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MOPs & MOEs
Changing the fitness culture of the force. Your one stop shop for all things fitness for tactical professionals.
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The Science of Human Performance: Part 3 with Dr. Rachele Pojednic
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The Science of Human Performance: Part 2 with Dr. Rachele Pojednic
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The Science of Human Performance: Part 1 with Dr. Rachele Pojednic
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Hot Takes: Athletic Trainers, MAHA Updates, Combat Standards and More!
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The Art of Programming for Diverse Fitness Levels with Nate Palin
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Zone 2 Cycle Syncing Hybrid Training with Dr. Alyssa Olenick
On the week's episode we're getting "clickbaity with integrity" in the words of our guest, Dr. Alyssa "Lyss" Olenick. Between her social media presence as…
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Reverse Cycle PT for Heat Acclimation with MAJ Christian Wardynski
We first became aware of the story at the heart of this episode over three years ago. Details were scarce at the time, but we knew that heat casualties had…
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Athletic Trainers and Army Fitness Test Changes: Our Thoughts
This one is a bit of a current events episode. We're diving into two hot topics in Army human performance:First we dig into the ongoing drama around cutting…
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Salt Sugar Fat: Exploring the Processed Food Industry with Michael Moss
Michael Moss is the author of the #1 NYT bestseller Salt Sugar Fat that rocked the processed food industry (which has been so impactful that it's still in…
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Breaking Down the Army Fitness Test Changes with CSM Raymond Harris
On Monday the Army announced some major fitness testing changes that include removing the Standing Power Throw (SPT) and introducing sex-neutral standards for…
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VO2 Max as a Vital Sign
In 2016 the American Heart Association called for Cardiorespiratory Fitness (CRF), generally measured using VO2max, to be included as a vital sign. They…
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Endurance Training 101: Top Down vs Bottom Up
This episode is all about identifying the right approach to endurance training for different types of athletes. Some people are genetically predisposed to…
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The Financial Foundation of Health and Readiness with Brendan Duebner
The human performance community often focuses on physical fitness at the expense of other domains. Recent holistic approaches have improved the ways we address…
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SEAL Mindset with Commander (Retired) Jon Macaskill
This episode covers a lot of ground. On the heels of last week's episode where we had to edit out our discussion of women in special operations, that's exactly…
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USASOC Command Sergeant Major JoAnn Naumann
CSM JoAnn Naumann planned on serving one enlistment in the Army to get a clearance and learn a language so she would be competitive for the Foreign Service. 28…
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Gym Myths and Truths: Research Review
In this episode we look at a few pieces of recent research that focus on how knowledgeable both health and fitness professionals and average gym goers are on a…
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Stolen Lunch Money with Steve Beynon
After they complete initial entry training all soldiers are entitled to Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) to help pay for food, but many of them have most…
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Medical Standards for Military Service with COL (R) Chris Meyering
1.35 million applicants received a military entrance physical from 2016 to 2020, and about 15% of them received an initial disqualification. More than half of…
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Military Injury Research with Dr. Dan Rhon
How much do we really know about injury risk and prevention? Our guest this week argues it's less than most people think, so we dive into the state of the…
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The Economics of Health with Professor David Cutler
Why are there more MRI machines in Massachusetts than in all of Canada? Why is healthy food getting more expensive faster than processed food? Why does our…
MOPs & MOEsPart-Time Hitters (Crossover Episode)
This week we're bringing you an episode from Part-Time Hitters, where Eric Evans interviewed us about all things military human performance. We discussed H2F…
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Injury FAQ Part 2: Lower Back Pain, Tendonitis, and Why Foam Rolling Doesn't Work
Welcome back to part 2 of our injury conversation. From prevention to treatment, in this episode we're answering all of your questions about anything to do…
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Injury FAQ Part 1: Running Cadence, Shoulder Impingement, and Why You Should Stop Icing
From prevention to treatment, in this episode we're answering all of your questions about anything to do with injuries. And of course to do that we needed an…
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Make America Healthy Again: Our Thoughts (Part 2)
Welcome back to part two of our Make America Healthy again breakdown. In this part of the conversation, after wrapping up the last of the key elements of the…
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Make America Healthy Again: Our Thoughts (Part 1)
We're starting the new year by diving straight into a politically sensitive topic. According to their platform, Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) seeks to…
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Nutrition in America: How We Got Here with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian
This is a rerun of an episode we did a year ago. As our last holiday rerun before we get into fresh content, this one helps to set the stage for our first…
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How To Build Your PT Plan
This is a rerun of an episode from 2022, if you joined us recently it's a great introduction to building smarter physical training plans to improve performance…
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What You Need To Know About Cognitive Training with Job Fransen
Happy holidays! This is a rerun of an episode we published back in March 2023, but this topic has been getting a lot of discussion again recently so we wanted…
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Return to Flight After a Broken Back with Lt Michaela Long
We stumbled onto Michaela's story because of this hilarious video explaining her pretty traumatic experience. We love a good comeback story after injury…
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Mop Up: Politics of Health, Nutrition Rules that Work, and Fitness over the Holidays
The year is coming to an end and there are a few topics that we didn't make full episodes out of that we thought were worth discussing. In this episode we hash…
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From Overweight to Special Operations with SGM Jaime Espinoza
This episode continues a theme of bringing on guest's who crossed paths with Alex in the Army and helped shape his perspective on human performance. SGM Jaime…
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H2F in the Army Reserve with LTG Bob Harter
One of the toughest challenges in military human performance is how to implement programs that work for reserve service members. With only a couple days a…
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Training for the Long Run with Alyssa Clark
In this episode we're discussing endurance training with an extremely qualified guest with a world class competitive ultra marathon resume. Alyssa Clark is a…
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Leading High Performance Organizations with Shawn Robertson
In our episode with LTG Gilland we mentioned Shawn "Big Tires Rollin" Robertson as a future guest, and now he's here! Shawn is a paragon of fitness (consistent…
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Barbell Basics with Andy Baker
In this episode we're diving into the fundamentals of how to get strong, and our guest is one of the best in the game at taking novices to pretty serious…
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The Best Military Fitness Tests from Around the World
To prepare for this episode we challenged each other to bring our top three fitness tests from any military around the world. Globally there are a wide variety…
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ExPOSEd: Running Technique Doctrine or Ethics Violation?
