Stew Smith

Stew Smith is a former Navy SEAL and fitness author certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association. If you are interested in starting a workout program to create a healthy lifestyle - check out the Military.com Fitness eBook store and the Stew Smith article archive at Military.com. Contact Stew with your comments and questions.

Email: stew@stewsmith.com

Latest Articles

Recruits of Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, jump rope during the circuit course event at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (Photo By: Angelica I. Annastas).

Ask Stew: Indoor Workout Ideas

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert answers a question from a reader about how to change...

Workout of the Week: 5 Quick Workout Options When Time Is Short

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert give 5 ways you can workout when you have very little time.

7 Ways You're Exercising Wrong and Causing Injury

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert explains how to prevent injuries when you workout.

Workout of the Week: Super Set and Swim PT

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how to break tough workouts into smaller set...

How Meditation Can Revolutionize Your Workouts

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how meditation can benefit your workout goal...

Lance Cpl. Rigoberto Rodriguez carries Lance Cpl. Davey Villalobos toward the finish line during the fireman carry event at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. (Photo By: J. R. Heins).

Workout of the Week: Build Your Own Devil's Mile

Sterw Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how to take on his version of the Devil's M...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Roman Fernandez, right, instructs a Marine on punching techniques in the hangar bay of the USS Essex (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elize McKelvey/Released).

How to Build Mental Toughness

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how you can improve your mental toughness to achieve...

Capt. Bush, participant of "The Murph Challenge 2016" is performing pull ups. (Photo Credit: Jin Sang Woo)

Workout of the Week: New Pyramid Workouts/Goal-Pace Run Challenge

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert freshens up the classic PT Pyramid.

Captain Danielle Pozun, a runner on the U.S. Marine Corps Running Team, is deployed with Special Purpose MAGTF - Crisis Response - Central Command in the U.S. Central Command area of operations (photo courtesy of Marines.TV).

Ask Stew: Getting Faster with Goal-Pace Running

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and MIlitary.com's tactical fitness expert details how Goal-paced Running can help you run fast...

(U.S. Air Force illustration/John Linzmeier)

Humility is Essential When Training for Fitness Goals

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert's advice on the essential ingredient to success in t...

A firefighter from the Albuquerque Fire Department’s Wildland Task Force is shown here. DLA Troop Support took over management of 296 wildland fire items from the General Services Administration (photo by Joseph C. Stone, Albuquerque Fire Department).

How to Train to Join the Military, Police or Firefighter

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how to best train for joining law enforcemen...

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Austin Goins, 633rd Medical Operations Squadron aerospace medical services technician, flips a tire during a Memorial Day Murph and Pararescue Workout event at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 29, 2017 (U.S. Air Force photo/Areca T. Bell)

How to Prepare for the Murph Workout

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details the best way to prepare for the challenging Murph Me...

A Navy SEAL instructor watches as BUD/S students participate in surf drill training at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Logsdon

Ask Stew: All Prepared – Now What Should My Focus Be?

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and MIlitary.com's tactical fitness expert answers a question from a young recruit about to head off to...

U.S. Army Sergeants Major and enlisted Soldiers from across the country pilot in the Army Combat Readiness Test (ACRT) during the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Training Symposium, Fort Jackson, S.C. The ACRT is a six-event assessment designed to reduce injuries and replace the current Army Physical Fitness Test. (Photo by Spc. Tynisha Daniel)

How to Prepare for Fitness Test Day

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, details how to prepare for your fitness test and op...

Army Basic Training PFT

The Army's Basic Training Physical Fitness Test is a three-event physical performance test used to assess endurance.

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The guided missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) pulls into the Bay of Naples, March 4, 2011. (U.S. Navy photo/Daniel Viramontes)

Sailors Created 'Rape List' Aboard Navy's 2nd Sub to Integrate Women

The Florida, homeported in Kings Bay, Georgia, was the second submarine to integrate enlisted women.

Sgt. Kelvin Ansari a Savannah, Georgia, police officer who served 21 years in the Army, was killed May 12, 2019, while responding to a robbery. He left behind a wife and four children ranging in ages from 5 to 25. Savannah Police Department

Police Officer Killed in Line of Duty Was Father of 4 and Army Veteran

Kelvin Ansari left behind a wife and four children ranging in ages from 5 to 25. He had served 21 years in the Army.

Henry and Dushan allegedly spent $500 per day of the stolen money on drugs. (DeLand Police Department)

Couple Left Veteran, 82, Suicidal After Emptying his Bank Account, Police Say

The couple allegedly spent more than $500 of the money on drugs daily.

In this Sunday, May 19, 2019, photo released by the U.S. Navy, sailors partake in a foreign object and debris walk-down on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. (Garrett LaBarge/U.S. Navy via AP)

Trump Warns Iran Not to Threaten US or It Will Face 'End'

Trump's tweet comes after he seemingly sought to soften his tone on Iran following days of heightened tension.

Combat units who have rotated through the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California have been painting their unit insignias on boulders at Painted Rocks since 1981. (Matthew Cox/Military.com)

Here's the Real Story Behind the 'Painted Rocks' at Army's NTC

For nearly four decades, combat units have painted their insignias on boulders near the road into Fort Irwin.

