Close Personal Protection and Physical Fitness: Your Considerations to Be in Shape

We often mention good communication skills, driving skills, effective training and sometimes qualification too as key attributes to consider when hiring a bodyguard for personal protection.

Aren’t we missing something here?

Yes, of course physical fitness. Isn’t it the first thing you look for in a bodyguard?

No one would be willing to pay for an unhealthy, physically weak bodyguard.

Health and physical fitness are significant factors that affect not only affect the performance of a bodyguard or close personal protection officer but the safety and security of the concerned client. What’s more, high fitness levels have been linked to high income levels in the personal protection and security industry.

As a rule of thumb, every bodyguard, must be in good shape and sound health.

That said, gathered below are some vital considerations with regard to physical fitness that every bodyguard, new or experienced male or female, should heed.

Your Commitment to Better Health

Don’t expect the job to be easier rather become stronger by committing to a fitness regimen. Regardless of your current health status, you must adhere to different type of high intensity workout programs to improve your strength and endurance while maintain your muscle mass and fitness.

Here are the required programs to consider:

Cardiovascular workout

Improving your cardiovascular health doesn’t necessarily mean to run on the treadmill constantly for an hour until you struggle to catch your breath.

You can indulge in activities as simple as swimming, biking and running and still boost your cardiovascular endurance.

However, it is important to incorporate a moderately intense workout circuit into your cardiovascular training that includes functional movements focusing on your flexibility and total body strength. These exercises may include jump rope, mountain climbers, sprints and lateral slides. If you still have some stamina left, finish your circuit off with a short walk.

Weight or fitness training

Weight training should be an essential part of a bodyguard’s fitness regime. Regularly training different body parts using weights can help develop strength and muscle mass, which is fundamental to close personal protection training and success.

Lunges, squats, deadlifts, bench press and dumbbell curls are some common weight training exercises that can be paired with aerobic movements like jumping rope and box jumps to increase the intensity of the workout and build more muscular endurance.

Stretching Routine

Needless to say, daily full body stretching is crucial to keep fatigue and muscular soreness at while improving the agility and flexibility of the body.

Arm circles, neck circles, hamstring and lower back stretch are some movements to incorporate in your stretching routine in order to make your daily bodyguard chores easier.

The Diet

Whether on duty or off-site, it is inevitable for a close personal protection officer to maintain a healthy diet including fish, poultry meat, fresh fish, lean beef, lentils and veggies.

Drink lots of water throughout the day to keep your body hydrated and curb hunger. While missing meals is all too common in a security job, make sure to keep your hunger in check by carrying high protein snacks like nuts, seeds and dried fruits.

To Sum UP

It is necessary to invest your time and effort in a good full body and strength workout program to be capable of performing your duties efficiently as a bodyguard.

Keep these considerations in mind and you are sure to perform at your peak level and become a preferable choice when it comes to hiring a competent bodyguard.

Bodyguards Sydney – 2017 Is the Year of Uncertainty

If you are a bodyguard working in Sydney, you will know that 2017 is shaping up to be an uncertain year. The big question is will it affect the security industry in a positive way or will people working in protection services be disadvantaged by the global turmoil that is seemingly sweeping across the globe?  If some jobs in the security industry are threatened as a result, then where is the best place for a close protection professional to be positioned while these forces are unleashed on the world?

Upskill to Move Up – The Savvy Security Guard

If you are a security guard working in Australia, there are a lot of opportunities. If you are a Sydney security guard then you know there is currently a lot of work around as investment in private business and public infrastructure grows, but there are perceived barriers to upwards mobility or career progression. For most of the guards working at the coalface, the opportunities for promotion are few and the level of elevation within each successive promotion isn’t high.

As one Sydney security guard put it “Once you have attained a basic knowledge of what you need to be a guard, there isn’t much more to the job unless you specialise. To move up, you need to move into management or look at other fields that involve maybe weapons training or personal protection. It just isn’t like other jobs where you get more skilled with experience.”

Bodyguard in Sydney – What Are My Options?

If you are seriously contemplating being a bodyguard, chances are you are already working in the security industry or the armed forces. People (usually) don’t just wake up and decide they want to be a bodyguard. So, yes it is a serious career option for some. There are bodyguards who have spent the last 10 years of their life protecting other people, whether it be celebrities, high net worth individuals (or their families) or worse still ordinary people that suddenly feel threatened and need protection because of some action that they have personally taken that has made them the object of interest and suddenly need you to protect them.

Corporate Protection – what do you need to know?

We are all acutely aware of the increasing terror threats brought on by radical or criminal elements during the past few years.  It is one thing being aware of the real threats but quite another to know how to combat these threats.

Threats come in many forms both personal and corporate.  Is it possible for the man in the street to be able to firstly identify an impending threat and, once having done that, neutralise that same threat?

What Training Do You Need for A Career in Close Personal Protection?

A specialist working as a close personal protection officer (or bodyguard) is likely to have undergone several tiers of training to be working at the highest levels of their profession. The top earning bodyguards can earn as much as $600,00 dollars per year, but this would not be a typical wage in the industry. The determining factors that would go into the calculating the salary would be very much based on the skills and experience of the bodyguard combined with the profile and wealth of the VIP they were hired to protect. Generally, the higher the profile, the higher the risk and hence the demand for the best in the industry increases.