Missing Link to Performance: Rest/Recovery, De-Stressing Often life can get in the way of fitness performance as well as your basic health. The missing link to better performance is...
How to Reduce Your Blood Pressure High blood pressure or hypertension is basically a circulatory problem that is an increase in pressure in your veins and...
Health Screening 101 (Part 2 of 3) In this article, we will discuss the recommended courses of action to obtain healthy screening numbers.
4 Tips to Help You Sleep Better The best training plans will not work if sleep and nutrition are neglected.
How Insulin Resistance Evolves into Type 2 Diabetes and Other Costly Diseases Even our military must worry about insulin resistance and diabetes, as more and more of the active-duty members are...
Shining a Spotlight on the Biggest Health Problem in the US Insulin resistance is our nation’s biggest public health problem and potentially will get much worse in our future.
Importance of Sleep Part 2: Rituals You have a lifting schedule, a running schedule and a work schedule. You should create a sleep schedule.
A Thousand Calories Can Kill Us and Save Us Americans are bordering on obese, with lower activity rates and nearly double the daily recommended caloric amount. What's...
Ask Stew: Night Shift (Training, Living, Eating and Sleeping) Working the night shift is common for any tactical profession. Here is an email from a man who is joining the military but...
What Is in Your Snack Drawer? The secret to summer survival is keeping the good snacks in the open and hiding any junk food out of sight.
Get Faster with These Built-for-Speed Workouts Many fitness tests include speed and agility in addition to endurance runs. You need a good workout to take to the track to...
Ask Stew: How to Train for Air Force Special Warfare with Limited Pool Time Here's what I would do with two days a week of swimming to get ready for the challenges of the Air Force pararescue (PJ)...
8 Ways Military PT Has Shaped the Wider World of Fitness Military fitness training has infiltrated our country’s fitness world for decades.
50th Marine Corps Marathon: New Record Set, Marine Major Claims Third Win The 50th running of the Marine Corps Marathon wrapped up with a record performance by the women's winner, as well as a third...
Do This to Get Your First Pull-Up or Improve to Double Digits Federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, have added pull-ups to the special agent candidate fitness test. Here is a...