TJ Cooper: Tactical AF CF

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

TJ Cooper has been a lead trainer in tactical topics since 1987 and recently retired in 2016 after 34 years of continuous service. He still serves as a Lead Trainer for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and now works for the University of North Florida Police Department as a Police Officer leading the Training division. TJ teaches civilian, law enforcement and military agencies on demand. As a lead tactical trainer, he continually trains, attends and teaches high liability topics in criminal justice academies, colleges and training forums. TJ opened the second ever affiliate, CrossFit East, and was really the first to bring CrossFit to the tactical community with amazing results. In this episode we learn about how TJ got into CrossFit, how he has grown the community spirit CrossFit by creating the CrossFit East Family, and how CrossFit is a necessary skill set that can be applied in life and death situations.

For more info on TJ, check out his website here, or follow him on Instagram and Facebook.

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0:00.0	This season of the Ready State is sponsored by Territory Foods.
0:03.5	Before we get into how great territory foods is and how it has actually improved our lives,
0:08.0	let's get in the Wayback Machine for a second.
0:09.6	Juliet, what was the worst lunch that you used to bring to school?
0:13.4	Well, I didn't bring a bad lunch because my parents were hippies who ate organic food,
0:16.9	but my best friend Hillary Reynolds, who I was so envious of, would bring a double
0:22.7	pack of Swiss cake rolls, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, and a Capri
0:27.4	Sun in a school bus lunchbox.
0:30.0	I was so jealous.
0:31.5	We're sitting here with our producer.
0:32.8	Lisa, what did you used to have?
0:34.1	Ho-hoes?
0:35.8	Doritos.
0:36.5	Doritos.
0:38.3	And a sandwich on brown bread. A sandwich on health bread.
0:40.3	Roman meal.
0:41.3	All right.
0:42.3	So look, here's the deal.
0:44.3	That was then.
0:45.3	Now our kids are like, what's the carbon footprint of that meal?
0:48.3	You know, is that organic?
0:49.3	Is that keto?
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