FUNCTIONAL FITNESS and firearms Training Videos
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Using Brute Force Sandbags In Your Firearms Training
Incorporating functional fitness with brute force sandbags into your firearms training program can elevate your performance significantly. Sandbags enhance strength, stability, and endurance, all crucial for effective shooting. By integrating dynamic movements such as lifts, carries, and throws, you can simulate the physical demands of real-life scenarios. This approach not only improves your shooting skills but also builds overall fitness, making you a more capable and well-rounded shooter.
Incorporating functional fitness with GORUCK sandbags into your firearms training program can elevate your performance significantly by building the kind of strength and conditioning that actually transfers to the range and real-world scenarios. Unlike fixed machines or perfectly balanced barbells, GORUCK sandbags shift, sag, and fight you back, forcing your body to develop stability, core strength, and grip endurance—all crucial for effective shooting, weapon manipulation, and kit management. This style of tactical fitness prepares law enforcement, military, and responsibly armed citizens for the unpredictable demands of carrying gear, moving dynamically, and shooting under physical stress. By integrating dynamic sandbag movements such as shouldering, cleans, squats, lunges, drags, carries, and ground-to-overhead lifts before or between strings of fire, you simulate the physical demands of real-life engagements and defensive encounters. For example, perform a sandbag carry to the firing line, drop the bag safely, then immediately run a timed shooting drill. Or pair sandbag get-ups and front carries with pistol or carbine work to drive heart rate, challenge your breathing, and force you to maintain sight picture, trigger control, and target accountability while fatigued. This approach doesn’t just improve your shooting mechanics—it conditions your body to perform on demand when tired, stressed, and under load. Over time, combining GORUCK sandbag workouts with structured firearms training helps you build stronger legs, a more resilient core, better posture behind the gun, and the mental toughness to push through discomfort without sacrificing safety or accuracy. The result is a more capable, well-rounded shooter who can manage recoil, move efficiently, and make better decisions under pressure. If you’re looking to upgrade your tactical training, law enforcement fitness program, or defensive shooting practice, adding GORUCK sandbags is a simple, highly effective way to bridge the gap between the gym, the range, and the real world.
Range Workout with Brute Force Sandbag
This video is an example of a shooting range workout using a brute force sandbag to incorporate some physical duress into your marksmanship training program
In this video Rick Hogg of War HOGG Tactical demonstrates a range workout using a Brute Force Bag. War HOGG "CREW" here is your Dry / Live Fire workout. You can definitely add more depending on your physical fitness level. This is just something to get your brain thinking what to I need to train to be successful in the tactical games. Note the video is shorter so I could show the workout. Train hard and see you in NC! REMEMBER, NO Live Ammo in your dry fire area and make sure your pistol is CLEAR before starting! Event Start at the 100m line. Pick up your bag and run to the 25m and Fire 1 shot on steel. Pick up the bag and throw it over the right shoulder draw and fire one shot. Pick up your bag and throw it over the left and fire one shot with your left hand. 5 shots per side. Next throw the bag backwards on your right, move to the bag and fire one shot with both hands. Throw the bag backwards on the left and fire one shot with both hands. Once you hit 50 repeat the process going forward until you hit the 25 and that one round. Aim for a total of 4 rounds. Three sets of ropes or pull-ups. 2 mile run with brute force bag. 1/4 mile with a 1/4 mile without alternating. Equipment needed 1 sandbag, 1 kettlebell Rope or Pull up bar Stop Watch The Firearms Training Notebook Pistol with Holster C Zone Steel target if available when live firing or small IPSC target if dry firing. Water Planning Considerations As an athlete Time is your tool to gauge your performance. Use the stopwatch to time each of your movements and record the time in your notebook. Use the pro timer for your dry/live fire weapons work. This way you will have a log to see how your performance is improving, staying the same or decreasing. NOTE - Use caution if training in your neighborhood. I run the sandbag and kettlebell on the street, then go into my garage to dry fire. This way none of my neighbors will be alarmed and call the police thus interrupting my workout.
Water Can Workout
You can use something like a water can insted of a sandbag to add physical duress to your range workout
You can use a water can as a versatile, field-expedient alternative to a sandbag to add physical duress and realism to your firearms range workout. Filling a water can to different levels lets you easily adjust weight and intensity while still safely integrating tactical fitness into your shooting drills. Before each string of fire, work in short bouts of farmer’s carries to the firing line, front carries, overhead holds, walking lunges, or ground-to-overhead lifts with the water can to spike heart rate and simulate stress. You can also add simple complexes like water can carries + push-ups + sprints to the gun, or drag the can, then shoot, to build grip strength, upper-body endurance, and decision-making under fatigue. This simple tool lets you turn any live-fire session into a combat-focused performance workout, even if you don’t have access to traditional gym gear or sandbags.
Introducing "The Firearms Training Notebook" – the ultimate tool for achieving success in your training sessions! This notebook expertly collects valuable shooting data from both live and dry training, filling a crucial gap in the firearms industry. Every student in a War HOGG Tactical firearm course will receive a copy to accurately record their shooting performance, empowering them to pinpoint areas for improvement. With this powerful resource, you can track your progress and confidently commit to 1% better every day in your marksmanship and gun handling journey.
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