What You Should Know About Military Body Composition Tests All services use the body composition test, which requires all military personnel to weigh in and have their height measured.
If You Are Functionally Fit, Think You Are Up to the TRX-Force Mission Readiness Challenge? The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times...
Ask Stew: Should I Worry About PED Testing During SEAL Training? Here is a question from a young man seeking to join the ranks of Navy Special Warfare that shares some of his concerns.
How to Build Up to 3 Leg Days a Week You must prepare for fitness tests that include upper-body calisthenics and cardio, but skipping leg day can cause weakness...
10 Ways to Do More with Less When You Have No Space, Equipment or Time In a world filled with fitness gadgets, it's easy to overlook the power of simplicity and consistency.
These Swimming Workouts Will Make Your Time in the Water More Challenging Adding clothing and calisthenics are two ways to make your swim workouts more difficult when preparing for military fitness...
How to Adapt Your Hydration and Nutrition When Working Out in Extreme Heat Hydration, adding electrolytes and good nutritional choices are critical to success regardless of the intense activity, but...
4 Ways Everyday Americans Can (and Should) Harness the Components of Tactical Fitness In an ever-expanding fitness landscape, "tactical fitness" provides an approach tailored to military, law enforcement and...
How to Adapt an Outdoor Fitness Workout to the Gym Sometimes, the best plans get uprooted through no fault of your own.
4 Ways to Rearrange Fitness Workouts for Your Unique Situation Imagine transforming a generic workout plan into a routine perfectly adjusted to your current fitness levels, available...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...