Headed for Indianapolis for Orientation August 7th...

dasco-

The people who left today for failing the PWS...

1.) A female that was for her height was what I would call morbidly obese. I think she failed the first 60 second test and had a band of sweat about 2" around her hairline. She was alos probably close to 50 years old, which would have lowered her target and maximum heart rate.

2.) The second guy was over 50, and not much more overweight than I, although he was shorter and weighed less, his BMI was "similar" from a comparison standpoint. I would have guessed he would have passed but also failed the step test.

3.) The third guy was younger, but probably proportionately heavier than all but one in our class.

The largest guy was a very young guy, and I do not know what his final stats were, but he had the largest target and maximum heart rate of the class.

I would guess at your height and weight you would have no problem. Outside of two cardio-type exercises, the rest are all strength based (one I would call balance oriented). I am about 6' 240lbs, and again I had almost 50% capacity to spare.

Good Luck to you. In case you did not know or get the link I posted, SNI has the workout described on their website under Orientation and training, about half way down that page.

Raid3r

 

# dasco3 - I have asked two days in a row abou the shuttle. The answer I was given is that it is "on demand". Basically if any one student goes down there and asks at the front desk, they will run you down there, 24 hours a day. I know they also have other SNI drivers staying here for whatever reason, and I think somewhere along the line they just got used to it. For some reason our class can not come up with a consensus about the time to leave because some want to go early and eat breakfast, some people are just genetically disposed to being late, etc.

I think someone asked along the way about breakfast, lunch dinner , etc. On day 1 , I got a ticket for 13 meals at the cafeteria. Unlike PCDoctor, we got $7 per stamp. We can buy anything in the cafeteria up to $7 for one punch and pay the difference. It is simple to do. Because I am so cheap I usually go over and pay the difference because I would rather pay a few pennies than give away $2-$3 of value on the card! They recommend if you are going to eat 3 meals a day, to find someone else to eat breakfast (in your room, at Mcdonalds, etc) because it is the cheapest meal to buy outside the OC, and use the card to get two meals a day at the OC cafeteria.


@PCDoctor - Thanks. I am following your progress as well. I told one of our instructors I was following the progress of another person doing Orientation in Charlotte, and so far we were on the same course of study and pace. Good Luck to you!

So I am off to class. The OC is a little over a mile from the hotel, and I am going to try and finish the week walking to and from the OC for a little exercise. I want to get into a routine of trying to get some physical activity each day to break up the driving/sitting. Now is as good as anytime.

Raid3r