Question And Answer

QUESTION Found you thru the book The comfort crisis.  I am 6’6”, 260 lb.’s, ex-college basketball player, and am 48.  Sit too much at work, and am getting bored of the same old, run, lift, walk, repeat workouts.  I have in mind doing some mountain hunting starting in 2022, but have a busy lifestyle with […]

QUESTION I wanted to drop a line and say how much I am loving the programming and the amazing performance gains I am achieving. I am a civilian construction business owner and father of three and am really just training to be great at my career, highly capable, and overall fit for my life and […]

QUESTION I am waiting for a start date with USMS for their basic academy. It is nowhere near as demanding as their SOG academy but I figured I’d do your SOG preparation program just to be extra-ready. My running conditioning has always been very poor and I have not completed the SOG program as written. […]

QUESTION I’ve reached out to you in the past while training for USAF special warfare. I really like your training programs and would like to chat with you and hopefully get some training recommendations now that I’ve made it through selection and pre-dive.  These courses have highlighted some significant areas of my fitness that need […]

QUESTION Good afternoon I am working on joining the US Coast Guard. I will not go to basic for several months but I am wanting to go and try out for the MSRT teams and was wondering what program would be best to use in order to prepare for that type of selection. Thank you […]

QUESTION I am working on joining the US Coast Guard. I will not go to basic for several months hopefully in february but I am wanting to go and try out for the MSRT teams and was wondering what program would be best to use in order to prepare for that type of selection. Thank you for your time. […]

QUESTION Just finished week 4 of the Ruck BasedSelection program and during the retest of the 10 mile ruck, average time went from 13:35/mile (week 1) to 13:00/mile (week 4). Excited to see the improvements. Just curious what type of improvements you typically see from people who run this program? The conditions were much cooler […]

QUESTION I’m a 54yr old retired LE with knee issues (bone spurs, arthritis, other fun stuff like that). Mostly hurts doing squats and lunges and PT said I should avoid doing them. I’m looking for an alternate to the sandbag get up. ANSWER Since my hip replacement surgery SBGU our out for me too – to my […]

QUESTION I have completed the FBI SA PFT Plan for the first time now. My push-ups got tremendously better! The form looks good and I have more reps which is amazing. My run times have stayed about the same since I started the program, which isn’t bad because they’re both in the point range I […]

QUESTION I am a 24 year old male, who are interested in joining the police and then hopefully joining the Swat team. I am in decent shape, I run blot and have done some home training since corona shut down the country I live in. But I want to start in fitness agian and train […]