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Firefighter Performance 
Coaching.

Built for the demands of the fireground.

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 OUR PATHWAYS 

How can we help you?

Choose the pathway that matches your current goal.

Prepares you with the specific fitness required to pass your physicals during the recruitment process.

Firefighter Fitness 
Preparation 

 ASPIRING 

 FIREFIGHTERS 

Develop the specific conditioning required to perform in PPE, reduce fatigue, and improve operational performance.

 SERVING 

 FIREFIGHTERS 

Firefighter Conditioning
Programme 

Access to firefighter studies and research on firefighter physiology, tactical athlete development, and health.

START UP
Research 
Centre 

 FIREFIGHTER 

 RESEARCH 

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 OUR FOUNDER 

Led by a serving firefighter and conditioning coach.

Jack Burman is the founder of START UP Firefighter Performance. As a serving firefighter and conditioning coach, he combines operational experience with specialist knowledge in strength and conditioning, tactical athlete development and firefighter performance.

A member of the Kent Fire and Rescue service extinguishing a car fire on Rochester Esplana

 OUR APPROACH 

Fitness is only
the
foundation.

Being strong, fit and aerobically capable matters. But those qualities alone don't guarantee performance when PPE, load carriage, environmental stress and operational tasks are introduced.

 01 

BUILD

Physical Foundations

Develop the strength, aerobic capacity and physical qualities required to establish the foundation for firefighter conditioning.

 02 

CONDITION

Firefighter Conditioning

Develop the capacity to maintain performance against the additional demands of PPE, load carriage, environmental stress and operational work.

 03 

PERFORM

Firefighter Performance

Integrate physical capacity with increasingly task specific demands to improve operational performance.

 WHY START UP 

Built on evidence.
Shaped by experience.

Firefighter performance shouldn't be built on guesswork. Our approach combines strength and conditioning principles, firefighter-specific research and operational experience to inform how we prepare you for the demands of the role.

EVIDENCE

Research informs how we train.

EXPERIENCE

Operational experience shapes how we coach.

INDIVIDUALISED

Your training is built around you.

 OUR RESULTS 

Built for progress that actually matters.

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