Want to Evaluate Your Fitness? Leave the Ego, Bring the Objectivity Setting your ego aside to assess strengths and weaknesses is not as easy as you might think. That's especially true if you...
Which Spec Ops Is Right for Me? You cannot go wrong whether you decide to be a firefighter, EMT, police SWAT member or part of a military special operations...
A Little Bit of Everything: Friday Workout of the Week This workout has short fast runs, a calisthenics superset, pyramids, moderately heavy weights, PT reset exercises and workout...
Everything You Need to Know About the Army's New PFT The Army is getting tough on new recruits. If you are considering joining the Army this year or are currently employed by the...
Military Preparation: How to Be a Good Military Recruit If you want to serve, do your homework and learn the administration process of becoming a member to help land your "dream job...
Ask Stew: How Non-Runners Can Prepare for Military Running Tests You cannot address run training for the non-athlete or non-running athlete the same way as a running athlete would.
Use Back-to-Back PT Tests to Find Your Weaknesses One fitness test is bad enough, but any two fitness tests back to back can show you something more than individual weaknesses...
Tactical Fitness with Stew Smith: Meals Before PFT Is it OK to eat before the physical fitness test? How long beforehand, and what should you eat? Stew Smith tells all.
PFT Run Workouts Most of the time, I receive emails from people who are seeking to pass their PFT, and just as many who wish to max out their...
Career Change to Special Forces If you are seeking a career change to any of the special forces and special ops world, start training hard and start training...
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...