Should I Use Free Weights or Machines? I'm typically a full-on, free-weight maniac, but there are a couple of instances when using machines can make a lot of sense.
4 Tips to Lift More Weight on the Bench Press These four powerful little mental tricks could help you add an immediate 20% more to your bench press and break a new...
How Breathing Can Create 20% More Power By exhaling too soon, you're giving your muscles less stability and oxygen to perform the extra effort you're asking of them.
Jump-start Your Training Motivation Everyone is prone to procrastination, but when our schedules become busy, working out is often the first sacrifice we make to...
5 Steps to See if Your Gains Are Muscle or Fat How do you know if your current bodybuilding program is working or not?
How Much Protein? Depending upon who you listen to, you'll get different answers regarding how much protein you should consume in order to...
Distraction as a Self-Defense Tool We talk so much about the "first strike" as being a punch, but rarely do people consider using "distraction" as a self...
Can You Block a Punch? My first martial arts instructor had a unique style of teaching how to block a punch. He'd stand you up against a wall and...
Want to Evaluate Your Fitness? Leave the Ego, Bring the Objectivity Setting your ego aside to assess strengths and weaknesses is not as easy as you might think. That's especially true if you...
Which Spec Ops Is Right for Me? You cannot go wrong whether you decide to be a firefighter, EMT, police SWAT member or part of a military special operations...
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...