Weight Loss

Football Season: Super Bowl Sunday and Weight Gain

Many who enjoy weekends of football during the fall and winter months add a few pounds of body weight. Here are some ways to...

How to Lose Stubborn Love Handles

The number one item if you will notice is food intake. As with any fitness and health goal - nutrition and exercise are alway...

I Need to Lose 40 lbs!

It is a fact that many (too many) of America's men, women, as well as teenaged youth are overweight. Recent alarming statisti...

How to Lose Weight on the Treadmill

Treadmills are the right choice for those who want to lose weight.

Ask Stew – Work Hard With No Weight Loss

Even if you are highly active with a manual labor job, after a certain age it is difficult to lose that stubborn 10-15 pounds...

Ask Stew: Joining the Military in Medical Services

Here is a nurse who is seeking to join the military, in part to help with student loans, but faces a hurdle – the physical st...

Tough Love to Motivate

There is very little difference between getting motivated to exercise and lose weight / get healthy and having the self-motiv...

Ask Stew: Preparation Tips For Army BCT

Joining the military and having to lose 25 pounds or more prior to Basic Training is very common these days.

U.S. Troops Too Fat to Fight?

A shocking 20 percent of all male recruits and 40 percent of female recruits are too heavy to enter into the military ranks.

Ask Stew: Diet and Weight Loss In Preparation For Hard Workouts

Remember, you are eating for energy to train hard as well as lose weight, so your food choices should continue to be rich in...

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Lacey Hancock works out with dumbbells in Smith Physical Fitness Center while Curtis Nelson spots her. The two have become close friends as they share their love of bodybuilding and fitness with others. (Photo Credit: Eric Pilgrim)

Advance Your Fitness Level Through Periodization

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, lays out a perfect plan for those beginning their f...

U.S. Army Soldiers conduct their two-mile run during the Army Physical Fitness Test (Photo courtesy of militaryonesource.mil)

Ask Stew: Fitness Goals Using the PT Pyramid

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, answers a question from a reader on how to set appr...

Pararescueman from the 48th Rescue Squadron workout while using technologies to track their physical and mental well-being as part of the Human Performance Optimization program at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Mar. 13, 2019. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Kristine Legate)

How the Mind-Body Connection Affects Performance

Here are some ways to think your way to better physical performance -- whether it is a PT test, or just a normal workout.

Bridget Rolens demonstrates various mindfulness activities during the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction luncheon Feb. 27 at Scott. Mindfulness meditation is being used in a variety of ways in the military. Rolens is the owner and program facilitator for the Pathways to Mindfulness. (U.S. Air Force photo/Kiana Brothers)

It's Time We Look at Mental Health the Same as Physical Health

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert explains why taking a mental health day as part of your fitn...

Marine recruit Andrade was required to lose 60 pounds in order to enlist in the Marine Corps (Photo By: Kailey J. Maraglia).

Ask Stew: Losing Weight Before Joining the Military

Stew Smith, Navy SEAL and Military.com's tactical fitness expert gives advice to a service member who is trying to lose weigh...