MOPs & MOEs

From starting out as a D1 collegiate swimmer to coaching Olympic medalists to training operators for the most elite selections, Scott Johnston has a lot of experience when it comes to knowing how to produce high performance. A core element of his methodology is a massive emphasis on aerobic base building, and his results speak for themselves. In the most recent Best Ranger Competition six of the top ten teams prepared by following training from Uphill Athlete, Scott's company. In this episode, Scott explains the foundations of his approach and why methods developed for training mountain athletes work so well for tactical athletes.

Do pedometers work in space? As the Space Force works to implement a wearable device-driven fitness standard, we're here to ask the important questions. Join us as we discuss all this and more. From types of data to influencing behavior change, this episode is an overarching conversation on the various applications of technology in the tactical human performance space, with a critical look at when it is - and isn't - useful. It also serves as an introduction to the next episode, in which we'll dive into more specifics with a team that has been researching this topic over the past several years.

Evan Peikon is a physiologist & bioscientist who focuses on human performance, including consulting for elite athletes and military special operations. If you've read any of his content you know he has a particular interest in how the body utilizes oxygen, and how better understanding that can enhance our training protocols. Our conversation is all about changing paradigms in tactical strength and conditioning, so be prepared to have some of your foundational assumptions challenged.

You guys have nutrition questions, but we aren't nutrition experts, so we called one in to help out! Sam Leyh is a Performance Dietitian working in Air Force Special Warfare. Listen to this episode to learn how abs are made at Burger King and why you start sweating if you eat too much meat. There might be some other more useful content too, but it will be mixed in with plenty of bad food puns.

Our guest on this episode, Brendon Huttmann, recently transitioned into tactical human performance after a long and accomplished career in professional baseball.  He held major league strength and conditioning and sports science positions with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Los Angeles Dodgers after working his way up through minor league jobs with the Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, and Kansas City Royals organizations. Join us for a conversation about the similarities and differences between professional sports and tactical.

In this episode we take on the classic question: which is more important for tactical athletes, strength or endurance? For once we have an answer that's better than "it depends," but it also took us down a few rabbit holes. Luckily the conversation brought out a few really valuable points that we hope you'll find useful in your training. Or maybe it will just make you mad, in which case we look forward to the comments.

In our first full episode we have a conversation with the one and only Nate Palin about whether "tactical athlete" is a useful term. Nate has been a big part of shaping what tactical strength and conditioning is today, and offers a great perspective. Are tactical professionals athletes? Is the athlete mindset helpful in a tactical environment? Can coaches expect the same things from tactical professionals as they can from athletes? Join us as we dive into all this and more.

Welcome to the MOPs & MOEs podcast! In this pilot episode we'll introduce ourselves, explain what the "MOPs & MOEs" concept is all about, and lay out the way ahead for the podcast. This is where we'll have the longer form conversations that social media doesn't really allow for. 

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