Stew Smith Fitness News — weight training
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...
Getting Back On Track With These Go-To Workouts
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Life gets in the way of the best intended plans to exercise often enough that it is not uncommon to miss a few days of training. When life happens, and you absolutely miss the full workouts you had planned there are some ideas that will help you get back into it depending on the amount of time in between workouts. If just busy and not ill, the challenge to get back into the weight room is typically a battle of the mind and balance of mental stress. Getting over this hump quicker than not can prevent a downslide of your...
The Complete Tactical Fitness Series by Stew Smith CSCS
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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...
The Dirty Dozen Fitness Test - Blog / Competition
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Try the events of the Dirty Dozen Fitness Test. Arrange in any order you prefer. You can take the test many different ways:1 - Take the test in one day / one long training session2 - Take 2-3 days to break up the events into - STRENGTH - SPEED/AGILITY - ENDURANCE3 - Take the entire year to break up the events as above using periodization specific training to master each event over the year. Share your scores / times in the in the comment section below: These are the twelve events I call the Tactical Fitness Dirty Dozen that I pulled from...
Using Special Ops Selection Methods to Test Athletes
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A recent training opportunity with a high school baseball team allowed me to develop a challenge week with their coach. Not only was the Challenge Test a team building gut check, but it had a system built in that helped calculate overall winners. This system is the very same method we have used for decades to determine a total score in a physical screening test within the Special Ops community. This allows for the selection board to determine who has the overall best score as well as the winners in individual events. The screening test we use for Navy SEAL...