http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/forum/ en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:37:44 +0000 http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/forum/topic/personal-first-aid-kit#post-1050 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:53:34 +0000 cush619 1050@http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/forum/ <p>Does anyone know the manufacturer of the belt carried first aid kit used in the &quot;Use of Your Personal Medical Kit&quot; video? </p> http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/forum/topic/personal-fitness-standards#post-70 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:23:14 +0000 CharlesRives 70@http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/forum/ <p>Do you maintain some sort of personal standard to judge you fitness against? For example, even though I&#39;m not in the military, I like to ensure that I can pass the physical readiness tests for both the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Physical_Fitness_Test">Army&#39;s Airborne school admission</a> and the (right age and gender version of the)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Physical_Fitness_Test">United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test.</a></p> <p>These tests are both somewhat arbitrary but have a broad background of experience base behind them.</p> <p>From another phase of my career, I was on a committee to research and select a physical readiness test. We found strength tests, agility tests, health and fitness tests and fitness-related job skills tests. Many organizations are now splitting their fitness test and a job skills test. </p> <p>The fitness test is now (often) becoming a safety and risk management tool. It is intended to answer the question, &quot;is this person likely to become an injury or fatality due to their poor health?&quot; A fitness test may include something like: starting from a resting heart rate, perform X number of repetitions of exercise Y within 2 minutes. Heart rate must not exceed 90% MHR and must return to within 15% of base rate within Y minutes.&quot;</p> <p>Job skills testing chooses physically demanding job tasks and assigns standards to those. For example &quot;pick up a 150-lb dummy and move it across a room, up a flight of stairs and across another room to a finish point within X seconds.&quot;</p> <p>I&#39;ve been trying to think of what might be a good set of job skills to test for personal defense. The first and most testable that I&#39;ve come up with has been sprint for a distance approximating one city block. </p>