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Top 5 Health and Fitness Tools for Firefighters – #1

Posted On 26 Mar 2014
By : Dr Karlie Moore
Comments: 3
Tag: Firefighter Fitness, health and wellness

Calorie and Activity Tracker

Each year during the annual firefighter fitness tests that I do here in Oregon, the firefighters I work with are required to complete a nutritional analysis on themselves using an online calorie tracker.

While this always drums up a lot of moaning and complaining, I’ve found over the years that seeing on paper how healthy their diet is has made a tremendous impact on many of their eating habits.

Some of them have continued the practice on their own, also choosing to enter their activity level to help balance their calories and lose weight or maintain a healthy weight.

The great thing about these online programs is they’re free. One that can also be used as an app is My Fitness Pal. In my program we use the USDA’s Supertracker.

Although it seems like this would be really labor intensive, I guarantee it takes less time than you think and could save you effort in the long run. For example, you may find out that the granola you were eating accounted for 30% of the calories you ate that day! By switching out that granola for something lower in calories, you’re saving yourself the two-hour run that would be required to burn that off.

Pixabay KM 5Tools granola

Photo Courtesy: Pixabay

Research shows that when people document what they eat daily (with something like this or a food journal) they end up eating less simply because they are aware of what they’re taking in.

The next 4 articles in this series will highlight four pieces of exercise equipment that I believe are excellent tools for firefighters to keep their bodies in tip-top shape and resistant to injury. An added benefit of these 4 tools is that they’re all small and portable, inexpensive and can be found at any sporting goods store.

Find the complete series here!

Part 1 : Calorie/Activity Tracker
Part 2 : Foam Roller
Part 3 : Resistance Tube
Part 4 : Yoga/Stretching Mat
Part 5 : Exercise Ball

About the Author
Dr Moore has been helping firefighters improve their health since 2007. Her work includes conducting fitness assessments, research, consulting and developing protocols for fire departments. Her research and expertise is in firefighter exercise/nutrition and improving the methods of assessing back injury and cardiac risk among firefighters. She has developed the only protocol of its kind to predict aerobic capacity in firefighters. Get more free health tips for firefighters at FitForDutyConsulting.com
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