I recently got in an argument about open carry and an officer disarming someone in a state where open carry is illegal unless heading to hunt or fish. This guy who was stopped was on his way to hunt, though the officer had no way to know this, and he was carrying a pistol on his belt openly. Natural...

Hey TB family, I'm in the military and just did the "try outs" at my unit for ranger school slots. I happened to get one, and I'd like your guys input. To train up for it, unfortunately, I had to drop my operator black make room for organized PT geared towards passing these try outs. It wa...

He's definitely a keeper. I'm only about half way through my deadlift rehab and my back feels like it's at 100% again. I found out I lean way too far forward on my squats and, for whatever reason, I shift my weight awkwardly to the left when I come back up. Even with just the bar. Time to take a bre...

You might find this helpful... http://startingstrength.com/video/weight-training-with-low-back-pain That's interesting because the physio told me to go back and deadlift. I did 3 sets of 135 for 15-20 reps 3 days last week (and my back feels 1000 times better), and next week I do 135 for 20, and 18...

I guess I'll go see a specialist then. I've been a little busy with work but I guess I'll have to make something happen. It feels a lot better now just giving time off from working out. I suppose after having an injured it twice, even minor injuries both times, I should just get it looked at. I hate...

I've had lower back pain before from squats. I fixed my form, strengthened my lower back and glutes with some deadlifts and extensions and things, and the issue was solved. That issue was from my back rounding, and I've been pain free for a while. Until a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure, because I've...

Lactate is your friend, and actually contributes to increased performance. The trick is training your body to process lactate at a quicker pace while you're working. Lactate-threshold training and tempo runs will take care of it. The idea is to flood your body with it and in doing so your body will...

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Done deal. We'll put more emphasis on running then.

So on my team I'm in charge of keeping my guys in shape. One of the guys tweaked his ankle and had to take about 4 weeks off of running to let it heal. I have him doing the same operator/black I'm doing, so he kept up the squats despite the injury because it didn't really bother his ankle too much. ...

I posted this on the r/tacticalbarbell and it was mentioned I bring it over here. This thread seems the perfect place! I was excited reading all the success stories on here before I started my conditioning phase and my first operator block. They got me more motivated to better myself than any other ...