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Will Brink
November 14, 2011 by Will Brink

Functional Range Day II!


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My buddy Jim V and I – who is a Sgt on a regional SWAT team in my area, and was on the ABC show Expedition Impossible – did what I refer to as a “functional range day” where I combine functional exercises with some basic range work. It’s similar to my P.A.S.T Program conceptually.

You can slowly ramp up the difficulty by increasing the physical difficulty, and or increasing the shooting difficulty, or both.

Might start with 10 push ups, five tire flips, engage target at 7 yards.
Progressions might be 1 min of pushups, 10 tire flips, 10 rear sled drags, and add stress/difficulty to the shooting; on the move, from cover, or other.

My focus is on the exercise component and don’t make claims to being a BTDT firearms instructor, but a performance trainer who works with tac LE on ways of improving stress training and I enjoy ad hoc “functional” style range days such as found in this vid.
Programming should still attempt to balance volume of antagonist muscles , such as pushups followed by sled rows, etc. which can reduce potential for injuries and improve training effects long term.
However, you have to work with what you have, which in this case was a truck tire, length of phone pole, sled, and a few 25lb plates.

Yes, a pumpkin was injured during the filming of this vid. My apologies in advance to all pumpkin lovers out there :-o

And what is this Fein stuff mentioned in the vid? I cover that in my article “What You Need To Know About Caffeine!” if interested.

 
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Will Brink
April 22, 2011 by Will Brink

Creatine and Traumatic Brain Injury


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The Institutes Of Medicine – commissioned by The DOD – just put out a paper of interest I found very interesting looking at the impact of  Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury. The paper was called:

“The Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury Improving Acute and Subacute Health Outcomes in Military Personnel”

The report outlines key nutritional interventions that may be of value to TBI. Below is the summery with link to download summery report as PDF file. What I found particularly interesting was the identification of creatine (among others) as a possible nutrient of benefit. I have written about creatine as a possible  Neurological Protection to brain injury and other insults:

A growing number of studies have found that creatine can protect the brain from neurotoxic agents, certain forms of injury and other insults.

Several in vitro studies found that neurons exposed to either glutamate or beta-amyloid (both highly toxic to neurons and involved in various neurological diseases) were protected when exposed to creatine.3 The researchers hypothesized that,

“… cells supplemented with the precursor creatine make more phosphocreatine (PCr) and create larger energy reserves with consequent neuroprotection against stressors.”

 
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Will Brink
September 7, 2010 by Will Brink

Functional Fitness For Shooters.


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The Functional Range Day!


For training that improves both the ability to shoot under physical stress and General Physical Preparedness (GPP)/conditioning, I will have what I call a functional range day. The functional range day, combines functional whole body exercises – using easy to find and transport implements – combined with shooting. I tend to use a level of resistance that’s more toward conditioning* but if I were to stack 3-4 45lb plates, or rocks, or chains, etc onto the sled, use the 120+lb sand bag I have, etc, the intensity levels go up real fast.

 
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Will Brink
September 1, 2010 by Will Brink

2010 CT SWAT Challenge


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As some of you may know, I do some training for tactical law enforcement (e.g., SWAT/RRT, etc) and have past vids from the CT SWAT Challenge up here on the BrinkZone and at my site dedicated to the health/fitness/performance needs of the tactical community. I did not work with any teams this year as I have in the past, but did have my own booth at the CT SWAT Challenge. You can also see the vids I made from the PT stage below (which was approx 6 miles long and 30+ stages of suck…) and the shooting stages.

Yours Truly at the booth:

 
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Will Brink
July 12, 2010 by Will Brink

Online Fitness/Performance Seminar For Tactical Athletes


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Online Fitness, Performance, Health Seminar for The Tactical Community

Will Brink has created this six part series of videos to cover the essential issues that apply to all first responders, with an emphasis on tactical LE/ tactical community. 

The seminar covers topics such as:

  • - The importance of proper nutrition and training for the health and longevity of the tactical athlete, specifically as it applies to LE
  • - Use patterns of supplements by SOF, with recommendations made on the issue for LE
  • - The essential issues surrounding correct programming for training of tactical athletes
  • - Recommendation of balanced programs for strength, endurance, and conditioning
  • - The impact of training on health & performance
  • - Various research examples
  • - Recommended readings
  • - Using Heart Rate Monitors to optimize intensity

And it’s only $10! For more info or to order, go HERE


 
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adamsteer
June 3, 2010 by Adam Steer

TACFIT COMMANDO: Are You Ready ?


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TACFIT Commando

TACFIT Commando

TACFIT Commando, the fat loss, conditioning and functional fitness program you  can do at home without equipment can be found here at www.commando-fatloss.com


TACFIT Commando : Are You Ready For Anything ?
by Guest Author Adam Steer.

Are you ready for all the surprises life throws your way?

Remember the old saying, “It’s not a question of IF something will go wrong, but when”?

True readiness for your life, sport or occupation requires more than just specific training — it requires venturing outside the range and scope of your normal activities to create a “safety valve” for when things go awry.

What the heck does that mean?

 
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Will Brink
April 14, 2010 by Will Brink

Article For Tactical Athletes on EFS


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For those of you who train seriously, you need no introduction to EFS, or people like Dave Tate, Wendler, etc and others who can be found on EFS. For those who don’t know EFS and those who publish there, EFS (via Dave T and crew) are considered the best of the best on many fronts, especially in the world of strength athletes, strong man, etc. When it comes to strength, functional training, and others, EFS is second to none and you will find the web page and various authors there recommended here by me and others.

 
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Will Brink
April 3, 2010 by Will Brink

Practical Applied Stress Training (P.A.S.T) for Tactical LE


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Taking Training to Another Level Using The  Practical Applied Stress Training (P.A.S.T) Program

Gang. As some of you know, I do seminars, training, etc with Tactical Law enforcement (e.g., SWAT and other similar groups) and so forth and run the site OptimalSWAT.

Per my prior threads regarding courses at S&W Academy on applied stress training, I have developed a program manual on the topic for tactical LE, mil, PMC, etc. who would benefit from this unique training. It’s called “Practical Applied Stress Training” or  P.A.S.T.

 
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Nathan Cragg
March 16, 2010 by Nathan Cragg

Westside for Deployed Skinny Bastards


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If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe.

Don’t even tell me you wouldn’t wanna work with these guys!

The above trailer is from Joe’s documentary movie Strong available at www.strongmovie.com There will be a review of it as soon as I get my copy. I’m expecting very good things from it.

Westside for Deployed Skinny bastards

Warning: This program will make your clothes fit tighter, draw attention from really hot girls and become freaky strong. You’ve been warned!

 

 
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Will Brink
March 10, 2010 by Will Brink

F.A.S.T testing and a few drills at the range


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As some of you may know, I am an avid shooter and work with tactical law enforcement (e.g., SWAT/RRT, etc) and other groups regarding performance, health, fitness, and so on. If you want to try excellent  test of your basic skills with a handgun, try the F.A.S.T. (Fundamentals, Accuracy, & Speed Test) drill designed by ToddG at Pistol-Training.com. Below is my video of my FAST scores and a few range drills also.

 
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