CANDIDATE PHYSICAL ABLILITY TEST CPAT

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CANDIDATE PHYSICAL ABLILITY TEST (CPAT)
                            
                            
 

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What About Bob?

• 12 Years Full-Time at Eau Claire Fire and Rescue
  
• 3 Years Volunteer at Shorewood Hills Fire and
  Rescue
• 6 Years Instructor at CVTC
• UWEC Kinesiology-Exercise Management major
• rpratt_at_cvtc.edu

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Overview of Course

• Introduction of Candidate Physical Ability Test
• Firefighters Fatalities
• Areas of Fitness
• Exercise Related to CPAT and You
• Taking the CPAT

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Preparing for CPAT

• Firefighting is the one of the most physical
• demanding professions (8min.8hrs.)
• It requires high levels of cardiorespiratory
• endurance, muscular strength and muscular
• endurance
• CPAT is a demanding test and you as a candidate
• requires you to be physically fit to be
  successful

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Fitness in the Fire Service

• Why Do Firefighters Have to Be Fit?
• Perform Job Duties
• Deal with Emergency Situations
• Enjoy Leisure/Recreation Time

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Definitions of Activity

• Physical Activity- any bodily movement produced
  by skeletal muscles that result in energy
  expenditure (Leisure, Occupational, and Other
  Chores)
• Physical Fitness- a set of attributes that people
  have or achieve that relates to the ability to
  perform physical activity
• Exercise- planned, structured, and repetitive
  bodily movement done to improve or maintain one
  or more components of physical fitness

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Health Related Fitness

• Morphological
• (men are apples women are pears)
• Muscular
• Cardiorespiratory
• Metabolic

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Lifestyle

• Personal Attributes
• Increase Awareness and Knowledge
• Readiness to Change
• Motivation
• Establish and Maintain Desired Behavior
• Physical Environment
• Supportive Environment
• Social Environment
• Family, Friends, and Co-Workers
• Policies in the Work Place

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Fitness / Lifestyle

• Hand-in-Hand Relationship
• Can Not Have One Without the Other
• Get Active and Stay Active
• What you do today affects you for the
• rest of your life

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Firefighter Fatalities
Heart Attack 39.2 Stress 43.1
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Areas of Fitness Fight n 5

• Cardiorespiratory
• Muscular Strength (Short-Time)
• Muscular Endurance (Long-Time)
• Flexibility (Range of Motion)
• Body Composition (Muscle v.s. Fat)
• (Handout guides, video)

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Exercise Program and CPAT

• Be Specific with Exercise Program (Refer to CPAT
  guide book)
• Include the Fight n 5
• Be Creative (Gym, Home, etc)
• Be Prepared
• Warm Up (Stretch)
• Exercise Your Mind and Body