Before joining the academy, I read on here and on other websites of the hellish PT that the police academy provides. Never being the most physically fit person myself, I rather looked forward to it. I started running and working out for months in advance (going from never running unless necessary to being able to run miles in under 10 minutes)... well, I just finished PT at my academy (which by the way is at a state college) which ended up being 8 weeks of 2 hrs per day (after 2 hrs of DT). With that PT, students were given the option to go run or to do P90x. I chose the latter because it incorporated strength and cardio simultaneously. Don't get me wrong, it was a great work out that had me sore, sweaty and tired but I feel like based on these other posts about running x miles a day throughout the academy, I missed out.
I had stopped training outside of the academy because of time constraints but will be picking it back up starting this coming Monday as I am entering the hiring process and don't want to suffer in the department's PT/DT... but I'm just wondering if this kind of block schedule PT is common in academies? Also, I'm just wondering any tips on training while I'm getting back in that groove. Thanks for all advice!
I had stopped training outside of the academy because of time constraints but will be picking it back up starting this coming Monday as I am entering the hiring process and don't want to suffer in the department's PT/DT... but I'm just wondering if this kind of block schedule PT is common in academies? Also, I'm just wondering any tips on training while I'm getting back in that groove. Thanks for all advice!
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