MTI’s Most Popular Articles of 2024

Below is a wrap up of MTI’s most popular articles, essays, and research in 2024.

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1. Why You Should be Training Farmer Walks & Carries

2. 4 Weeks on PE(ish) Diet

3. Ideal Bodyweights for Mountain Athletes, Mountain Professionals, and Tactical Athletes

4. What Does It Mean to Be a Quiet Professional?

5. Strong Enough? Take MTI’s Relative Strength Assessment

6. Nutritional Guidelines

7. I’m an Army Physical Therapist: These 3 Simple Steps Improve Low Back Pain in 10 Minutes

8. MTI’s Top 3 Strength Exercises

9. MTI’s Fitness Assessments

10. Easy Rules for Booze: How Much is OK for Athletic Performance and Recovery?

11. Air Force Leads All U.S. Military Branches in Re-enlistment Rates, But Overall U.S. Military Retention is 2nd Worst in NATO

12. 5 Types of Tactical Athletes and Their Fitness Demands

13. 5 Run/Ruck Training Thumb Rules You Can Use

14. Equipment Recommendations for a Home Garage Gym

15. Study: Loaded Movement Training Vest vs. Ruck

16. 4 Weeks on a Keto Diet

17. Speaking to a Flight Doc About My Sleeping and Stress Struggles Got Me Grounded, But It Was Worth It

18. MTI’s Summer Backcountry Gear List

19. Snapshot of Special Operations Selection and Attrition Rates

20. My Challenges in Retiring From the Army

21. Quiet Professionalism in Action

22. Mini-Study: Lab Rats Experience Various Levels of Knee Pain Reduction Following a 3-Week Cycle of ATG Exercises

23. Simple Rules for Pre-Workout Supplements

24. Mini-Study: Ruck Running Maintains Lower Body Strength, Improves Unloaded Running, GTG Pull-ups Increase Max Rep Pull-ups by 19%

25. I’m a Mountain Guide: Here’s My Ice Climbing Kit

26. I Work on a Hotshot Crew: Here’s the Gear We Use

27. MTI’s Favorite Lower Body Push Strength Exercises

28. MTI Collective Responses: Your Standout Piece of Equipment, Tool, or Kit

29. MTI Tactical Athlete Work Capacity Assessment

30. History of the APFT