Firefighters need to have a good level of strength and cardiovascular fitness, as well as a good level of stamina and flexibility to effectively carry out their roles safely.
All our practical selection tests can be on viewed our website on the Firefighter Selection Process page. Here, you can see what’s required and work to improve your fitness, if you need to. These tests are designed to test all areas of your fitness, and you must be able to pass all of the tests to enable you to fulfil the role of a firefighter.
Maintaining your fitness throughout your career as a firefighter is important, and the service will support you in doing this, while employed with us.
A fitness test is carried out as part of your medical to determine if your aerobic fitness meets our standards of 42 V02 max. The test that we use to test this is the Chester Treadmill test.