Patience is a Virtue: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait - Right?  Wrong! We have heard this saying all of our lives, while it is true that patience is a virtue, waiting around ...

This year was a first for many of us. The first of many virtual anythings took place this year and the Naval Academy Summer Seminar program was no different. Normally we do the...

The Service Academy Workout - Military Officer Fitness - Candidate Fitness Assessment Training Program - Crush the CFA! FREE - Check out the new CFA Calculator to see if you ar...

Stew Smith's Navy SEAL Grinder PT - The Key to Mental Toughness Program (Book/eBook) The definition of "grinder' is the concrete-asphalt area at BUD/S where the students do ...

Stew Smith Fitness I help struggling military, law enforcement, and firefighter candidates get to and through intense tactical assessment and selection programs. Using my books,...

What are two DANGER signs that affect special ops candidate's success? Photo from https://dmcburnett.com/ Nearly 80% of candidates get this wrong! Some Special Ops instructors ...

Whether you are training for FBI, other federal LE agencies, or local police officer professions, many of the fitness tests are the same to enter.  In fact, about half of the co...

Training Options with Minimal Equipment and For ALL Levels of Fitness Are you going to avoid sharing gym machines with sweaty people or going to a crowded gym? Are you worried...

Common Question - Where to Start with Training? Often people email me and for what direction to take in order to prepare.  There are many ways to prepare for military service a...

I was honored to get a phone call from Pavel Tsatsouline the other day and after an hour of conversing about each others training methods, we agreed to write an article on ea...

Nutrition for Energy: Eat, Sleep, Recover We eat and sleep nearly every day of our lives unless extraordinary circumstances occur. So, we should get good at it if we care about ...

My Love - Hate Relationship with Running and Lessons Learned Along the Way Coming from a strength / power / speed / agility athletic history, anything over 100m of running was c...

Preparing to Serve in the Military, Police, Fire Fighter Services as a Teenager Many of us knew we wanted to serve our country in the military or our community in the police or ...

 For All You Spec Ops Candidates Out There –Do You Have Doubts About Your Preparation?Read About Freddy! Like many of you, Freddy is an aspiring special operations candidate who...

The Bottom Half of the Tactical Athlete Venn Diagram Explained with BASE - R® Method Recent Tactical Fitness Report on Stress Mitigation Using the BASE-R ® Method created by St...

Humans Are Experts at Making Mistakes!Learn from Them and Grow We are all human so making mistakes is a part of life - learning from those mistakes you have made as well as thos...

Many people look for information on the internet and that is great as the internet has long been dubbed the Information Super Highway. Google and other search engines can help y...

The Moment of Truth Just You And Your Will How Bad Do You Want It?  This question is not properly answered until fully tested. There is a moment that occurs when you are tire...

Pullups (and dips too) are considered the heavy weight lifting of the calisthenics world as 100% of your body weight will be placed on a group of muscles and joints.  Being able...

Is This Program THE Way to Train for ____? I Have A Way to Train THE Way to Train Depends on You.  You may have heard me use this phrase when asked about my training methods for...