Among the tests:
- Doing one pull-up with a 40 pound weight attached
- Running 1 1/2 miles in just under 14 minutes (hahahahaha!)
- Doing 35 pushups in a minute
- Doing 37 situps in a minute
A CBS4 investigation has found that about one third of the members of the Denver Police Department’s elite Metro SWAT Unit have been routinely flunking their semi-annual physical fitness exams...
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/09/27/denver-swat-members-failing-fitness-tests/
some of their actual scores! funny stuff!
the video in the first link, some guy took 26 minutes to run a mile and a half, i'd laugh except he is making $91,000 a year...
The 300m standard is a joke too. 300m in 59 seconds... that's 300m at 5:16/mile pace. What a joke.
Is there an altitude conversion?
US Secret Service agents and US Navy SEALS soldiers cruise gay bars in Russia and Ukraine while off duty from their 'special operations'. How many times have to see a really fat NYPD lardpacker on a Harley-Davidson at Staten Island at the start of the NYC marathon. Only proves that government standards are a total joke. Actually it's a crying shame.
I hope you know the Denver PD gets paid $200,000/year, and retire at 55 years old with 125% pay.
55-200-125 Option wrote:
I hope you know the Denver PD gets paid $200,000/year, and retire at 55 years old with 125% pay.
Not true.
wqqqqqqqq wrote:
The 300m standard is a joke too. 300m in 59 seconds... that's 300m at 5:16/mile pace. What a joke.
That's actually not too bad for the general population. May be a joke to runners but I'd be impressed getting some random dude on the street to break 60 for 300.
george j wrote:
the video in the first link, some guy took 26 minutes to run a mile and a half, i'd laugh except he is making $91,000 a year...
Some SWAT team.
That's a 17:21/mile pace. That's not even trying to run. WTF?
300m is a sprint. Barring being massively overweight I don't think it's too hard for typical 30-40yr old males to sprint at less than 12mph.
The fatties retire at 55 with full upper six-figure pay and benefits.
That's pathetic. The Denver PD Chief should be arrested and pension revoked. After 9-11 the State of New York establish a SEALS SWAT team for the NY Port Authority who are today the #1 SEALS Team in the United States. I.E. they can physically pummel to death any other SEALS or Special Forces team in the US, man-to-man.
That's pathetic. The Denver PD Chief should be arrested and pension revoked. After 9-11 the State of New York establish a SEALS SWAT team for the NY Port Authority who are today the #1 SEALS Team in the United States. I.E. they can physically pummel to death any other SEALS or Special Forces team in the US, man-to-man.
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
wqqqqqqqq wrote:The 300m standard is a joke too. 300m in 59 seconds... that's 300m at 5:16/mile pace. What a joke.
That's actually not too bad for the general population. May be a joke to runners but I'd be impressed getting some random dude on the street to break 60 for 300.
you have to be kidding me. 30 sec per 150m for 300m. thats a complete joke.
jhgkhjgkkk wrote:
you have to be kidding me. 30 sec per 150m for 300m. thats a complete joke.
For you, yeah. Runners get a warped sense of what most people can actually do and what is good and bad.
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
jhgkhjgkkk wrote:you have to be kidding me. 30 sec per 150m for 300m. thats a complete joke.
For you, yeah. Runners get a warped sense of what most people can actually do and what is good and bad.
This is correct, but a lot of Letsrunners have the insight of a 2 year old child and can't figure this out.
Many 22 minute 5Kers would have a problem running 300 meters in 60 seconds.
99% of people over the age of 30 couldn't do 35 pushups in a minute.
1 210 pound pullup for a 170 pound man is not easy.
I'd like to see one skinny runner do one pull-up with a 40 lbs weight.