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

  • Youth day at McAdoo Fitness Center

    The McAdoo Fitness Center hosted an athletic youth day to promote a healthy lifestyle in school-age children at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., April 17, 2017. During the event, Youth Center children participated in a mock fitness assessment, bounce house, a video exercise with fitness balls and an

  • Airman balanced through bodybuilding

    As Semaj’s alarm screeches throughout her bedroom at 2:30 a.m. she awakes for her morning cardio session, checks on her six-year-old son Jamel and then laces up her running shoes.Staff Sgt. Semaj, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron supply craftsman, does this every morning to keep her body in shape

  • Veterans, Airmen celebrate 75 years of 8 AF heritage

    On the morning of April 26, some of the very souls who survived numerous life-threatening operations to tell their stories, and made Eighth Air Force what it is today, met current Eighth Air Force Airmen at the Barksdale Global Power Museum Airpark.

  • Pease Air National Guard Base Hosts SAAPM 5K

    U.S. Air Force Major Moira Cuthbert, the director of equal opportunity from the 157th Air Refueling Wing, explains the Sexual Assault Awareness Prevention and Response 5K route to volunteers, Bonnie Rice, family program coordinator, Pease Air National Guard Base, Donald Roussel, director of

  • MacDill first in AF to host Alpha Warrior tour

    MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, hosted the Air Force’s first stop for the Air Force Alpha Warrior Tour, April 18-19, 2017.The Air Force Services Activity, or AFSVA, partnered with the Alpha Warrior team to continue building Comprehensive Airman Fitness through the newly initiated Air Force Alpha

  • Airmen of Niagara: Tech. Sgt. David Dixon

    Tech. Sgt. David Dixon, 914th Force Support Squadron training specialist, is a hard-core runner; preparing to run the Boston Marathon later this month.Dixon runs six days per week, averaging 10 miles per run and started running three years ago after his wife encouraged him to participate in a weight

  • Fitness Warrior

    Fitness is a key component in achieving Luke’s mission: building the future of airpower. With fitness, Airmen are able to achieve physical and spiritual health. For Sherri Biringer, 56th Force Support Squadron fitness specialist supervisor, her love of fitness grew through a type of workout called

  • A world away: UFC fighter and Soldier reunite

    As sweat drips from their brow, grunts can be heard as fists and feet hit punching bags and trainers’ shouts echo off the gym walls. In this moment, two gyms for mixed martial arts in Kailua, O’ahu, Hawaii, are partnering together to train, in the hopes of leading their fighters into the world of

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