Daily Scholar Meathead Training Subscription

$25.00

  • Year-round strength, power, and hypertrophy training for veteran meatheads and gym rats
  • Includes two monthly training mesocycles – current and previous month
  • $25/Month, Cancel Anytime

Description

The Scholar Meathead Daily Stream is for weight room vets hungry for intelligent programming and constant challenge. The programming delivers a dynamic, ever-evolving approach to strength, power, and hypertrophy training methodology designed to push you physically and engage you mentally.

This programming will honor and deploy the classic strength training exercises and methods, but also introduce lifters to new strength and power programming methods and combinations that will challenge your body and mind. Each 4-5 week cycle brings a new programming method and strength and power training focus, with an occasional dip into upper body hypertrophy.

What to Expect:
A Feast of Strength Training Approaches and Methods:

  • Classic Max Effort: 1RM, 3RM, 6RM
  • Bodyweight Strength Progressions
  • Single Limb Strength
  • Dumbbell/Kettlebell Strength
  • Brute Strength – sandbags, etc.
  • Working Strength
  • Super Squat
  • Velocity-Based Strength
  • These and other strength methodoloies and combinations of the above.

Explosive Power Development:

  • Contrast Training
  • Cluster Sets
  • Plyometrics
  • Short Sprints
  • Olympic Weightlifting
  • Loaded Jumping
  • Other proven power-focused exercises and methods

Strategic Hypertrophy: Any self-respecting Meathead yearns to occassionally pump up chest, shoulders, triceps and biceps. Upper body hypertrophy programming won’t be trained every cycle, but will be visited from time to time because it’s hard, and fun.

Efficient Work Capacity: Short, intense, work capacity training events to boost conditioning without compromising strength or hypertrophy.

Structured Cycles: 4-5 week cycles, 4-6 training sessions per week. Training sessions range from 45-90 minutes.

Who is this for?

  • Experienced lifters seeking a challenge and variety, and or/a break from multi-modal programming to focus on weightroom work
  • Those who appreciate the science behind strength and power training.
  • Individuals bored with cookie-cutter programs.
  • Athletes who want to maximize strength, power, and hypertrophy.

Required Equipment

Required Equipment


A fully equipped gym, or a standard gym that also has the following equipment will work:



    • Barbell (with enough weight to find 1RM)







    • Dumbells or kettlebells (A range of weights)







    • 25# dumbbells







    • Space to run (25m minimum)







    • Sandbag (40/60# females, 60/80# males. Few gyms have these, so likely you'll need to make your own.)







    • Pull-up bar







    • 16" box or bench (for step-ups)




See our recommendation for a garage gym here. Questions? Email coach@mtntactical.com

Sample Training

Session 1

OBJ: Strength Assessment, Upper Body Hypertrophy

Warm Up:
4 Rounds:

  • 5x Power Clean + Push Press - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 10x Goblet Squat - 12kg/25#
  • 10x Push Ups
  • Instep Stretch
  • Lat + Pec Stretch

Training:
1RM Power Clean + Push Press

  • Work up to 1RM Power Clean + Push Press
    Add 5-30# to your finishing warm up load and do 3 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 2 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 1x rep (single). Keep adding weight and doing singles until you reach your 1RM. Aim to get there by your 4th single. The push press is the crux of this exercise. Be safe. If the bar “sticks” on the way overhead, drop the barbell and lower weight.
    RECORD 1RM

3 Rounds - Back Squat Warm Up:

  • 5x Back Squat - Start light and increase load each round
  • 3rd World Squat Stretch

1RM Back Squat

  • Work Up to 1RM Back Squat
    Add 5-30# to your finishing warm up load and do 3 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 2 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 1x rep (single). Keep adding weight and doing singles until you reach your 1RM. Aim to get there by your 4th single.
    RECORD 1RM

5 Rounds - Hypertrophy Superset:

  • 10x Kneeling Curl To Press - Increase load rapidly each round until 10x is hard, but doable
  • 8x Chin Up - Break the sets if necessary, but get in all 8x reps
  • Foam Roll Low Back

2 Rounds:

  • Toe Touch Complex
  • Frog Stretch

Session 2

OBJ: Strength Assessment, Upper Body Hypertrophy

Warm Up:
4 Rounds:

  • 3x Craig Special - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 6x Dumbbell/Kettlebell Hinge Lift - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 10x Push Ups
  • Instep Stretch
  • Lat + Pec Stretch

