My latest article in Police Magazine (June 2013 Vol 37 #6)
By adopting more functional training, tactical law enforcement units can improve their effectiveness and extend the longevity of their operators.
In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in how the tactical community approaches its fitness training. The majority of this change has come from the individual operators looking to improve their general physical preparedness for the job via an emphasis on more functional training.
Functional fitness is all the rage these days in the civilian gyms, and it has recently found some acceptance by various branches of the military as well as law enforcement. Everyone and his mother has jumped on the functional fitness or “functional training” bandwagon, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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