After two years of waiting, the Pose Method episode is finally here! You've asked what we think of it, here are our answers. Pose Method® is a proprietary…
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An Infantry Marine's Perspective on Army Human Performance with Ray Cossio
We've been talking about having Ray on the podcast for over a year now. He brings a unique perspective as a former infantry Marine NCO turned strength and…
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Building a Hybrid Training Week 101
It has been a long time, but we're back with another "101" episode. This time we're breaking down the considerations involved in assembling a week of hybrid…
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Setting the Record Straight on Contracting with Chris Larkin
We did a contracting episode a few weeks ago where we aired out a few grievances mostly focused on how strength and conditioning coaches in contracted roles…
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Operator Syndrome with Dr. Chris Frueh
Dr. Chris Frueh is back for his second appearance on the pod! If you missed our previous conversation with him we dove into the dysfunction at the VA, with…
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Creatine for Tactical Athletes with Dr. Scott Forbes
A few weeks ago we got the news that Congress was considering directing the military to investigate the potential for adding creatine to MREs. This spurred a…
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Human Performance in Leader Development with LTG Steve Gilland
Our guest for this episode has been on Active Duty for over 34 years, with much of that spent in Special Operations, and he's still scoring 600s on his ACFTs…
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Body Composition and Elite Warfighters with Holly McClung
Our guest this week is a key player in two important research and policy initiatives. First, she led the Army Comprehensive Body Composition (ACBC) study that…
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Is Contracting Killing Strength and Conditioning?
Contracting is a dominant theme in military human performance because so much of the staffing for military human performance teams is handled through large…
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Seeking Truth in Strength and Conditioning with Dr. Chris Frankel
In this wide ranging and long overdue episode we talk about everything from kettlebell training to data literacy. Our guest is something of a godfather in the…
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FAQ Episode: From PEDs to Hybrid Programming
In this episode we answer questions submitted by you guys! Topics covered include PED use in the military, NCAA athletes now being allowed to smoke weed…
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Modernizing Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Training with Kelsey Mathias
Anyone who's familiar with the Army's Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Training (P3T) program has probably heard pretty negative things about it…
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The Pentagon's Role in Human Performance with SEAC Troy Black
We reached out to our guest for this week's episode after he testified before Congress and used the opportunity to repeatedly highlight military human…
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Injury Prevention with John Romanello
Two years into this and we've fielded a lot of questions that relate to injuries. Since we're not experts in that space, we brought a professional on board!…
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The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT): Our Thoughts
The ACFT has been a hot topic since the day it was announced. Even now, after a few years, myths and misconceptions persist. We've seen a lot of these in our…
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Post Traumatic Growth with Jessie Graff
Jessie Graff is probably best known for her athletic achievements on the obstacle course show American Ninja Warrior. In 2016, she became the first woman ever…
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CrossFit for Longevity with Matt Chan
If you know the name Matt Chan, then he needs no introduction. Skip this and start listening. His athletic journey started as a high school swimmer and…
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Ambitious Women in the Army with Maj Sidney Jaques
Sidney Jaques has logged quite a few firsts for women in the Army. In 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne she became the first woman assigned to one of their infantry…
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Home Gyms for Different Budgets
How to outfit a home gym is always a popular topic, and we get plenty of questions about what equipment we recommend. For this episode we break down our…
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Bodybuilding to Military Human Performance with Spencer Posey
This episode is long overdue. Spencer Posey is an all star that anyone involved in military health and fitness should be following. As a sergeant and…
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Inside Army Food Policy with CW3 (R) Jeremy Deck
We're back on our mission to get to the bottom of why providing soldiers with healthy food is such a challenge for the Army, and this time we have an insider…
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Powerlifting and Mental Health with Newton Cheng
Newton Cheng is Google's Director of Health and Performance, but he's also a lot more than that. He started his social media platform focused on his…
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Flying in the Face of Fear with Colonel (Retired) Kim Campbell
Today's episode pulls together a few different important topics, from performing cognitively in crisis situations to how we develop character and leadership in…
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The Double Amputee Who Climbed Everest, Hari Budha Magar
This episode definitely involves physical fitness, but on a deeper level it's much more about resilience. The resilience to pursue an education while growing…