Tactical Barbell: Definitive Strength Training for the Operational Athlete

The average gym rat trains on emotion and feel.

Zulu revolves around a cluster of 4-6 main lifts+ performed over 4 days through the week. Each lift is practiced twice a week. If you can handle the volume, you can use up to 6 or 7major lifts + accessories.

You need to do some form of muscular-endurance work to help express some of that max-strength as SE.

maximal-strength is the skeleton or framework that other physical attributes are draped over.

A general rule of thumb is the longer the rest interval, the more strength without the mass.

For the operational athlete, training is about improving the attribute, not about getting better at using the tool.

things like aesthetics, fat loss and all the rest take care of themselves if you focus on improving your performance.

If you’re running this template long term, I recommend you take a few weeks off every 3-6 months or so to allow your CNS some recovery time. Good time to go on leave.

In the TB world, strength training is the skeleton over which we drape things like work capacity, endurance, speed and power. Focus on getting extremely strong in a small handful of balanced compound lifts.