Military Fitness: Getting Your First Pull-Up
The pull-up is one of the oldest exercises in the book. Since man has had a tree to climb, man has had the ability to vertically pull his own bodyweight, and that ability has...
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Military Fitness: How to Be Weak
As we all know, military Physical Fitness Tests (PFTs) standards are something that is supposed to gauge the general physical fitness and combat readiness of the individual. For those of you who don’t know,...
Military Fitness: The Training Mentality
Almost every single person who is halfway strong can tell you the difference between exercise and training; however, this article isn’t aimed at them, it’s aimed at your sorry ass. Yes, you. The new...
Physical Training: Stop Being a Snowflake
We’ve all heard the term “special snowflake” tossed around a lot recently. This term is used to describe someone who describes themselves as “unique” or “not like others”, and creates an incorrect comparison to the uniqueness...
Military Fitness: Why are Pushups used as the Standard for U.S. Army Upper Body Strength?
The question proposed in the title of this article may seem like it has a very simple answer: “because the pushup is a movement in which you must push your body up from the...
