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lisa_la_machina said:
Also, as an aside, I truly hate the idea of a Size 0. What the??? I get that we all need different clothing sizes, but a size ZERO? As if the goal should be to take up no physical space and have no bodily dimensions? Drives me batty bonkers!!! :mad:
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Ugh, Lisa, I know! And now they have a 00! Blame it on Abercrombie and Fitch, or whoever. It's like, I'm a nonentity, a cipher. I have negative body mass.
 
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lisa_la_machina said:
Also, as an aside, I truly hate the idea of a Size 0. What the??? I get that we all need different clothing sizes, but a size ZERO? As if the goal should be to take up no physical space and have no bodily dimensions? Drives me batty bonkers!!! :mad:

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Zero size should not exist!! Zero body mass. women exist in various shape and size but it is just not realistic!!!:mad::mad:
 
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desertambrosia said:
Absolutely!!! The support you get from family is great, however, you spend a lot of time at the gym. Fortunately, my gym had a nursery, that my kids loved. I tried to get my workouts done during the day, so I could spend my evenings with my husband and kids. , (part of my job, and I did a lot of it at the station. My work hours, twenty-four hours on, three days off, twenty-four hours on, four days off, also helped immensely. No partner support? No one to worry about but yourself. Workout anytime you want. My family was the best. All the support and encouragement I needed. My husband was always front and center for every competition!! What a guy!
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My sons 18/21 are with our volunteer fire department. They trained with a paid department yesterday on rescue/fire 5 story smoke/heat drill house (?) They came in last night talking about how dang hard it was ( with all the heavy suit/equipment and bringing out a 200 lb guy) and said that any women doing it were just plain badass tough. There were no women training with them but they recognizes if a couple of young healthy guys were pushed to their max. They were just totally think any female firefighter is awesome. The boys have seen me workout their whole lives but I honestly could never get to that degree of endurance/strength to do that job. They suit up and have had me pull them from their suit safety harness which I could do but man that was just across a smooth floor and not under fire/danger and it was not easy.

You totally were a kickass lady !
 
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My sons 18/21 are with our volunteer fire department. They trained with a paid department yesterday on rescue/fire 5 story smoke/heat drill house (?) They came in last night talking about how dang hard it was ( with all the heavy suit/equipment and bringing out a 200 lb guy) and said that any women doing it were just plain badass tough. There were no women training with them but they recognizes if a couple of young healthy guys were pushed to their max. They were just totally think any female firefighter is awesome. The boys have seen me workout their whole lives but I honestly could never get to that degree of endurance/strength to do that job. They suit up and have had me pull them from their suit safety harness which I could do but man that was just across a smooth floor and not under fire/danger and it was not easy.

You totally were a kickass lady !
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To be honest, I think drill school is the hardest physical work I have ever done. Running from 7am - 6pm every day. Up and down hose towers, wearing the bunkers, dragging hoses, coupling the big brass couplings. (tendonitis) Bruises on the back of your legs from carrying hoses, and the brass slapping the back of your legs. Opening fire hydrants, and the pump truck. Chopping things down with an ax, learning to drive an engine and a truck. (that was fun) But it was physical work all day long. You dropped in bed at night, just to get up and do it again. I was much younger then, but it was still hard physical work, and I loved every minute of it. We were all well prepared for everything, if we were assigned to an engine company, or a truck company, at graduation. Great job, great hours, and you got to ride around in a fire engine. Sometimes even drive it!!
 
desertambrosia said:
To be honest, I think drill school is the hardest physical work I have ever done. Running from 7am - 6pm every day. Up and down hose towers, wearing the bunkers, dragging hoses, coupling the big brass couplings. (tendonitis) Bruises on the back of your legs from carrying hoses, and the brass slapping the back of your legs. Opening fire hydrants, and the pump truck. Chopping things down with an ax, learning to drive an engine and a truck. (that was fun) But it was physical work all day long. You dropped in bed at night, just to get up and do it again. I was much younger then, but it was still hard physical work, and I loved every minute of it. We were all well prepared for everything, if we were assigned to an engine company, or a truck company, at graduation. Great job, great hours, and you got to ride around in a fire engine. Sometimes even drive it!!
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All I can say karen is respect!
Not just for the endurance for your former job. Also for having to juggle with familly life and passion for fitness.
Phew:)
 
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