Stew Smith's Favorite Fitness Offerings I often get emails, asking about some of the things I like to use, wear and listen to when exercising.
How to Integrate More Workouts After Your Daily Group PT Some commands have challenging daily workouts that sufficiently help a unit stay fit for duty, and some do not.
Why Increasing Speed, Agility and Combat Conditioning Is a Must Fitness tests throughout the military are evolving to include increased speed, agility and combat conditioning.
How to Get More Comfortable in the Water for Military Ops Once you are doing swim workouts, you are well on your way to building a high level of comfort in the water.
What's the Difference Between Tactical Fitness and Regular Fitness? What's tactical fitness all about? It means sacrificing being the best at one thing to be above average at everything.
Adding Extra Tasks to Tactical Fitness Routines Here's a way to work hard, perform certain skills under physical stress and help yourself in fitness testing and performance.
Tactical Fitness with Stew Smith: Preparing for MARSOC An aspiring Marine asks Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, about how to train in preparation for MARSOC.
This Fitness Challenge Involves a Pyramid Warmup and Advanced Circuit Training This week's fitness challenge is an advanced-level, high-volume workout.
How to Prepare for Tactical Fitness Testing Most tests to join civilian service forces require fitness beyond the usual push-up and pull-up routine.
Weekly Workout: How You Should Approach the Dirty Dozen Tactical Fitness Test Have you been following your tactical fitness training plan? Put it to the test in this week's workout.
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.
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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...