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Don't Cheat On Your Lunges

Over the past years, we have witnessed one very common mistake people make with their lunges, especially when they start to get tired.

Transition from Commitment to Ownership

Learn the difference between commitment and ownership. Commitment gets you into the game. It is being there for someone and their mission, their objective. It's a good thing. However ownership is what takes you over the edge, and into excellence....

Bowhunters Should Be Doing These 2 TRX Exercises

It's difficult to match the same stress that your shoulders go under when you shoot massive amounts of arrows through your bow in the lead up to archery season. Shooting your bow is completely asymmetrical, so it's critical to keep...

backcountry knowledge

What NOT To Do On Your Backcountry Hunts

Now more than ever, hunters are flocking to the backcountry chasing deer, elk and sheep. It’s what drives us here at MTNTOUGH, and we’re always counting down the days until we can lace our boots and shoulder our packs for the next adventure.

fitness · form

How To Not Suck At Pullups

We all hate pull-ups. It is one of the hardest exercises to become proficient at. However we all have the capability to do it. In this video, MTNTOUGH Coach Jimmy explains the best way to start from nothing, and become good at them in as little as a month's time.

MTNTOUGH Testimony: Coldfear

With almost 300 first ascents, Aaron Mulkey has been ice climbing for nearly 27 years, and training online with us for the past few.

MTNTOUGH'er Sam Averett’s Favorite Workout - Run and Gun

Sam Averett is a photographer here in Bozeman, MT and has been working with the MTNTOUGH crew for the last couple of years. We recently sat down with Sam and asked him what his favorite high-intensity workout is.

stories

This 76 Year Old MTNTOUGH Athlete Is Still "Staying Dangerous"

Local MTNTOUGH'er, Rick "Barbwire" is almost always the oldest snowboarder on the hill. But the 76-year-old doesn’t just out shred most youngsters—he's a cancer survivor, training through his 35 rounds of chemo & radiation and today continues to train 5-7 days per week. Rick explains "Mind over matter is the key thing...there are things you can push yourself on...you can’t quit."

fitness

5 Exercises Every Western Hunter Should Know

f physical challenges. Extended overnight trips or lengthy hikes require endurance and stamina, heavy backpacks and steep terrain demand overall strength and balance.

mental toughness

Stay On Track This Summer With This MTNTOUGH Challenge

Listen, more people are counting on us than we realize, our wives, kids, friends, and coworkers are all watching us. They need our leadership and our influence. It is time to own your life and if you have fallen behind, stuck in a rut or have gotten out of shape, the best place to start is with the 30-30 2.0 Challenge!

Everything Has A Purpose: A MTNTOUGH Experience

"Adversity builds strength. When you go home and build your teams, this is how you build them. You lead them through adversity. You lead them through challenge. They will bond closer. Your family gets tighter and you're building warriors." -...

Backcountry Fit story in magazine on table

backcountry knowledge

Preseason Training for Backcountry Hunter Magazine

Hunting the remote areas of North America will challenge both your physical and mental strength like never before. To be ready for these hunts, it is important to train your body so you don't put yourself in a dangerous situation in the mountains.

fatherhood · mental toughness

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.

Top 3 Mistakes (Don't make these preparing for hunting season)

My body was shutting down.I’m not going to lie: I didn’t train at all for that marathon, but there I was, running next to my wife with less than 10 miles to go.It was her lifelong dream.I encouraged her to...

backcountry knowledge · fitness · hunting

Dream Hunt? Don't start training too late.

A few years back, I took my buddy Joe on one of his first backcountry elk hunts in Montana. It was almost his last.He was a diehard passionate bowhunter from Mississippi who dreamed of hunting out west.Mid 40’s. A hard...

mental toughness

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?

fitness · running

Want To Be A Better Runner?... Run the Hills

MTNTOUGH Trainer Jimmy Alsobrook brings you this simple workout specifically designed to help you become a better runner without running 4-5 days per week.

mental toughness

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!

Justin's MTNTOUGH Story: From Packing Out Elk to Climbing 20,000 ft Peaks in South America

MTNTOUGH'er Justin Helvik is a school principal, educator, father. and husband.... he could choose the comfortable life, but he knows that "comfort is the killer."

Be a Lifeline!

I have been the lifeline, and I have also needed the lifeline. The important thing to remember is if you need the lifeline, Ask! If you are holding the lifeline, Throw the Rope! Watch as MTNTOUGH COO brings a special message about taking care of those around us and asking for help when we need it.

mental toughness

"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.

mental toughness

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.

Jimmy Mic'd Up: Good Times

MTNTOUGH Coach, Jimmy Alsobrook has an amazing rhythm when working in the MTNTOUGH Lab. We mic'd Jimmy up again so you can feel the flow and get an idea of what it’s like to train alongside him.

Mountain athlete resting during training

mental toughness

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

mental toughness

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

mental toughness

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."

mental toughness

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.

mental toughness

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.

Bodyweight strength training you can do at home

JIMMY MIC'D UP : Stuck at home? Try tempo to pack on strength.

A game changing evolution that is included in our No Gear 60 program is tempo training. Tempo training and periodization increases your muscles' time under tension with just bodyweight...packing on serious strength with no gear. If you are stuck at home, give these tempo exercises a try today.

mental toughness

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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Don't Cheat On Your Lunges

Transition from Commitment to Ownership

Bowhunters Should Be Doing These 2 TRX Exercises

What NOT To Do On Your Backcountry Hunts

How To Not Suck At Pullups

MTNTOUGH Testimony: Coldfear

MTNTOUGH'er Sam Averett’s Favorite Workout - Run and Gun

This 76 Year Old MTNTOUGH Athlete Is Still "Staying Dangerous"

5 Exercises Every Western Hunter Should Know

Stay On Track This Summer With This MTNTOUGH Challenge

Everything Has A Purpose: A MTNTOUGH Experience

Preseason Training for Backcountry Hunter Magazine

Warrior Mindset: Fatherhood

Top 3 Mistakes (Don't make these preparing for hunting season)

Dream Hunt? Don't start training too late.

The Art of Lifelong Mental Toughness

Want To Be A Better Runner?... Run the Hills

Warrior Mindset: Work on Your Weaknesses

Justin's MTNTOUGH Story: From Packing Out Elk to Climbing 20,000 ft Peaks in South America

Be a Lifeline!

"Stay Dangerous"

Warrior Mindset: LOTR

Jimmy Mic'd Up: Good Times

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

JIMMY MIC'D UP : Stuck at home? Try tempo to pack on strength.

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