One Model. Seven Ways We Show Up.

More Than Muscle's programs aren't seven separate activities — they're one connected approach to developing the whole young person, delivered through school partnerships, mentoring relationships, and community settings.

How the Model Works

Every program below reinforces the others. Mentorship is the relationship that holds the model together. Leadership and Academic Accountability turn that relationship into daily habits. Financial Literacy and Know Your Rights build the practical knowledge young people need to navigate the world on their own terms. Lessons of Life & Chess builds the thinking skills — patience, foresight, learning from mistakes — that show up everywhere else. Locked In ties it together with the focus and discipline to follow through on all of it.

A young person doesn't have to complete all seven to benefit — but each program is built to connect to the others, so the more of the model they experience, the more it compounds.

The Seven Programs

Mentorship

The relationship at the center of the model.

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Leadership

Turning guidance into the ability to lead.

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Academic Accountability

Support that keeps school a priority.

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Financial Literacy

Practical money skills for real decisions.

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Lessons of Life & Chess

Strategy, patience, and foresight — on and off the board.

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Know Your Rights

What every young person should know about their rights.

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Locked In — Focus & Discipline

The follow-through that makes the rest stick.

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Delivery Formats

These programs reach young people through short-term pilots, multi-week cohorts, workshops, school and community partnerships, mentoring relationships, and physical-development settings — built to fit the setting, not a one-size format.

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