Stew Smith Fitness News

Ready to Transform Your Life at 50 and Beyond? Reclaim Your Health and Vitality—It's Time to Get Moving Again! Stew Smith’s "The Ageless Athlete" is your key to shedding pounds and embracing an active lifestyle, rekindling your passion for fitness regardless of age. In today’s world, many men over 50 yearn to return to their youthful vigor but struggle with the uncertainty of how to begin. "The Ageless Athlete" is specifically designed for you. With insights from my 25 years of personal coaching and fitness writing, this book provides the essential tools to jumpstart your journey toward fitness, focus on...

Many Are "Interested in Special Ops" But Few Want to Work Hard to Get There... Many fail to understand the level of preparation required. It is not just the fitness test, it is a lifetime of hard work in school. sports, and tedious jobs to earn some spending money or help your family with bills. Team work, building resilience / mental toughness, and creating a never quit mentality IS all part of the type of life long preparation needed to succeed in ANYTHING you are interested in doing. If you are interested - WHY are you interested? Do you have a...

Age is inevitable, but growing old is a choice.” (Joseph Rain). You have a choice: Get strong and remain strong as you age, or grow old and be weak. If we are lucky, we will age fully to what our genetics and life decide. However, how you want to live when you are older will be up to you and how you live today. One of my favorite aging quotes helps with maintaining a positive attitude: “Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” Another aging quote is from Socrates: "It is a shame for a...

You Need to Enjoy What You Do to be Consistent Throughout life, we can all recall times and goals that required being consistent to finish. Graduating high school, finishing a losing sports season, doing a job to make ends meet, or other activities that had an end result. Face it, for many just finishing these foundational events were the best days. You found a way to tough it out even though you did not thoroughly enjoy it and you finished regardless. While you may have hated some of your history, it is what makes you tougher today. Fast forward to...

New Winter Lift with PST Prep /Test Week Block Periodization  Increase Strength & Crush the PST / PAST3 Weeks Strength - 1 Week PT / Cardio Focus (16 weeks) Typically, the Fall / Winter lift cycle is a reduced number of calisthenics, added weight lifting, weight vests, and other devices to make calisthenics harder combined with reduced running distance each week.  This has had a recovery and therapeutic effect on our training group's joints, feet, shins, and other areas where high miles and high repetitions can show overuse pain. That is one reason why we shift cycles.  The main reason is...