Endurance for Tactical Athletes

[@GruntProof]

Modern Minuteman Combat Fitness Test: www.gruntproof.us/p/combat-fitness-test.html

[@LinusTorvalds-c4l]

I stopped paying for a trainer because of grunt proof’s videos. I now just watch his combat conditioning videos & do a burpee every time he says “Tenny-shoes”. I’m in the best shape of my life

[@asmith7876]

I'm way older than you, was US Army combat arms (POG) in the mid-80's. We had a West Point LT who asked anyone that wanted to join him in doing some real fitness training. The 1st Sgt let us go and we did all kinds of stuff, running included but also other exercises. I was the fittest of my entire life, knocked 2 minutes off my 2-mile run. We would put in a killer workout before the rest of the battery got back from their run. Fast forward to a new 1st Sgt. He had been a recruiter and other admin type positions, never had been in charge of a line unit. He decided in the interest of espirit de corp (a phrase I FUCKING hate to this day) we would all run TOGETHER. So back to plodding along for 5 miles or whatever going as fast as the fattest slowest fat fuck in the unit could run. One of the reasons my Army career ended with a single 4 year enlistment. Now at 62 I have a disabled wife and a destroyed shoulder. I'm not a couch potato but I do lament the fitness I'll never have again. Better to STAY in shape than GET in shape, and the older you get the worse it gets! Love your videos!

[@Variable19]

Since I switched from cardio to strength training I have noticed a huge shift in what I am able to do over distance and time....used to hate strength training now I love it

[@alainfreedom3159]

sprinting is an evasion skill

[@hessdefense]

@@alainfreedom3159 Or a catch up to em skill, depending on your MOS. 😉

[@hahahahahahahahahahahahaha7725]

I’m in top 90% of 65 yr olds. Can only run in soft sand, can hike with 50 LB max load, 8 miles max. Not stopping now.

[@scottrhea5396]

Backpacking / hiking

[@hellotheremyolfriend]

Best for endurance.

[@techmarc6996]

Back pain is from weak Abdominal Muscle. Swats with a full Pack will strengthen the abs & in turn strengthen the back.

[@PLT123]

Paintball is a good way to train "high intensity under fire, sprinting" scenarios. Annnndd its super fun!

[@extratomorrows]

You are 100% right about the value of specific training. You were asking how running could possibly help you once you’re loaded down with gear in the field. One is mitochondrial density. Two is doing things that are more intense makes things at less intensity seem easier. It can increase plasma volume. Also, doing speed work allows you to work on your power(strength X speed.) Look up Flight Phase coaching. KPat coaches folks up on how to be good smokejumpers. Strength training and running and rucking aren’t mutually exclusive.

[@hahahahahahahahahahahahaha7725]

Appreciate your degree and knowledge in kinesiology, coupled with your combat experience and age. I went to massage school to understand anatomy and body mechanics. This has helped me immensely. Thanks for your video and advice.

[@MoonMoon-gu2ge]

I was blessed at the 173rd, we did a variety of pt on a rotation - basic workouts, ruck day, body armor runs, combative etc... Then we (the fist) hit the gym at 1530 til 1700 and released directly from the gym.

[@saureco]

Any sustained activity that elevates your heart rate will build endurance. However, if you're looking to built endurance in an activity, it's best to simply do that activity like a workout: with load and some sort of goal with a time expectation (sets completed, distance covered, floors climbed, logs split, lawn mowed, toddlers thrown into pool, etc)

[@Tovashi]

Just run, ruck, sprint, and lift.

[@bski1611]

I think there is a place for all of it. I like to ruck, run, lift, split wood, move wheelbarrow loads of dirt and gravel, swing sledgehammers and picks, and dig holes by hand since I can't afford machines to make my life easier. I lost 20 lbs this summer and didn't change a thing except the amout of activity I was doing.

