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Hybrid Athlete Strength to pair with 5k Program (4 days per week) - Transcend Endurance

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Hybrid Athlete Strength to pair with 5k Program (4 days per week) - Transcend Endurance

Includes Structured Workouts

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Author

David Mikel - Transcend Endurance

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Length

12 Weeks

Includes Structured Workouts

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Plan Description

The hybrid advantage: strength that moves

- This is my signature strength system that I have found so successful with hundreds of elite tactical athletes and civilian endurance athletes.

- It builds strength with cluster methodologies and explosiveness with clean pulls, snatch pulls, and jumps.

- It builds muscular endurance for running and uphill performance.

- This program is all about strength and performance improvement outside of the weightroom, with minimal emphasis on muscle mass gain.

- It is an intermediate to advanced lifting program, with access to a good gym or a nice home gym necessary.

- 12 weeks

- 4x days per week (also available in 2x and 3x days per week versions)

- 2x Upper Body, 1x Lower Body, 1x Core and Hips

- Average length of each session: around 1 hours

- Pairs with all Transcend Endurance 5k Program

- $40 on Training Peaks

- $30 as an excel file on Transcend-Endurance.com

The Hybrid Athlete Strength Program is my signature training system that I used most frequently during my 4 years as a Tactical Strength and Conditioning Coach to train soldiers for various events, including Special Forces Assessment and Selection. This is the type of training system that I default back to in my own training and have found it incredibly effective in both the tactical and hybrid setting (combining an endurance program with a strength program). Access to a commercial gym or a good home gym is necessary to do all the exercises in the program, with barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, bands, etc.

Training Peaks is an amazing software that allows you to sync the workouts to your Garmin. You will be led through the endurance workouts from your watch in real time and through the strength workouts (if you pair it with one of the Transcend Endurance Hybrid Strength Program) from the app on your phone with the ability to log your completed weight/reps/etc.

The Transcend Endurance Course will also be sent to you with this program. That educational guide will help you get to know me and what I believe in, gain a better understanding of the programming concepts, it will help you individualize and adjust the program to flexibly meet your specific needs, and it provides numerous practical application tips to implement the program well and get the most out of your recovery. There are 3.5 hours of audio recordings on all the slides that you can reference at your own pace. I was advised to sell this course for $500, but I wanted to help the most people possible and believe that everyone that buys one of my programs should have access to this information, not just my private coaching clients.


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Training Plan Sample Week

Stats

Average Weekly Breakdown

Workouts Weekly Average Longest Workout
strength x4
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Workouts Per Week Weekly Average Longest Workout
strength
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David Mikel

Transcend Endurance

My name is David Mikel, the founder of Transcend Endurance. Former Green Beret with a master’s degree in Exercise Science and prior coach in the Army. I provide a hybrid approach to endurance training so that you can build aerobic fitness and gain strength simultaneously. I believe that the human body was designed to move and promote a mindset that we can enjoy exercise. We can then embrace the process along the way and transcend what we dare to think is possible!


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  • If plan includes Structured Workouts, then planned workouts sync to compatible devices and guide you through workouts in real time. Learn More

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