What to Know About Applying to Be an Air Force Spec Ops Officer Here is an email from an Air Force cadet seeking information about preparation to be a special tactics officer.
What to Do When Life or Age Interferes with a Good Workout No matter what your age, life has a way of getting in the way of the time you budget for your daily workout routine.
What Special Ops Prep for Log PT and Leg Stamina Looks Like This classic twist on the Sandbaby Murph log PT simulation workout is made a little more challenging.
How You Should Approach AIT Workouts We train and prepare for basic training programs, but often find that, after the basic training, we are actually in worse...
How You Should Prepare Your Body for Special Operations First of all, anyone seeking this type of rigorous activity, especially near 40 years old, should be in excellent condition...
The Necessity of Teaching Remedial PT Groups How to Work Out Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, dealt with PFT failures and realized these remedial PT groups needed to...
How to Reach the Next Level of Push-ups and Pull-ups Here is an email from a military man seeking to get better at his pull-ups and push-ups for an upcoming PFT for for special...
Why Being Average Won't Cut It in Special Ops I've found that there is a big difference in going through life merely surviving and trying to compete at everything you do.
The Top 10 Reasons Why People Fail at Special Ops There are many ways to fail out or quit any of the many special-ops programs, but the biggest reason someone fails is usually...
How You Can Improve Quickly and Test Well on Sit-ups If you are seeking a military or law enforcement job, you likely will see an entrance exam that requires you to score well in...
Try This Workout to Improve Run Times and Pull-Ups If you need to improve your pull-ups and your run times, here is a pulling and running day workout that can help you meet...
Ask Stew: How Can I Learn to Retain Information When I'm Stressed or Fatigued? Testing environments are stressful by nature, and being exhausted makes that process more difficult.
Ignore These 6 Pieces of Advice that Can Keep You from Exercising Some people do not exercise because they get tripped up by circular logic that prevents them from even getting started on the...
What Is the Perfect Workout? A perfect workout is the one that gets done and is consistently enjoyed by the person who's doing it.
Ask Stew: How to Structure Daily Calisthenics and Cardio Workouts If you can find something that you both enjoy and gets results, that is a win/win formula for you to get in shape and lose...