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afatgoat
Nothing personal, but those numbers at that height and weight don't stand out compared to the caliber of competitiveness that will be applying on the job. Get your pushups up, if you're not hitting 70+ you're doing it wrong. Practice your pulls, all of them. Practice your barbel, lat, close grip rows. Not sure what it's like in Denver but in places like Vancouver it isn't uncommon to get 200-300 people applying on 1 position. You don't need to meet the standard, you need to crush it, if you plan on being competitive. If you havn't had a job that involves being a pack mule, go buy a weighted vest and find the steepest hill that you can climb in 2 hours and do it twice a week. Go do prowler sprints with it. Go do prowler sprints regardless. Lots of them. Until you puke. Several times a week.
I personally believe TM offers a good mix of short burst intensity and volume that leads to conditioning, relevant to the cpat.
We've had several people over the years make the jump from bush to structural with varying degrees of wait time. A few national level athletes have made it in less than 2 interviews. Others, have waited up to 2.5 years for positions. These are people with extensive bushfire backgrounds, ground up to middle management fire training, on top of the s1000. What makes you a better candidate ? Define yourself with your cpat, it's not a job handed out on a silver platter. Most importantly, don't get discouraged, keep applying. Good luck. Train hard.