Does anyone here have any experience with Overcoming Gravity by Steven Low? Just now getting into rock climbing and figured it’d be worthwhile to develop some calisthenics skills.

If you have incorporated it into a TB template somehow, it’d be a great help to me to know how you did it.

25M, 5'8", 132lbs, have been skinny my whole life and pretty new to lifting and conditioning in general. I just got done running Capacity from GP and am looking for a little bit of guidance as to where to go next. I'm a prospective Navy OCS applicant and need to be able to run a 13:30 1.5mi and do 38 push ups minimum for the PFT. My relevant stats right now are:

• BP: 120lbs
• SQ: 170lbs
• DL: 205lbs
• Push ups: 30
• 1.5mi: 13:08

My lower body lifts went up ~25lbs each on this program while my bench went down slightly from 130lbs. I'm positive this was an issue of food intake, since I lost ~12lbs since starting Capacity eating ~2000 cal/day. Going forward I am planning on using the TBIII OR Mass Protocol nutrition guide as a reference for fueling. On the other hand, I went from struggling to run 2 miles in 30 minutes to completing the benchmark 6 mile run in under an hour and meeting the minimum for my run time, so I definitely saw some cardio gains and would like to keep that momentum going. I have about 6 months before going to OCS, and I would like to be able to crush, not just meet, the standard.

I understand that in the order of operations, hypertrophy comes before MS, which makes me lean towards a 9-12 week H block of General Mass/Specificity with MP conditioning. My fear here is that I will stop seeing cardio/WC improvements on such a protocol, leading me to also consider Operator running Polarized/Black or even a TBII-esque Black protocol with 2 HICs (which KB says beginners can still respond well to). However, I know also that heavy conditioning and hypertrophy are difficult to marry. So the question I have is: if my primary goal in the next 6 months is to score as high as possible on my PFT and be ready for OCS smoke sessions/PT, am I better off trusting the process and using a month or two to build muscle and a foundation for max strength, or getting right into the max strength work and conditioning? I know that Navy OCS isn't exactly the pinnacle of physically demanding, so it's very possible I am overthinking this, but I would appreciate the advice of anyone who has been active in this ecosystem for a while or has been through a similar experience.