Fitness, Mental Health and Wellness News & Articles

• Finding balance in the evolving world of community corrections

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  Self-help strategies to cope with high-pressure caseloads and changing technology

• Program aims to address staff, inmate mental health in Idaho prisons

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  $500,000 pilot program is aimed at helping staff members and prison residents deal with trauma, burnout and stress

• On-Demand Webinar: How to assess and heal your stress-damaged relationships

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  A crowd-sourced educational stress management experience with Mike Taigman and Angela Leath for cops, firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, 911 telecommunicators and correctional officers

• Counseling & confidentiality: What you need to know

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  The first major step in starting counseling is to understand and trust the concept of confidentiality

• 3 technologies COs can use to keep fitness on track

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  These tools strengthen officer’s mental alertness, physical fitness and training

• Using functional fitness to enhance your shooting skills

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  By Mike Macro When training at the firing range, our instructors often remind us of the importance of the four fundamentals of shooting: Stance, grip, sight, and trigger control. But how often are ...

• Enhancing grip strength

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  Video: Broadband Download Windows Media Player In this week's Police1 Video Tip, provided by the Police Officers Safety Association (POSA), Jeff Brooks, a police officer and martial arts expert, ex...

• OST Places Second in World SWAT Challenge

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• 2 pressure point techniques to keep in your DT arsenal

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  Download the video Download Windows Media PlayerIn this week’s Police1 Video Tip, produced by the Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN) we explore two highly effective pressure point techniques t...

• Agencies nationwide ease age, fitness rules

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  By Ken MaguireAssociated Press Police departments around the country are relaxing age and fitness standards, forgiving minor criminal convictions and easing other requirements to relieve shortages ...

• Basics of blocking

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  Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media PlayerBecause police officers usually respond to threats rather than initiate them, good blocking skills are a must. In this week's tip from the Polic...

• Training for safe, effective lateral movement skills

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  Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media Player In this week’s Police1 Video Tip, law enforcement fitness expert James Di Naso with Police Kinesiology Company demonstrates training exercises ...

• Training for different levels of confrontation

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  Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media Player In this week's Police1 Video Tip of the Week, trainer Bob "Coach" Lindsay discusses the importance of training to respond to a threat from diff...

• Revisiting the Reactionary Gap

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  Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media Player In this week's Police1 Video Tip, Bob "Coach" Lindsay discusses the phenomenon of Reactionary Gap, demonstrating ways an officer can safely con...

• How to avoid "disappearing hands"

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  Video: Broadband Dialup Download Windows Media Player In this week's Police1 Video Tip, Bob "Coach" Lindsay discusses the concept of "disappearing hands" and illustrates positioning strategies that...

• Knife as a back up weapon: limitations & suggestions

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  Almost every officer carries a knife as both a back up weapon and as a tool for daily use. For most officers this is usually a manual (thumb flip), automatic or assisted opening clip knife that is ...

• P-1 Members sound off: Was fitness-promoting Chief out of line?

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  When Paul Goward, the recently resigned Chief of Winter Haven (FL) PD, decided to tell his officers it was time for them to candidly evaluate their level of fitness and decide whether they were a “...