Stew Smith Fitness News — tactical fitness

In the tactical professions, fitness can be the difference between life and death and we will be older for a longer period of time than we were younger. Learning how to progress into those decades smartly with added longevity training - typically in the form of active recovery days and mobility days is going to increase your abilities and decrease your pain. The following series is a new programming focused on an often neglected age group of active duty and retired veterans of the tactical professions who need to rebuild and take their fitness to the next level in order...

When it comes to the relatively new term, “tactical fitness” or “tactical athlete”, you have to realize this has been a long time coming. For decades, training staff has had a goal of creating a mindset that every active duty / reserve military, police, and fire fighting member of a unit think of themselves like an athlete would.  That mindset is still evolving in all the tactical professions and moving faster in the units that spend money on experienced training staff.  The below diagram is an attempt to explain to operators and those considering the profession the needs and challenges...

As a military, police, and fire fighter fitness writer for over 20 years now, the term Tactical Fitness did not exist when I started. Now, in the last decade resources have been spent by all elements of tactical fitness and a new fitness genre has been born. The following is my current library of Tactical Fitness Programming to include books, ebooks, and online coaching products and services:  Tactical Fitness - At the core of this program is the Tactical Fitness Test which measures 12 standards for your physical capacity, including: cardiovascular conditioning, strength, muscle coordination, and stamina. Tactical fitness means having...

Save Money on Amazon.com getting the Kindle version or the book on this site if you prefer the printed version.  Bonus!  We will send you the PDF version for FREE if you post a review on Amazon after the Amazon Kindle purchase. Just contact the author at stew@stewsmith.com and he will get it to you.  The new book and ebook titled Tactical Fitness (40+) For Beginners and Those Recovering from Injury has much to offer. Not only does it share the 20 year journey of  training for sports, preparing for challenging events, performance fitness,  but most importantly some life lessons dealing with the injuries / failures obtained from decades of rigorous...

I am a fitness writer that specializes in military, police, and fire fighter fitness.  I have well over 800 articles on the internet on various sites and several published books / ebooks.  I ENJOY answering questions from readers - especially the younger generation who seeks out information and finds me as a resource for tactical fitness training / general preparation information.  In fact, I answer my emails each day easily seeing 100-200 emails a day.  These give me ideas to write about and very often (more than 50%) of the time I reply to someone with an article link that...