Here's How to Prevent Injury and Amp-Up Durability for Special Operations Selection You have to factor in traumatic injuries and overuse injuries at any time but especially during the months before selection.
Ask Stew: Build a Running Foundation or 'Lose Your Gains' Preparation for advanced spec ops-level training requires an athlete to work on skills that their sport may not have prepared...
Sit-Ups, Crunches, Planks, Knee-Ups: The Evolution of Core Fitness Testing Core strength testing has come a long way from the straight-legged, twisting sit-ups used before World War II.
Do Tactical Athletes Need Pre-Workout Supplements? Does Anyone? Many military basic training or selection programs ban the use of supplements, rules that were created over the years...
Grip Challenge Workout: Pull Day If you do not have a rope to climb, practice other ways to improve grip.
Ask Stew: How Can a Non-Athlete Prepare for Special Operations Training? Whether you are an athlete or not, this process of preparation for special ops takes time.
Workout of the Week: Intermediate Full-Body Day Getting to the weight room and arranging your exercises so you can get a quick but effective full-body workout requires...
Stuck Inside? Indoor Workout Ideas No matter what your situation is, you just cannot get outside or to the gym to exercise on some days.
How to Prepare for Navy PFT Changes 2020 Sometime in 2020, the Navy plans to make changes in its physical fitness assessment.
Workout of the Week: Creative Edition During the time of the COVID-19 virus, you have to get creative with your training.
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...