[@skeetwebster9389]

There's nothing wrong with running. If you like running, run! Truth is, however, you need to train for what you're preparing for. Watch a football team at practice........ they run a bit, hit the weights a bit, but what they do a lot of is play football! So get your kit on and get your ass out there. It's easy to just grab a pistol and some 9mm and go to the flat range, but we all need to be out in full kit working on our draw, our movement, our team drills(find a team),etc....... so ride a bike, do jumping Jax, run, get out some richard Simmons VHS tapes or whatever you feel like, but at some point in your regimen, you need to put your gear on and train with it, learn how to use it and be proficient with it!

[@Dscottff127]

Thanks man. 52 and getting back after it. Getting those new guy gains in the garage, getting miles on my legs, and doing BJJ. Will never be HSLD, but at least I won’t be useless!

[@greysquirrel268]

Ole no.07 “sick call” god bless the infantry

[@braunwm]

220-age is not a good way to estimate max HR. For that you need to wear a heart rate monitor and do sprints, or other high power output movements (e.g. fighting, heavy kettlebell swings, etc.).

[@GruntProof]

It's a good method for people to estimate max training heart rate so they have something to get started.

[@knuckledraggingbreeder7721]

Burpees! If you do these do them with shoes, I did them once without and gave myself turf toe and couldn't walk right for 8 months...

[@bringer-of-change]

I definitely think it's better to use the gear and do actual mock missions. Not only is it alot more fun but it also is directly conducive to what I think at least most people here want to be able to do.

[@IronSharpensIron127]

Me and you have a lot of the same thought process. I do full body weight training 3x a week, i climb a mountain with my ruck on (training for hunt) i do short fast ruck Thursday and a long ruck on Saturday. I do need to start doing patrols in gear though.... Maybe i could make that Thursdays.

[@LFAnon]

Listened to this on my morning ruck!

[@AdmiralBiach]

Though I do enjoy your content! Keep it up helps me and my family a lot

[@RandySpence-yf5hw]

I wear my vest and walk hard with short jogs or me and wife every sat/ sun wear packs and do a fast pace for 5 miles hilly ground. Jogging up all hills.

[@wotan3362]

13:30 on the BIAP flight line...my best run time ever... And plenty of times with all my gear on id step in the Iraqi mud that looked like dirt and sink up to my knee and create a suction on my boot...

[@MultiJpad]

True story, went for a weekend ruck some young kid 18-19 said he cant because his back hurts haha i was over 40 at this point.

[@teddyroosevelt4060]

I don't do runs. I do do short sprints though, along with rucking and strength training. I do burpies as well.

[@JosephAllen-d2e]

Sounds like you just don't like jogging. Lol. Running is beneficial but incomplete. It has to be combined with other forms of exercise unless all you are training to do is run.

[@katarishigusimokirochepona6611]

Correct. He doesn't like it. Because, while better than nothing, it doesn't sufficiently and appropriately build combat strength and skill.

[@JosephAllen-d2e]

@katarishigusimokirochepona6611 No single exercise does. Weight lifting sure as hell doesnt.

[@JoshuaBunkowske]

@@JosephAllen-d2eWeightlifting probably does better than jogging (obviously I’m not talking about extremes). Just because of all the heavy stuff you have to carry. I do agree jogging can be useful. I personally ruck and jog but I do shorter distance runs and interval workouts in order to have shorter distance speed.

[@alexhutton155]

@@JosephAllen-d2ethis sounds like a scrawny kid cope dude 😂 if weight lifting didn’t help combat UFC fighters wouldnt be training specific olympic lifts like deadlift or powerclean. Secondly. Why did the US army adopt exercises like that? Cope harder bro. I guarantee I’m better off doing weighted pullups/dips with weighted rucks is going to be much more beneficial than jogging. Am cutting jogging out? No. But every only-runner I see isn’t just build like gumby but weak AF. Worked with this twig that was into mountain biking and running. Always talked shit about endurance. He assumed me being built like a linebacker meant no endurance. As soon as it came time to continuously moving heavy weight for extended periods he flopped. Loved talking shit back to him watching him struggle “come on dude what happened to that endurance” 🤣

[@JosephAllen-d2e]

@JoshuaBunkowske Weightlifting structured in super sets with rest periods that are brief enough to keep the heart rate in the aerobic range would be a good option if you had to pick just one type of exercise. But that's not a real concern. We can always pick more than one type of exercise. The workout he links in the pinned comment looks pretty tight. An athletic conditioning and strength training program, such as Mark Verstagen's Core Performance, would be great as well.

