Reddit mentions of Tactical Barbell: Definitive Strength Training for the Operational Athlete

There isn't a beginner program per se, as every template is regulated by your current capabilities.

The strength book has templates for 2-, 3-, and 4-day/week lifting so frequency and exercise selection is entirely up to you (the book suggests exercises based off of your goals). All lifting in the strength templates is sub-maximal, whereas 5/3/1 includes maximal lifting on it's 1 days and the AMRAP sets.

The conditioning book lays out basic understanding of the different energy systems in your body and has templates for training them in different priorities. It also has a big collection of conditioning workouts which is worth the price whether you follow one of the supplied templates or not, IMO. This book includes the Base Building template which you may be thinking of as the 'beginner program' but it's purpose is to get your cardiovascular system to a good place for future training, not as an introduction to exercising.

Honestly, I recommend you spend the $15 and buy the Kindle version of both books. Whether you run the workouts or not there's good information to know (just like I don't run Juggernaught 2.0 but the book was money really well spent).

Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning is, for my money, the most important book. It contains the "Base Building" program to get your conditioning kick-started, and is the most unique from other fitness offerings for how it explains to incorporate conditioning alongside strength training.

Tactical Barbell 3rd Edition is the current strength training book. It offers strength training that blends very well with the conditioning protocols in the other book, or used on their own. Most programmes you find for strength have workloads that aren't sustainable for people with active jobs, and this book offers several options for how to grow strength and stay useful at work.

Tactical Barbell: Physical Preparation for Law Enforcement is what I assume to be the third book you reference. It's a very focused book, and I've no experience with it myself.

Everything in the books can be scaled; all the conditioning workouts in TBII come with both easier and harder modifications, exercise clusters have their framework and reasoning explained and allow the reader to select specific exercises (can't do push-ups, then do incline push-ups, etc.), strength training uses percentages of your abilities so how strong you are now is irrelevant, and so on.

TB1 (third edition) for lifting and TB2 for conditioning

TB is a book, well three books. The first book has a 2 day lifting template. The second book is about conditioning. The third book has more templates, and may have some 2 day lifting templates as well. Here's a link to the first one. https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2

There's a thing out called "kindle". You can buy electronic books that you can actually read on the computer you're typing on. They're far cheaper than paper books. You can get these magical kindle books for around 5-10bucks a piece.

Here you go:

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2

Look at the heading titled "Digital book" = $6.90.

Let's round up to $7 for you son. $7 + $7 = $14.

If you were actually familiar with the TB content in comparison to other fitness books I don't think you'd be making these dumb trollish comments.

I recommend the conditioning one because it focuses on what you can do for the first 8-12 weeks. If you like the results, invest in the 3rd edition of the first book, which focuses on strength programs.

Member in Canada here (on an ERT) and I agree wholeheartedly with Tactical Barbell, but not that particular book. PPLE is very narrow in it's scope. Just meant to prepare you for PFT and possibly academy. It's basically a test prep book.

Op, I'd go with the two foundation books, the strength book:

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2

And more importantly the conditioning (cardio + energy systems) book:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143HDCWS/ref=series_rw_dp_sw

PM me if you have any questions.

You might like the book Tactical Barbell, which provides several templates for lifting while still leaving enough room and energy for your 'main activity', climbing in this case.

I haven't tried it myself yet, as I'm completely new to weight lifting (I have only done bodyweight strength training), but I read about a climber who used the 'fighter' template, which is the most minimalistic one, in addition to climbing. I read the book and I'm considering to give it a go myself.

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2

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great, simple program and templates. They have a specific template, The Fighter, that was made for people focusing on combat sports that still want to strength train. Great sub, too

I was in your exact situation, except it was the time between two jobs. I did the effortless superhuman program in Tim Ferris' 4 hour body 3 days a week and did treadmill sprints for 20 minutes the other 2 days. I definitely got stronger doing it.

If I was doing it again, I'd do Tactical Barbell. Its a similar program in that it is minimalist with a focus on lower rep compound exercises, but has a better programing structure in my opinion.
It was designed for military people who had a strength need, but had other demands on their time and conditioning. I ran 2, 6 weeks cycles during a cut and still got stronger.

You could either do 3 exercise clusters (say Squats, Bench and pull-ups) 3 days a week, or two exercise clusters twice a week for 4 days lifting and do cardio on the other days. Feel free to ask any follow-up questions

No, that's RealWorldTactical. Tactical Barbell is different.

Tactical Barbell is king in this category imo. It's strength & conditioning for military operators, cross-training athletes and the like. Combines simple undulating periodised strength templates with a structured approach to conditioning which includes aerobic base building, strength-endurance, work capacity and HIIT.

TB1 = strength book (covers max-strength + strength-endurance)

TB2 = conditioning (cardio, energy systems, base-building)

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473913817&sr=8-1&keywords=K.+Black

https://www.amazon.com.au/Tactical-Barbell-Definitive-Strength-Operational-ebook/dp/B01G195QU2/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1464088118&sr=8-1-fkmr0