Stew Smith Fitness News

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...

Navy SEAL PST Clinic:  Forming a Strategy for Success Over the past 20+ years, I have trained for / taken, as well as administered countless Navy SEAL / SWCC / Diver Physical Screening Tests (PST).  I have created a system that enables both the instructor and student gauge progress as well as make changes to current training programs to quickly increase performance in the PST.  If you have never taken a Navy PST, do not think any of your current individual scores will be accomplished as each event has a way of taking reps away from the next event as...

The Light Weight Shoulder Workout - Done with 5 lb DBs or less (really!) - You will see this quick light weight circuit in most of my programs as I have been using this six exercise series for over 20 years now. Adding some dumbbell exercises can help you supplement a calisthenics only program creating more balance that some calisthenics cannot do alone efficiently.  The shoulder is our most versatile joint. There is no other joint that can lift up, down, forward, backward, rotate left and right, and throw. The only joint in our body built similarly is the hip....

 Put More Effort Into Your Career Goal Questions - And Do NOT Ask These Questions Anymore... Time to Grow Up & Get to Work Answering questions is something I have been doing for decades now. I get hundreds of them a day through email and social media messages. I have written over 1000 articles (easily found) based on these questions received over the years.  So, I appreciate your questions. However, I see some questions consistently year after year as a new group of people ages into and chooses to serve in the military, police, firefighter, and special ops programs. Even...