Tactical Gymnastics
What you find here, I carefully vetted over many years of trial and error, research and discovery, concocting the most gradual high-yield, low-risk protocols for becoming powerfully graceful.
It is not possible to perform them with no intensity, like your mobility days; and not advisable to perform them at high intensity due to their complex nature, even if you scale down the complexity to simple movements.
We cannot make the progress shorter, but we can avoid making it longer, with significantly more severe consequences.
Most of the martial arts approaches I studied were “sink or swim.” For instance, since my years in Russia often involved their special operations unit trainers and personnel, the training was very much a culling of the herd, where whoever could survive the many hours of grueling repetition across unfavorable terrain and within extreme conditions passed the examinations.
They have specific purpose. If you consider the 4 Day Wave in TACFIT, you can insert your tactical gymnastics into the low or moderate intensity sessions.
I took my background and experience in motor development to address the 85% who couldnʼt saunter into one of these month long marathons of complexity and survive.
You should leave your tactical gymnastics practice smiling, sweaty and sore: a good, deep sweat which allows you to loosen the muscles, lubricate the joints, work out the knots, focus your mind, and decompress your emotions.
I cannot help you shorten the journey. No one can. But I can help you not lengthen the journey. I can help you lessen the severity of the consequences through program compliance. I call to the mature warrior within you, to awaken that ethos - millennia old - and bring that elder voice to your training practice.
Unlike the other high intensity workouts in the TACFIT fleet, TACGYM involves a lowmoderate intensity performance and as a result, doesnʼt necessarily demand the specifically-tailored warm-up and cooldown programming associated with programs such as Commando, Warrior, Kettlebell Spetsnaz, Rope and Mass Assault.
However, performing full warm-up programs like the Caduceus Healing Staff and Body Rolling and full cooldown programs like Archimedes accelerate your results in TACGYM.