By Rob Shaul A couple of years ago, an executive at a major military contracting firm visited our facility. He’d come to the firm after a career in the US Special Forces and described the dangerous mistakes he made during his journey from boot recruit to becoming tactically “aware” on the battlefield. He challenged […]
Knowledge
Our Work with the US Army in Germany
Last week we sent 2 coaches to Germany to work with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade outside of Nürmberg where we taught the Advanced Programming and Unit Fitness Leader courses to approximately 30 soldiers. Advanced Programming & Unit Fitness Leader Course: Lessons Learned A strong organizational fitness culture starts at the top. We’ve long been […]
Trigger Pull Study, Initial Results
By Rob Shaul and Adam Scott In 2015, we spent two days in Fresno working with 10 members of the City of Fresno SWAT team. The Fresno SWAT team volunteered to be our “lab rats” for a study designed to test the mission-direct effects of a lighter trigger pull. Most stock and issued carbines […]
The Move to Digital Plans
As we prepare for our new website launch in February, you’ll see other aspects of our online business making transitions in the coming weeks. This week you’ll notice changes in two arenas; social media channel updates, and training plans going digital. Here’s what you can expect to see, and the reasons we’re making these changes. […]
Trigger Pull Study – Initial Findings
By Rob Shaul and Adam Scott We spent two days this week in Fresno working with 10 members of the City of Fresno SWAT team. The Fresno SWAT team volunteered to be our “lab rats” for a study designed to test the mission-direct effects of a lighter trigger pull. Most stock and issued carbines come […]
The Best Way to Improve Push-Ups: Pilot Testing
By Adam Scott, MS, CSCS We kicked off the pilot-phase of our study investigating the best way to improve push-ups. The study is very similar to what we did with Pull-Ups during Sping/Summer 2016 – except, obviously, with push-ups. Basically, we designed four push-up training programs and randomly split our lab rats into four […]
Challenge: Shuttle Beep Test
We set out to design a functional, gym-based aerobic assessment. Our criteria were simple: We wanted the test to be as simple as possible We needed it to closely mimic the demands of an intense tactical situation We wanted it to show a strong correlation to the other established tests and estimates. We came up with […]
Mountain Tactical with Rob Shaul-Ep. 8 Brian Pennick
In this episode, Rob and Brian reveal the common traits of successful people and criminals alike, what its like inside a maximum security prison, how to defeat booby traps set inside of a prisoner’s cell, stupid mistakes of escaped cons and much more. As a lifelong athlete, Brain Pennick joined the Marine Corps in 1986 and […]
Grip strength. Does it matter? How to Test it. How to Train it.
By Adam Scott, MS, CSCS Grip strength testing has become increasingly popular for tactical professionals. Whether it is directly assessed using a dynamometer or indirectly measured during weighted pull-ups, dummy drags, ammo can carries, farmer’s carriers, or the likes – grip strength has become a major part of the tactical athlete’s testing battery. […]
Updates: New Logo, End of General Fitness Programming
We continue to complete the work towards renaming the company the “Mountain Tactical Institute.” Here are some changes you’ll see in the weeks and months ahead. Email Change Within the next week, emails coming from me and others on my staff will come from the @mountaintacticalinstitute.com address. Right now emails from me can come from […]