Knowledge

By McLaughlin Thomas, MTI Contributor   I have friends who played chess seriously back in middle or high school, or who started training recently because they finally “got around to it,” or who have a chess set but don’t really use it. All these little blips were subconsciously building until the day the prompt arose […]

By Jim Spengler, MTI Contributor    Structural firefighting is unarguably a physically demanding task. Stretching a hose line into a building, search, victim rescue, laddering, to name a few, all require high levels of work capacity. Work capacity from MTI’s own definition is “ high intensity, variable, relatively short physical efforts…where it all comes together-relative […]

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By Tammy Kovaluk, MTI Contributor The Why: In 2019, a friend sent me an article on a female breaking the “12-hour chest to ground pushup burpee” Guinness World Record (GWR), of 5332 burpees.  This intrigued me. I did not know a record like this existed and immediately thought trying to break the record. I somewhat […]

By René Eastin, MTI Contributor Standing over the kitchen garbage can sobbing uncontrollably; consumed with shame.  I had binged before but it had never been this bad. Three banana peels.  Two Kraft macaroni and cheese boxes.  A jar of Jiffy peanut butter.  A box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and the carton of heavy whipping […]

By Brandon Sanders, MTI Contributor I sat deep inside the Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge. In past mornings, the swamp was a symphony of noise. Owls, coyotes, and things left unidentified filled the dark mornings. Today, it was painfully silent. The sudden influx of trucks, side by sides, and generators rendered the swamp chorus a […]

By Piers Edlund-Field, MTI Contributor Military fitness has evolved significantly in the past 20 years. Previous generations of soldiers adopted a “one size fits all” approach to PT, prescribing basic calisthenics and long ruck marches for soldiers operating in any theater. More recently, soldiers have begun conducting physical training designed specifically for the area they […]