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Pushing the Limit Without Breaking: Tactical and First Responder Performance
The Last Four Weeks of Our 12-Week Foundational Program: Maintaining Strength While We Push Aerobic Power
Build Real Strength and Capacity
The program we will discuss below is part of a 12-week ...
Strength That Carries Over on the Street and at the Structure Fire
Part of our 12-week first responder training series: how we build usable strength without sacrificing conditioning
True Functional Strength
If you’re thinking about becoming a police officer or...
First-Responder and Tactical Events Start Fast. Can You Maintain the Pace?
In our last article, we discussed how, in On the Brink, we maintain and elevate our aerobic capacity. The area I did not get into was anaerobic-threshold training.
Anaerobic-threshold training is p...
Maintaining the Engine: Aerobic Capacity in Phase II for Cops, Firefighters, and Tactical Professionals
From a Human Performance Coach with real experience in these professions.
Split-Second, Rapidly Evolving Decision-Making
Police use-of-force encounters and street-level critical incidents can v...
Beyond Zone 2: How First Responders and Tactical Populations Should Progress Their Training
The Academy and Beyond series addresses basic academy preparation. But once the baseline is built, what comes next?
First Foot Pursuit
I will never forget my first foot pursuit. It was my firs...
Academy and Beyond: Hurry Up and Wait — Why First Responders Need Loaded Aerobic Work
How loaded movement builds durability, recovery, and real-world work capacity for the job
Police, fire, and tactical populations all get familiar with one of the most common experiences in thes...
The Academy and Beyond: Improve Your Run for the Real Demands of the Job
Intelligently build a running base that carries you through the academy — and holds up on the street.
Real Police Conditioning
Excerpt from the book, Answering The Call (cleaned up with AI edi...
Academy and Beyond: Signed Up to Be a Cop—But Couldn't Even Run 1.5 Miles
How to build the conditioning the Police or Fire academy demands (and the job actually requires)
1.5-Mile Run
I was recently talking with a former coworker about his experience at the police acad...
Academy and Beyond: She Couldn't Safely Operate Her Weapon
Part III — Built for the 20-Year Career: Purpose-Driven Strength for First Responders
I’ll never forget watching a fellow academy classmate lack the strength to properly manipulate the pistol she...