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Warrior Mindset: Fatherhood

This week, we have MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian and MTNTOUGH Founder Dustin Diefenderfer discussing how mental toughness plays a role in parenting, specifically fatherhood.

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The Art of Lifelong Mental Toughness

This week, we have MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian and MTNTOUGH Founder Dustin Diefenderfer discussing how one manages to have a strong mind throughout their entire life. It's one thing to be mentally tough for one hour when you know there is an end in sight, but what about when hardships keep coming, and coming and you never know when it might end?

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Warrior Mindset: Work on Your Weaknesses

Tune in this week as MTNTOUGH COO brings us a special warrior mindset message about getting out of our comfort zones to work on our weaknesses. To live extraordinary not ordinary...we need to come outside the box and shore up our weaknesses both in our personal and professional lives!

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"Stay Dangerous"

The non-technical definition is a mindset & ethos where the treatment of others determines who you want to be, while you are here, and through this humility you find fulfillment over the long term versus short term success.

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Warrior Mindset: LOTR

This week MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian brings us a powerful message reminding us that we do not get to chose the time we live in. But we do get to chose what we do with the time we are given. No matter how negative the world gets around us there is always positive ways to make an impact.

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Warrior Mindset: Discard Your Rocks

Ara tells a story about a Panama training mission where his scouts hid rocks in his rucksack. As only Ara can, he turns carrying extra stones into a motivational story that will challenge you to push yourself in 2021. Don't wait to change your life; don't make excuses. The time to start is now.

Hunter building a fire in snowy mountains

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Warrior Mindset: Take Ownership

"You have crossed the line to commitment but my challenge for you going into 2021 is to take ownership. Go one step further, carry your team, carry your friends, carry your family and own 2021." This week Ara brings a special message...

Hunter on edge of snowy cliff in mountains

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Warrior Mindset: Don't Become What You Hate

Listen this week as he coaches leaders & warriors to not allow themselves later in life to turn into what they hated earlier on in life. "Don't lose your fitness, don't lose your focus, don't become jaded or bitter and never lose your fire because this nation and our families need us."

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Stay Dangerous - Becoming Mentally Strong with former Navy SEAL - Alex Fichtler

Everyone has the ability to build mental toughness, but most people don't know how to start.

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Warrior Mindset - Turn On Your Warrior Switch

This week Ara helps us walk through what to do if our warrior switch gets turned off. This can happen to any one of us and we need to take small steps to turn it back it on. Find the small wins, take it one step at a time until you get that warrior switch turned back on and you are back in the race.

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Warrior Mindset : Don't Let the Wear-down Bring the Walls Down

This week MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian brings a very special message, a message about the importance of never quitting regardless of the external circumstances. What we do matters, and what we do has a big impact on those around us...those most important to us. We cannot quit when the world wears us down, because the people we love the most are counting on us!

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The Warrior Switch

This week MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian brought a unique workout to The Lab in Bozeman. The workout was designed so that the participants never knew when they were finished. There were 3 false finish lines in the workout, and each false finish line broke down the participants mentally, by design. Every time they got a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel they would red line, push hard, then their emotions were devastated when they realized the workout wasn't complete and more work was ahead of them.

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Warrior Mindset: Distractions

In this second installment with MTNTOUGH COO Ara Megerdichian coaching a special warrior mindset workout in the Bozeman Lab, Ara walks us through the importance of mission focus.

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Warrior Mindset: The Pressure

Whatever you are training for...to prepare yourself for a crisis add some time limits. Add some pressure. Add some stress. Mimic a crisis and force yourself to think with many distractors. Learn to be slow under pressure.

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Warrior Mindset: Focus On What You Know

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.

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Warrior Mindset: Drink the Water

How to avoid dehydration and heat exhaustion in the mountains.

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Warrior Mindset: 100% And Then Some

Do you have the Warrior Mindset?

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Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 4

The fourth installment in How to Tighten Your Shot Group

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Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 3

The third installment in How To Tighten Your Shot Group

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Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 2

The second installment of How to Tighten Your Shot Group

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Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 1

How to tighten your shot group.

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Warrior Mindset - Crisis Response

Crisis response for the mentally tough warrior.

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Warrior Mindset - New Standards

We used to have this saying in the military, anytime you walk by something, you have established a new standard.

Fitness trainer in gym with mountain athlete

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Warrior Mindset - Value

After 20 Years Training Elite Soldiers, MTNTOUGH COO, Retired Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel and United States Military Academy Physical Education Instructor, Ara Megerdichian discusses Consistent Values.

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Warrior Mindset - Lead Where You Are

A lot of folks want to make a difference, but we don't think we can make a difference. So that's false. Every one of us has the opportunity to make a difference, although we may not realize how. So I want you to think about things. The Warrior Mindset leads to excellence, excellence in everything you do.

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Warrior Mindset - The Pursuit of Excellence with Ara Megerdichian

After 20 Years Training Elite Soldiers, MTNTOUGH COO, Retired Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel and United States Military Academy Physical Education Instructor, Ara Megerdichian discusses The Pursuit of Excellence.

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Lessons From An Army Ranger: "Find a Way to Win."

What makes this year unique is while in past years we could laser-lock on upcoming events and use them as motivation to get off the couch and into the gym or onto the road, this year the uncertainty means that for many, we’ve lost the laser lock.

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He Quit on the Mountain

There’s only three more days to save $150 when you join the online MTNTOUGH Backcountry Hunter All Access Program and I wanted to send one final article out about one of the hunting statistics that really interests me.Only about 10%...

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The Million Dollar Question...

We've been asked a lot about building mental toughness and how you build mental toughness. It's a great question. It's a great thing we all think about.

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How To Motivate A Friend to Start a Mountain Fitness Program

Alright, MTNTOUGH'ers - one of the questions we want to answer is "How do I motivate a friend to kind of get off the couch and get into the workout mode and get into the gym and start working out with me?"

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Warrior Mindset: Fatherhood

The Art of Lifelong Mental Toughness

Warrior Mindset: Work on Your Weaknesses

"Stay Dangerous"

Warrior Mindset: LOTR

Warrior Mindset: Discard Your Rocks

Warrior Mindset: Take Ownership

Warrior Mindset: Don't Become What You Hate

Stay Dangerous - Becoming Mentally Strong with former Navy SEAL - Alex Fichtler

Warrior Mindset - Turn On Your Warrior Switch

Warrior Mindset : Don't Let the Wear-down Bring the Walls Down

The Warrior Switch

Warrior Mindset: Distractions

Warrior Mindset: The Pressure

Whatever you are training for...to prepare yourself for a crisis add some time limits. Add some pressure. Add some stress. Mimic a crisis and force yourself to think with many distractors. Learn to be slow under pressure.

Warrior Mindset: Focus On What You Know

Warrior Mindset: Drink the Water

Warrior Mindset: 100% And Then Some

Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 4

Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 3

Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 2

Warrior Mindset: Tighten Your Shot Group Pt. 1

Warrior Mindset - Crisis Response

Warrior Mindset - New Standards

Warrior Mindset - Value

Warrior Mindset - Lead Where You Are

Warrior Mindset - The Pursuit of Excellence with Ara Megerdichian

Lessons From An Army Ranger: "Find a Way to Win."

He Quit on the Mountain

The Million Dollar Question...

How To Motivate A Friend to Start a Mountain Fitness Program