Ask Stew: Why to Include Pull-ups in Your Military Fitness Program With nearly 100% of your body weight pulled off the ground, the pull-up is considered the heavy weightlifting exercise of the...
Why Weights Are Not Necessary to Prepare for Military Boot Camp Nothing prepares you for push-up and pull-up military fitness tests quite like doing push-ups and pull-ups to failure during...
How to Avoid the Most Common Mistake in Military Fitness Testing Military.com tactical fitness expert Stew Smith offers four suggestions for how to prepare with only one month to go before a...
Tactical Fitness: Critiquing the Combat Swimmer Stroke A reader asks Military.com tactical fitness expert Stew Smith how he can improve his sidestroke through the combat swimmer...
Tactical Fitness: How to Squeeze in Your Military Fitness Training A Marine poolee asks Military.com tactical fitness expert Stew Smith how to schedule his military fitness training despite a...
What Are Some Goals That Can Motivate You to Get Fit? These goals can help monitor progress in the gym and build habits from your initial motivation as you turn those habits into...
Supplemental Workouts that Can Blend in with Your Unit PT Developing and maintaining a personal routine while serving in the military can be a challenge.
How a Stone-Age Weapon Evolved into a Useful Piece of Fitness Equipment A steel mace is a weighted globe welded onto a long, somewhat-hollowed lever.
A PT Program for the Naval Academy’s Summer Seminar Every year, I have the honor to fill a guest physical training instructor spot at the Naval Academy Summer Seminar Program.
Cardio Workouts of the Week: Run, Swim, Run (or Ruck) When it comes to cardio workouts, you either love them, hate them or tolerate them. Adding variety can help those workouts.
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...