I had a great workout this morning.  I am currently doing an all body weight routine (taking a break from kettlebells) which needs little room and can be done anywhere (I kept doing it while traveling from Iraq in Kuwait and Ft. Lewis.)  It is called “Tacfit Commando” and incorporates joint mobility warm ups with a Yoga cool down and progressively more challenging bodyweight exercises in the middle following the Tabata 20 sec. work/10 sec. rest protocol, which is extremely effective for anaerobic conditioning and fat burning.

Don’t let the title or website throw you off.  Though developed for Spec-ops soldiers, this program is accessible by anyone (I used it with my soldiers who were overweight and out of shape).  Also, from the perspective of a personal trainer, it does an excellent job of incorporating a great warm up and cool down along with using movements that take the body through all 3 planes of motion (for geeks like me, that would be “sagittal,” “frontal” and “transverse”.)  It also has good programming with no intensity, low intensity, medium intensity and high intensity days so you always stay fresh and don’t over train.  I think it is way better than something like P90X which has up to 90 minute workouts! (No thanks, I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of time).

Daughter demonstrating plank at age 4

The full workout is only 45 mins including warm up and cool down, and my 5yo daughter showed up about half way through and was doing it along with me.  She was able to do the exercises with ok form having not seen them before and without any coaching from me.  Pretty cool.

Anyway, I’m going to be giving a complete review of this program in the future at www.fitkettlebell.com so stay tuned!

-Brian