The Transition from Winter to Spring is the Best!  After a Winter Lift Cycle, you may be ready for a change.  Are you ready to get outside and run, PT, and swim more? Every year...

When You Need to Make a 180° Turn Around- All It Takes is Two Right Turns -  No one wants to hear "you are going the wrong way - turn around", go back to where you started, or ...

The Fine Line Between Mentally Tough and Stupid... There is a fine line between pushing and building your mental toughness with hard gut-check-style events and stupidity.  Ment...

Are Your Struggles Really Road Blocks or Internal Problems?  We all have faced unforeseen challenges when on a journey to achieve a goal. You being able to quickly adapt and han...

The Winter Lift Cycle for the Tactical Athlete  Check out the NEW Block Periodization Cycle we did Winter of 2020-21:Increase Strength & Crush the PST / PAST3 Weeks S...

Workouts and Techniques That Help with Drownproofing (SAFELY) Many people need to work on their water confidence.  Treading water, swimming, swimming underwater is one way to bu...

Training Overload - When Less is More When training hard, especially those preparing for a Special Ops level selection program in their future, multiple challenging workouts in...

The 3 Week Strength / 1 Week Calisthenics / Cardio (PST related) Block Periodization Cycle Update and Lessons Learned   The start of this Winter Lift Cycle, I decided to try so...

The #1 Reason Why People Cannot Serve- Failure to Meet the Height & Weight Standards - The number one reason why people are not meeting the standards to serve our country an...

When There is No Time to Get Stronger or Faster, You Need to Get Tougher There will be a moment when you are taking part of a Special Ops selection level evolution, that you re...

Growing Pains - Growth Does Not Occur in Comfort Zones Face it.  Growing is not easy.  Whether you are a young kid experience the nightly pains of actually growing, or you are ...

New Year - New Habits! Though I think there is nothing wrong with the tired slogan "New Year - New You" it is one of those overused "motivational phrases" you may see with peop...

When Your Training Goals Are Taking You in the Wrong Direction Quite often, athletes who decide to take the path of becoming a member of the tactical population (military, polic...

Phase 2 Of Tactical Fitness: Completing Training / Selection And Never Thinking About Quitting Or Worrying About Failing The Standard If you have read much of my writings or lis...

Phase 1 Of Tactical Fitness: Getting Accepted INTO a Tactical Profession - Military, Police, or Fire Fighter Training If you're one of the candidates or recruits for military, ...

Stop wasting time wondering if you are doing enough to prepare. Here is the answer every a person who wants to serve their country or community needs to know. From a soldier wh...

Be a Better Recruit (Regular Military & Spec Ops)FREE PROGRAM Below   There are many way you need to prepare yourself for military service. The basics are staying out of t...

Two Programs You Need IFTaking Tactical Fitness Tests In the world of the tactical professions (military, special ops, police, and fire fighting) the old pushup, situps, 1.5 mil...

The following is a self assessment chart to REALLY assess your Navy Physical Screening Test (PST).  You break up any test in this fashion especially ones that require you to bui...

Navy Dive Prep = Navy Diver / EOD Preconditioning and Assessment Course (U.S. Navy photo/Scott A. Thornloom) People may still call it Dive Prep, but you better come prepared wit...