The Recovery Workout Explained A "recovery day" is still a workout, but arranged in a way to help you loosen aching joints and muscles with a focus on...
The Two Things Most Skip in Their Workouts There are two segments of a workout that are most often skipped or rushed: the warmup and cooldown.
Tactical Fitness with Stew Smith: Finding Time and Starting Out A college student needs time to work out, a new swimmer needs advice on distance, and a 64 year-old gets back in the game.
The Perfect Workout Pyramids and super-set workouts are a great foundation builder, as well as a proven maintenance method for calisthenics-based...
Ask Stew: Can You Help Improve My Swimming Technique? People often ask about swimming tips. Here is a typical email that truly will require a video to explain the stroke this...
Advanced/Spec Ops Level Workout of the Week This workout of the week from Navy Seal veteran and fitness expert Stew Smith is geared toward the special-ops side of our...
How a Swimmer Prepares for Military Training Swimming is excellent cardio conditioning and a survival skill. Learn the strengths and weaknesses that a swimmer needs to...
How Special Ops Instructors View Candidates You will not get through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) or other selection programs on your own.
Winter Special Ops Tri Challenge: Triple 5K Are you ready to be tactically fit? Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's fitness guru throws down the gauntlet with this...
Ask Stew: Treading Water Tips Make every swim workout end with a prolonged tread session of 10-15 minutes, just to get used to the suck factor of treading...
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...
