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  By Rob Shaul MTI is calling for remote lab rats for an upcoming, narrow and focused, 3.5 weeks, 5-day/week Mini-Study comparing the total body strength building capacity of the back squat, vs. the dead lift, vs the Thruster. This mini-study will begin Monday, November 21, 2022. The deadline to apply is 1700 Mountain Time, Saturday, […]

By Brian Reed, MTI Contributor I graduated the Infantry Officer’s Basic Course on September 29, 1989.  I began Ranger School a week later, Friday, October 6, 1989, with Ranger Class 1-90.  I graduated with Ranger Class 3-90 on March 13, 1990…2 recycles and 159 days later.  As it turned out, recycling two phases of Ranger […]

By Rob Shaul BLUF This Mini Study re-tested the correlation between (1) relative strength and ruck speed, and; (2) 3-mile run time and ruck speed with the aim of identifying which (relative strength or running performance) had the highest correlation. The results found that both the 3-mile run time and relative strength had a strong […]

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By Brandon Sanders, MTI Contributor Over the past few years, I was privileged to have a hand in shaping my unit’s culture by using various social media platforms to effectively connect with the Soldiers. Since we are a part-time force, our time and resources are highly constrained. Free digital platforms allowed us to create an […]

By Joe Poulton, MTI Contributor In November of 2015, I had been on the Reach and Treat Team for a couple years. At this point, I was contributing by instructing our annual avalanche trainings. I was also fully enjoying photography. On this day my ski partner and I were gunning for Illumination Rock, clearly an […]

By Matt Lensing, MTI Contributor Army leaders follow the doctrine, “train as you fight,” when planning unit training. According to Field Manual 7-0 Soldiers must train in, “environments as close to combat-like conditions as possible,” so they are prepared for the, “stress, chaos, uncertainty, and complexity of war.” This includes preparing subordinates to operate in […]

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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