Stew Smith discusses building / strengthen the mindset to better handle the daily stresses of life as well as your life's goals.  Check out former Master Chief Steve Drum (SEAL) and comedian / creative director of the https://www.GetMental.com APP Jason Kyle. 

Check out this hilarious way to engage the male brain to teach life changing skills that will help them with goal setting, stress relief, and mental toughness. Seriously, this APP works.  

The Tactical Fitness Report discusses all aspects of the tactical athlete. From the preparation to get TO and THROUGH selection / training, to operating at optimal levels, and learning to manage and metabolize stress and stressful situations throughout your tactical career and the life thereafter.  Check out this show for an excellent example of life after the Teams and continuing to teach skills that make you a better performer on all levels where life takes you. 

See StewSmithFitness.com - https://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more training and coaching programs to help you get TO and THROUGH any type of physical training ahead of you. 

Let's do this. What kind of attitude you bring to training can set the entire workout on the right step. You GET TO DO THIS - Not your have to do this. 

Stew Smith will take questions LIVE about training for the tactical professions or other topics of interest if you have them. See https://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more info. 

Check out other LIVE QA sessions on YouTube as well as Tactical Fitness Report podcasts, swim videos, exercises videos, and much more. 

Without these steps success is delayed or not achieved. Get moving - even if an easy time place holder at first. See related article: https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/online-pt-club-one-on-one-coaching-with-stew-smith-cscs

Katherine Grimm (Nichols), the better half of https://www.performancefirstus.com, helps us discuss anxiety, stress, and learning how to deal with important stressful events that are about to occur in the near future.  Meditation, breathing skills, internal awareness, and practice applications to calm down when spun up are just some of the very important skills we discuss. 

Check out other videos of combat swimmer stroke, workouts, and other spec ops related training.  See http://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more information about military, law enforcement, special ops, fire fighting training programs.

Time for change - Check out the options we have Spring Training Options - https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/spring-training-options

Stew Smith will take questions LIVE about training for the tactical professions or other topics of interest if you have them. See https://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more info. 

Check out other LIVE QA sessions on YouTube as well as Tactical Fitness Report podcasts, swim videos, exercises videos, and much more. 

Without these steps success is delayed or not achieved. Get moving - even if an easy time place holder at first. See related article: https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/online-pt-club-one-on-one-coaching-with-stew-smith-cscs

After a quick discussion on running increases this Spring
(https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/spring-training-options) and it happens to be Day 1 of another Hell Week at SEAL Training, Stew Smith will take questions LIVE about training for the tactical professions or other topics of interest if you have them. See https://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more info. 

Check out other LIVE QA sessions on YouTube as well as Tactical Fitness Report podcasts, swim videos, exercises videos, and much more. 

Without these steps success is delayed or not achieved. Get moving - even if an easy time place holder at first. See related article: https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/online-pt-club-one-on-one-coaching-with-stew-smith-cscs

Stew Smith https://www.stewsmithfitness.com and Jeff Nichols (https://www.performancefirstus.com) discuss finding a group a like minded people to make yourself better with. Iron sharpens Iron and when you find the right tribe you can see your performance increase to new levels. 

However there is a flip side to finding your tribe that is not helpful when that tribe becomes too much of a clique and drives your mental / physical performance in adverse ways if you are not careful. 

Check out this podcast that discusses both sides of the coin on finding your tribe.  Check out other videos of combat swimmer stroke, workouts, and other spec ops related training.  See http://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more information about military, law enforcement, special ops, fire fighting training programs.

See link for full article but today we will start off the LIVE QA with a quick discussion of preparing properly for that moment when it is game time and you just have to bring your A game. 

https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/when-there-is-no-time-to-get-stronger-or-faster-you-need-to-get-tougher

See more articles, programs, training for any tactical program at https://www.stewsmithfitness.com

After a quick discussion on running replacements when injured but still need to pass a fitness test, Stew Smith will take questions LIVE about training for the tactical professions or other topics of interest if you have them. See https://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more info. 

Check out related article on the intro topic: https://www.military.com/military-fitness/running-injuries-and-military-fitness-how-recover-and-keep-training

These bike workouts have saved many with shin splints, foot issues, and joint tendonitis and kept them able to test running as fast or even faster in some cases:

Monday and Friday: Do a 20-minute bike pyramid, with each minute on the minute increasing resistance by one level until you can no longer maintain 70-80 rpm pedaling. Continue for a total of 20 minutes, even if you must reduce the resistance in the latter half of the workout.

Tuesday and Thursday: Do 3x10-minute Tabata intervals (20-second sprint/10 seconds easy) with a two-minute rest between each of the three sets. Push hard on the sprints and work on your breathing to recover as best you can in the 10 seconds easy sections.

Wednesday and Saturday: Add lunges and squats calisthenics to maintain leg stamina. You can mix these exercises into a 30-minute bike ride, doing 20 squats and 10 lunges per leg every five minutes.

A bike with adjustable levels of resistance is best for the bike pyramid, but the other two workouts above can be done on any type of bike. A stationary bike is preferred for these workouts.

Check out other LIVE QA sessions on YouTube as well as Tactical Fitness Report podcasts, swim videos, exercises videos, and much more. 

Without these steps success is delayed or not achieved. Get moving - even if an easy time place holder at first. See related article: https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/online-pt-club-one-on-one-coaching-with-stew-smith-cscs

Getting started comes with many levels. You could be an athlete and getting started on military / spec ops level training.  That is a process. You could be a 50 yr old and have not done anything for 20 years except to gaining 5 lbs a year for the past decades. Getting started will be all about assessing strengths and weaknesses, building habits that include movement and nutrition, and breaking old habits that interfere with new goal progress. 

One Step at a time - https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/fitness-over-40-and-50-answers-to-your-concerns-one-step-at-a-time

Spec ops prep - start here - https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/spec-ops-prep-list-of-articles-research-one-stop-shop

For more information about military, special ops, police, and fire fighter physical preparation - check out https://www.StewSmithFitness.com for hundreds of articles, over 50 books, ebooks, and online coaching too.

Check it out:  https://www.stewsmithfitness.com/blogs/news/consider-the-tactical-groundhog-week-when-changing-training-cycles

This is a great assessment week that will test strength, muscle stamina, recovery-ability, endurance, etc...

The Sandbaby Devil Murph requires a 40- to 50-pound weight. We use sandbags and create a circuit of exercises as you with to create a non-stop movement workout:

Warmup jog of one mile
100 pull-ups
200 push-ups
Bear crawl 400 meters
100 push presses with a 40- to 50-pound sandbag
100 lunges/leg with sandbag (chest carry)
Fireman carry 400 meters
(switch with partner as needed)
150 squats with sandbag (shoulder carry)
Run 400 meters of burpee jump
150 sit-ups with sandbag (chest carry)
Run one mile
400m walking lunges (no weight)
Run one mile

Enjoy. Make sure you stretch