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  • My foundation of fitness started with strength training and even though I lifted less to prepare for the military and later on special ops.
  • I am Stew Smith, a long time coach/trainer and fitness writer with over 25 years of experience in teaching fitness.
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    Ask Stew: Training Cycle Length

    When working out to reach a tactical fitness goal, you may find that you start the process with a few strengths from your own athletic history. However, you also may have to face a few weaknesses.

    For instance, a football player focusing on strength, power, speed and agility may not be able to maintain a fast running pace for longer distances (timed runs), swim (technique and endurance) and even score well in higher-repetition calisthenics testing (muscle stamina or strength endurance).

    Depending on the job you want and the journey through basic training, advanced training or selection, you may need to become a more well-rounded athlete. We call that the tactical athlete.

    In the world of tactical fitness, you do not need to be great at a particular thing, as you did in competitive athletics, but you need to be good at everything.

    Here is a question from a former athlete preparing for an Army career:

    Stew, I have noticed the Tactical Fitness

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    A Quick Story On How I Created a
    Life Changing Workout

    I am Stew Smith, a long time coach/trainer and fitness writer with over 25 years of experience in teaching fitness. inom have been working out at a high level in friidrott, the military special ops community, and as a coach for over 40 years. Fitness has been my passion and my life's work, but when I turned 45, inom faced a new utmaning. Pain in my hips and lower back became my constant workout partner, making every movement a struggle. And when inom pushed through it (like I always did in my youth), I only made it worse. 

    Father Time, the relentless force that we all face as we grow older, seemed to be mocking me from the sidelines. "Listen to your body, old man he taunted. I fought against the pain for years, doing my best to push through and maintain the level of fitness inom had always known. But the pain was unrelenting, and inom began to feel that my running days were over. 

    One day, as inom watched the young guys I was coachin

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    How to Prepare to Be a Navy SEAL — The Road Less Travelled

    Joining the military to be a special operator is no easy task.

    Many people seeking to serve in the military (specifically the Navy SEAL, SWCC, EOD, diver pipeline) struggle to prepare physically for the challenges they face. Most will think they are good to go and not train enough, some will overtrain and break quickly, and some (20%-25%) will find the right amount of preparation to get both to and through the training process. The process to join the Navy and charge forward into the special ops requires you to take critical steps before you join.

    The number one goal and first step of the process is taking the physical screening test:  500-yard swim (learn the Combat Swimmer Stroke – CSS), push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and 1.5-mile run. You have to be good at this test, with competitive scores in the following zone. 

    You should have taken this test so many times on your own that you have created a strategy to succeed wi

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