PHYSICAL FITNESS & PARTICIPATION REQUIREDMENTS
SSGT Firearms Training Programs
Fitness for Duty: Participants in Strategic Self-Defense & Gunfighting Tactics (SSGT) firearms training programs must report physically and mentally prepared to perform all required skills, drills, and tactical exercises.
These courses are physically demanding. Participants may be required to move rapidly, maintain balance and mobility, assume multiple firing positions, work from the ground, move with equipment, and safely employ their firearms while physically fatigued or under stress.
A primary training objective is to develop the officer’s ability to think clearly, maintain situational awareness, make sound decisions, and apply professional weapons-handling skills while the heart rate is elevated by physical exertion, environmental conditions, or operational stress.
Consistent physical and mental participation is required for successful course completion. An officer who cannot safely perform the required activities may create an unacceptable risk to themselves, other participants, instructors, and range personnel.
Medical Evaluation: Any individual with a medical condition, injury, physical limitation, or other concern that may affect participation should consult a qualified medical professional before enrolling.
This includes, but is not limited to:
- Joint, bone, muscular, or spinal condition
- Cardiovascular conditions or high blood pressure
- Respiratory conditions, including asthma
- Recent illness, infection, surgery, or injury
- Severe allergies or environmental sensitivities
- Any condition that may limit strenuous physical activity, mobility, balance, endurance, or safe firearms handling
Participants should obtain medical evaluation and clearance when appropriate before beginning training.
Participant Responsibility: Each participant is responsible for evaluating their own physical condition and determining whether they can safely meet the demands of the course. Participants are also responsible for seeking medical guidance or clearance before enrollment when a known or suspected condition may affect their ability to train safely.
Triad Martial Arts, Inc., and the SSGT instructional staff are committed to participant safety and professional training standards. However, enrollment does not replace an individual medical assessment, and instructors cannot determine a participant’s medical fitness for strenuous activity.
Participants must immediately notify instructional staff of any injury, illness, medication-related concern, or change in physical condition that may affect safe participation. Safety concerns may require modification, temporary removal from an exercise, or withdrawal from the course.