Functional Fitness For Law Enforcement Old School! A regional RRT group in the New England area invited me to do a seminar, and I brought John Sullivan – a trainer for Optimal SWAT – along with me to help out. The seminar was followed by a group competition using low-tech functional exercise challenges. They were broken up into teams of 10, and were timed on a long course of rope climbing, obstacle course, chain drag, keg run, farmers walk, ...
Updated 03-18-2010 at 10:02 AM by Will Brink
Seminars for SWAT for optimizing health and performance Did a seminar for the Waterbury CT RRT/SWAT team at their Training Division Headquarters 4/15/09. I try to cover a broad range of topics applicable to tactical athletes, such as supplements, nutrition, and training, but considering how extensive each of these topics are, and all could be a long seminar on their own, it’s a balancing act at best. ...
Updated 03-12-2010 at 10:47 AM by Will Brink
Reducing Musculoskeletal injuries in SF soldiers with applications to Tactical LE and other high tempo groups Note: This is a side bar excerpt from the P.A.S.T Program. A fairly recent article in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine (JSOM)* examined the Musculoskeletal injuries from 5th group. The authors decided to quantify the rates and types of these injuries in SF using the records from 5th group, “who ...
Updated 03-28-2010 at 09:35 AM by Will Brink
Part 3 of the CT SWAT Challenge 2008. Can't resist the toys!
Part 1 covered the killer PT course for this event, here are the shooting stages: