FITNESS

The Air Force Fitness Program goal is to motivate Airmen to participate in a year-round physical conditioning program that emphasizes total fitness, to include proper aerobic conditioning, strength and flexibility training, and healthy eating. Health benefits from an active lifestyle will increase productivity, optimize health, and decrease absenteeism while maintaining a higher level of readiness. 

FITNESS NEWS

  • 20th LRS revamps resiliency

    As individuals across the Air Force work toward physical, mental, social and spiritual fitness through resiliency training programs, Airmen at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, are doing what they can to ensure the training makes a lasting impact.

  • Top seven workouts for beginners

    Telling yourself to work out more but not finding the right workouts? Here are seven beginner workouts that can get you in shape in no time! (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Dillon J. Audit)

  • EOD: always fit to fight

    Surrounded by the sound of clinking metal and upbeat music, a group of Airmen work to exhaustion as the sun begins to rise.

  • Are you Alpha enough for the ‘battle station’?

    Team Mildenhall Airmen have the opportunity to test their physical fitness skills with a new Alpha Warrior obstacle course, the ‘battle station,’ at the Northside Fitness Center. The Alpha Warrior program is an initiative established by the Air Force Services Activity. The program is designed to

  • Fit to Fight

    Last October, Master Sgt Tamara Johnson, 87th Communications Squadron, was at a low point.  She was battling three auto-immune conditions and her stress was at an all-time high.  Her body was not healthy.  She was going through medical challenges and felt stuck.  One day while watching Season 9 of

  • Kick the habit! Adverse effects of smoking

    Smoking not only effects an individual's fitness regimen but also loved ones around them. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or at work have an increased risk of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. While exposing others to the risks associated with the habit,

  • Mind and Body: A total health treatment to overcoming trauma

    The mind is a powerful tool. It is the hub for controlling the body and the catalyst for creating thoughts, beliefs and reality. For many, the challenge becomes understanding the difference between the implication of thoughts and the reality they represent. For Tech. Sgt. Flordeliza Sia, 380th

  • Desert Destinations: Sedona

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrDN4GT5gpoLUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. - After long hours and hard working days on the flightline, in the clinic, or at the workshop, Airmen seeking to rest or augment their physical training can do so among the red rock buttes and towering mesa canyons outside of

  • Team Barksdale overthROWs Whiteman

    The screen was covered with a towel so he wouldn’t see any reasons to stop. His feet were secured to the machine as he pushed off again and again. He grits his teeth as he kept pushing past his limits. Suddenly, his legs finally gave out and he could continue no longer. With another day of rowing

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