Texas Method and the Military

[Ryan Dell Whitley]

Rip,

My background...I am a soldier in the US Army. I spent about 18 months on the SS routine and the Texas method. As I am sure you can guess, I made huge gains.

My only problem was that I got slow at running. I switched over the CrossFit and got better at running, but my strength essentially vanished. Very frustrating.

I am now coming off of ankle surgery and want to find a way to utilize the Texas Method and continue to stay fast. I was thinking about lifting in the morning and running/CF Metcons at night. Does this sound like a plan or do you have any other ideas?

Thanks.

[Mark Rippetoe]

KSC has written at length about this here. In general, do your TM workouts with one metcon and one short fast running workout per week.

[Ryan Dell Whitley]

Thanks...I think I'll have to add a little more running. We frequently run 5-6 miles in my unit and I don't think doing one short running workout a week is going to be enough.

[Mark Rippetoe]

It will be enough if you make it very hard. Perhaps 4 - 800s done with 5 minutes rest between.