Ask Stew: How to Keep Shin Splints from Sabotaging Your Workouts For people starting to run or run again after a long period of time, shin splints is often one of the first issues you may...
How to Make the Fall Transition from Long Runs to a Shorter, Faster Pace Here is a workout where we transition out of the higher miles and go into shorter, faster intervals.
Tough Mix of a Few Types of Workouts Eventually, what was a workout becomes a warmup as you progress into bigger and better conditioning.
To Use Grip Straps or Not? I recommend using straps, especially when the workouts get long and you need a little more grip stamina to complete it.
Adding New Workouts to Your Current Plan Military.com fitness guru and Navy SEAL veteran Stew Smith gives you some ways to break out of your workout rut.
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...
Should I Use Free Weights or Machines? I'm typically a full-on, free-weight maniac, but there are a couple of instances when using machines can make a lot of sense.
Favorite Workout of the Week This week, our favorite upper-body workout was centered by a workout called Death by Push-ups.
Here are Your Options for Finding, Building or Buying a Pull-up Bar Here is an emailed question about not having the facilities to do pull-ups. Just use some good old fashioned ingenuity or buy...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Hegseth Wants 'Male Standard' for Combat Roles. Many Female Veterans Say That's Already the Case Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his...
The Forgotten Military Vehicles of ‘M*A*S*H’ Between all the martini-fueled hijinx and medical drama, “M*A*S*H” featured some pretty special military vehicles.
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded...
Airman Confronts and Shoots Armed Neighbor on Deadly Rampage, Iowa Officials Say Harrison Friar, a senior airman, was with his wife and children at their home in Glenwood on the evening of Aug. 6 when they...