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Peaking. The mysterious zone where athletes find themselves in the perfect state of readiness prior to their competitive event. Do too little and you lose what you trained. Do too much and you’re n...

Our first new training cycle of 2025 is called FOCUS. This 12 week program is broken into 3 separate 4 week training blocks. We are going to put a bit more of a daily focus (see what I did there?)...

Still the same intro. Part III is below on “Intensity” When I saw that strength coach Joe Defranco was discussing on his podcast how he structures strength and conditioning programming for tactica...

(Same intro, part II is below) When I saw that strength coach Joe Defranco was discussing on his podcast how he structures strength and conditioning programming for tactical populations I just ha...

When I saw that strength coach Joe Defranco was discussing how he structures strength and conditioning programming for tactical populations on his recent podcast I just had to listen. I have never ...

Training with unilateral exercises is a must for tactical and first responder populations. Although every training method/modality has pros/cons, using exercises that emphasize one limb (unilateral...

Minimum physical standards are often a touchy subject. Anytime I have ever floated an idea out there about this I am usually met with comments like: “Last time I checked, I never had to overhead pr...

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly ...

We often think about suitcase carries as the predominate way to pull us off of our mid-line and force our abs and hips to keep us center. This exercise does do this, and should be used often in a w...