By Rob Shaul (1) Progressive Overload Applied to Work Capacity Programming When I first began programming – even before owning a facility, I was familiar with the concept of progressive overload applied to strength training. I’d experienced this first-hand way back in high school during early-morning Winter football strength training. At that time, about […]
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QUESTION First, I just want to say thank you for all the hard work you put into your content. It is really impressive. I have a couple quick questions. What type of rucksack/backpack do you recommend for the ruck-based plans? I’m getting back in after being out a year and a half, so I no […]
By Rob Shaul Let’s say you were out of shape and asked me for a fitness plan. And let’s say my answer was to run for 60 minutes, every other day. At first, you managed just 4 miles in the 60 minutes. Then, six months and 20-pounds less later, you were running for the […]
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MTI’s K9 Handler Fitness Assessment Warm Up: 4 Rounds 10x Hand Release Push Ups 5x Walking Lunges Instep Stretch Lat + Pec Stretch Assessment: 1) Max Rep Bench Press – Women @ .75x Bodyweight, Men @ 1x Bodyweight. Use this protocol: 8x Bench Press @ 40% Bodyweight for Women, 50% Bodyweight for Men 4x Bench Press @ 60% Bodyweight for […]
QUESTION I successfully harvested my first backcountry mule deer buck this weekend (I still can’t believe it) and I wanted to report on how I think the Back Country Big Game Hunting training program played into my success, then I had a question about training for next year. I started late in the with Jedidiah […]
By Rob Shaul, Founder BLUF We conducted a 4-week Mini-Study using remote lab rats to test the effect of training volume across three training measurables: Strength (barbell and bodyweight), Sprint-Based Work Capacity, and Endurance (3-Mile run Performance). Specifically, we were interested to see if we could reach the same strength and conditioning results by training […]
By Rob Shaul MTI needs remote meatheaddy lab rats for an upcoming, narrow and focused, 3.5 weeks, 2-day/week “Mini-Study” comparing the effectiveness of 2-3 Bench Press progressions to increase 1RM Bench Press strength. This will be a focused study, just on the bench press and can be completed concurrently with your current training. Specifically, we’re […]
QUESTION First of all I just wanted to say thanks for putting the leg blaster routine together, its been a staple of mine for the last few years before the ski season begins. I just have question about quantity vs extra weight. I’m at a stage now where I’m doing 4 x full 4 x […]