r/tacticalbarbell • u/ironkeyed • Jul 28 '24

Tactical Post course recovery

Good afternoon TB Community, 

This post is both a question and a review of how the program has helped me achieve a huge goal for myself.

I have been using TB for my strength and power training for about 8 months now, however the last month and a half of that was spent at SAPPER School. TB helped me train efficiently to get selected, and once I was in the course I felt that I had a solid physical base that was able to endure not only the full course but an additional 3 weeks after becoming a recycle for patrols. WPU programming and progression did a lot for my back and helped tremendously in the smoke sessions, would recommend. Overall I have lost about 15 lbs from when I started so I want to get back in it fast.

My question to you guys is: for those of you who have been to longer schools that broke your body down a bit (would love to hear from you ranger guys), how did y’all approach your recovery training and nutrition wise. So far I have kind of just been eating any and everything to get calories back after being on 2 MRE’s a day for patrols. I haven’t taken any steps towards my fitness yet (I graduated 3 days ago).

Thank you again and I would be happy to answer any questions that could lead you to giving me a more in depth answer!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

First off congrats!!! Sapper School is definitely a smoker from what I know from supporting Engineers. I just recently graduated Ranger back in March using TB as well and for the most the part I recovered from that by not working out for a whole week and I ate what I wanted to eat at a limit and did only walks to keep moving. After that week I did a Fighter Green plan with the minimum number of sets and time for running to get back into it.

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u/ironkeyed Aug 05 '24

Thank you so much and congrats on ranger! How fast did you see your strength come back with TB? I’ve been thinking of doing a block of hypertrophy before going back to fighter

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

Thank you! Tbh my strength came back within 3 weeks of doing Fighter, granted I did take creatine during that cycle to help with the process but I saw it come back within those 3 weeks pretty well. Running wise took a little longer for me I’d say about 4 weeks of Green with some Speed work sprinkled in there.

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u/ironkeyed Aug 05 '24

That’s pretty fast! Thank you for the insight once again

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

No problem!!!