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"I have been a full-time law enforcement officer for over 12 years. I spent over 3 years as the head physical fitness trainer for one of the largest law enforcement training academies in Tennessee. I am currently working as a federal marshal working on a Special Federal Task Force.

TACFIT® completely changed the way I train, and completely changed the way I train LEO recruits. I was lucky enough to be one of the first TACFIT® trainers in the USA.

TACFIT® completely addresses all of the physical needs of a Law Enforcement Officer in a fast efficient workout. The specificity of the workout translates EXACTLY to the energy system and physical needs of a LEO.

Shortly after being certified using TACFIT® principles I trained a LEO recruit class of 35 people with ages ranging from 21-55, and fitness levels that vary even more. In 22 weeks of training, using TACFIT® a minimum of 3 times a week, all 35 members of the 20 class passed their final PT exams, improved their numbers by an average of 25%. They also lost weight and increased muscle tone. The most amazing part was that we had zero (0) injuries in 22 weeks. This was a first in our training program.

In the last 3 years I have trained over 500 LEO and Jail recruits using TACFIT®. I have trained and certified members of Police forces, Sheriff’s offices, the United States Marshals, the United States Secret Service, the United States Army, and the United States Marines.

Everyone that I have trained has raved about the results and the results of their recruits. Thank you Coach Sonnon for developing TACFIT®."

Detective Joseph F. Wilson
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
Federal Task Force Officer
CST Head Coach
TACFIT® Team Leader

"In my experience working with MMA fighters, martial artists and other combat athletes there is simply NOTHING out there that can compete with TACFIT®. The challenge for a coach when it comes down to conditioning their athletes is always maintaining the proper balance of skill training and conditioning. Too often, conditioning modalities negatively impact the fighter's performance due to the fact that they don't address the specific demands of the sport. The idea that conditioning is a simple matter of making the athlete stronger or giving them "more wind" is pedestrian at best.

The average conditioning program out there for fighters is, quite simply, inadequate for the demands of the game. They address only General Physical Preparation or "work capacity" and even in regard to that they come up short. Every sport taps a specific energy system. To excel, conditioning-wise, requires that the focus be not only on "doing more work" - but in doing more work, more efficiently within the energy systems tapped in that sport. The 26 programs of TACFIT® excel in this regard, training completely, the "Burst-Recover-Burst" pattern of energy output as well as increasing the athlete's recovery rate.

In addition, the CST concept of "compensation" is built in to the program. With every bit of training that an athlete does, there are both positive and negative effects. The TACFIT® program(s) design addresses this extremely important, but mostly ignored aspect of training. When training a combat athlete (or any other athlete for that matter), the primary emphasis needs to be on the skills NOT the attributes. The attributes must be addressed but not at the expense of the technical training.

Too often, today's combat athletes are "robbing Peter to pay Paul" as the saying goes. They are put through inadequate, though exhausting, programs and then taking all of the injuries, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), and fatigue from their conditioning session right into their technical training. While their ability to perform a random set of tasks within an irrelevant energy system improves - their technical performance suffers. By providing an applicable energy system focus, proper compensation for the work done and easy to follow format, TACFIT® excels beyond what is generally available and takes the fighters to new levels of preparedness all while not compromising their ability to focus fully and apply themselves to the best of their ability in their skills training.

The TACFIT® program is also incredibly simple to administer. It's easy to present in a group format and is unique in that it can simultaneously delivered to fighters of any level. The various levels of exercise complexity will allow the newbie to jump right in while pushing the elite athlete to new levels of conditioning. When training a number of athletes, time is of the essence and TACFIT® will allow you to train your fighters in an extremely sophisticated manner, get the results you want and get them back to their technical training.

It's not uncommon to have an athlete get their technical training from one source and their conditioning from another. This always causes a problem in that there is almost never good communication between the two. Quite often in technical training the workload pushes into the conditioning realm - as it should be. Unfortunately, poorly designed conditioning programs can push into the technical realm - as it shouldn't be. The TACFIT® programs do an outstanding job at stimulating the muscles rather than simulating the skills and risking "undoing" what the technical coach is trying to do and/or instilling bad habits with the fighter.

