Physical Fitness
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Physical Fitness Resources
Organizations
Use these guides and resources from around the Web to improve your physical fitness.
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Program Guides
These are the manuals used by military programs to stay at the top of their physical games.
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Policies, Standards, Reports, and Guidelines
Policies, reports, guidelines, and standards on physical fitness and fitness programs in the U.S. military.
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Stop and go: Benefits of interval training
Interval training is a time-efficient way to improve strength, speed, and endurance while improving your body composition and reducing cardiovascular risk.
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Physical Fitness News
Stop and go: Benefits of interval training
Interval training is a time-efficient way to improve strength, speed, and endurance while improving your body composition and reducing cardiovascular risk.
Swimming for fitness
Try swimming to improve your overall fitness while minimizing your risk of injury.
What are "restorative poses," and what are the benefits?
Relaxing, restorative yoga poses can be an important component in your total fitness toolbox.
Injury treatment and recovery
Even minor injuries can derail performance. Follow these tips to manage the discomfort of minor injuries and prevent further damage.
Pounding the pavement or soft trails—which running surface is better?
Some experts think that soft-surface running is harder on the body than running on pavement.
What are "restorative poses," and what are the benefits?
Relaxing, restorative yoga poses can be an important component in your total fitness toolbox.
Changes in diet and lifestyle can prevent long-term weight gain
Obesity has become a national crisis, and as developing countries adopt our western culture they too seem to face the growing problem of obesity. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) looked at how changes in diet and lifestyle affect long-term weight gain in the U.S.
Finan's Blog: Tips for training
Tips on preparing for Physical Fitness Training – from an OCS candidate
Did you get enough sleep?
If you needed an alarm clock to wake up this morning, you probably didn't get enough sleep. You know you have had enough sleep when you are able to wake up naturally, feeling refreshed.
Horses for Heroes
Horses have a new role in the military.
Stop and go: Benefits of interval training
Interval training is a time-efficient way to improve strength, speed, and endurance while improving your body composition and reducing cardiovascular risk.
Swimming for fitness
Try swimming to improve your overall fitness while minimizing your risk of injury.
Injury treatment and recovery
Even minor injuries can derail performance. Follow these tips to manage the discomfort of minor injuries and prevent further damage.
Dominant postures help manage pain
Sitting upright and standing tall tap into mental resources that may help you deal with some pain.
Pounding the pavement or soft trails—which running surface is better?
Some experts think that soft-surface running is harder on the body than running on pavement.<br /><br /><br />
Navy revamps Physical Readiness Program
The Navy has issued new guidelines on meeting body fat standards for its Physical Readiness Program.
Navy fitness through NOFFS
This Navy fitness program focuses on basic and performance nutrition alongside physical training exercises designed to target operational tasks and reduce injuries.
Army revamps its yearly physical fitness tests
The U.S. Army retools the yearly physical fitness tests with more practical exercises geared to really getting soldiers in fighting shape.
First Lady takes health initiative to Army base
First lady Michelle Obama called on parents, schools, workplaces and the military to combat America's obesity epidemic in a recent visit to Fort Jackson.
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