Training:
1RM Craig Special

  • Work up to 1RM Craig Special
    Add 5-30# to your finishing warm up load and do 2 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 1x rep (single). Keep adding weight and doing singles until you reach your 1RM. Aim to get there by your 4th single.
    RECORD 1RM

3 Rounds - Hinge Lift Warm Up:

  • 5x Hinge Lift - Start light and increase load each round
  • Hip Flexor Stretch

1RM Hinge Lift

  • Work up to 1RM Hinge Lift
    Add 5-30# to your finishing warm up load and do 3 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 2 reps. Then add 5-30# and do 1x rep (single). Keep adding weight and doing singles until you reach your 1RM. Aim to get there by your 4th single.
    RECORD 1RM

5 Rounds - Hypertrophy Superset:

  • 10x Bench Press
  • 5x Renegade Man Maker - Increase load rapidly each round until 5x is hard, but doable
  • 5x Shoulder Dislocates

2 Rounds:

  • Hug + Hip Mobility Drill
  • Foam Roll Low Back

Session 3

OBJ: Work Capacity, Chassis Integrity

Warm Up:
3 Rounds:

  • 5x In-place Lunge
  • 4x Prone To 40ft Sprint
  • 10x EOs
  • Instep Stretch
  • 5x Shoulder Dislocates

Training:
20 Rounds:

  • 1x Suicide Sprint Every 30 Seconds

Faster you finish, the more rest you get before the next round begins.

4 Round Grind:

  • 5x Standing Russian Twist - Start at 25# and increase load each round until 5x is hard, but doable
  • 5x Pull-Up Bar Heel Tap
  • 60-second Farmers Carry - Start at 55# dumbbells and increase load each round until 60 seconds is hard, but doable

“Grind” = work steadily not frantically for the prescribed time or rounds. Pace yourself, but don’t stop to rest.

1 Round:

  • Foam Roll Complex

Session 4

OBJ: Lower Body, Total Body Strength, Upper Body Hypertrophy

Warm Up:
4 Rounds:

  • 5x Power Clean + Push Press - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 10x Goblet Squat - 12kg/25#
  • 10x Push Ups
  • Instep Stretch
  • Lat + Pec Stretch

Training:
5 Rounds, Every 90 seconds:

  • 2x Power Clean + Push Press - @ 85% 1RM

On “go” complete two pc + pp. Faster you finish your two reps, the more rest you get before the next round begins.

Back Squat Warm Up:

  • 8x Back Squat - @ 50% 1RM, Then …
  • 6x Back Squat - @ 60% 1RM, Then …
  • 4x Back Squat - @ 75% 1RM, Then …

5 Rounds, Every 90 seconds:

  • 2x Back Squat - @ 85% 1RM

On “go” complete two back squat. Faster you finish your two reps, the more rest you get before the next round begins.

5 Rounds - Hypertrophy Superset:

  • 10x Kneeling Curl To Press - Increase load rapidly each round until 10x is hard, but doable
  • 8x Chin Up - Break the sets if necessary, but get in all 8x reps
  • Foam Roll Low Back

2 Rounds:

  • Instep +
  • 5x Shoulder Dislocates

Session 5

OBJ: Lower Body, Total Body Strength, Upper Body Hypertrophy

Warm Up:
4 Rounds:

  • 3x Craig Special - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 6x Dumbbell/Kettlebell Hinge Lift - Start light and increase load as you warm up
  • 10x Push Ups
  • Instep Stretch
  • Lat + Pec Stretch

Training:
5 Rounds, Every 90 seconds:

  • 2x Craig Special - @ 85% 1RM

On “go” complete two pc + pp. Faster you finish your two reps, the more rest you get before the next round begins.

Hinge Lift Warm Up:

  • 8x Hinge Lift - @ 50% 1RM, Then …
  • 6x Hinge Lift - @ 60% 1RM, Then …
  • 4x Hinge Lift - @ 75% 1RM, Then ….

5 Rounds, Every 90 seconds:

  • 2x Hinge Lift - @ 85% 1RM

5 Rounds - Hypertrophy Superset:

  • 10x Bench Press
  • 5x Renegade Man Maker - Increase load rapidly each round until 5x is hard, but doable
  • 5x Shoulder Dislocates

2 Rounds:

  • 3x Floor Slide
  • 3x Pigeon Stretch

1)  Mission Direct

Gym numbers mean nothing. All that matters is mission performance. 

To this end, MTI’s fitness solutions and programming are not boxed in by convention, tradition, orthodoxy, public opinion or any other artificial constraint driven by inside or outside forces.