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Gregory “Wired” Colyer flies his T-33 Acemaker during the Twilight Show at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., May 17,.

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Army News

FN MK 3 Fire Control Unit, which is designed to give grenadiers a complete sighting and aiming solution for 40mm grenade launchers. (Image: FN America LLC)

FN's Fire Control System May Offer Glimpse at Army's Next-Gen Weapon Tech

The FN Mk3 Fire Control Unit is designed to give operators a sighting and aiming solution for 40mm grenade launchers.

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Todd R. Wasmund has been assigned to command France's Marseilles-based 3rd Armored Division as part of the first reciprocal exchange of general officers between the two armies. (Photo: U.S. Army)

In a First, US Brigadier General Named Deputy Commander of French Armored Unit

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley announced the assignment following the approval of the exchange last month.

U.S. Soldiers with the Indiana Army National Guard take the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) at the 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 15, 2019. (U.S. Air National Guard/Tech. Sgt. William Hopper)

Injured Soldiers May Not Have to Take the Army's New Fitness Test

Soldiers with permanent profiles who are unable to complete the new ACFT may be allowed to take an alternate fitness test.

Navy News

Each year, approximately 1,000 members of the United States Naval Academy plebe (freshman) class form a human pyramid around the 21-foot tall Herndon Monument to remove a plebe hat that the upperclassmen have placed on the top. (U.S. Navy photo/Brianna Jones)

Naval Academy Class of 2022 Ends Herndon Climb with a Couple of Hat Tosses

Naval Academy midshipmen clocked their climb at the Herndon Monument at 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Courtland Savage from early in his training. (Courtesy Courtland Savage)

Navy to Change Pilot Call Sign Protocol After Minority Aviators Report Bias

The head of naval aviation has directed the creation of a new process for approving and reviewing pilots' call signs.

Walter Daniel and Rebekah "Moani" Daniel. (Courtesy Photo)

Supreme Court Denies Military Medical Malpractice Case Petition

But while the court rejected Daniel v. the United States, Justices Ginsburg and Thomas came together to press the issue.

Air Force News

Then-Backup Spaceflight Participant Barbara Barrett during a press conference on Sept. 29, 2009, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Trump Taps Former Diplomat as Next Air Force Secretary

Barbara Barrett, a former diplomat and businesswoman, is the president's pick to be the service's 25th secretary.

The Army recently issued a directive to reduce the financial burden for spouses who wish to continue their professional careers after they move to a new duty station. (U.S. Army/Courtesy Photo)

Army, Air Force Announce Professional Licensing Fee Reimbursement for Spouses

The benefit was included in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. Reimbursements will be backdated to Dec. 12, 2017.

Artist’s concept for Boeing's planned F-15EX fighter aircraft. (Image: Boeing)

Air Force Wants Both F-35 and F-15EX. But if Forced to Choose, It's No Contest: SecAF

The only factor that would stifle the F-15EX fleet would be another bad budget situation, said Air Force Secretary Wilson.

Marine Corps News

An AV-8B Harrier from Marine Attack Squadron 542 takes off to conduct training sorties out of Marine Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue June 21. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Lance Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki)

Marine Pilot Released from Hospital After Ejecting from Harrier

The Marine Corps pilot who ejected from his jump jet before it crashed in North Carolina was released with no injuries.

An AV-8B Harrier takes off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., March 21, 2016. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Mackenzie Gibson)

Marine Harrier Crashes in North Carolina, Pilot Ejects

A Harrier jump jet crashed on Monday near Havelock, North Carolina, near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.

President Donald Trump arrives at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston, Texas, April 10, 2019. (Texas Air National Guard photo/Siarah Rodriguez)

Trump Reportedly Preparing Pardons for SEAL, Green Beret Accused of Crimes

President Donald Trump could issue the pardons on Memorial Day, the New York Times is reporting.

Coast Guard News

Cadets take the Oath of Office during commencement for the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Graduating Coast Guard Academy Cadets' Leadership Led to Changes Big and Small

The Class of 2019 graduates from the academy Wednesday. National Security Adviser John Bolton is the keynote speaker.

This Nov. 7, 1941 image provided by the U.S. Coast guard shows the British oil tanker Coimbra. The Coimbra was torpedoed by a German U-boat in January 1942 off the coast of New York, killing 36 officers and crew members aboard. The Coast Guard said in a news release that a team has pumped more than 62,000 gallons of oil from its tanks since May 11, 2019. (U. S. Coast Guard via AP)

Work Underway on British Tanker Sunk by U-Boat off NY in WWII

A team has been at the site of the tanker since April 29 and has pumped more than 62,000 gallons of oil since May 11.

In this Saturday, May 18, 2019, photo, Rear Adm. Matthew Bell, right, presents a Silver Lifesaving Medal to George "Radar" Lambert, middle, at the Atwood Building courtyard in Anchorage, Alaska. Lambert was awarded the medal by the U.S. Coast Guard for saving Smith from drowning in Kotzebue in 1998, when he was 10 and she was 12. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Alaska Man Given Coast Guard Medal Years After Girl's Rescue

An Alaska man has received the U.S. Coast Guard's second-highest civilian honor for saving a girl from drowning.