Reddit reviews Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning

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

There are different types of stamina, something like steady state stamina can be improved by long consistent cardio. Krav type workouts, you are going to want to get good at HIIT training, which will help you perform tasks at a high intensity and recover quickly.

The guys & gals over at r/fitness should be able to point you in the right direction as to HIIT workout plans. Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning has great and varied HIIT workouts as well.

Yeah, look at the Zulu template example. It has a single lift most days of the week in addition to another workout.

TBII is Tactical Barbell II: Conditioning. It goes in to detail about the other workouts Endurance, High Intensity Conditioning, Strength Endurance) that are talked about in some of the example templates that TBI goes into. Super helpful if you're wanting more than just regular barbell training. I feel like TBII really helps round out and fill in some of the blanks from TBI.

Honestly, I don't think I can recall anyone who has broke it down much better than Joel Jamieson. If you're willing to dish out some money, and want to break it down on a level that deep -- I'd probably look towards investing in his book Ultimate MMA Conditioning.

As a heads up, I wouldn't go into that book expecting to be given an easy template to follow. It'll require some calibration and experimentation. The rest of his site has some gold nuggets too. HIIT is good and all, but I can appreciate how Joel respects that you should have a good aerobic base before diving into HIIT to get an even greater benefit from it.

Another book worth looking into is K Black's Tactical Barbell Pt. 2 if you only care about the cardio aspect. It digests, and presents a lot of Joel's ideas that may better suit someone who's trying to self-program a routine in the beginning.

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.

Tactical Barbell 2: Conditioning

It's a cardio/energy systems book for military/LEO/operators. It's a very structured progressive approach that starts with aerobic base building /strength endurance and then transitions into more specific protocols depending on your goal (i.e more endurance based vs more speed/power based depending on your occupational role).

There's a sub r/tacticalbarbell with lots of military/Leo/firefighters etc that post. And this program in particular is what I'm talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-II-Conditioning-Black-ebook/dp/B0143HDCWS

Tactical Barbell 2, Im just getting into judo (2nd week) but running an aerobic program greatly improved my bjj and muay thai, it allows your body to more easily recover between energy spurts

Tactical Barbell 2 :

http://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Barbell-II-Conditioning-Black-ebook/dp/B0143HDCWS

and Ross Enamait's (Rosstraining) Infinite Intensity:

http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Intensity-Revolution-Here-Revised/dp/B005EK2R2K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449551897&sr=1-1&keywords=infinite+intensity