Vanessa Frost (Training the Tactical Athlete, Fitness Standards and Injury Prevention) - Episode 1154

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Frost-Piedrahita currently serves as the Health & Fitness Coordinator for the Pflugerville Fire Department. Since 2016, she has overseen all aspects of health and performance for the department’s active firefighters and multiple academies. She focuses on balancing health and performance for tactical personnel through movement quality, evidence based practices, and realistic approaches.

Prior to coaching the fire service, Vanessa was a strength & conditioning coach for Southern Illinois University. Vanessa received her Masters of Science in Education in Kinesiology in 2015 and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences in 2013, both from Southern Illinois University. She is a certified strength and conditioning specialist with distinction through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, as well as a registered strength and conditioning coach (CSCS*D RSCC). Vanessa also holds credentials from The Ready State, USA Weightlifting, Brianna Battles Pregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism, Master Resilience Training from USAF, and Crossfit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing. And this week, it is my
0:03.9	absolute honor to welcome on the show, Tactical Athlete Strength Conditioning Coach, Vanessa Frost.
0:11.3	So we discuss a host of topics from her own journey into the world of coaching, transitioning to
0:18.0	training firefighters, hiring standards, ongoing fitness standards, training
0:24.4	the youth athlete, prehab and rehab and so much more. Now before we get to this incredible
0:31.6	conversation, as I say every week, please just take a moment. Go to whichever app you listen to this
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0:47.2	therefore making it easier for others to find. And this is a free library of over 1,100 episodes now.
0:55.2	So all I ask in return is that you help share these incredible men and women stories
1:01.2	so I can get them to every single person on planet Earth who needs to hear them.
1:07.4	So with that being said, I introduce to you Vanessa Frost.
1:13.6	Enjoy. Well, Vanessa, I want to start by saying two things.
1:36.0	Firstly, thank you to our mutual friend Trevor for making this connection.
1:40.1	And secondly, I want to welcome you on to the Behind the Shoehl podcast today.
1:44.2	Oh, thank you so much.
1:45.4	I'm really excited to be here and I'm glad that Trevor connected us.
1:49.0	He's a good dude.
1:50.2	He actually helped me rebuild a wall in my house at one point of my life.
1:54.4	So I'm grateful to him for many reasons.
1:57.2	Beautiful.
1:58.0	Well, very first question then, where on planet earth be finding you this afternoon
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