training

You can’t have striations without a proper diet, but don’t think for a moment that training is less important. Both are needed to make sure that your muscles are not obscured by layers of fat and that individual muscles are sufficiently developed to stand out in distinct relief from one another...

Every guy who’s into fitness has some methodology, piece of equipment, or program they like over anything else. Some like to circuit train every day, some follow bodybuilding protocols, and still others participate in any number of fitness trends and fads. There’s no “wrong” or “right” way to...

It’s easy to appreciate how beautiful this bikini champion is and how great a body she has. What is difficult is knowing how to pronounce her last name: it’s tea-shera. Teixeira is her married name and her husband is of Portuguese descent. “I have heard my name pronounced every way you can...

Making the decision to improve your fitness levels requires serious motivation. In fact, it’s often said that starting any new training regime is the hardest part of all, but in reality staying the course is more complicated than that. It’s true that you can’t make positive lifestyle changes...

Stipe Miocic earned a break from the Octagon. The UFC heavyweight champion was exhausted following his five-round epic victory over rival Daniel Cormier. If you viewed his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, you could hear how a nearly half an hour of combat took its toll on the winded Miocic...

A few months back, I had a long talk with a close buddy about how I planned for every obstacle in business—except for the one we were facing. We were talking over video chat, of course, because it was during the lockdown. He’s a small business owner, like me, and he understood my frustration...

If you train them with the intensity and time they deserve, quadriceps can be showstoppers. Unfortunately, most bodybuilders never maximize their quads, because they’re forever shortchanging their leg workouts, or skipping them altogether. You should focus on your legs, especially the quads...

After earning her pro card with a big win at the 2019 San Marino Pro, Evita Breide is now ready to step on stage at the Bikini Olympia. We got a hold of the Spain-based bikini pro to find out how she’s been training and what she looks forward to as the Olympia nears. What are you most excited...

In the early Mr. Olympia competitions, the lower body didn’t have to be as properly developed as the top half of one’s physique. But as the years went by and the sport evolved, more attention was paid to the how the legs looked, so the athletes had to train them longer and harder. This wasn’t...

Nearly a year since he announced his signing with the Professional Fighters League, Rory MacDonald expected he’d be spending the fall getting ready for the MMA league’s semifinal round before advancing to New Year’s Eve’s PFL Championships. Instead, MacDonald remains indefinitely preparing for...

There are plenty of reasons why your fitness progress has hit the skids. Whether it has to do with poor nutritional choices, an ineffective workout strategy, not enough attention paid to recovery, or just a poor state of mind—your fitness goals can be sabotaged by mistakes you have no idea...

The prevalence of bodybuilding-style weight training in virtually all sports has shown us a lot of things. We’ve seen that stronger athletes perform better almost across the board, including in baseball and golf, which used to be thought of as sports that depend more on “skill” than high-level...

When Tottenham Hotspur Football Club invited me to train like a premiership footballer (or soccer player, as they’re known in America) at their state-of-the-art training venue The Lodge, I experienced a world-class facility that combines some of the greatest fitness and nutrition minds in the...

The “bodybuilder physique” has been defined as a very specific thing. Comments are often made about the physiques of boxers, wrestlers, sprinters and all sorts of other athletes to the effect of “he looks like a bodybuilder.” What does this mean? There have been big and muscular men throughout...

Have you ever felt like you were hit by a car the day after an intense training session? It’s not a pleasant sensation, and you might even feel like taking a break from the gym just to let your body heal — unless you’re the reigning World’s Strongest Man Martins Licis, that is. Martins revealed...

For the fitness enthusiast, it’s a great time to be alive. We’re at the peak of the industry’s information age, with purportedly new training techniques cropping up everywhere we look. this is good. What’s not so good, however, is when people take these techniques into the gym and use them the...

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Chris Nicoll / M+F Magazine “It wasn’t the outcome I was hoping for,” Henri-Pierre Ano admits, after reflecting on his 14th-place finish in 2019’s Olympia Classic Physique. Ano, 38, had plenty of reasons for disappointment. The Canadian stepped onstage with high hopes of improving on his 2018...

Courtesy of Matt Shepley How bad did it get for Mikhail Kniaziewicz, once a fit sports fanatic growing up in a well-to-do Philadelphia suburb who earned a college football roster spot on the strength of his left leg, to end up depressed, lonely, out of shape and overweight, wondering if life...

sportpoint / Shutterstock Getting specific with fitness goals is an important step in setting yourself up for success. So if you're aiming to "get better at running" or "do more cardio" this year, you might want to consider making a marathon one of your 2020 goals. Not only will completing a...