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  • #572
    kilkennny
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭kilkennny


    Hi everybody, im new to this so please bare with me. i just have a question for anybody that can answer it, its about the physical competency test and the strenght test 34kgs is very heavy, has anybody got tips on been able to push that weight ive been in the gym and it just seems beyond me:mad:


  • #573
    megranny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭megranny


    kilkennny wrote: »
    Hi everybody, im new to this so please bare with me. i just have a question for anybody that can answer it, its about the physical competency test and the strenght test 34kgs is very heavy, has anybody got tips on been able to push that weight ive been in the gym and it just seems beyond me:mad:
    Kilkenny, dont lift that weight right away,start off at 28kgs or so and try that for a while then move up 2 30kgs and so on,34kgs is heavy if you have only lifted it once,but like everything you have to work yourself up to the weight,so start low and you will be suprised that the 34kgs is not that bad. hope this helps,have you been called for you Physical??


  • #574
    rocknrolla
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭rocknrolla


    the pct test isnt a bench test your not on your back its like a modified rowing machine that tests the force exerted through pushing and pulling train for explosive power fast reps on the nech and you should fly it the run is decieving so focus on that even the fittest were cream crackered after it


  • #575
    Scatman81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Scatman81


    Hey guys is there any people on the 2007 panel who havent recieved the call to start on the 24th of aug??please dont leave me here with the 2008 guys!!:D:D


  • #576
    rocknrolla
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭rocknrolla


    im with you from 07 failed pct run by 15 seconds but fingers crossed il get a shout soon


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  • #577
    Scatman81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Scatman81


    rocknrolla wrote: »
    im with you from 07 failed pct run by 15 seconds but fingers crossed il get a shout soon
    Did you repeat the pct?those shuttle runs were tough,i play a good bit of sport and i was shattered after it.There cant be many left of the'07 panel left to start if this 40 start training so ya fingers crossed...


  • #578
    recruit po
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭recruit po


    I just rang the IPS there, spoke to a nice bloke who told me that there are 130 left on the 07 panel. From that 40 are being taken in, in August so that leaves 90 left from 07 before us 08 lads hear anything.
    He also said that they only got approval late last week for this intake but they are hopeful of being approved for more intakes in the coming months.
    The official line is still that there is a recruitment ban in the public service :confused:


  • #579
    cmc2009
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭cmc2009


    has anyone who got the phone call on friday recived the letter today.


  • #580
    jason99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭jason99


    recruit po wrote: »
    I just rang the IPS there, spoke to a nice bloke who told me that there are 130 left on the 07 panel. From that 40 are being taken in, in August so that leaves 90 left from 07 before us 08 lads hear anything.
    He also said that they only got approval late last week for this intake but they are hopeful of being approved for more intakes in the coming months.
    The official line is still that there is a recruitment ban in the public service :confused:

    Hopefully they will want the next panel in place from the 08 competition before they exhaust the 07 panel just to keep things running smoothly.When the question was put to dermot ahern about the recruitment freeze,he replied that the prison service had a panel from 07 and will have a panel from 08 to meet the recruitment needs of the prison service.Fingers crossed,it wont be long.


  • #581
    kilkennny
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭kilkennny


    megranny wrote: »
    Kilkenny, dont lift that weight right away,start off at 28kgs or so and try that for a while then move up 2 30kgs and so on,34kgs is heavy if you have only lifted it once,but like everything you have to work yourself up to the weight,so start low and you will be suprised that the 34kgs is not that bad. hope this helps,have you been called for you Physical??
    hay megranny, thanks for the advice no havnt been called yet but was talking to a nice man yesterday that says they hope to get some done next month so starting to get a bit nervous as i ment to do it in march but had to pass on it in number 19 now and he also said that you might only get 3 weeks notice so may go and live in the gym


