Ask Stew: The Benefits of Machine Cardio vs. Running If you use the full-body elliptical machines, you will burn more calories than walking or running at some speeds.
How We Adapt Our Running and Cardio Workouts During the Winter Wondering what kind of cardio to do in the winter? Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, has the answer for you...
How You Can Avoid the Gym by Using Calisthenics Calisthenics, or body-weight exercises, originated thousands of years ago in ancient Greece and have been a major component...
A Logical Way to Build Up to Running Longer Distances and Preparing for Timed Runs Training for a fitness test is just a different way to train. It is not any harder, just different.
Breathing Is Natural, but Here's How You Could Be Doing It All Wrong Did you know that you can speed up and slow down your central nervous system by learning some breathing techniques?
How Interval Pyramid Tempo Training Can Make You a Faster Runner Retired Royal Commando “Sol” Sollerer shares an article about improving your pace with interval training.
How to Get Back in the Fitness Groove After an Injury or Illness Illnesses or injuries often occur and derail our fitness and progress. Getting back into it after several weeks or months can...
Tactical Fitness: 7 Tips for Common Running Injuries There are many injuries that can pop up almost out of nowhere, especially when pre-training for and during Special Ops...
9 Ways to Tell That You Might Be a Runner Here is a series of issues that runners face every year, along with links or advice to help with whatever running goals you...
Ask Stew: How to Keep Shin Splints from Sabotaging Your Workouts For people starting to run or run again after a long period of time, shin splints is often one of the first issues you may...
Try This Minimalist Leg Day Workout Here are several ways to do a leg day with minimal equipment to help you reach your training goals.
Ask Stew: Workouts to Improve Your Three-Mile Run Time Crushing this test is tough and requires significant time building an aerobic base.
How to Keep Your Fitness Evolving While You Do Regardless of your athletic and fitness history, the need to treat fitness training as a journey cannot be stressed enough.
You Can't Outwork Your Diet. So Now What? If you're past your teen years, it's time to face the facts: You can no longer outwork your diet.
Ask Stew: How Do I Build Better Basic Immunity Through Fitness? Focusing on health and wellness is a matter of life or death. But for many, especially in the tactical profession, human...
