Is This Program THE Way to Train for ____?

I Have A Way to Train
THE Way to Train Depends on You. 

And - it is true - there are many, many ways to prepare for ANY profession, fitness goal, Spec Ops selection or fitness competition/event and any one who is selling THE way is not telling you the truth. Because THE way is what works BEST for YOU period.  That may be a generic program you find in a book or ebook, but typically THE best way to find a program is to get a personalized program OR learn how to personalize a program yourself. 

My most recent programs that walk you through these four cycles with 12 weeks of each season in two programs. 

What is THE Way? 

THE way that works best for YOU is THE WAY.  THE way you train (and diet for that matter) that provides the results you seek, may not yield the same results for another person with the same goal. It depends on many factors that we as individuals create for ourselves during our athletic and training history. 

Quite often, generic training programs need to be personally tweaked to ensure the goal elements of fitness are being properly challenged and given time to recover.  Also, if you have some specific strengths and weaknesses from your athletic / training history, you may want to focus more on those weaknesses, especially if applying for challenging and competitive selection programs. Unfortunately, many still like to focus on what they are already good at doing to the detriment of other areas on the physical spectrum. 

That may mean to lift more or lift less, run more or run less, swim more or swim less, PT more or PT less - it all depends on your current performance at these elements and goals / standards when trying to get good at everything like the tactical athlete should be doing.  If you give yourself TIME, you can work through these elements over the course of a year (maybe more) and fine tune any weakness into a strength (or at least less of a weakness that will be exposed in the first week of spec ops training).  But this takes time - so be patient. 

For instance:

The Strength / Power Athlete will want to work harder on the muscle stamina and cardio conditioning more.  However, you may not be up for the prescribed baseline of running yet, so you need to pull back on some mileage and do more non-impact cardio (typical overuse injuries occur in non-runners).  You may not be good enough to handle the swim workouts so you need to spend more time on technique and working on errors in swimming.   You may be strong enough for all the load bearing activities (logs, boats, rucking, fireman / equipment carry), but you have to work on your stamina to be able to do it longer - aka build your work capacity.  This was me.  I stop lifting and started working only on calisthenics and cardio for a good 18 months because in my head at the time - long distance running was anything over 100m.  However, a few supplement lifts during the week is fine, but not super heavy when trying to adjust mileage increases and speed capability, swim practice, and high rep calisthenics.  

The Endurance Athlete - If you are coming off years of endurance training whether it is running, biking, swimming (or all three), or rowing, etc...there will be strengths that you bring to this journey, but it is not strength and power typically. The running athlete, will need to work on strength and muscle stamina of the entire body that can start off with calisthenics base, then gradually build to a strength / hypertrophy phase to gain some mass that will help with both strength and over all durability.  The running athlete does not need to run 50-60 miles a week, but could spend time running shorter daily miles but faster in the 6 min mile pace zone.  Depending on the runner that maybe easy, but it maybe some work involved in that energy system not fully developed.  The non-running endurance athlete will need to build into running GENTLY and most likely pull back on total miles per week and mix in some non impact cardio just to avoid the overuse issues. Adding weight training cycles to an annual training cycle is a must and will likely require longer time in the lift cycle to balance out the weaknesses related to load bearing and over all strength / power. 

SWIMMER Athlete
 

There are many other sports and athletic histories (or non-athletic histories) that have to start at the beginning of this tactical fitness journey being honest with themselves and assessing current fitness levels - both strengths and weaknesses.  See assessment tool to help you have a ballpark range of fitness standards that are acceptable prior to joining. 

When you assess your weakness, you will see what you need to work on the most. That is THE way to train for you. Personalized training programs are an answer, but so is supplemental training (lifting, calisthenics, running, swimming) workouts.  But you have to be smart about how to place them into your training program as you can easily overdo your weakness as well as your strength.  This can be a waste of time / effort spent in an overuse state and injured or just wasting time getting stronger in strengths that are really GOOD ENOUGH. 

See What is Good Enough - Spec Ops Scores / Events

What is Good Enough Strength Scores  

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Tactical Fitness Report 61 - CrossFit Athlete Preps for BUD/S

Tactical Fitness Report 60 - Powerlifting / Football Player Preps for BUD/S

Tactical Fitness Report 59 - The Swimmer Preps for BUD/S

Tactical Fitness Report 57 - Cross Country Athlete Preps for BUD/S

Tactical Fitness Report 54 - Tactical Periodization Wrap Up Discussion

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