Travailfitness plates

Yeah sorry. Out of interest do you find they make a difference to being able to draw mags? My PC can be pretty floppy which doesn't help.

 
Sawyer said:
Yeah sorry. Out of interest do you find they make a difference to being able to draw mags? My PC can be pretty floppy which doesn't help.
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Do you have any sort of plates? I find my PCs with rigid foam plates have no issue with mag draw/index.

So these plates I imagine are just as good (for that purpose).

 
Think a few people need to calm down, I asked a simple question that was not a dig just wanted to know when this is a thing.

I understand paramedics are better off being fit even though I have seen some who could no way run a quarter mile without needing medical attention themselves. Maybe I am wrong but I didn't think a paramedic and anaesthetist are the same thing?

As for Helicopter crews and mountain rescue if you are a anaesthetist working on those crews again understandable but that would I imagine be a very select few and most would just be hospitable bound. The anaesthetist who put me out for my op a few years ago could maybe have managed a brisk trot if he was chasing a run away pork pie but a run, no way.

 @_stylian_ Are you helicopter crew, mountain rescue?

 
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Sawyer said:
Yeah sorry. Out of interest do you find they make a difference to being able to draw mags? My PC can be pretty floppy which doesn't help.
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Nope not one bit! They also have other cuts/weights which are just as comfortable as I was lucky enough to try out at the weekend.

 
Sawyer said:
Foam, but they're cheap and misshapen...
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If you do think foam inserts are too flexible for you just rap some duck tape around them and it’ll make quite a difference to the rigidity of them . ?

AND  @triggerhappy is spot on , there’s most definitely a lack of Greek gods and goddesses in the NHS ! General rule of thumb seams to be the younger ones keep them selves fit but as they get older and the vigour of youth fades so does the fitness , lot of its due to the all over the shop shift patterns , the ever increasing workload and just the simple fact that you live on crap food as more times than less you just don’t have time to sit down and have a proper meal it’s a case of grab something on the hoof . 

 
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Plates help with draw for sure

As for myself, just in hospital, though have an interest in PHEM and do event days. 

It's rare to come across a fat doctor below the age of 40, especially in the non office areas like theaters. Just too active. I'd say it's 50:50 being actual gym fit and skinny fat. Ward nurses and GPs are much to be desired though on that front! 

 
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I don't have stats on the number of people discharged from the forces for dodgy knees on account of carrying heavy shit about/jumping off things repeatedly (while sometimes also carrying weight) but it is factually: a lot.  I had a scan on my right knee 2 days ago, tendon damage above the kneecap caused ~3 years ago by carrying heavy shit (not in a 'cool' infantry way, just humping and dumping behind the wire) and jumping out of cabs on to concrete many many times a day in the sandbox (sometimes with armfuls of belted 762 etc).  Big no thanks on putting weight inside my vest that does nothing for me in bbwar.  Spend your money how you like, but I've spent a lot of time seeing physios and they all say repeatedly how a small weight gain puts a largely increased strain on your joints and your knees don't know a difference between 3kg of plates in your PC and 3kg of mass added to your torso.

Some people get away with it of course, also if you make the right muscles really strong and resilient you can avoid the issues, to my mind it's a dice roll with a bad potential negative for no significant gain.

 
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