Stew Smith Fitness News

Fitness for BeginnersDo you need a little Fitness Motivation?  Check this out. So many times I have seen people start off after long periods of time off with physical activity and make Day One a 3-4 mile run because "that is what they used to do." This philosophy can also be seen in the weight room with people lifting heavier weights with high volume (weights or calisthenics) than they should at first. Depending on your goals and your chosen method of exercise, I would start off doing the following: - TREAT YOURSELF LIKE A BEGINNER (at least for a few weeks)...

     Do You Have This Dream?  Serving Your Country and Community....      Do you want to be selected in a job within the tactical professions - meaning the military, police, firefighter and serve your country and community? Do you need to pass a fitness test in order to maintain your job or advance within your current profession?  Have you trained to crush a PT Test before? Are Pushups, Situps, Pullups, and running "long distance" your nemesis? If so - have you experienced failure with getting results in these fitness tests in the past and now you’re worried about...

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 performance and recovery. In fact, you can use all the recovery tools and methods you want, if you just focus on your sleep and nutrition, you will have close to 90% of the recovery issue handled.  Sure, there are times that the "missing 10%" can come in handy with massage tools, supplements, hot/cold treatments, compression gear and more tools of the trade, but for the most part if you...

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 considered long distance. I thought - why run 3-4 miles for a workout when all I had to do was run a 100 yd field fast and some bases that were 90ft apart from each other? So I did not do long distance running in my early teens. One of the things that did get me to start running "long distance" of 1-2 miles was joining the military. Yes...

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 fire services when we were young.  For many, this desire starts early and keep growing each year. One of my favorite emails to receive is from an early teenage boy or girl asking for advice on what to training to get ready to prepare for service.  Here is a list of my advice from training, activities to do, and general adolescent growth guidance to get through your...