We begin with the raw fitness demands of the mission and build a fitness solution which directly prepares the athlete for those demands.

 

2) Fitness Solutions Built from the Ground Up

MTI’s programming is not “re-tread” bodybuilding, football, CrossFit, kettlebell, strength or general fitness programming. We’ve built our fitness programming for mountain and tactical athletes from the ground up.

The Fluid Periodization methodology we deploy to concurrently train multiple fitness attributes is completely original and has continued to evolve and improve over the years.

Our mid-section training methodology, Chassis Integrity, is also original, as is our endurance programming, 7 strength training progressions, tactical agility, and work capacity programming.

Our mountain sports pre-season training plans, tactical PFT, selection, school, course, and fitness improvement training plans across military, LE and Fire Rescue are MTI-developed, tested and athlete-proven.

Over the years hundreds of athletes and coaches have taken our advanced programming and unit fitness leader programming courses and MTI is widely recognized within the mountain and tactical professions and fitness media as a thought leader in fitness programming for military and tactical athletes.

 

3) The MTI Method

→ Research: MTI begins program design with extensive research of the fitness demands of the mission, sport or event, identifies the exercises and progressions which sport-specifically meet those demands, chose end-of-cycle goals, and program backward to design the training plan.

→ Deploy & Assess: We deploy the training plan “Lab Rats” at our Wyoming facility. Training session and cycle issues are identified and fixed as we work through the training plan. Post cycle we assess the programming’s effectiveness and efficiency. We keep the stuff that works, and fix or toss the stuff that doesn’t.

→ Publish & Assess Again: Plan is published for purchase as an individual training plan and made available to our subscribers. Feedback/results are assessed.

→ Iterate: We take what we learn from lab rats and athletes, re-visit, update and improve already published training plans. Several of our individual training plans are on their 4th or 5th version.

 

4) Mission-Direct Research

MTI exists to “Improve Mountain and Tactical Athletes mission performance and keep them safe.” To that end, we have developed a unique research methodology aimed at identifying real world areas of improvement and identifying immediately deployable mission-direct solutions. Click HERE to learn more about MTI’s Mission-Direct Research methodology, and Here to read about just few of our research efforts.

 

5) Field Proven

Our stuff works. Weekly we receive unsolicited reviews of our programming and testimonials to its effectiveness.

 

6) Programming Breadth

MTI’s library of 200+ sport-specific fitness plans for mountain and tactical athletes is unmatched. Resources range from specific programming for tactical special forces selections, to specific plans for climbing Rainier and Denali, to general fitness solutions such as running improvement, to post-rehab from injury.

Over the past decade, MTI has partnered with hundreds of athletes throughout their individual mountain and tactical careers, and provided fitness solutions as they face new mountain objectives, tactical schools, selections, PFTs and deployments, and came back from injury.

 

7) Worldwide Influence

Our work is not limited to US Athletes.

We’ve developed selection-specific training plans for Canadian, UK, Australian and German Special Forces Selections and worked with individual military personnel from Scandinavia, South, and Central America.

Canadian, Australian, UK and western European law enforcement and fire/rescue athletes have used MTI programming for mission-direct fitness.

On the mountain side, Alpinists from Japan to Slovakia have consulted with MTI and used MTI’s programming to prepare for mountain objectives.

 

8) Mission Performance beyond Fitness

MTI’s exists is to improve Mission Performance for mountain and tactical athletes and keep them safe. 

This focus on “mission direct” solutions, enhancements and improvements drives our work and research and extends beyond fitness solutions to include training, leadership, gear, team culture, and safety. 

Fitness is just one area of our work.

Our non-fitness research has included tactical cultures, combat uniforms, and gore-tex performance, and effect of stress on marksmanship.

Our work on defining what it means to be a Quiet Professional has had penetrating influence and driven healthy conversations with both mountain and tactical professionals.

 

9) Direct, Honest, Clear Answers

Since 2007 we’ve taken and answered dozens of questions weekly from mountain and tactical athletes. We’ve saved these individual Q&A’s and now thousands are archived on our site.

We’re not salesmen, and our answers are noted for their directness, honesty, and clarity. Our stuff isn’t for everyone. If we can help, we’ll let you know. If we can’t, we’ll let you know that, too.

– Rob Shaul, Founder

 


All of the Above is Backed Up By Our Promise: Our Stuff Works. Guaranteed.

Our Stuff Works. Guaranteed.

By Rob Shaul

I received notes frequently from athletes hesitant to purchase a subscription or training plans asking me to sell them on why they should make the purchase.

