Since the creation of TACFIT® over 25 years ago, many “tactical fitness” organizations have appeared. Every single one begins the same erroneous premise: “Tactical Fitness is not about workouts, it’s about work… carry-over into real-life movements like lifts, carries, runs, rucks, swims, non-traditional equipment to lift and carry loads that are not equally balanced.”
Transferability of work to specific target skills is the basis of ALL proper exercise programming, not only tactical fitness. Carry-over, therefore, isn’t the defining characteristic of tactical fitness. Presuming that it is the “work” which distinguishes tactical fitness from other aspects of fitness correlates to why the problem is being exacerbated.
TACFIT is not about the work, but about the recovery. The work performed is only as valuable as the ability of the individually to fully and functionally adapt to it. This is the simplest and most defining distinction.
While other organizations view tactical fitness as specific exercises to build strength and conditioning capacity for tactical occupations, the TACFIT Academy focuses on optimizing the recovery of those who experience high stress. Those who experience the highest levels of stress, leading to a national average mortality rate of age 54 due to stress-related illness in the tactical community, benefit the greatest.
Current tactical fitness approaches do not contribute to the ability to manage stress, and they lack the capacity to address the performance longevity of those who experience high levels of stress, because they do not focus on recovery as their ultimate purpose. These stress management programs do not work effectively, because stress is believed to be a general malaise which can be lessened with strategies. However, the body only ever adapts to stress specifically, and the individual adapts to stress uniquely.
Therefore, TACFIT is about the specific recovery of the individual from how excess stress has caused dysfunctional adaptations – physiologically, neurologically and biochemically.
As such, users of this system beyond the tactical community now benefit from TACFIT because its systematic approach to recovery allows the student to benefit from all of the positive stress they experience, and to discharge excessive amounts of stress without adverse impact.
TACFIT as a system has been organized in this manner. The TACFIT Academy certification (New dates & announcements coming soon) are taught in a way to observe, intervene, interrupt, modify and recover how the individual is uniquely reacting to excess stress. The student is provided tools, tactics, techniques and technology to do so!
Stay tuned for updates and announcements about our 2022 TACFIT, FlowFit, Clubbell and Steel Mace Certification schedules!