Because of the ease of administration and the clarity of the programs, the technical coach can take the conditioning of their fighters into their own hands and provide elite level conditioning on the spot.

TACFIT® produces results that are second to none. I can't recommend it enough."

Brandon Jones
CST Head Coach
Professional MMA and Boxing Coach to World Champions
TACFIT® Team Leader

"I consider fitness to be a critical component in performing my job as a Fire Captain in the safest and most efficient manner possible. I’ve always exercised regularly as a runner, weight lifter, and I’ve trained with many of the popular functional programs with good results but I have never come close to the fitness levels I’ve achieved using TACFIT®. I witnessed explosive gains in strength, power, endurance, and conditioning that I really had never considered possible.

TACFIT® is absolutely the most comprehensive program I have found to date that delivers the most results in the shortest amount of time. My transformation has allowed me to lead by example in my department and as a result I am constantly bombarded for advice on how to achieve similar results. The TACFIT® program is so easy to implement and teach others of varying degrees of fitness due to the four levels of sophistication provided for each workout. Group workouts are a mainstay in our department and TACFIT® allows us to compete in the same workout at the same time based on current conditioning levels leaving everyone feeling worked and energized at the end of only 20 minutes.

The TACFIT® design to train all 6 degrees of freedom and the four levels of sophistication have allowed me to progress at an accelerated rate resulting in superior athleticism to any other program I’ve followed. I recently have come back to TACFIT® after following another popular program for quite sometime because I felt I was losing many of the gains I had made. I no longer felt the explosiveness, the core strength, and I was losing my ability to move through all 6 degrees with a full range of motion and strength. The TACFIT® mantra of “being better prepared than the challenges you face” is dead on and coming from my background of training and fitness I consider this program “smarter” than any other I’ve experienced.

To provide some numbers for you, when I was first introduced to TACFIT®, I spent a year performing two to three workouts every week. That’s no more than an hour each week of training. My VO2 max increased during that year by several points and I had just finished running a marathon at my previous test and recorded my highest VO2 max ever! My personal record for pull-ups was 17 prior to starting and my new PR is 45 and climbing. TACFIT® has provided me with the fitness level to get the most out of work and play and I want to thank Coach Sonnon and RMAX International for such a great system. "

Christian Carson
Fire Captain, Bellingham Fire Department
CST Coach (soon)
TACFIT® Team Leader
TACFIT Fire Fighter Division Chief

"Working in the security field as an executive protection agent, I had the problem of securing the time to keep at top fitness conditioning. I'll always do some running but mostly that was all due to time constraints. Most of the time when you travel a lot you don't have access to a gymnasium or equipment to do a complete functional training preparation covering all of your needs in order to keep you sharp for any eventually task.

Even when my team and I are in base, we must run in shifts in order to go to gym. Since each team has more than 8 agents, the time is so restricted that if you try conventional workouts, it demands too much time for each of us to get sufficient training time.

As a CST Head Coach and TACFIT® Team Leader, I discovered that TACFIT® was our way to keep sharp, properly prepared to cover our mission tasks and perform well in any combat situations. With TACFIT®, we need significantly less equipment that we must carry around and the bodyweight exercise allows us to train even in hotels rooms. We can get sufficient training effects in just as little as 20 minutes in shifts of 4 agents. So in less than 1 hour, we've completed our physical training and are back ready to rock."

Alberto Gallazzi
CST Head Coach
Executive Bodyguard: Italian Prime Minister family, Versace, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Sir Elton John, Gwyneth Paltrow
TACFIT® Team Leader

"While I have been proud to serve my country during my 15 years of active service I always been disappointed in the limited and arbitrary physical fitness training methods and standards the Army maintains. The complex operational demands of our soldiers today requires much more comprehensive conditioning than countless repetitions of push-ups and sit-ups can provide. TACFIT® is the perfect answer to this situation. The sophisticated structure yet simple means of execution of TACFIT® make it feasible for soldiers to train to a high level of tactical readiness anywhere in the world.

For our military to be successful we must be more prepared than the challenges we face. TACFIT® is by far the best system I have seen to do exactly that."

