Police Physical Test-Tactical Fitness-Stress Relief

Sitting for long periods of time, especially in all your gear, vest, cuffs etc. forces a pretty poor postural pattern to occur. On top of not being able to sit comfortably you are placing a lot of deleterious forces on the lower back.

Article • April 11th, 2011

When Right Looks Wrong

Just because that overly-developed guy is doing a particular exercise the wrong way does not mean you will ever do anything but hurt yourself trying to copy him.

Article • January 10th, 2011

Tactical Fitness: Legs Complex

As promised, let’s look at some complex lower body training designed to reduce injury potential while increasing tactical power. To build tactical power every officer must have a combination of three biomechanical components. Without all three of...

Article • June 21st, 2012

Tactical Fitness: Do this Not That for Legs

There is a running joke in the gym. Monday is chest day with triceps, Tuesday is Back and biceps, Wednesday is leg day so skip that one, Thursday is chest and Friday is back and biceps again.

Article • May 21st, 2012

Tactical Fitness: Do this not that for your chest

The age old "do lots of push-ups or bench presses" isn't the end all be all answer to properly developing your chest strength.

Article • April 10th, 2012

TRX Suspension Training

What’s really cool about this simple apparatus is that you can use it anywhere, indoors or out. Simply attach the system to a secure anchor point, e.g., a door, a hook on the wall, a tree or fence—you can hang this trainer anywhere. I’ve attached...

Article • April 2nd, 2012

Tactical Fitness: Do This Not That For Your Back

Fitness columnist Bryan Fass describes a couple exercises you can do to help maintain your back over the long term in your career.

Article • March 15th, 2012

Tactical Fitness: Do This, Not That

As I have discussed at length in this column MANY times the first exercise we suggest doing less or never is the abdominal crunch. Instead of the crunch we prefer exercises that stiffen the spine and brace the abdominal wall as these vastly improve...

Article • February 13th, 2012

Perspective Wellness

Resolutions do not work and I will not make you read a column about setting goals and making resolutions.

Article • January 9th, 2012

Roll Call Fitness

Athletes, tactical teams, physical therapy patients and normal folks all use foam rollers and functional stretches prior to exercise and to lessen the chances for injury and pain.

Article • November 14th, 2011

The Nutty (Bar) professor

What we can learn from an academic who lost more than 20 pounds on his self-crafted Twinkie diet

Article • October 27th, 2011

Tactical Fitness

In previous columns I have discussed upper cross and lower cross postural patterns and we have examined how they contribute to injurious patterns and inefficient muscular firing in the body.

Article • September 12th, 2011

Balanced Tactics

Terrain is seldom in your favor; darkness may mask the ground, shadows confuse your vision, your legs are stiff from sitting for hours.

Article • August 8th, 2011

Get On The Ball

Trainer John Wills describes various exercises of benefit to law enforcement using a stability ball.

Video • July 15th, 2011

Health & Fitness Conviction

Seldom do you look at your health and wellness with the same conviction as you look upon the things you hold so dear, but without your health and wellness you have nothing at all.

Article • July 11th, 2011

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