Continually failing RAF Fitness Test.
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If the proposed cuts to the RAF (31000) materialise then have a look around your crewroom/section - 1 out of every 4 people there will be going!
How's that going to improve our overall fitness if we have less people - surely that means more work and overstretch and less time to go to the gym.
If the RAF are serious about lifestyle and fitness they need to improve the food served across the units and start programming section/stn organised PT. Sports afternoons would also be a welcome return, not just for COs cup competitions!
And how about reducing the number of bars and/or increasing the prices in line with civvy street? Might end the military boozing culture????
How's that going to improve our overall fitness if we have less people - surely that means more work and overstretch and less time to go to the gym.
If the RAF are serious about lifestyle and fitness they need to improve the food served across the units and start programming section/stn organised PT. Sports afternoons would also be a welcome return, not just for COs cup competitions!
And how about reducing the number of bars and/or increasing the prices in line with civvy street? Might end the military boozing culture????
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Birthday (50) today, therefore 260 months to go until retirement 
..and of course expectation of my fitness is now less.
Hyperthetically (sp?) I could have failed the test and faced admin action yesterday, but capable of passing it today. Food for thought when your livliehood is riding on such draconian measures as compulsary dismissal. As pensions are 'earned' over time, I cannot believe the rumours of pensions being under threat.
Is there any evidence of dismissal being used beyond people who refuse to attend remedial sessions? ie attitude.
My 'attitude' is that the process is good in principle and flawed in practice. There should be procedures in place that do not give rise to exagerating injury. I know of an individual (not me) who passed the RAFFT and was then grounded for 6 months due to knee injury aquired during the test. The RAF may not care about life after retirement, but I do!
..and of course expectation of my fitness is now less.Hyperthetically (sp?) I could have failed the test and faced admin action yesterday, but capable of passing it today. Food for thought when your livliehood is riding on such draconian measures as compulsary dismissal. As pensions are 'earned' over time, I cannot believe the rumours of pensions being under threat.
Is there any evidence of dismissal being used beyond people who refuse to attend remedial sessions? ie attitude.
My 'attitude' is that the process is good in principle and flawed in practice. There should be procedures in place that do not give rise to exagerating injury. I know of an individual (not me) who passed the RAFFT and was then grounded for 6 months due to knee injury aquired during the test. The RAF may not care about life after retirement, but I do!
There has been a lot of fatties v fitties extremist arguements but it is quite simple. The RAF does not rely on fitness to the same extreme as the army (RAF Reg't excluded) however, it is an armed service and as such should remember this. The fitness test could be Beep/1.5 mile (MSFT) or some kind of bike test, but the fact of the matter is you all take a wage from Her Majesty's Gov't. Given that this is (predominantly) an aircrew thread, the majority of aircrew are officers or SNCOs. Here's a word - leadership - how many of you remember that when not strapped into your aircraft. I was never the fittest in my crab-air days but I never failed a fitness test; now I am in green and we always find time for fiz - 24 hrs in a day and all that. Oh, and in reply to a previous poster, my general attends fiz sessions as he is able to and passes his tests along with the rest of us.
