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Air Force Pre-Boot Camp Workout
Here is the Air Force's recommended workout schedule. It's designed to prepare you for the rigors of basic training and help...
Get Air Force Special Operations Fit
Have you ever thought about getting little more out of your Air Force career?
According to the SAR Swimmer course syllabus, rescue swimmers must have flexibility, strength, endurance, and be able to function for 30 minutes in heavy seas.
Once again - these are the minimum scores for the PAST - to be accepted into any Special Force it takes a higher score to be competitive.
A young man asks Stew about proper swimming technique with his sidestroke.
Air Force Special Operations Command's pararescuemen, also known as PJs, are the only Department of Defense specialty specifically trained and equipped to conduct conventional or unconventional rescue operations.
A reader asks how to increase their speed in a 500m swim.
Here is an email from a young man seeking to join the Navy and become an HM and serve with RECON or MarSOC units.
I am debating where to serve? Firefighting EMT, Police SWAT, or Military Special Ops. I know you write about all of them - do you have any advice on what you'd recommend? I am trying to do a workout that would help prepare me for all of them as I have about a year before I need to make my decision.
When people first try the combat swimmer stroke, they can often look silly. Even swimmers have issues with this stroke.
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Here is a workout I like to do to check progress, or lack thereof, in a variety of running styles and benchmark distances.
Ask Stew: Running Weekends
It is possible to get through your training program with running only a few days a week, but your risk future injury.
The Twelve-Mile Run Plan
The focus is to run shorter and faster runs in the week and a long slower run at a comfortable pace on the weekend.
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Most of the time, I receive emails from people who are seeking to pass their PFT, and just as many who wish to max out their...
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