Introduction

 

Ketamine

What is Ketamine?

 

What does it do?

 

Isn't ketamine like a party drug/hallucinogen/bad/other negative press?

 

Uses of Ketamine

 

 

Functional Fitness

Definition

Fitness in a way that actually improves performance at key tasks. 

Example: lifting stuff and moving actual stuff, instead of just lifting weights

 

Benefits: Works many muscles, including smaller, less worked ones.  Reduces the risk of injury from performing routine tasks and improves performance.

 

Exercise Ideas

Think in terms of what you do as work tasks:

Lifting patients

Rows, carries, sandbag lifts

Raising ladders

OHP, raise ladders

Lifting and moving gear bags

Lift and carry heavy stuff (hose rolls, gear bags, etc)

Dragging victims

Drag dummies or hose packs or such

Forcing doors

Sledge hammer vs tires

Chopping wood

Moving and using hydraulic tools

Lift and move and hold hydraulic tools

Walking up stairs

Carry heavy stuff up stairs

Stairmaster

Dragging and advancing hoselines

Do exactly that

Wearing an air pack

Again, wear an air pack

 

Planning a routine

Build a circuit

Vary the activities

Have some fun

Have some suck factor

Consider using a limiting component

Strike tire until other guy is done on the stairs/carry, etc

 

Tips and Tricks

Can work some of these into training activities

PT hike, with preplanning

Dragging charged hoselines, with pump operations

Patient care, with moving the patient a distance

Work as a team

Build team cohesion by relying on each other to finish the exercises