Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning !NEW!
In TB2, you'll find the structured, three pronged approach to conditioning we take with all of our clients. It consists of Base Building, followed by a transition to a more specific continuation protocol. Periodic maintenance of lower-priority fitness domains complete our model.
Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning
TBII is our manual for training tactical law enforcement candidates, soldiers and recreational athletes. You will be hard pressed to find a more thorough, and effective conditioning program. If you are a results-oriented individual looking for concrete, actionable programming based on cutting edge research, TB2 is for you.
In an unusual move, K. Black begins his conditioning book with a discussion on low-intensity steady-state cardio (LISS). Think jogging, cycling, or rowing at a comfortable pace for at least 30 minutes. His target audience: people like me, who regard cardio as an unholy sin.
You have something of great value in your hands. A lifetime's worth of training knowledge, drawn from the world's most extreme arenas. Lessons learned and best practices from military operators, tactical law enforcement, martial artists, and others that rely on their physical abilities to survive and thrive in very harsh and unforgiving environments. Where there's more at stake than winning a medal, or getting a bruised ego. Bottom line, with these people, the training has to work.
By implementing the strategies in this book, you will cut your learning curve by decades. You're going to be able to take your conditioning to the next level and beyond, while avoiding costly amateurish mistakes that lead to injury and burn out. The path has been laid out and handed to you on a silver platter. If you're an older athlete, you're going to reclaim that confidence you once had in your physical abilities. You may have forgotten what that feels like.
It's great having a 600lb squat and 400lb bench press. However, as a tactical athlete, if you can't run, work, or operate for long periods of time in a multitude of energy demanding situations, you are ineffective. Your big bench press is useless, your big squat is useless.
TBII is our manual for training tactical law enforcement candidates, soldiers and recreational athletes. It is the companion book to Tactical Barbell: Definitive Strength Training for the Operational Athlete. You will be hard pressed to find a more thorough, and effective conditioning program. If you are a results-oriented individual looking for concrete, actionable programming based on cutting edge research, TBII is for you.
I must say this one disappointed me. First, because I heard the Tactical Barbellapproach integrated conditioning (i.e. cardio & high intensity endurance work),but it turns out that part is outlined in the second book.
An important point is that the book is targeted to an "operational" audience:police, army, SWAT, firefighters, ... (hence the "tactical" in the title). A bigpoint is that these people may already have some fairly intense physicalworkloads (in the course of work, or because of work-mandated training), so thestrength work should be as efficient as possible and not leave them too tired toperform well.
I liked the second book much better. One reason is that it actually containedthings I wasn't really much informed about. It also contains an actionable plan(a program, really). It's easy to find good quality strength programs online(e.g. one, two), but I haven't stumbled on a program aiming todevelop and maintain conditioning before. 041b061a72