Could you do it? Both Ray Stevens and Jen DeSalvo of the morning show are pretty tough when it comes to fitness, but even the both of them had some reservations about the requirements.
“Stepping 18-inches? I don’t think my hip flexors have that range of motion,” Jen said.
Ray also wasn’t too sure that carrying a 250-pound body up six flights of stairs was an easy task.
A dozen women who wanted to be paramedics say the Chicago Fire Department devised two new physical agility tests that are biased against women.
One test requires candidates to go up six flights of stairs with a 250-pound dummy within eight minutes. The other requires candidates to step onto and off of an 18-inch-high box to the beat of a metronome for two minutes without missing a beat while holding 25-pound weights in each hand.
Read the full story from the Chicago Sun-Times here: Women accuse Chicago Fire Department of discrimination — again | Chicago Sun-Times
