['Robert Piparo (Pip) is the director of 555 Fitness an organization designed to keep firefighters and emergency responders healthy. What started as a Facebook community has turned into a nationally recognized Not For Profit Organization. They are doing their part reducing the line of duty deaths attributed to cardiac related events. There motto is train hard do work.
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\nWe talk about how they are helping firefighters all over the US improve their health and endurance. They are also doing their part in getting much needed fitness equipment into the right hands. Pip became an unintentional social media celebrity, and he shares how that came about. We also address the fitness standards that the fire department should have. Along with what it is like to be a firefighter and some amazing testimonials of the work being done at 555 Fitness.
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\n* Pip is a Lieutenant in the Fire department. To be a firefighter, you need to be extremely fit.
\n* He started as an EMS where he was lifting and moving patients up and down the stairs.
\n* Pip fell in love with fitness and then started CrossFit which combined everything he liked to do in one package.
\n* Pip had been working out at the firehouse and some guys joined him. This was the early start.
\n* He has always been researching fitness. He found a 555 Fitness Facebook page which was established by a firefighter.
\n* Pip and the Captain who started the page became friends and Pip decided to help him, and it was their plan to raise money to get fitness equipment for firehouses.
\n* They have given over $30,000 worth of equipment and have become a force for change.
\n* Now firefighters, police, and emergency responders are now taking their health more seriously.
\n* Pip started putting a body weight workout on Instagram everyday.
\n* Firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, a flight nurse, and people from all over the country help and are part of the 555 family.
\n* The tests and requirements to become a firefighter. There are volunteers and career emergency services. People in American are volunteering less because they don’t have time.
\n* Career firefighters have some form of a written test and physical test. The CPAT timed obstacle test.
\n* When getting hired firefighters are at their top physical shape.
\n* Some states have physical training, but standards vary. Some on duty firefighters aren’t allowed to work out during duty time.
\n* People in emergency services help people, but they sometimes forget about themselves. This is coupled into the epidemic of people not working out.
\n* When you offer something for free everybody wants it. They have an application for their grant because they want the people getting the equipment to use it.
\n* They came up with a small package of equipment, and they want to know how it will be used.
\n* We call ourselves brother and sister because we are a family that lives together, works together, and shares meals together. Working out brings the family closer.
\n* How health and fitness is the best drug ever. We are not only changing emergency service workers lives, we are changing their families lives.
\n* How health and fitness also creates better firefighters.
\n* Pip believes that their success story on social media has come from consistency.
\n* The amazing community that 555 Fitness has created.
\n* The importance of being competitive for motivation and to just get a little more out of fitness.
\n* Be humble. Realize what you have, and you have to work to get it. Always work hard and push to be better.
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\nLinks and resources:
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\n* 555 Fitness
\n* @555fitness on Twitter
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\nJosh also writes tons of nutrition, fitness, and kettlebell articles for his personal blog Lose Stubborn Fat. On this site, you can find over 1100 posts, a coaching program, and information about Fat Loss Happens on Monday a book about reasonable workouts and habit based nutrition that Josh wrote with Dan John. Josh has been a personal trainer since 2004 and teaches workshops for trainers all over the United States.
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\n* How walking to the beach is much tougher than one would think.
\n* Josh was involved with kettlebells and got hooked and became a trainer.
\n* He transitioned to focus on food and food habits which is now called skills based coaching.
\n* Coaching comes down to planning and skills.
\n* The importance of taking action with your values. Using goals when they are motivating and not using them when they have the opposite effect.
\n* External reward is the least form of motivation. The most persistent form of motivation is clarified values.
\n* Picking your values from a list. Asking people who or what matters to them to pull out values.
\n* People often find they have values for parenting or careers, but they are doing the opposite when it comes to food.
\n* Applying the things in your life that you want for your family or career when it comes to nutrition.
\n* How Josh was the king of food diaries, but he has mostly given up that philosophy.
\n* He cared more about the habits of what his clients ate not actually what they ate.
\n* Food judging can be a food journaling trap.
\n* Eat 3 to 4 meals with no snacks is skill 1.
\n* Skill 2 is eating just enough and paying attention to when you have had enough food.
\n* Get good at this and you never have to manage weight loss for the rest of your life.
\n* Introducing clients to habits and skill based nutrition.
\n* Emotional eating and diet and really strongly correlated.
\n* First thing Josh does is go through their diet history and see what did and didn’t work. Then they find where it broke.
\n* The cycle of emotional eating, dieting harder, and binge eating.
\n* A skill based approach is flexible and apply to a lot of circumstances.
\n* Portion control, mostly whole foods, and being hungry before you eat.
\n* All of the skills triangulate to create a self check if you are having the right amount of food.
\n* They have the core skills, but they start with just one.
\n* The core 5 skills were well for emotional eaters. Track behavior not eating.
\n* Diffusion and fixing thoughts and emotions.
\n* Having a client take an active role so that they generate motivation for themselves.
\n* It’s important to understand why you are doing things.
\n* How there is a tension between self-acceptance and change that is required. Accept your thoughts and emotions and change your behaviours.
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\nLinks and resources:
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\n* Strength Matters Summit
\n* Lose Stubborn Fat
\n* One By One Nutrition
\n* Josh Hillis on Facebook
\n* Josh Hillis on YouTube
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