Sorry – No more applications being taken for this Mini Study. By Rob Shaul MTI is calling for fit remote lab rats to test MTI’s Big 3 Strength + 5-Mile Run Training Plan – one of MTI’s most popular and prescribed plans for athletes looking to increase raw strength and running endurance, concurrently. Big […]
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Mini-Study Results: Rock Climb Lab Rats Improve Bouldering Performance 57%
By Rob Shaul, Founder BLUF Remote lab rats following 4.5 weeks of MTI’s 6 day/week, Pre-Season Rock Climbing Program and nutritional guidelines increased an assessed bouldering performance an average of 57.35% and decreased bodyweight an average of 1.28%. Background and Study Design This mini-study tested the effectiveness of MTI’s current/published Rock Climbing Pre-Season programming […]
Lab Rats Needed To Test the Performance Impact of MTI’s Nutritional Guidelines
Sorry – Applications No Longer Being Accepted By Rob Shaul MTI is calling for remote lab rats, ages 22-50, for an upcoming, focused, 3.5 weeks, 5-day/week Mini-Study testing the performance effect of MTI’s Nutritional Guidelines. This mini-study will begin Monday, March 29. The deadline to apply is 1700 Mountain Time, Thursday, March 25, 2021. […]
Nutritional Guidelines
By Rob Shaul Updated March, 2021 Fundamental Principles What you eat is more important than how much you eat Any diet or nutritional plan that makes you constantly hungry isn’t sustainable Eat whole foods (nothing processed) and you’ll eat smaller portions, eat less often and still eat to satiety You can’t outwork a […]
4 Weeks on a P:E-ish Diet
By Rob Shaul This is an update to a post I published 4-weeks ago, “4-Weeks on a Keto-Ish Diet.” Background Over the past 10 years I’ve been following consistently the nutritional recommendations we have published at mtntactical.com. These are simple and direct. These diet recommendations come from Gary Taubes’ book, Why We Get Fat. He’s […]
Ideal Bodyweights for Mountain Athletes, Mountain Professionals and Tactical Athletes
By Rob Shaul For years I’ve answered questions from individual mountain and tactical athletes and/or given unsolicited advice on a target bodyweight based on height, but until now, I’ve never formalized these ideal bodyweight targets. Everything MTI does is focused on improving and/or maximizing performance, and the same is true for the height vs. […]
Mini-Study Results: Sinister vs Density Progression to Increase Dead Hang and Front Plank Max Efforts for Time Inconclusive
By Rob Shaul, Founder BLUF Density progression outperformed Sinister progression on Dead Hang Improvement, and Sinister Progression outperformed Density on Front Plank Improvement. Overall, the goal to identify which progression is best to improve these type of efforts was inconclusive. Background and Study Design This study tested two types of progression to improve bodyweight, […]
Fit Lab Rats Needed To Update Valor
Sorry – Applications no longer being Accepted. By Rob Shaul MTI is calling for fit remote lab rats to test an upcoming update to Valor – one of MTI’s more well known military athlete training plans. Valor is an intense, 7-week, 5 day/week training plan. The training will begin Monday, March 9, 2021. The […]
4 Weeks on a “Keto-ish” Diet
By Rob Shaul Over the past 10 years I’ve been following consistently the nutritional recommendations we have published at mtntactical.com. These are simple and direct. These diet recommendations come from Gary Taubes’ book, Why We Get Fat. He’s a journalist, not a scientist, and in putting together this book and his other, Good Calories, Bad […]
Mini-Study Results: Lab Rats Increase Power per Bodyweight An Average of 15.7% Following MTI Power-Based Endurance Programming
By Rob Shaul, Founder BLUF Three and a half weeks of MTI power-based endurance programming increased power per bodyweight an average of 15.7%. Background and Study Design Until this mini-study, a significant part of MTI endurance programming is pace-based. The athlete will complete a run, ruck, row or swim assessment, and follow-on intervals will […]