Sanity check for first continuation phase
Hello everyone,
After reading TBI and TBII, I completed a round of base building and then read the books again. Now I am moving into my first continuation phase and I just want to get some advice/sanity check on my plan.
Immediate Goals:
- Improve baseline max strength (this is my first real program aiming to do this)
- Improve 1.5 mile time (from 11:09 to 10:00)
- Develop pullup endurance (from 4 to 10+) and improve max pushups in 2 minutes (from 62 to 80)
With those goals in mind, I selected Operator/Black Professional with the following planned setup:
Strength Cluster: Back Squat, Bench Press, Bodyweight Pullup (using percent of max reps), Pushups (using percent of max reps)
Conditioning: One day of 600m resets (alt: Indoor power intervals), one day of Fast 5, one day of 60 min LSS (maybe a fun run once a month)
I'm basically aiming for a "meat and potatoes" starting point to build some strength and make meaningful gains on my operational fitness test requirements. Then in the future I can do other blocks that incorporate some other stuff.
My main concern is my selection of HICs and implementation of Black Pro; am I choosing the right things to improve my 1.5 mile time, and am I making the correct decision by using a very limited number of conditioning protocols instead of cycling through more? There are so many options here, including such a variety of interval work options.