By Rob Shaul
Grunt PT is the Mountain Tactical Institute’s day-to-day mission-direct, tactical programming for line unit, active duty soldiers.
After witnessing many top-down, command-driven fitness initiative failures over the past decade, we committed to developing programming line unit soldiers at all levels could implement on their own, with or without command support.
Grunt PT has it’s foundation in MTI’s elite level Operator Session day-to-day programming for SOF personnel and trains the following fitness attributes concurrently:
- Relative Strength – strength per bodyweight
- TAC SEPA – Tactical Speed, Explosive Power and Agility
- Work Capacity – with a sprinting emphasis
- Chassis Integrity – MTI’s functional core training methodology. More HERE.
- Military Endurance – running, rucking
The Training Packet is composed of 5 “Arcangel” Grunt PT training plans/cycles:
- Michael
- Gabriel
- Raphael
- Uriel
- Raguel
Cycle descriptions
Implementation
Each training day there are 3x Training Sessions: Black, Gray and Green.
Implementation depends upon equipment restrictions.
The Black, Green and Gray Training Sessions are equipment-independent of each other, which gives fitness leaders with equipment restrictions the ability to split the soldiers into 3 groups (Black, Gray, Green) and train different fitness attributes each day to maximize the use of available equipment.
Understand that over the course of the entire individual Grunt PT training cycle, all the soldiers/Marines will complete the same training sessions, just during different days.
Required Equipment
The major equipment limitation of Grunt PT is barbells, bumper plates and racks needed for the strength sessions. In general, fitness leaders will need 1x barbell, bumpers and rack for every 3 soldiers who are training.
Strength session groups will do the warm up together then be split be divided – half will use the barbells for 20 minutes, half will use dumbbells/kettlebells for 20 minutes, then they will swap. The group will come together again for the TAC SEPA final part of the session.
Work Capacity and endurance groups will train together for the entire session.
In addition to barbells and racks, other equipment requirements include plyo boxes, 60# sandbags, and dumbbells.
Equipment List for a Company of 100-120 Soldiers
This equipment list would assume the Company would be broken up into 3x groups of 30-40 soldier: Black, Gray and Green
Squat Stands/Barbells/Plates:
- 5x Squat Stands
- 5x Barbells with set of collars
- Bumper Plates per barbell. 2 each of … 45s, 35s, 25s, 15s, 10s
- Metal Plates per barbeel: 2 each of 10s, 5s, 2.5s
- 2x Pairs of Extra 45# Bumpers
Dumbbells:
- 10x Pairs of 25#
- 4x Pairs of 35#
- 4x Pairs of 45#
- 4x Pairs of 55#
- 4x Pairs of 65#
- 3x Pairs of 75#
Conditioning/Work Capacity
- 12x 20/24/30 Plyo Boxes
- 15x 60# Sandbags
Misc:
- 30x Foam rollers (36″ cut down into 12″)
- 18 Cones
- 30x Exercise Mats
- 15x Pieces of PVC
- 1x 5 Gallon Bucket for collar/PVC Storage
- 1x Bucket and Chalk
We also assume soldiers could use their Individual Body Armor for Agility and Work Capacity.
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