There is no physical fitness training during the seminar, yet it's a classroom atmosphere where officers are educated in various stretching exercises and taught crucial instruction in human behavior and psychology, exercise programming, nutrition and weight management and health appraisal and fitness testing. The fitness students must take a 100 question test at the end of the course and need at least a score of 85 to pass. Galloway, who said he was chosen to absorb the fitness lessons because of his strong consciousness on good health, said he won't don the role of whipping the entire department into athletes, but just to teach a sound lifestyle. After placing eleventh this year out of about 80 law enforcement teams in the annual Special Weapons and Tactics Round-up, where teams compete in all areas of law enforcement, Polk County Sheriff's Office Det. Bobby Neil believed the training he would forward to his fellow officers would better prepare them next year for the Orlando event.
Fitness is one of the biggest things.
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