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Dec. 24 Commander's Action Line
What are some programs that could be implemented locally for the base to be more PT-minded?
We appreciate your question. We at the 27th Special Operations Wing are very serious about improving the quality of life here so our airmen can both focus on and carry out the mission effectively. I contacted both the fitness center and the Health and Wellness Center to obtain an answer to your question.
The fitness center says it regularly receives comments and concerns about programs, equipment, and events, and tries to develop and improve programs based on that feedback. They are presently working on obtaining chin-up bars and sit-up/push-up stations around the new track and turf field. As for putting this equipment in the dormitories and other offices, airmen should discuss this with their supervisors and first sergeants. Also, the fitness center is in the process of getting several staff members trained on the proper use of kettle bells and the cost for the equipment added to their unfunded equipment list. Other programs and club support can always be addressed through fitness staff and sports advisory meetings attended by squadron sports representatives. If you have any further questions for the fitness center, please contact Rob Ewers, the fitness and sports director, at 784-2466.
The HAWC provided information about fitness programs and fitness recognition on base. Its position on fitness is to educate and provide intervention in a collaborative effort with the fitness center on programs relating to fitness/nutrition. The HAWC also provides several classes to ensure those members needing or wanting resources to better improve their lifestyles have the opportunity to do so and is promoted through the AF Portal.
As for the Cross Fit training program, there have been serious concerns about the Cross Fit program from many AF Fitness Program Managers about high rates of injuries while participating in this program. Cross Fit is not endorsed by any particular Special Operations Forces or the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the AF Portal no longer has a direct link to the Cross Fit Web site.
In regards to recognizing excellent PT performers, a program is in place. Squadrons can recognize those members here that score in the top 10 percent with a “certificate of excellence” and T-shirt, which are requested of the HAWC by your Unit Fitness Program Manager. However, please keep in mind that it is the unit commander’s program and his/her decision and responsibility to acknowledge those members in the top 10 percent and/or those who have improved their fitness score. Finally, the HAWC is putting together a running club to help members improve their run times and fitness levels next quarter. They will advertise it throughout this base soon and can be reached at 784-1004 for more information.
Cannon is in a unique situation to essentially be building the base and its programs from the ground up. Thank you for your inputs to help us make this base the best it can be.
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The examples I've given are the tip of the iceberg to anyone honest enough to do the research.
You gentlemen have the serious responsibility of finding the safest, most effective and most efficient training programs to keep your servicemen and women on point and competent.
The record is clear that CrossFit is safer, as well as superior in results and overall costs, to historical military PT training. I hope, and every American, every service member, and all our loved ones should hope, you'll do your research a little more carefully and make a better informed decision.
With more thorough research and experience, you might follow General Neubauers example, as Commander, 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, in implementing CrossFit training for your very worthy operators at Cannon.
Sincerely,
Kirez Reynolds,
CrossFit Trainer, CrossFit Litchfield Park
crossfitLP com
Punctuation errors throughout the above letter were forced by your sites filtering against slashes, apostrophes, parentheses and quotation marks. |
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| Kirez Reynolds - Dec 28, 2008 01:30:37 AM | Remove Comment |
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| I must respectfully address the unsupported assertions you made about CrossFit training.
CrossFit has proven to be far safer than previous PT programs as experienced by the US Navys BUDS training by the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado. You can contact Andy Stumpf, who implemented CrossFit at BUDS and has tracked its efficacy and safety compared against the previous 15 years of PT evolutions for BUDS, to confirm.
You can likewise contact US Marine Infantry Officers schools at Camp Pendleton and Quantico who have implemented CrossFit largely for its far superior safety and effectiveness. The Colorado State Patrol Academy is another training program that has not experienced a single injury in 14 of its last 15 graduating classes since implementing CrossFit. Dallas SWAT, the Canadian Infantry training, and most tellingly, thousands of operators and infantrymen deployed and down range for the last five years, all will tell the same story, emphatically and unambiguously. |
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| Kirez Reynolds - Dec 28, 2008 01:29:46 AM | Remove Comment |
