Creating the department from scratch

Vanessa Frost-Piedrahita (Pflugerville Fire) joins the pod to break down what it actually looks like to run strength + conditioning inside a fire department.

We talk hiring coaches (and the vibe check that matters), how to coach a room with wildly different training backgrounds, why the job is “high-stakes gen pop,” and how their systems evolved over 10 years — from teaching basic movement patterns to modular “you pick two” programming, quarterly testing, and what’s next with a major shift schedule change.