What styrofoam is doing...

Styrofoam · Post by **Styrofoam** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:22 pm

I'm heading down the road to take the police officers physical examinations. I have to do the following:

Run 1.5 miles in 15:20
Run 300m in 1:08
18 pushups in 1:00
and 27 setups in 1:00

pretty easy stuff. If i get all that down, i'll be able to take the civic service exam, if i pass that, a background check and psych exam and lie detector.

If all goes according to what i want it to go, i'll be admitted into the police academy later this year.

StormCrow · Post by **StormCrow** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:26 am

good luck.

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:55 am

Dito that, good luck!

Genie · Post by **Genie** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:13 am

A vuddy of mine just passed his police academy tests just this past may. His friend who went in with him failed it twice. Workin' at the prison for him!

Styrofoam · Post by **Styrofoam** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:08 am

Well, i missed it by 1 set up. Because there is a "you can't rest on the ground for more thn 1 second" rule that i was unaware of. Thats the only thing i missed.

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:24 pm

Well, that sucked :-/ So, how long 'til you can try again?

Post by **Kadian** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:20 pm

Well that just doesn't make sense because you said 27 in 1 minute, which means you can technically rest more than 2 seconds between each.... Unless I guess if they just expect you to do 27 straight, (then the time limit does not matter of course)

On another note, by setup do you mean situp? I never heard of a "setup" so I am assuming that they are what I would call a situp... maybe it's a Wisconsin thing.....or something...

Hylandor · Post by **Hylandor** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:47 am

Kad, you're not factoring in the amount of time it takes for the actual sit-up itself.

For example, say on average it takes 1.2 sec for you to fully lift yourself off the floor and return to a resting position. This means you will only have an average of 1 second of rest time on the floor if you want to successfully complete the exercise.

With that being said, I don't understand their rationale behind a rest-state limitation. You should be the one who dictates how you achieve maximum performance, and how you use that performance to achieve the goal.

Post by **Kadian** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:55 am

I guess I was just figuring 1 second per sit-up, which would then take 27 seconds, leaving more than 1 second of rest time (which is what I meant rather than 2 seconds), but I suppose it can take longer than that, especially if you are struggling to do them.

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:11 am

Kadian wrote:, especially if you are struggling to do them.

..if you struggle to do 27 then you aren't really cut to be a cop imho

Post by **Kadian** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:46 pm

Bane wrote:
Kadian wrote:, especially if you are struggling to do them.
..if you struggle to do 27 then you aren't really cut to be a cop imho

Lol, I wasn't going to say it....

Styrofoam · Post by **Styrofoam** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:18 pm

there wasn't a struggle. I didn't pace myself, and tried to push them out super fast. at 27 i was worn out, ESPECIALLY after running a mile and a half sprinting 300m right before.

as it stands, i had about 30seconds left to go for the last sit-up (its sit-up, my Oklahoma accent caused me to spell it the way i say it) and on the last one i was on the ground for 1 second. (shoulders square on the ground) At that point i did the last sit-up anyways (after being DQ'd) and left for home.