Firefighter Fitness Training · Provo · Utah County The gym is part of the program.

The Forge : Guardian's on-site training gym, runs two tracks. CPAT prep for students headed into the fire service, and a general strength and conditioning track for everyone else, because the job is physical long before it is clinical.

Not a Guardian student? Our 6-week CPAT Prep course is open to anyone preparing for the fire service. $299, see dates and book →

See the two tracks ↓ CPAT Prep · $299 →
02 Tracks · CPAT prep or general fitness
Included With Soaring Eagle & Mother Eagle
$299 Add-on with the Eagle package
Two Tracks · One Gym

Same room. Two different jobs to get ready for.

Where you're headed decides how you train. A student going into the fire service has a timed physical test standing between them and a job. A student going into hospital or transport medicine has twelve-hour shifts, stair carries, and a long career to protect a back for. Both train in The Forge; they don't train the same.

Track 01

CPAT Prep

For students headed into the fire service

The Candidate Physical Ability Test is a pass-or-go-home gate on nearly every fire application in Utah. It is a timed course in a weighted vest, and it rewards a specific kind of conditioning that general gym work does not build by accident.

  • Stair climb under load — the event that fails most candidates
  • Hose drag and equipment carry
  • Ladder raise and extension
  • Forcible entry and forced-space search
  • Victim drag and ceiling breach-and-pull
  • Grip, trunk, and shoulder endurance under a vest
Not in a Guardian program? The 6-week CPAT Prep course is open to anyone preparing for a fire application, including students from other EMT schools. $299, see dates and book →
Track 02

Strength & Conditioning

For everyone else on the medical track

No timed test at the end of this one, just the job. Lifting patients who cannot help you, carrying a stair chair down three flights, and doing it on hour eleven of a shift. Back injuries end EMS careers earlier than anything else does, and they are largely trainable against.

  • Lifting mechanics under real load, not a mannequin
  • Posterior-chain and grip strength, the two that carry gurneys
  • Work capacity for long shifts, not one-rep maxes
  • Injury-resistant movement patterns you keep after graduation
Built for students going into hospital, transport, and 911 medicine, and for anyone who wants to finish the program stronger than they started it.
How students get in

Gym access is included with the Soaring Eagle and Mother Eagle packages on both EMT Basic and Advanced EMT. On the Eagle package it is a $299 add-on, which is exactly the price difference between Eagle and Soaring Eagle, so most students simply take the middle package instead.

EMT Basic Packages → Advanced EMT Packages →
Inside The Forge · Provo Campus

It's down the hall from your classroom.

Not a partner gym across town, not a discount code for a chain. The training space is in the building where you take class, which is the difference between a fitness program you actually do and one you mean to start next week.

Guardian EMT 2066 S 950 E, Suite B
Provo, UT 84606
(801) 332-0012
✓ On site at the Provo campus ✓ Included with Soaring Eagle & Mother Eagle ✓ $299 add-on with Eagle Training for a fire application? CPAT Prep · $299 →
The Room · What's Actually In It

Built for the job, not for the mirror.

The equipment was chosen around the work, not around a test. Dragging a charged line. Moving someone who can't move themselves. Carrying a stair chair down three flights on hour eleven. Get fit for that and the CPAT stops being something you train for, it becomes a morning you show up to.

Fireground work
  • Two turf strips, sled push and dummy pull
  • Weighted vests for loaded work
  • Battle rope
  • Stairs for climb work
Strength
  • Two squat racks
  • Two dumbbell sections
  • Open free-weight area
Conditioning
  • Treadmills
  • Two ellipticals
Why this kit
  • The sled and the dummy are here because people have to be moved, off a floor, out of a vehicle, down a hallway
  • The racks are here because backs are what end EMS careers, and a strong one lasts thirty years
  • Nothing here is programmed around a test. Train for the work and the CPAT takes care of itself

How it runs

Staffed Hours 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM Staffed the whole time it's open, not badge-in access to an empty room.
Session Cap 12 at a time The same cap as a Guardian class. You are not queueing for a rack.
Scheduling Outside class hours Sessions are scheduled around EMT and Advanced EMT class times, so training never competes with the program you enrolled in.
Who Can Train Here Students & CPAT Prep Gym access isn't sold on its own. Guardian students get it through their package; everyone else comes in through the 6-week CPAT Prep course, which runs in this same room.
Who's coaching

Guardian staff, not contractors. The fire-track side is run by staff who hold firefighter certifications, people who do the work you're training for, not people who studied the test. The conditioning side is run by staff with kinesiology degrees and personal-training certifications. Same building, same faculty, same standard as the classroom.

Start Training · Provo, Utah

The physical part starts before day one.

Whether you're twelve weeks from an EMT certification or eight weeks from a CPAT test, the training floor is open to you. Three ways in, pick the one that matches where you're headed.

Route 01

EMT Basic

12-week career certification. The Forge is included with Soaring Eagle and Mother Eagle, or a $299 add-on with Eagle.

See Packages →
Route 02

Advanced EMT

IV, pharmacology, advanced airway, for certified EMTs. Same gym terms as EMT Basic across the three packages.

See Packages →
Route 03

CPAT Prep

Six weeks, $299, no program enrollment required. Open to students from other schools and to anyone preparing for a fire application.

See Dates →
Not sure which fits? Call (801) 332-0012 Or use the contact page 2066 S 950 E, Suite B · Provo, UT 84606