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U.S. Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, Jan. 23, 2018. (U.S. Navy photo/Abe McNatt)

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert responds to a Naval Officer who failed at BUDs and is wonder...

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brandon, a member of the 118th Wing, Tennessee Air National Guard, performs an overhead squat during a high-intensity workout (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Mark Thompson)

What Is the Most Important Virtue and Element of Fitness?

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, delves into what virtue is most valuable for achieving fitn...

How Meditation Can Revolutionize Your Workouts

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how meditation can benefit your workout goal...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Roman Fernandez, right, instructs a Marine on punching techniques in the hangar bay of the USS Essex (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elize McKelvey/Released).

How to Build Mental Toughness

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details how you can improve your mental toughness to achieve...

(U.S. Air Force illustration/John Linzmeier)

Humility is Essential When Training for Fitness Goals

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert's advice on the essential ingredient to success in t...

An Air Force pararescue trainee low crawls during an obstacle course event at Medina Annex, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 18, 2011. The initial course for a Pararescuemen trainee is a 9-week extensive physical conditioning indoctrination program at Lackland AFB, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erik Cardenas/Released)

How to Deal with Failure: Reframe and Move Forward

Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness guru's advice for overcoming failure and adversity.

Recruits of Company A, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, sprint around the track during their Combat Fitness Test aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (Photo By: Matheus J. Hernandez)

Finding a Why: The Positive Effects of Physical Training

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert details the positive effects of physical training.

Private First Class Leo C. Menge, Delta Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, performs a one handed push up during a physical fitness session at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (Photo By: Jericho Crutcher)

5 Steps of a Fitness Goal Mindset

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert gives his advice on how to have a fitness mindset.

Laura Bennett stretches in the grass after a game of soccer at Pine Plains fields. Bennett uses fitness as an outlet to relieve stress and to maintain strength and energy. (Photo Credit: Mrs. Michelle Kennedy (Drum)).

Here's a Foolproof Way to Make Time for Workouts

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, gives his foolproof way that anyone, even with limi...

Senior leaders of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade participated in the Army Combat Fitness Test (Photo Credit: 1st Lt. Verniccia Janet Ford (101st Airborne))

An Easy-to-Remember Goal for the New Year

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, gives his advice on the single most important fitne...

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Air Force Tech Sgt. Ricardo Rivera finishes a heat during the 2019 DoD Warrior Games in Tampa, Florida. (DoD /EJ Hersom)

Workout of the Week: Running Faster With Sprints, Shuttle Runs and Timed Runs

Here is a workout that blends several types of running into a single workout with the goal of making you faster.

Marine conducts a deadlift. (U.S. Marine Corps/Christopher Madero)

Avoiding Injury During the Fitness Journey

Don't get hurt while getting fit. Avoid these pitfalls.

Federal Bureau of Investigation team members demonstrate an execution of a search warrant. (U.S. Army/William Phelps)

Ask Stew: Fitness Prep for Army to FBI

From a fitness perspective, the good news is that the tests are similar enough that anyone can prepare for both Army and FBI...

A U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party Airman assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kansas, performs pull-ups. (U.S. Air Force/Zade Vadnais)

Workout of the Week: PT, Weight Mix Warm-up with Run, PT and Swim

Using the pyramid as a warm-up, mixing in upper body exercises is a good way to prepare for higher volume sections of a worko...

A Soldier from the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) does push-ups as part of an Army Physical Fitness Test. (U.S. Army/ K. Kassens)

Ask Stew: High Repetition Calisthenics Methods

What is the level of volume required to improve training in calisthenics fitness testing?