Tactical Fitness Report with Stew Smith Podcast

Episode 288: TFR 242 - Defining Gut Checks and Their Usefulness - Stew Smith and Jeff Nichols

Tactical Fitness Report with Stew Smith Podcast

Show Notes

Stew Smith and Jeff Nichols the coaching of gut checks. Defining gut checks and understanding how to incorporate them into your training so that they are actually useful activities is a challenge.

Check out more programming at Stew Smith Fitness - https://www.stewsmithfitness.com and with Jeff Nichols at https://www.performancefirstus.com

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