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  • #582
    cmc2009
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭cmc2009


    kilkennny wrote: »
    hay megranny, thanks for the advice no havnt been called yet but was talking to a nice man yesterday that says they hope to get some done next month so starting to get a bit nervous as i ment to do it in march but had to pass on it in number 19 now and he also said that you might only get 3 weeks notice so may go and live in the gym

    which panel are you on 07 r 08


  • #583
    Scatman81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Scatman81


    recruit po wrote: »
    I just rang the IPS there, spoke to a nice bloke who told me that there are 130 left on the 07 panel. From that 40 are being taken in, in August so that leaves 90 left from 07 before us 08 lads hear anything.
    He also said that they only got approval late last week for this intake but they are hopeful of being approved for more intakes in the coming months.
    The official line is still that there is a recruitment ban in the public service :confused:
    Thanks for posting that info lad i was goin to ring them this morn but that answers my question!90 isnt a whole pile hopefully im at athe right side of the 90!you 08 guys might not have that long a wait at all esp if they are taking in 40 a time from now on.I thought the classes were 25 a go so they must have increased capacity??it could turn out that some of the 08 panel get in as quick as some of the 07 panel who have been waiting 2.5years


  • #584
    megranny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭megranny


    Scatman81 wrote: »
    Hey guys is there any people on the 2007 panel who havent recieved the call to start on the 24th of aug??please dont leave me here with the 2008 guys!!:D:D
    Scatman i didn get the call and im from 07 so dont worry i wont let them 08s bully ya:D:D:D, only messing 08s:):)


  • #585
    hotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭hotter


    I did the exam in 01 and got called to start training in 07 so be prepared for a long wait but I don't think you will have to wait as long as that due to retirements


  • #586
    kilkennny
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭kilkennny


    cmc2009 wrote: »
    which panel are you on 07 r 08
    hay i am 07 too so theres a few of us left still.


  • #587
    katb42
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭katb42


    cmc2009 wrote: »
    has anyone who got the phone call on friday recived the letter today.

    I got the call on Friday but did not get the letter today, I am hoping that I get it tomorrow as we have to reply by the 14th August to confirm that we will start training.


  • #588
    kilkennny
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭kilkennny


    katb42 wrote: »
    I got the call on Friday but did not get the letter today, I am hoping that I get it tomorrow as we have to reply by the 14th August to confirm that we will start training.
    katb42 hope you get the letter tomorrow hate the waiting for the postman part. How did you find the physical and the weights.


  • #589
    katb42
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭katb42


    Hi thanks very much, hopefully tomorrow will be the end of all the waiting around. I found the weights a bit hard when I first started off but I kept practicing and towards the end I didn't find it too difficult. My arms and shoulders were sore for the first two weeks and after that they were ok. The hardest bit was the shuttle runs. I was barely within the time limit when I was training but on the day I just about passed it. How are you getting on? Have you been called to do the PCT?


  • #590
    Garryd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Garryd


    Anyone who got the call on fridayfor the start date of the 24ty of august should get their letter tomorrow. I was on to them today an they told me to hand in my notice to my current employer. Just remember to have them in by friday. Use swift post or if all comes to all drop it up yourself!!!!


  • #591
    crusher20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭crusher20


    Ya was just talkin to them myself and all 40 of us are definitly goin to wheatfield prison


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  • #592
    katb42
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭katb42


    If we get the letter tomorrow and post it back straight away it should get there in time. yeah?


  • #593
    Garryd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Garryd


    obviously training first in port laoise?


  • #594
    crusher20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭crusher20


    dont panic about the letter,i was told it could even be friday before it arrives


  • #595
    Garryd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Garryd


    Just post it by swift post. i think thats a 24 hour service.


  • #596
    crusher20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭crusher20


    yep port laoise first


  • #597
    katb42
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭katb42


    crusher20 wrote: »
    dont panic about the letter,i was told it could even be friday before it arrives

    The woman on the phone told me that we had to reply by the 14th or our place would be gone. :confused:


  • #598
    Garryd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Garryd


    I was also told this. Lads and ladies listen. We all spent too long waiting for this. Lets all get these forms in for friday.


  • #599
    crusher20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭crusher20


    i thought the same until they told me there was a delay in getting them out


  • #600
    crusher20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭crusher20


    agreed garryd


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  • #601
    katb42
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭katb42


    Yes definitely as soon as I get my letter I am posting it back straight away! Have you's still been working on your fitness? Apart from the odd training session for football I have not done a thing since I did my physical in March so Im kinda worried about that. Do you's know if the initial nine weeks training is very physical?


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