How to Lose Weight During the Holiday Season Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, gives his top tips on how to lose weight (or not gain) during the holiday...
Ask Stew: Recommended Routine for a Strength Athlete Preparing for USMC Specializing in a single sport can magnify weaknesses in areas not utilized in training.
Ask Stew — Work Hard with No Weight Loss Even if you are highly active with a manual labor job, it can be difficult to lose that stubborn 10-15 pounds that lingers...
Resting During Workouts — Actual Rest or Active Rest? There is active rest between sets, active rest between workout days and passive rest for both. What is the right amount of...
Ask Stew: Alcohol and Advanced Physical Training Alcohol has a negative impact on aerobic performance as well as muscle recovery from resistance training.
Ask Stew: CFA Prep for West Point and Plebe Year How can you master the candidate fitness assessment to gain admission to West Point?
The Army-Navy Core Workout Challenge We’ve come up with a fun workout that lets everyone practice the new testing elements of the Navy PFA, USMC PFT and the Army...
Use Back-to-Back PT Tests to Find Your Weaknesses One fitness test is bad enough, but any two fitness tests back to back can show you something more than individual weaknesses...
Tactical Fitness: Are Fighters Born or Made? Are special operations troops born or made? Military.com fitness writer Stew Smith, a former Navy SEAL, weighs in with his...
PFT Run Workouts 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...
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...
