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Originally Posted by 33army
I'm glad I searched before posting about this article. My question is, does anyone here have experience with the THOR3 program, and if so, is there a workout program that they follow daily that we might be able to acquire?
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Our Detachment utilizes the THOR3 program exclusively. There is no set workout I could give you, and the strength and conditioning staff are the key to making the program work. You tell them your fitness goals or mission METL tasks, and they build a program based on that tailored to your individual or team's needs. It's surprisingly good; all of their training methodology comes from the professional athletic world.
After going through six months of the program and seeing its results transfer to Combat/training, I'll never go back. The experience has convinced me that the Army's approach to PT is fundamentally flawed. The 4 mile run that the CSM tossed out there is going the wrong direction for combat fitness. I probably can't run 4 miles all that well anymore, but the other day I IMT'd in full kit while shooting for 800 meters up and back for five cycles, and never got winded. Tired, yes, but never got smoked or had to slow down, or had my shooting effected.
The Army needs to decide what it wants it's soldiers to be able to do in combat, and reverse engineer its PT plan and test from those requirements. That's not what the majority of the Army is doing now, and that's not what the CSM is proposing either. My .02.