CSS Help: Should You Rotate During the Glide or Stay on Your Side?
There is a Difference When Wearing Fins Compared to Without Fins with CSS There is also a difference with CSS and the Elementary Side Stroke (one you stay on your side, the othe...
Ideal Prep Program for Navy PST Phase 1 Workout Plan
Before Phase 1: You May Need to Build a Baseline for the Navy PST Program Jumping straight into the Navy PST Workout Phase 1 program without a solid fitness baseline may lead to...
What are the Best PST Scores I've Ever Seen Through the Years
Early Morning PST The Navy PST has remained unchanged for nearly 40 years, as I have seen it as a candidate, student, instructor, and post-service coach. The standards have chan...
Classic Forms of Inspiration (Words, Pictures, Phrases, People, Experiences)
Getting Inspired - It is Easy IF You Pay Attention Often, random words, phrases, pictures, people, and experiences can inspire a person so much that he/she will change focus an...
PST and Selection Training: Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough
PST and Selection Training:Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough When it comes to performing well on fitness tests that are competitive in nature like those of special ops progra...
Ten Best Pieces Of Advice On Getting TO And THROUGH Selection
If you're a special ops candidate whose goal is to prepare thoroughly for the toughest training in the world, then pay careful attention to this advice list if you want to avoid...
A Common Story About Three Different Spec Ops Candidates – Different Situation - Similar Outcomes
A Common Story About Three Different Spec Ops Candidates– Different Situations With Similar Outcomes - Let me tell you a quick story. I have been training people for decades....
Three Things That Slow Your Swim Time
Three Things That Slow You Down in the Water (And You Need to Fix ASAP if You Want to Crush 500yd / 500m PST / IFT Swims) Weak Kick / Streamline Position Off the Wall – By not ...
In Honor of Navy SEAL Chris Chambers Introducing the "Chamber's Mile"
Today, we renamed one of the workouts we created in 2010 when Chris Chambers trained with our local Maryland group. You may know of the workout as The Devil's Mile, but after t...
The Beauty of Making Mistakes and Even Failing
We All Make Mistakes, Fail, and Quit...We Are Human - Now What? When things do not turn out as planned, you have several choices: you can quit and move on to something else, f...
"You Have Not Spent Much Time in the Pain Cave"
Where Many Spec Ops Candidates Fail to Go Before I go down this rabbit hole, I will explain where I heard this comment. An older candidate gave his opinion to a younger candida...
Premium Online Coaching with Stew Smith CSCS
Personalized Online Fitness Coaching from Stew Smith CSCS I have been doing personalized online coaching over 20 years! In case you're not aware of it, Premium Online Coaching ...
Outdoor Physical Activity in Pollution (High Ozone, Allergens, Smoke, Dust Storms, etc)
A Hazy Day Could Bring Pollutants - Check (AirNow.gov) For Live Air Quality in Your Zip Code Same Location: Smoke at 8 am vs Sunrise 6 Days Before People have been asking how t...
How do I Run Faster 4 Mile Timed Runs?
Weekly 4 Mile Runs at BUD/S 4 Mile Runs on the Beach Recently, a Special Ops candidate asked me what he should do to run faster on the 4-mile timed run, a weekly test at BUD/S ...
Functional Durability: The Tactical Fitness Approach for Military Readiness
Why Tactical Fitness Workouts Outperform Gym Aesthetics for Boot Camp and Beyond It is no secret that Bro-Splits aren't the way to prepare for many military events, but nothing ...
No Time? - Do the Most Important Thing!
When You Can't Do Everything - Do the Most Important - Jim Edwards When you don’t have time to do everything, you must do the most important thing. What does this mean? Sometim...
The Never Quit Mindset Book, eBook, Audio book, and Video Course
Master the Never Quit Mindset Now! Unlock the secret to transforming stress into strength and self-doubt into unshakeable confidence with “The Never Quit Mindset” book and vide...
What Program is Right for Me? Beginner, OG, Military, Police, Fire, or Special Ops Candidate
What Training Program Is Right for Me? (Book, eBook, Course, Online Coaching?) This is a very common question, and the answer is always - "IT DEPENDS." We have something for ev...
If I Were to Write a Tactical Fitness Curriculum
This is how I would teach it... Coaching in tactical fitness for the past 25+ years, I have been able to answer a need with programming that helps people who want to serve ach...
Tactical Athlete - The Operator Explained
Developing the Tactical Athlete Get Good at Everything vs Specializing in One Thing When it comes to the relatively new term “tactical fitness” or “tactical athlete”, you have ...