Friday Favorite Workout — Leg Day with Army CFT in Mind If you already are doing a leg day, why not add in some of the elements of your future tactical fitness test?
Ask Stew: What Are the Best Routines to Put on Muscle Mass? The primary reason people start lifting weights is to put on muscle mass.
How Military Recruits Can Overcome Fitness Test Issues The most common fitness testing issues for new military recruits are running, push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, swimming and now...
Thanksgiving Day Workouts: What Is Your Favorite Activity? Thanksgiving Day can be a time to enjoy some of your favorite things if you are not traveling or in charge of preparing the...
Ask Stew: When Should I Practice Swim Strokes on Different Sides? When learning the military swimming, treading and swim/dive skills used by special ops, divers, and rescue swimmers alike...
5 Habits from Blue and Green Spaces to Develop Long-Term Health Have you ever been drawn to nature? Have you had an urge to sit by the sea, hike in the woods or just stand barefoot in the...
Workout of the Week: Take Your Pyramid to the Next Level This classic workout is a useful assessment tool for anyone who likes to mix in high-repetition calisthenics like pull-ups...
Ask Stew: How Should I Train the Week Before My AFSW Fitness Test? How to train as the official fitness test nears is a question I often get from people who are a few weeks prior to their test...
3 Ways to Put on the Brakes Before You Break Yourself Your long-term health depends on how well you recover from the daily stresses of life. Longevity, as well as optimal physical...
The End of Daylight Saving Time Dilemma: How Do You Spend the Extra Hour? If you think about it, there is not a better time to build a new morning fitness habit than right now with the end of...
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...