbsp;Tisdale says now is the time to get in shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the police world, there&#8217;s a lot of physicality at times. We do drive around and not have to move a muscle for hours on end sometimes. But there are days when you&#8217;re nonstop, physical, moving people moving things, jumping over things, jump crawling under things,&#8221; Capt. Tisdale said. &#8220;You have to be able to get on top of a house, crawl under a house, carry somebody that&#8217;s hurt, carry somebody that doesn&#8217;t want to walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New recruits are expected to do push-ups, sit-ups, a 300-meter sprint, a vertical jump and a one-and-a-half-mile run. Idaho Falls&#8217; newest officer Alonzo&nbsp;Garcia ran through some strategies to pass the test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can be a great distance runner, but then you have to run a sprint. You&#8217;re not used to using those. different muscles. Groups are not firing quite as fast as they should be,&#8221; Garcia said. &#8220;So being able to do both is very good, not just sprinting every day and not just running distance every day, but doing one, one day and one the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officer Garcia suggests people prepare for the test by running at least twice a week, and correct or incorrect forms can make a big difference in the actual test. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People cheat themselves by not actually getting reps. People will get in and instead of doing the correct pushup all the way up and down, they&#8217;ll only go a little way down. They&#8217;ll move their head, they&#8217;ll move something that doesn&#8217;t need to or they do go all the way down and then they don&#8217;t go all the way up. So they get all this effort, but none of those count,&#8221; Capt. Tisdale said.<\/p>\n<p>Another test new recruits find difficult is the vertical jump, where they have to jump a minimum of 14 inches. Captain Tisdale suggests potential officers practice box jumps or other jumping exercises before the physical fitness tests on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Police testing or to register for the physical fitness test, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsafetytesting.com\/information-center\/test-requirements-law-enforcement-officer-physical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) &#8211; The Idaho Falls Police Department is looking for new recruits, starting with its upcoming entry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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