[@MultiJpad]

Thats what i couldn't understand, during drill in the Army reserves i can only remember going to the gym once, the other times we were sitting on our hands.

[@Gmny1MOA]

I was in extremely great shape before getting the coof in 2022 and my body just sht the bed but running a minimum of 6 miles a day every day amd also cycling 30 to 50 miles every other day i had a rhr of 38bpm...the only thing was is i felt great but i was always stressed out feeling...when a tornado happened up the road i had the cardio but after all the stressful things I did and saw it seems like it caught up to me when i had the coofid...started having anxiety attacks and heart issues

[@haavardbraathen9687]

so so so SOOO true. Retierd LRRP

[@kdgfx1]

Great content. Love the channel. Cause I gotta get my ars back in 320 PT score shape. It's gonna suck but whatever

[@LostYome1989]

Got into better shape than the Army doing extensive calisthenics and including at least 1 weekly ruck. Back pain went away at an older age. Wish they had us ruck more than once in a while (11B) and dropped the running shit lol

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

SWIM, guys much less stress on your body.

[@TheRiskyDingo]

I'm in the air force. Yea que the jokes. I refuse to do running to run. I run the couple months going up to my PT test. The rest of it is a few suicide sprints to get my blood going then I put on my pack and ruck the perimeter of the base. I hike in the mountains with my dog. I lift weights. My run times skyrocketed the last few years after I started doing this verses running all the time and it's better on my joints.

[@johndevitt2164]

look at the British army 2mile best effort, there is a reason for that test

[@mannix551]

Youi should show the blackhawk down clip the guys running with there packs on in Mogadishu

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

🔥🔥🔥

[@tigerboy4516]

inciteful

[@j.v.7451]

I run with a ruck on

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

your knees will be sorry before you're 50, maybe 40.

[@j.v.7451]

@@SonnyCrocket-p6h 😆 I AM 50!

[@hessdefense]

Right on! There's a lot more to longevity, physical maintenance and sustainable intensity levels than mere avoidance of necessary skills and abilities training. 😉 Rock on Brother! @@j.v.7451

[@optimumperformance]

Do we need to run? Do we need to run for endurance? No

[@twestgard2]

What’s missing here is effort to define the goal. The definition of endurance is completely misapplied here. There’s a tiny number of people for whom “doing grunt stuff” actually is the goal, and for them I suppose this is fine advice. But if you look at most Americans, including (I suspect) most people watching this video, the actual problem we deal with is building a lifestyle that includes staying in shape for the long term. The “grunt stuff” recommended in this video, doing eight hour patrols with a heavy pack (9:41), isn’t possible for almost anyone long term, and more importantly, isn’t particularly useful for almost anyone long term. Think what threats we realistically face. First and above all, most of us are threatened by the dangers of falling completely out of shape, and the solution to that is an exercise program that we can maintain our entire lives. That means it has to fit into having a job and having a family. And the other realistic threat is a short term emergency: disabled vehicle in a remote location, or extreme weather like the recent hurricanes. Trying to maintain eight hour patrols with a sixty pound pack is a recipe for failure. It’s not sustainable as a lifestyle so it’s not actually endurance. It’s literally a boy’s fantasy instead of the man’s job of figuring out what the situation needs and finding an answer for that.

[@twestgard2]

24:31 “You should move.” I actually laughed out loud. These are the rantings of a frustrated child.

[@Seabang84]

And also do drugs

[@victorygarden556]

Methamphetamine and tren in a protein shake

[@Seabang84]

@@victorygarden556 making me hard and shrivel at the same time just thinking of it touching my lips

[@crusader777]

Eat beef and workout your trigger finger boys