The Recovery Workout Explained A "recovery day" is still a workout, but arranged in a way to help you loosen aching joints and muscles with a focus on...
The Two Things Most Skip in Their Workouts There are two segments of a workout that are most often skipped or rushed: the warmup and cooldown.
Tactical Fitness with Stew Smith: Finding Time and Starting Out A college student needs time to work out, a new swimmer needs advice on distance, and a 64 year-old gets back in the game.
The Push-up System Over the years, I have developed several methods to increase push-ups and have written articles on ways to implement them...
The Perfect Workout Pyramids and super-set workouts are a great foundation builder, as well as a proven maintenance method for calisthenics-based...
Ask Stew: Can You Help Improve My Swimming Technique? People often ask about swimming tips. Here is a typical email that truly will require a video to explain the stroke this...
Advanced/Spec Ops Level Workout of the Week This workout of the week from Navy Seal veteran and fitness expert Stew Smith is geared toward the special-ops side of our...
How a Swimmer Prepares for Military Training Swimming is excellent cardio conditioning and a survival skill. Learn the strengths and weaknesses that a swimmer needs to...
How Special Ops Instructors View Candidates You will not get through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) or other selection programs on your own.
Winter Special Ops Tri Challenge: Triple 5K Are you ready to be tactically fit? Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's fitness guru throws down the gauntlet with this...
US Special Forces Have a Rough, Little-Known Way to Get to Missions Helocasting involves commandos jumping from a helicopter into water and either swimming or using a small boat.
Oklahoma Guard Paychecks Under Threat as Vaccine Battle with Pentagon Escalates Austin sent a letter denying Gov. Stitt's written request that Guard members be exempted from the vaccination requirement.
Nearly 9,000 Marines Didn't Get Vaccinated By the Deadline. Many Risk Getting Kicked Out of the Corps. The Marine Corps reported that 5% of the force had not gotten even one shot before the deadline passed.
Army Whistleblower Who Wrote to McCain About Prisoner Abuses Dies at Age 42 The allegations of abuse eventually led the U.S. Senate to approve anti-torture legislation in 2005.
Air Force Recruit Shipped Off to Boot Camp After Allegedly Assaulting Police on Jan. 6 Prosecutors noted that Aiden Bilyard was initially identified by online detectives who have been pouring over videos and...
