Take your conditioning to the next level with high-intensity staggered cardio. For elite athletes, having excellent cardio is a critical component of the job. Because of this, many guys grudgingly take to the roads and treadmills, running for as long as an hour at a clip. Yet the thing that most don’t realize is that… read more
Yearly Archives: 2012
Peak Experience
Jordan Romero is the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits — and his parents were right there with him. Meet the family that reaches for the top. “Dream big,” parents tell their kids. But what if your 9-year-old son told you he wanted to travel to the Himalayas to climb Mr. Everest — not… read more
The Bodybuilder’s Guide to Holiday Feasting
Here’s how to eat hearty without ruining your physique. Every holiday season, it’s tempting to throw in the towel, trade the gym for the mall, and ditch your good eating intentions after the first cocktail party. But you shouldn’t have to sacrifice taste and eating pleasure in an effort to maintain your waistline this season.… read more
Holiday Hardbody
’Tis the season to save your muscle with smart supplements. Dreading the holidays? Worried that stress from traveling, Mom’s tasty cooking and no access to a gym will torpedo your hard-earned gains and pack on ugly pounds? Well, we can do something for you. Or, rather, the supplements in this article can. There’s a nutritional… read more
Winter Wonderman Part 2
Give yourself a bad-ass physique for Christmas. How? By continuing our “New Year, No Fear” transformation. “Even at the end of the year, you can still have a successful physique transformation,” proclaims David Hawk, former IFBB pro bodybuilder and Muscle & Body supertrainer. “I don’t care what the conventional wisdom says. We’re doing it.” One… read more
The Do-It-All Fitness Pro
Fitness model and actor Kyle Clarke has a hunger for high-risk adventure. Some guys have all the fun. Guys like Kyle Clarke. The classically handsome Clarke may seem like your everyday fitness model who spends his off hours manscaping and mirror-gazing, but after learning his life story you realize he’s more like a Hemingway character… read more
Removing Your “Fat Suit”
This woman discovered her true self after losing 130 lb. Remember gym class in grade school? There were definitely two echelons of kids: those who could and those who couldn’t. For the kids in the latter category, gym was a panic-inducing hour. “I remember standing in line for the 50-yard dash and being so anxious… read more
The Best Body Top 10
The choice is up to you. Cast your votes on our website now! As we do every year, we set up shop at the Olympia Weekend expo in Las Vegas for our annual Olympia Best Body contest, sponsored by Cellucor and GNC. It was no easy task, but we finally whittled down the fit physiques… read more
Omega-3: The Superstar Supplement
Despite one recent “study,” the fatty acid continues to amaze researchers. Every now and then, media headlines resulting from a widely distributed press release create confusion among consumers, especially in specialized fields where mainstream journalists lack the background to put the information in proper context. It happened again recently in the health-and-fitness world when a… read more
Why Serena Williams Keeps Winning
What I learned training her and other superstar athletes. After coming back from the recent U.S. Open in New York, I would like to take this time to stress the level of respect I have for the individual athlete. There is a difference between team sports and individual play. While both should be commended for… read more