Six weeks of "base building" is exactly that - you're building a base from which you can build on from there. Think of it as a house. If you're building a house you are going to spend time and patience on the foundation. If you screw up the foundation or skip it all together, well, it does...

Just throwing this out there, but I have seen similar issues with my athletes in the past. It could be a variety of issues, but one thing I've seen make a huge difference, seemingly overnight, was getting a good massage. If you're doing a lot of DL and WPU, chances are you're getting pretty tight in...

A few weeks ago I finished a six-week block of Operator combined with Craig Marker's A+A swing protocol, with a longer ruck (E) each week. My lifts all went up, my ruck time improved significantly, and my swings and snatches are feeling really good. Last April I participated in the Tactical Strength...

Voo Doo wrote:Thank you for the responses.

I'm limited to 3 sessions a week so add the conditioning on to the end of the strength training is my best bet?

That's exactly what I would do.

I actually have some experience doing this. A few years back when I was training for my first Spartan Race I had the bright idea of adding conditioning work between lifting sets. I tried jump rope, I tried light rucking, and I tried burpees. While my conditioning improved, my lifts when way down. Fo...

I've been playing around with this in our gym. Rather than trying to alter the load, we have been altering our reps. For example, for presses, we use a bell that's about our 8RM weight. Our 70% week would be three ladders (we've found 2/3/5 ladders to be effective), our 80% week is four ladders, the...