Ask Stew: Strategies for Improving PST Scores Stew Smith, a Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, answers a question from a reader about how to...
Striving for 100, 100, 20 PT Scores (Push-ups, Sit-ups, Pull-ups) Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, details his workout for achieving higher scores on special-ops fitness...
Treadmills That Train You for Military Fitness Tests Professional treadmills have technology that can prepare you for athletic performance, and anyone training to enter a...
Workout of the Week: Full-Body Mix of Challenging Selection Prep Events Stew Smith, a Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, offers his workout of the week.
Ask Stew: Help with Upper-Body Fitness Test (CFA) A reader asks Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, how to improve upper-body strength to prepare for the Navy...
Marine Corps (USMC) Recruit Training If you join the USMC, you will have to pass the initial strength test, or IST -- a shortened version of the physical fitness...
How to Improve Quickly on the Sit-Up Test If you want a job in the military or law enforcement, you likely will need to score well in sit-ups, curl-ups or crunches...
What You Should Know About the Navy Physical Readiness Program The Navy's physical readiness tests are designed to measure core stability, muscular strength-endurance and aerobic capacity.
How to Prepare Yourself for Boot Camp Why show up at your boot camp or a service academy unprepared for the physical fitness test?
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
