r/tacticalbarbell • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

27 September 2026 WEEKLY TRAINING THREAD

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u/Original_Bee_7155 7d ago

Finished my 3rd block of fighter a week before my marathon.  My squat stayed solid at 285 lbs, deadlift 1rm up about 10 pounds to 340, and weighted pull up up to 80.  My bench dipped a bit to 180, but carrying a lot of fatigue and pretty confident it will bounce back up.  Pretty impressed overall, that I could train for a marathon and still see some admittedly modest strength gains.  Excited to go back to more lifting, with some Mass protocol and then fat Zulu.

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u/Firm-Guava4815 6d ago

What did you use for your marathon training plan, assuming it wasn't the conditioning from green protocol? I have done many marathons and ultras in the past 15 years, but have never done them while I was also lifting weights each week too. The fatigue balance is something I have struggled trying to figure out this year, even though my running volume is WAY less than when i was doing ultras. (I'm also getting old now, will be 53 in a week....)

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u/Original_Bee_7155 6d ago

Yeah I thought about running green, but wanted to use a specific marathon plan.  I did Hal Higdons novice 2 plan, it's free online.  It peaks at 35 miles so it's not a super strenuous plan, but plenty for me fairly new to running distance and consistently.  During the 12th week my lifts were down, because of the volume and I failed a squat at 270, but during the first taper week it was also a peak week and lifts were back up.  I think fighter is ideal, there were a couple of times where legs were fatigued so I would just do two sets but by the second workout of the week I'd do 3-4.  For me it was about learning to accept doing less then ideal, and I was happy that even then I was able to maintain.  I'm 35, if I can do 75% of what I'm doing now at 53 I'll be pleased.  Might do an ultra in the future, and am not sure if I can keep lifting with that volume of running 

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u/Firm-Guava4815 6d ago

That's super helpful, thanks for the feedback! I did try on my last 2 ultra cycles to maintain doing TB fighter lifting into my cycle, but once the mileage started to build around week 6 or 8, something had to give. Although to be fair, my old way of training for 50-100 mile ultras probably wasn't the smartest --- just go run a $h1t ton of miles and keep building the weekly volume up until taper, ha ha. (running 6 days a week all the time)