Training the Tactical Professional incorporating the Humanistic Approach- Introduction

Photo taken by the Men of 1st Recon Bn. Charlie Co 3rd Platoon; June 2010 in Trek Nawa, Afghanistan.

The tactical strength and conditioning dimension is increasing with no evidence of slowing down any time soon. The tactical professional chose a profession knowing the risk that comes over the career. Over the years, coaches and practitioners have found many different ways to build a tactical professional from the ground up. 

The lens slowly changes today from how strong, and big one can get or how far and fast the individual can run to a more humanistic perspective. Every tactical professional is unique with similar ambitions. Each human biological system drifts by 1 degree of separation based on gender, age, environmental factors, internal and external. The drift of degrees turns out to be the personality driving us to build our human needs from the ground up differently amongst the world we live in. 

       Early in training the tactical professional, many methods and principles grew in one direction to improve physical performance lacking variability in basic human foundations. These foundations include sleep, nutrition, heart health, nervous system management, and managing occupational stress. Furthermore, the transition between one dimension (the tactical profession) to another dimension (the human). 

Looking at the tactical professional as a human first increases their ingenuity to healthy human values, creativity, and pursuit of innate human behavior. A striking trait all tactical professionals repeatedly show how creative and adaptable they can be when left to their own devices. Avoiding the human during this profession leaves many drowning from a lack of human capacity to handle the profession's hardship. Ultimately, this leaves the tactical professional depleted and unwilling to endure their hardships outside the tactical space, causing the human breakdown.