Stew Smith (http://www.stewsmithfitness.com) and Jeff Nichols (http://performancefirstus.com ) discus their journey to creating challenging training programs for tactical populations.

The journey they both share is years of personal experience, learning from mentorship, education, trial and error, and testing and evaluation.

Check out the 20 year periodization program Stew developed and still is using / modifying / evolving / learning to be flexible:

https://www.military.com/military-fitness/navy-special-operations/20-years-of-periodization-training

Check out Jeff's website for more information on programs and in person training seminars: http://www.performancefirstus.com

For more videos of combat swimmer stroke, workouts, and other spec ops related training see this youtube channel - http://www.youtube.com/stew50smith .

See http://www.stewsmithfitness.com for more information about military, law enforcement, special ops, fire fighting training programs.