Episode 2 - The Relevance of Heart Health to the Tactical Community

Despite the media portrayal that the tactical community is made up exclusively of personnel resembling Greek demi-gods (we’ll admit, there are one or two- looking at you Firefighters!), we’re actually a pretty representative cross-section of the civilian population. We have similar proportions of super fit people and similar proportions of those who are… maybe not so much.

In this episode, the guys get into how developing heart health is vital if we want to look after the human inside the superhero costume. Using research and first hand experience, George and Matt explore the myriad of reasons why personnel on both ends of the tactical performance spectrum (from the ‘tip of the spear’ to the ‘keyboard warriors’) can benefit from strengthening the ‘muscle that never tires’.

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In this episode, Matt talked about a research paper on the effects of a 13 month military deployment. If you’re interested in reading it for yourself, it’s available for free at (https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article-pdf/175/6/417/21869085/milmed-d-09-00192.pdf)