Stew Smith Fitness News

Wanting To Be Something and Working Tirelessly To Achieve It Are On Opposites Sides of the Goal Achievement Spectrum Wanting it is NOT ENOUGH. It is a good place to start...but there is so much more ahead of you no matter what the goal you have for yourself.  You can apply this to any goal you "want" to achieve, but the journey to become a member of any special ops unit is going to be a long, dark, and cold road that takes you to places in your own head to test how bad you really want it.  Failing, Quitting,...

Do You Need Help with Your Kick and Glide?  Most Non-Swimming / Land Athletes Do... KICK AND GLIDE- You cannot have a good glide without a strong kick and you cannot utilize an effective kick without a good streamlined body position (good glide). The kick and glide and essential to you creating a fast/efficient CSS.  I prefer a scissor kick, and most land athletes who do not have well-developed breaststroke/frog kick muscles typically do as well.  The kick is your preference as well. You can do a scissor kick with the top leg moving forward during the kick on either side,...

The Super Bowl of Military Recruiting Commercials *Though in magazine form, this 1987 All Hands Magazine also gets a mention before we move into television media marketing.* If the U.S. Military advertised during the Super Bowl, these would be in the running for the caliber of commercial that makes the cut.  Given that this is the Super Bowl weekend, I thought about many of the engaging commercials that will be appearing this year and then my brain did a military history data dump of all the favorite military commercials through the years. Check these out!  Pretty fun romp through history...

Do You Want a Way to Build Toughness? Both Mentally and Physically? This is the Way... One thing about losing indoor training facilities over the past few years when large groups could not fill up smaller fitness centers is we definitely got tougher. Not just physically being able to handle colder and hotter weather but mentally too as the "test of your will moment" often strikes at 5am when it is below 20 degrees. Getting used to both the heat and humidity as well as the cold and dry temperatures of both ends of the temperature spectrum has actually been...

But How Do You Define Longevity? Sure we can find a definition for it that is oversimplified: Longevity: The capability of surviving past the average age of death.  See, this is way too simple and does not even crack the shell of what having longevity actually is. However, several synonyms do a much better job at starting the process to actually understand what longevity is:  resilience, durability, endurance, persistence, survival, vitality, long-life, potency, continuation, and functional. And for the Tactical Population "OG still Operational." It is one thing to live many years, but living with life in those later years requires...