JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Airmen and Sailors on JBPHH are being offered a fitness opportunity that brings fitness to the warfighter.
Established in 2009, Functional Mobile Fitness Training provides a unique style of instruction that issues service to the individual, as well as large groups of people. Mobile Fitness Training focuses on training styles that prevent injury and supplies facilitation for office or squadron PT.
“We are here to augment and provide additional tools to commands’ PTL or CFL, as well as offer instructional classes anywhere from groups of ten people, to 600,” said Mark Mcfarland, regional fitness training director, JBPHH.
Mcfarland said the whole design of Mobile Fitness Training is to reduce the risk of muscular-skeletal injuries that are common like sprains, strains and stress fractures.
The Mobile Fitness Training is made up of three commodities; a mobile functional training vehicle (MFT), and two stationary functional- training lockers.
The MFT can accommodate up to 200 people at one time, and if assisted with the functional training locker, is able to aid in larger class sizes.
“Our goal for the MFT is to provide four one-hour sessions a day, providing 20 hours a week of PT so we can service as many commands as possible,” said Mcfarland.
The functional training lockers also provide an array of equipment that can be used by the individual themselves, or under instruction during individual or group session.
“I saw the mobile fitness vehicle out at the track and thought it would be a great way to get the squadron involved in functional fitness. We had a great workout today, and everyone is either exhausted or happy, or both,” said Capt. Lucas Coston, 535th Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III pilot, after his squadrons PT session.
Mobile Fitness training is available to all active-duty, guard, and reserve service members.
Operating hours of the MFT vary depending on appointment schedules. For more information, or to schedule a training session, contact Mark Mcfarland or the JBPHH Fitness Center at (808) 471-2021.