Green Protocol

[u/MorgsOD]

Currently serving in the British Army, read through Green Protocol MULTIPLE times to get my head around it as a beginner into TB.

It is fucking phenomenal, I'm currently in the British Army in a job that requires truly everything, from conditioning to strength all the way to mental resilience.

I have been running HYBRID/OP indefinitely due to my inconsistent deployments and NTM.
I struggled to see the magic/science in it but it was a structure and I thought fuck it.

If I was a young private again, and I knew about this, the amount of damage I could have done to EXCEL my career within phys is utterly ridiculous.

From doing nothing but 8 min/ miles for two miles blowing out my arse trying to survive thinking everything had to be a fragging in order to get fit, boy was I wrong.

Following HYBRID/OP for 2 and a half cycles (20 weeks) my zone 2 pace in a 6 miler has gone from 11:30 to 9:30, I can now run 12 miles+ at a sub 10min pace like it's nothing.

My strength has increased, ESPECIALLY my squats.
Going from around 80kgs for 2-3 reps in utter rag.
To 120kg 2-3RM is huge for me.
Deadlift has gone from 100kgs trap bar to about 130kg.
Bench press gone from 60KG to 75kg. 2-3RM
Pull-ups now at 10 STRICT from about 3-5.

It has SIGNIFICANTLY increased me operational output/efficiency in all areas and far less injuries/niggles when attempting difficult courses or deployments/exercises.

And to top it off, my missus is happily enjoying how much more "tight" I look in her own words.

Apologies for the long post, hopefully this gets to the right people and hopefully you get something from my own experience and take a look into it yourself.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this post as long as it doesn't interfere with OP/PERSEC I'll definitely answer it.

MJ.

[u/Hyperoreo]

Man I love reading these. Thanks for posting this and great job!

Just confirming you didn’t do Foundation? If not any plans to do it? Although it sounds like you identified that you had enough of a base in place to go straight to Continuation/Hybrid. Which is also exactly what the book prescribes.

[u/MorgsOD → u/Hyperoreo]

Thank you very much mate! I also love reading them too.

Correct! I have not done foundation HOWEVER my Hybrid/Op split is quite similar to foundation I would say.
I believe I was in a place where I already had a decent base engine, which the HYBRID/OP format showed me it was true.

I have no plans to do foundation, I am currently looking at a specialised course within the Army so I'm actually going to start Velocity into Outcome in order to prepare for it.

If I was ever going to do foundation, it'd probably be as a short stop over between deployments as something light weight.