Top 3 Reasons Cops Need Mobility
Sep 29, 2024
Mobility, in the context of this article, is referring to the active range of motion you can move through. While cops don’t need Olympic gymnast caliber mobility, there certainly is a minimum requirement needed to maximize on-the-job performance, and here’s why:
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Cops Work in Unique Environments
One of the tasks of a hard charging law enforcement officer is searching cars and dwellings. They definitely do sometimes but the bad guys don’t often leave their illegal items out in the open for you. You have to look under car seats, under beds, in attics, step over piles of trash or stacks of newspapers to get through a room, etc. This requires mobility to accomplish. While you’ll probably manage fighting your way into these odd positions, you’ll be all the more effective if you can navigate them effortlessly.
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Foot Pursuits Don’t Happen On a Running Track
Depending on your work location, foot pursuits will often take you under, into, and over obstacles. Having enough mobility to navigate these situations will allow you to move through them more efficiently, utilizing less energy to accomplish the task. If there is one thing a hard charger doesn’t want to do, it’s lose a foot pursuit. Don’t let the extra energy needed to navigate an obstacle be the reason you lose. Don’t let mobility be the limiting factor.
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Greater Adaptation to Training
If you’re following Effective Fitness Training programming, you know we value strength and muscle. Training these attributes benefits from working through a full range of motion. When strength training, you most directly get stronger in the ranges of motion you move the weight through. This is why a deep squat is preferred over a quarter-squat. Additionally, recent research indicates hypertrophy, or muscle building, is enhanced with emphasis on the deep stretch portion of the lift. This indicates training through fuller, deeper ranges of motion will actually help you build more muscle. These attributes then get taken into the field with you to be deployed as needed. In short, build a greater range of motion to train more effectively and thus be more effective.
If you’re a law enforcement officer and you need to improve your mobility….
