gold rover
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What do you mean 'Snow Permitting...'??
Surely you should do your Fitness Training in all weathers....what happens if you are deployed in combat to Siberia....if you don't do your CFT in Snow how are you going to be prepared for it ??
'Serious head on' : It's all about risk prevention. No point doing training(especially in my own time*) that may cause me injury, thereby preventing me being able to do my job in 'Siberia'. So if weather is such that the risk assessment makes injury during training a likelihood, then the training location/type is changed. Doesn't just apply in cold weather. CFTs are and have been held in snow but when the risk assessment becomes too great, they're not. Last one I did as an official CFT one of the lads broke his leg, after falling due to the ice under the snow! Needless to say the PTI who had done the risk assessment was invited to have an interview without coffee with his boss.
* If I went out, in my own time ,in adverse conditions and injured myself I am not covered by Army insurance or medical care and if the injury is serious and I have to be medically discharged I would not be entitled to rehab, etc, of any type 'Serious head off'
Normal head reply : You can bugger off I'm not going to Siberia , I've got it all arranged I only go to warm places
So today's training was 40mins in an endless pool against the resistance (I was so cold I was turning shades of blue I've only ever seen on those non-descript RRs Then 40mins on the bike to try to get back to a normal temperature!
