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.
Cuts to Cost-of-Living Allowances 'Make It Hard Just to Exist,' Military Families in Germany Say Spouses in Germany say it is not an affordable place to live right now as the country is being hit by skyrocketing costs.
Last Known Survivor of WWII POW Massacre Dead at 99 Harold Billow, the last known survivor of a World War II POW massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, will be laid to rest in...
Marine Corps Considers Abandoning Parris Island Amid Rising Extreme Weather Threats A string of recent reports has predicted that Parris Island will face increasingly frequent and ferocious hurricanes, floods...
VA Offers $20 Million in Prizes for New Ideas to Reduce Suicides Among Veterans To drive innovation on suicide prevention, the VA is offering prizes for individuals, organizations and industry to develop...
Fort Liberty? Bragg and 8 Other Bases Get New Proposed Names to Scrub Confederate Links The proposed names must now go to Congress and be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
