The Pains of Pushing High Optimal Levels Pain is inevitable at any level of fitness, but don't needlessly injure yourself by focusing too much on one part of your...
If You Struggle Doing Any Push-ups, Here's a Workout Plan for You Beginners to fitness often have an issue with upper-body strength and cannot do a single push-up.
It's Time to Get Moving and Change Your World Having trouble motivating yourself to work out? Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, has a few tips on how to...
Two Top Lessons on Fitness from a Former SEAL Military.com's tactical fitness expert reflects on a long history of physical fitness and discloses the two most important...
12 Lessons About Training and Life That I Learned from My Beagle If you're struggling with motivation and your life goals, take a few cues from an unlikely source: beagles.
Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse When It Comes to Military Preparation If you're a few years short of military age and aim to join a Special Operations group, make sure you're training the right...
Circuit Training Insanity: 3 Hardcore Workouts to Burn Body Fat If you want to shave points off your body-fat percentage, circuit training workouts are about to become your new best friend.
Why Teamwork and Mental Toughness Are Critical to Military Success The grueling nature of SEAL training -- or any military training, for that matter -- ingrains teamwork. No one makes it...
How Periodization Training Can Reinvigorate Your Fall Workouts Fall is approaching, and Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, shares his plans for staying on top of his...
A Healthy Mix of Weights, PT and Cardio It's easy to create imbalances if you do the same old workout each week, missing out on muscle groups that oppose muscles on...
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...