How to Train After an Injury or Illness After an illness or injury, it is often difficult to regain the same level of fitness you worked so hard to achieve.
Looking for a Challenge? Give This Advanced Workout a Try. Here is a workout that incorporates some of the challenging events advanced-level military members will see during their...
You Asked, and Stew Smith Answers Your Top 10 Fitness Questions Here are the questions that Stew Smith, Military.com's tactical fitness expert, considers his top 10. All are relevant to...
Failures in Nutrition: Why We Easily Stray from Good Habits No matter what your training goal is, you can’t do it without putting the right fuel into your body. What's the solution?
4 Tips to Stay Fit During the Holidays Most Americans gain nearly five pounds from October through December. Here is sound advice on how to keep the weight off...
Army Zeroing In on New Ways to Measure Body Fat that Could Kill the Tape Test The Army is in the midst of totally revamping health and fitness for its soldiers with its new fitness test possibly becoming...
Electrostimulation, Not Steroids, Can Give You a Healthy Edge In dealing with the steroid problem in the U.S., some retired professional athletes and health industry pros have found an...
Counter the 10 Diseases and Other Things that Shorten Women's Lives Ten decisions will add enjoyable years to a woman's life, a speaker at the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute's Women's...
Ask Stew: Should I Supplement with Creatine? Because it occurs naturally in food and is not a drug, creatine is unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
The Pros and Cons of Dietary Supplements Dietary supplements can improve exercise performance, build muscle, change body composition and delay fatigue. There are...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...
Camp Pendleton Officer, Wife Sue Military Housing Company over Crash That Killed 8-Year-Old Son A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp...
Coast Guard to Launch Service-Wide Physical Fitness Test for All Members Next Year Coast Guard men and women must take a preliminary assessment by the end of this year and a mandatory PFT starting in 2026.
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
Rubio Says US Is Designating 2 More Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Groups The two new designees, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, are Ecuadorian gangs blamed for much of the violence that began since the...