How to Prepare Yourself for Boot Camp Why show up at your boot camp or a service academy unprepared for the physical fitness test?
Boot-Camp Mentality and Tips for Success A majority of young Americans have treated boot camp as a weight-loss clinic and suffered needlessly for several weeks.
Pull-up Push Workout Getting better at pull-ups concerns many people. As with the Push-up/Pull Workout, this idea makes little sense...
Interval Training for the PFT Run I received an email asking if interval training was a good way to improve speed in your military physical fitness test run.
Workout of the Week: PT, Weight Mix Warm-Up with Run, PT and Swim Using the pyramid as a warm-up, mixing in upper-body exercises is a good way to prepare for higher-volume sections of a...
Marine Corps Initial Strength Test (IST) All Marines are provided time to train for the physical fitness test and are expected to maintain an adequate degree of...
Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test (CFT) The Marines' combat fitness test, taken every six months, is intended to keep Marines ready for the physical rigors of...
Marine Corps Body Composition Program The Marine Corps PCP has two main components - The Physical Fitness Test and the Body Composition Program.
How to Pass the Service Academy CFA The CFA, or candidate fitness assessment, not only evaluates strength and endurance, but also measures potential for...
How to Achieve Washboard Abs Having "washboard abs" is not just accomplished by working out daily. It has to become an all-encompassing lifestyle.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
