How a Powerlifting Football Player Prepares for the Military The football-playing powerlifter athlete comes to the military with many strengths and some weaknesses that need to be...
Winter Special Ops Tri Challenge: Triple 5K Are you ready to be tactically fit? Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's fitness guru throws down the gauntlet with this...
Ask Stew: How to Train for Timed Runs If you think 1.5 miles is long distance, this article is for you. Or if must improve on timed runs, you can do this week of...
Ask Stew: Joining the Military in Medical Services Here is a nurse who is seeking to join the military, in part to help with student loans, but faces a hurdle: the physical...
Ask Stew: Midlife Exercising Routine Military.com tactical fitness expert Stew Smith is not a fan of repeating the same workouts every week, with no varsity.
Ask Stew: Adventure Racing Preparation As with any tough program in the adventure racing world, as well as the military spec ops selection programs, putting in the...
Tactical Fitness: Pushing a 7-Minute Mile to a 6-Minute Mile Working up to a seven-minute mile isn't too hard, but pushing to a six-minute mile takes focused training. Learn to work out...
Take 2:00 Off Your PFT Mile If you are a beginner, you should ramp up distance, pace and intensity over a six- to eight-week period.
Push it to the Limit: Calisthenics and Cardio AMRAPs As Many Rounds As Possible (AMRAP) has grown in popularity as fitness evolves into a competition. Here is a combination of...
Workout of the Week: New PT Pyramid (Full Body with Weight Options) As winter slowly blends into spring, mix calisthenics into your weight training program and progressively move into more...
'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.
New Login System Coming for Defense Department and Some VA Websites The old DS Logon system will be retired in favor of the more secure myAuth system.
‘Blood-Curdling Screams’: Marine Veteran Helps Stop Walmart Mass Stabbing with Shopping Cart Matthew Kolakowski had just left the Walmart checkout lane when a worker screamed that a man had a knife.
Virginia Governor Demands Richmond Pay Wrongfully Convicted Navy Vet $5.8M Under a new state law, the city of Richmond, Virginia, owes Marvin Grimm $5.8 million, matching a sum the state paid for the...
Ford GPW: The Forgotten Military Jeep Think you know Jeeps? Think again. Buckle up for the story of how Ford helped win World War II and create an automotive icon...