Corax wrote:Excellent advice! I'm coming off years of 5/3/1 and while excellent, I think I took the intensity way too far at times. Constantly chasing those PRs eventually started to burn me out real bad. I started to fear my upcoming sessions and then realized I had to take a different path. With TB, I'm slowly coming to that conclusion too: make your strength work easy and save the eye-popping intensity for conditioning. For me it has had nothing but benefits: I walk around with more energy, better conditioning ... and I'm stronger than when I was training for my PRs. Wish I smartened up sooner.
Sadly it always takes us so long to work this out
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I would say it's the problem with the drive most people on here would have.
I am ex military now LEO. My previous job was a cushy managerial type role with a set schedule most days and gym time in the morning.
I was following a different tactical type program and had similar results. I was extremely fit, but the sheer volume always made things a struggle. Don't get me wrong it is brilliant programming and I was able to become extremely fit and get amazing results, however my life became training.
I am happy I trained like this to experience it. It puts what other people consider hard in perspective and makes me ready to do the work to get shit done if needed.
I now work shifts and don't have the greatest sleep schedule and can't always recover properly. I also can't afford to be absolutely exhausted from the morning training session before going to work and I sure as hell can't train too hard after.
Tactical barbell is the perfect middle ground right now. I can use a training max and hit my bare minimums when work gets in the way. If I have a admin type shift I can push it harder and work some volume. If I am coming off night shift and have a day or two off I can hit a challenge type session and go push myself for an hour or two.
Am I as fit as when I was pushing myself to the limit before ? Not this very second, but 12-24 months from now the plan is to make that previous best my 75% week or my easy week HIC/E.