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Noctis Strength and Conditioning

Tactical / Military
Coach
Rob

Selection isn’t a fitness test. It’s a durability test!

Long days under a bergan. Moving at pace across rough ground. Minimal recovery. The ability to keep producing when your legs are cooked and your back is screaming. What breaks most isn’t one hard event, it’s the accumulation of stress.

ENDURE is about building the body that can survive that accumulation.

This program develops the strength, work capacity, and structural resilience required before you ever step onto the hills. The focus is simple: build a chassis that can handle weight, build an engine that doesn’t quit, and harden the connective tissue that keeps you moving when fatigue sets in.

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Strength
The strength work is deliberately simple and brutally effective. Expect movements like trap bar deadlifts, front squats, split squats, presses, rows, sled pushes and loaded carries. These develop the legs, posterior chain and upper back — the muscle groups that keep you upright when you’re hours into a movement with weight on your back.
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Building the Engine
Build a durable engine with low-impact aerobic conditioning that improves recovery and sustained pace without excessive joint stress. Structured load carriage develops grip, posture, and movement efficiency under weight, while optional swimming adds aerobic capacity and water confidence while reducing impact and aiding recovery.
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Principle Based
This program is built around specificity, progressive overload, and intelligent recovery to develop robustness. Training targets the exact physical demands of selection, strength under load, trunk endurance, and sustained aerobic output. Workloads progress gradually to build resilience. while structured recovery sessions ensure you can absorb training, adapt, and improve week after week.
Features
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Programming 7 days per week
Daily strength, conditioning, and recovery strategies based on the demands of Selection.
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Exercise Video Guidance
Instructional videos to guide your practice and make execution easy
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Delivered through TrainHeroic
What started on the spreadsheets has now come to the apps. Evidence based programming in the palm of your hand
Equipment
Required
Gym access // Bergen
Recommended
Sled // Somewhere Hilly
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Sample Week
I will write fresh programming weekly. You’ll get notifications when they’re ready
Sunday
Full Body Strength

Prep

A

RAMP warm up - Strength

Raise: 3- 5 min Full Body - Any CV Machine. Lower - Air Bike / Rower/ Bike-erg / Treadmill Upper- Air Bike / Ski-erg / Run Activate/Mobilise: 8 Reps Worlds Greatest Stretch 8 Reps 90 90s into hip push through 8 RepsFloor Angels 20 Seconds Cat Camels. Prepare: Using an ash pole or empty bar/ light weight mimic the movement patterns in the session you're about to do for 2 - 3 rounds 6 reps each move

B

Single Arm Row, Rotate and Press

3 x 6 @ 5

C1

Front Squat

3 x 6 @ 70 %

C2

Eccentric Focus Calf Lower

3 x 8

D1

Bench Press

3 x 10

D2

Chest-Supported DB Row

3 x 10

D3

Prone Machine Hamstring Curl

3 x 8

D4

Band Pull-Apart

3 x 8 @ 7

E1

Paloff Press with Rotation

3 x 10

E2

Single Arm Farmer Walk

3 x 20

Recovery

F

Cool Down

Start cool down with 3-4 rounds of Box Breathing (4sec inhale, 4 sec pause, 4 sec exhale, 4 sec pause) Carry out the following for 20 seconds in total for 2-3 rounds Couch Stretch Pigeon Stretch Broom Handle Rotations

Monday
Core Endurance

A1

Dead Bug

3 x 8

A2

Side Plank

1 x 0:30

A3

Back Extension

3 x 8

Monday
Low Impact Aerobic Session

Prep

A

RAMP Warm up - Conditioning

Raise: Any CV Machine / Air Bike / Rower/ Bike-erg / Treadmill / Run Activate/Mobilise: 30 Second each leg Yielding Iso Split Squat 8 reps Inch Worm Walk-Out 30 second per leg Pigeon Stretch 8 reps per leg Single Leg RDL Prepare: A Skip B Skip Combo 2x20m each into: Run - 2x 20m Bounds/ Power Skips

B

Copenhagen Plank

3 x 20

C

Sled Push

1 x 30:00 @ 4

D

Stationary Bike

1 x 30:00 @ 4

Cool Down

E

Start cool down with 3-4 rounds of Box Breathing (4sec inhale, 4 sec pause, 4 sec exhale, 4 sec pause) Carry out the following for 20 seconds in total for 2-3 rounds Couch Stretch Pigeon Stretch Broom Handle Rotations

Tuesday
Load Carry

Prep

A

RAMP Warm Up - Load Carry

Raise: 400m Run Activate/Mobilise: 30 Second each leg Yielding Iso Split Squat 8 reps Inch Worm Walk-Out 30 second per leg Pigeon Stretch 8 reps per leg Single Leg RDL 4 rounds IYT Prepare: 3-5 reps Negative Pull Ups A Skip B Skip Combo 2x20m each into: Run - 2x 20m Bounds/ Power Skips 2x 20m resisted sprints.

B

Load Carry

1 x 39.6828 @ 12874

Recovery

C

Post Load Carriage Routine

Start cool down with 3-4 rounds of Box Breathing (4sec inhale, 4 sec pause, 4 sec exhale, 4 sec pause) Perform the circuit for 3-4 rounds 8 reps Banded Face Pulls 4x IYT (4 second hold at top of positions) 20 sec Psoas Stretch 8 reps Single leg RDL

Tuesday
Core Endurance

A1

Dead Bug

3 x 8

A2

Side Plank

1 x 0:30

A3

Back Extension

3 x 8

Wednesday
Recovery Day
Coach
coach-avatar Rob

Strength and Conditioning Coach who specialises in preparing tactical populations for demanding environments through evidence-based strength, conditioning, and recovery strategies. Holds a BSc in Strength & Conditioning and an MSc in Applied Sport Nutrition.

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