Ever wonder why you don’t make progress in your fight for health and fitness?
Why does it feel like you’re slugging it out in the trenches of WW1 — taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back?
If you’re being driven into retreat in your war on fat or your struggle for muscle, chances are you’ve been infiltrated by at least one of the “5 SABOTEURS.” These double agents slip in unnoticed, and unfortunately most mainstream fitness programs are infested with them.
1. Lack of Consistency
The number 1 reason you aren’t getting the physique you want is lack of consistency. Missing workouts will scuttle any training program, no matter how good the design.
Why do you miss workouts?
Sometimes it’s boredom. The drudgery of vanilla-flavored training doesn’t excite you. And if you’re not excited to exercise, you’re probably not going to. Sometimes it’s inconvenience. You don’t have the time or inclination to chain yourself to a gym, especially now that summer’s here with vacations, BBQ’s, family time and an itch to be in the great outdoors. So you skip a workout. But when you skip one, others follow…
2. Lack Of Incremental Progression
If you’ve ever trained at a gym, you immediately recognize the treadmill rat pack. They spend hours each week spinning their wheels, but they never look any better. Why is that? They do the same thing week in and week out — but their bodies have ALREADY adapted to it! If you really want to transform your body you’ve gotta constantly hit it with a new level of stimulus. Finding new stimuli can be tricky when it comes to bodyweight exercise. We’ve invested years of research in developing unique methods for our spec ops clients. Their jobs require equipment-free training options, and our methods keep raising the stakes so they get constant progress.
3. No Neural Sophistication
Most programs are “Stuck In Simplistic Stupidity” (SISS). If you want remarkable fat loss, impressive muscle gain and optimal health, you’d better de-SISS-ify your training. If you’re not teaching your nervous system new tricks, you’re losing the body composition battle on two fronts. First, you’re limiting your output. If your nervous system isn’t firing on all cylinders, you won’t be able to lift, push, explode and pull as much or as fast as you should. That means less muscle gain and reduced fat loss.
Second, learning a new skill is much more CALORICALLY EXPENSIVE than repeating a skill you’re good at. If you don’t add new skills, you severely limit your fat burning potential. But there’s a fine line to walk. If you just throw random new skills at your body without developing long term motor sophistication, you’ll only get random results — and you’ll limit the performance capacity we talked about earlier. We’ve had to come up with balanced methods that provide equal measures of neural “confusion” and skill progression for our spec ops clients, so they get better at assimilating new skills even as their rate of adaptation speeds up.
4. Absence Of Compensatory Exercise
You probably have some notion of the importance of rest. You already know that you don’t lose fat or gain muscle WHILE you’re working out, right? You make those gains when you rest after exercise. But rest isn’t enough. You’ve gotta RECOVER, and that’s an active process. If your program doesn’t provide specific recovery routines — exercises designed to compensate for the movements you’re doing in your training — then you’ll fail to make the body composition changes you want. Exercise causes tension. That’s fine, it’s part of the body transformation process. But if you don’t release that tension after training, it also causes long term changes in tissue length. Some tissues get short and leathery. Others get long and loose. Eventually, this causes physiological imbalances that prevent you from applying optimal intensity to your workouts. The nervous system senses the imbalance and “shuts things down” to avoid injury.
Also, allowing your body to get tight and restricted will actually sabotage your ability to burn fat. Metabolizing fat for energy requires good blood circulation. By ignoring exercises devoted to recovery, you stifle circulation and effectively squeeze shut the supply of blood to certain tissues.Those are just a couple of the reasons why we’ve woven joint mobility and facial stretching into every aspect of our TACFIT programming. Active recovery means accelerated recovery — so our spec ops guys train harder and more often than the enemy, and they get better faster.
5. Insufficient Intensity
If you rate the intensity level of your workouts on a scale of 1 to 10 — 10 being the toughest workout humanly possible — it’s safe to say that most people never experience a true 10. And that’s why remarkable and lasting body transformation is so rare.
When working with pros, Scott quickly discovered that most elite athletes and special operators don’t even know what true high intensity is! And their repeated efforts to achieve high intensity only resulted in moderate to low intensity, leading eventually to injury.
“The Russians worked their way methodically up to high intensity, whereas in the States we believed that you just, by strength of will alone, throw yourself into your one rep max or your highest intensity conditioning circuit.”
In studying his training journals and conducting research with Olympic and national coaches in the former Soviet Union, Scott discovered a definitive science behind peaking to high intensity. The method he developed became one of the cornerstones of the TACFIT system that he is now bringing to the public.
The PROBLEM Of The 5 Saboteurs
The mainstream fitness industry has failed you. You’re stuck in a loop of advance and retreat, and you consistently fall just short of your objective. You will ONLY make progress if your training is consistent, and you’ll only stay consistent if your program provides constant sophistication and excitement. Maybe you get busy. Maybe you just want to enjoy the summer. Or maybe your program is just plain boring. It can be tough to stick to a plan for many different reasons. But if you want that ripped body, you’ve gotta put in the effort and intensity required to build it.
If your program doesn’t give you the excitement and constant progression your body craves, you won’t make the gains you want. That might mean carrying around a bit of a “spare tire,” or having a bigger belly than you’d like… it pisses you off, but maybe you can live with it. For the spec ops guys Scott works with, that “spare tire” could spell the difference between life or death. How do they keep it off? Most of the time these guys don’t even have access to a gym. They must be able to train anywhere and anytime, without ever missing a workout or slipping off the wagon. The good news is, what works for them will work for you. You’ve already tried the TACFIT “Challenge” workout, and you know how powerful these bodyweight programs can be.
But that’s just the beginning. We’ll show you lots more cool exercises as we explain the TACFIT bodyweight system, and we’ll help you integrate it into your own training so that YOU finally get the body you’ve been working so hard to achieve. Imagine yourself an elite TACFIT Commando… Dropped alone into hostile territory to face each new challenge entirely without equipment — but you’re never gym-less because you’re armed with the power of your own body and gravity…
Wait a minute! You don’t have to imagine it. This really could be you.
Tactical Fitness 
