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.
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...
PT Progression Series: Combining Hardcore Full-Body Movements with PT/Run The PT Progression Series focuses on how to develop skills for fitness testing. Part 5 advances to full-body movements and...
PT Progression Series: How Max-Rep Sets Can Jump-Start Your Workouts The PT Progression Series is a series of answers about how to develop skills for fitness testing. Part 3 focuses on building...
PT Progression Series: How Mixing Running and PT Can Improve Your Times The PT Progression Series is a series of answers about how to develop skills for fitness testing. Part 4 adds running to the...
PT Progression Series: Why Pyramids Are a Foundation Workout The PT Progression Series is a series of answers about how to develop skills for fitness testing. The PT pyramid is the...
The Best Ways to Prioritize Recovery in Tactical Fitness Training as You Age The natural recovery ability starts to slow down at some point in your 30s, but that does not mean you can't be a top-notch...
How a 'Zone 2' Day Can Help Workout Recovery and Preparation for Intense Training We all need a "Zone 2" day -- a low-impact, low-intensity workout -- once in a while.
The Best Bike Workouts to Maintain Your Cardio Fitness When You Cannot Run Running-related injuries don't have to prevent you from maintaining your cardio training, even when you cannot run for a few...
Army Quickly Expanding Holistic Health and Fitness Teams Following Promising Early Results The Army is fast-tracking the expansion of its Holistic Health and Fitness, or H2F, program as early results show soldiers in...
The Surprising Reason Some Service Members Struggle with Swimming Many runners who can run five-minute miles are amazed that their cardio conditioning when swimming is so horrible.