While I understand the question, I’m not a salesman – so I can’t put a hard sale on anyone for our programming.

I can tell them the process we go through to design our programming.

We begin with extensive research on the fitness demands of the event, identify the exercises and progressions which sport specifically meet those demands, chose end-of-cycle goals, and program backward to design the plan.

Then we test the cycle on ourselves and our lab rats here in Wyoming. We document, note what works and doesn’t work, re-assess, and make changes and modifications.

Then we publish the programming in the form of one of our plans or as part of our subscription daily training sessions for tactical and mountain athletes.
We don’t stop there – our daily programming is the “tip of the spear” for our programming evolution. We use these sessions to learn and make continuous improvement.

As we learn more and improve, we go back, and update the sport-specific training plans on the website. For example, we’re currently on Version 5 of our Ruck Based Selection Training Plan and Version 3 of our Dryland Ski Training Plan and Version 4 of our Big Game Back Country Hunting Training Plan.

We understand our programing isn’t cheap, but we believe it’s a great value. The $79 for the Ruck Based Selection Training Plan, and $39 for the Dryland Ski Training Plan reflect the, research, work, innovative theory, iteration, testing and feedback we’ve put in and received to make these plans effective.

All that matters for us is outside performance, and we feel strongly that Our Stuff Works in the real world.

Here’s our guarantee:

1) Individual Training Plan Purchase:
If you purchase an individual training plan, follow it as prescribed before your season/event/pft/selection, and if you don’t feel you were physically ready for your season/event/pft/selection, and/or didn’t see dramatic improvements in your early season performance, we’ll refund your money, no questions asked.

2) Athlete’s Subscription
If you purchase an Athletes’ Subscription, follow the training sessions as prescribed, and are not satisfied with the quality of the programming, notify us within 30 days of purchase, and we’ll refund your money, no questions asked.

Questions?
Email: rob@mtntactical.com

COMMON QUESTIONS:

Do you have any reviews or testimonials from athletes who have used your Athlete’s Subscription
Yes. Click HERE.

Is it true you guarantee your stuff works?
Yes. If you purchase an Athletes’ Subscription, follow the training sessions as prescribed, and are not satisfied with the quality of the programming, notify us within 30 days of purchase, and we’ll refund your money, no questions asked.

How is MTI programming different than CrossFit?
This is a common question. Read our answer HERE.

You have a lot of competitors. Why should I choose MTI?
MTI is driven to improve mountain and tactical athletes’ mission performance and keep them safe. This emphasis and focus on mission performance sets us apart. Read about more that sets us apart HERE.

If I purchase a plan or subscription, how do I access the programming?
All of our plans are online, accessible via username and password.
You can log in through our →Website  or Mobile App →IOS and Android.

Do you have downloadable .pdf’s of the training plans?
No. But you can print the programming, by week, from your browser. You access individual training plans online via a username and password.

Do you have a mobile app?
Yes, we do. Available for IOS and Android.

What is the difference between purchasing an individual training plan, packet of plans or an Athlete’s Subscription?

  • Plan – Like purchasing the DVD of the first Star Wars movie. You own it forever, including any updates we make to the plan.
  • Packet – Like purchasing the DVD’s of all the Star Wars movies. You own them forever, including any updates we make to the plans.
  • Athlete’s Subscription – Like subscribing to Netflix. You get access to all 200+ plan in our library, but lose access if you unsubscribe.

If I purchase an Athletes Subscription Can I cancel on my own, anytime?
Yes.

Do I have to contact MTI to cancel or can I do it myself?
You can do it yourself. Instructions HERE.

If I purchase a subscription and have questions about where to start or what plans(s) to use for my goals, will you help?
Yes. We answer dozens of training questions from athletes weekly. Email coach@mtntactical.com.

If you add new plans or update existing plans after I subscribe will I have access to them?
Yes. We are continuously adding training plans and packets (2-5/month) and updating plans. With your subscription you’ll have access to all new plans, new courses and plan updates.

What Equipment is Required?
Click the “Required Equipment” tab to find out what equipment is required for the specific plan you are interested in.

Where do I find unfamiliar exercises?
See our Exercise Library HERE. The Run and Ruck Calculators are listed as exercises.

What about nutrition?
See our Nutritional Guidelines HERE.

Can I see sample training?
Click the “Sample Training” tab to see the entire first week of programming.
You are encouraged to do it before purchasing.

What if I have more questions?
Email rob@mtntactical.com

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