How Effective Is Exercise in Preventing Common Illness and Hospital Stays? If you do not find the time to exercise, you may be putting yourself at risk of hospital stays and serious medical...
Ask Stew: How to Add Weights for Fitness Test Prep Developing a weightlifting cycle is the best way to get stronger and improve your performance as an endurance athlete.
Does the Order of Exercises in Your Workout Matter? People who need to do multiple types of training for the military or other tactical professions should consider the order of...
Ask Stew: Help, I Think I'm Overtraining Consider a few life-changing adjustments to help you not only feel better but perform better.
When It Comes to Fitness, Use It or Lose It Regardless of your athletic or tactical fitness goals, the Overload Principle offers a reliable path to growth.
Running Injuries and Military Fitness: How to Recover and Keep Up Training It never fails. As weather outside improves, more people start running again and, within 3-4 weeks, are experiencing running...
Be 'SMART' When Running Hills Here are some clever ways to work on your pace, leg strength and endurance while reducing injuries.
Favorite Workout of the Month: Special Ops Triathlon Plus Mystery PT Stew Smith, a Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, offers his favorite workout of the month.
If You Don't Assess Yourself, You're Just Guessing About Fitness A logical time for that assessment during a 12- or 16-week cycle would either be at the beginning, the end or both.
Ask Stew: When Should I Start Lifting Weights? If you want to diversify your training, then a cycle of lifting is a smart decision.
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...
