The U.S. Marine Corps is rolling out significant updates to its physical fitness and body composition requirements starting January 1, 2026. These changes aim to align standards with the physical ...

Marine recruits conduct an initial strength assessment at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, Sept. 6, 2025. (Cpl. Sarah M. Grawcock/U.S. Marine Corps) The U.S. Marine Corps is slated to ...

Are the images we see online setting male fitness goals that are impossible — or even unhealthy — to achieve? We unpack how distorted ideals affect confidence, performance, and training decisions.

Hollywood often sells jaw‑dropping before‑and‑after body transformations, but what’s the hidden cost behind the scenes? We dig into the training, dieting, and sometimes unhealthy practices that go ...

All Marines in combat arms fields will soon have to meet the same standards on their Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, regardless of their gender, under a service-wide policy announced Thursday. The new ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps will institute a sex-neutral scoring physical fitness test for Marines with a combat arms primary military occupational specialty, the service announced this week. “Our ...

The Army is scrapping its Spiritual Fitness Guide after less than five months in use. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the change in a video on social media on Tuesday. He largely addressed ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated to reflect the person of interest detained Sunday was being released. Saying the “evidence now points in a different direction,” law enforcement officials late ...

Army football suffered significant losses from last season’s team that made program history by winning 12 games and a conference championship for the first time. Quarterback Bryson Daily, the American ...

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