Why Most Tactical Fitness Tests Miss the Point | Dr. James Hoffman
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Want to get even more jacked? Grab the RP Hypertrophy App for your training, and maximize your gym efforts with the RP Diet Coach App to nail your nutrition.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro and James' current training
04:59 Memorial Day, Murph, and tactical training
05:43 Why James got interested in tactical populations
10:24 Why common fitness tests can point tactical athletes in the wrong direction
15:00 Body composition, strength, and cardio as prerequisites
18:38 Training cops more like MMA athletes
27:52 Body composition as the first tactical priority
32:52 Periodization and readiness for tactical professions
39:35 Law enforcement KPIs: strength, grip, sprinting, and jumping
46:06 Tactical guides, skills, and job-specific training
53:05 What's in the law enforcement article and upcoming resources
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the Arbysburg Podcast. I'm Nick Shaw, and today I'm joined by |
| 0:08.9 | the OG. Dr. James Hoffman. What's up, man? Welcome back to the pod. I am, man. It's great to be |
| 0:16.9 | back. It's been a while. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. Okay. So... |
| 0:21.4 | I updated my CV recently and I had to go back and think about like when I actually started |
| 0:25.5 | working with RP. It's been like a long time. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah. What's up in your world |
| 0:31.0 | these days? Not a ton, not a ton. Just working. I've been working on some of these |
| 0:37.0 | tactical things that have been publishing on RP and just keeping |
| 0:41.3 | busy. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm excited for springtime in Montana. |
| 0:43.3 | It's a good time to be out here. |
| 0:45.3 | It's beautiful. |
| 0:46.3 | So yeah, just a little business as usual, nothing too crazy. |
| 0:49.3 | What's your own training like these days? |
| 0:51.3 | You're training for anything specific? |
| 0:53.3 | I don't know., cardio, just lifting. |
| 0:55.3 | Like, what's up? |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, I still train pretty hard. |
| 0:59.3 | I do usually two sessions a day. |
| 1:02.1 | I'll do like an AM, PM, six times per week, mostly just hypertrophy stuff. |
| 1:06.9 | I usually will get, you know, like one like treadmill session in and then I walk my dogs two or three times a day. So my steps are usually like 12,000 plus. I'm supposed to be like kind of taking it easy right now because my wife and I are going to, we're trying to have kids, we're doing IVF and they kind of want you to not be like super fatigued and all the time. So not going super hard, particularly on the diet side, just kind of just doing maintenance diet for now. But once all that kind of family planning stuff is done, then I'm hoping to kind of get back into the harder stuff again. Now I'm just kind of just training hard and eating mostly what I want. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Two times a day, six times a week. Are you training 12 times a week? For the most part, yeah. Now, granted, like, it's in my home gym, right? So it's like convenient, right? It's like if I do chest in the morning, I can do like arms in the evening. If I did quads and hams in the morning, I can do calves shoulders and you know so I don't want to make it sound dramatic but yeah so what are |
| 2:03.6 | they like 30-ish 30 40 minute workouts yeah the first ones are usually closer |
| 2:09.2 | like 45 to 60 and then the latter ones are usually shorter more like 20 minutes |
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