Jeffry C. Larson
Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Army
CST Head Coach
TACFIT® Team Leader

"When TACFIT was first introduced by RMAX International I knew right away that my goal would be to offer it to my local law enforcement agencies. Living in Salinas, CA there are the city's first responders which include the Police and Fire Departments along with the Monterey County Sheriff's Department all within city limits. Add to this the fact that down the road 30 minutes are Soledad State Prison and Salinas Valley State Prison and the decision to offer TACFIT was a no brainer. It has been an honor to offer this revolutionary training program to those that serve our community and keep my loved ones safe.

What I didn't initially realize is how much offering TACFIT would benefit my staff of coaches. I have required each of my head coaches and myself to perform the TACFIT Hard Responsible Push at least once and the results have been outrageous. Not only have our levels of fitness increased dramatically but sharing the experience has also served to strengthen us as a team. Staying safe while in the line of fire takes more than just fitness, it takes teamwork. Ask yourself...is your team TACFIT?"

John Wolf
CST Head Coach
TACFIT® Team Leader

"I had the privilege of growing up in a harsh environment. In the vast wilderness of the Arctic, one learns to find contentment with hardship. Temperatures of -50 C, the blackness of night for months on end, bears strolling past your home, the air so thick with mosquitos that every breath provides your daily dose of protein. When your idea of fun consisted of going out to play in white-outs or jumping into water so cold you would cease to breath inside of 15 minutes, it’s difficult to find sustainable, daily challenges that keep you sharp, ready for anything and growing.

But I have found that in TACFIT®. I'm not interested in merely surviving. I'm interested in thriving. To do so, you can’t just rush out in a blaze of glory until you drop. You have to be smart. You have to be cool. You have to persist and endure. You have to face the “beast” as it breath’s fire and be able to smile back. That develops with intelligent training. That develops with TACFIT. And with individuals truly focused on thriving, excelling and exceeding, it naturally develops the key to surpassing anything we could ever achieve on our own. That key is Team.

Are you ready to move beyond?"

Shane Heins
CST Head Coach
TACFIT® Team Leader

"Running my CST and martial arts gym full time, plus teaching private clients and conducting seminars, I need to stay fit and healthy. The same is true for my athletes: most of them have a 40+ hour-work week on top of their martial art training. We can’t afford to waste valuable training time.

We need conditioning training methods, which address three major aspects: 1. bringing oneself in the best possible shape without… 2. putting one's health at risk in… 3. a minimal time investment.

Sure you can train longer, but this makes recovery harder, and doesn't bring better results. Tacfit offers a way to use every minute of your workout for maximum benefit, so you have more quality time to practice martial arts, be productive in your daily job, and are never under recovered.

This is the revolution in physical training and I'm proud to be a part of it."

Raimar Mohrdieck
CST Head Coach
TACFIT® Team Leader

"My passion for physical fitness began at a young age. I Idolized action heroes such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger. I started lifting weights with my dad in our garage at age 13 and I embraced the body building mentality. The word "mobility" was not in my vocabulary. I was able to achieve great gains in strength and size. Unfortunately for me, these attributes did not translate into improved athleticism. My fitness level was measured by the amount of weight that I could bench press.

When I reached my 30s, I developed a number of joint problems. I had already undergone five surgeries, and I was diagnosed with arthritis in my hips at age 35. I had tremendous limitations in my mobility and I was in pain most of the time. In 2005, I had the good fortune of meeting Scott Sonnon. My whole outlook on fitness changed. My career as a fire fighter was in jeopardy and I recognized the need for a more comprehensive fitness program.

Coach Sonnon’s Circular Strength Training and TACFIT programs have helped me get into the best shape of my life. I have increased functional strength and the multi-planar movements have helped me develop better overall athleticism. My aerobic capacity has soared and my body fat percentage has dropped significantly. My regular practice of joint mobility exercises and compensatory yoga has greatly improved my range of motion and eliminated the pain that I dealt with for so many years."

Ryan Provencher
CST Instructor
TACFIT Team Leader
TACFIT Fire Fighter Division Chief
Fire Captain Bellingham Fire Department

Aaron Cruz
CST Instructor
TACFIT Team Leader