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TO, THROUGH, and AFTER Podcasts with Stew Smith and Others!
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To, Through, and After Podcast Series The To, Through, and After Podcasts have been growing in popularity over the past year. These are interviews that Stew Smith does with various people who have a story to tell about their journey before they decided to serve their country or communities in one of the tactical professions (military, special ops, police, fire / rescue). See the videos below for the shows or go to iTunes / GooglePlay podcasts and search To, Through, After with Stew Smith within the Tactical Fitness Podcast with Stew Smith programs. Enjoy To, Through and After with former...
How Good is Good Enough in Spec Ops?
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(Part 2 of this article - What is Good Enough - Strength Numbers) Throughout your journey into the military and perhaps as you move into a special ops selection, you will hear people describing their PT scores as “good”, “great”, “optimal”, or even the occasional “PT animal”. But what is “Good Enough”? Of course, all of these scores are relative to the person, programming, branch of service, and the person evaluating these scores and abilities of candidates. As a tactical fitness trainer with decades of this type of training, this article is going to try to add some objectivity to...
Special Ops - How to Prepare
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Here is a question I get often concerning the way a person prepares for Special Ops type training programs for both military and law enforcement SWAT teams. My answer is usually, “It depends - Not only on the training you seek, but your athletic history / background.” Here is his question and my lengthy answer that takes many of the body types and foundation of fitness issues that arise when people start a training plan for Spec Ops.Stew I'm going to guess you've already answered this question somewhere, so forgive my redundancy. I'm 27 and looking to get into the...
Airborne Training
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This week I received an email that brought back a few old memories of Army Airborne training in Fort Benning , GA. This young soldier wishes to become an Army Ranger and wants to know what he needs to do to prepare each step of the way.If anyone is preparing to become a member of any Special Operations Group (Army SF, Rangers, Navy SEALs, Marine RECON, Air Force PJs, EOD units, and others) they all must graduate from the Army Basic Airborne Course (BAC) in Fort Benning. Not only is it a prerequisite for Special Ops, but it has become...
Top Ten List of Mental Toughness
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After this article, a friend of mine asked about what I thought the Top Ten List of traits for mental toughness would be. After some thought and discussions with some successful, mentally tough people, we came up with this. Mental Toughness – How do we obtain it? Make it stronger? Many young people ask these questions of me each day and I wish it was a simple answer. I wish you could be mentally tough by figuring out a magic solution of phrases or training programs. But it is not that simple. Being mentally tough requires you to keep competing...