Tag Archive | Fitness | Men’s Journal

The Six Week Challenge

Monday, February 6, 2012

Everyone has an athletic sore spot. But what if you spent a month and a half doing everything you could to improve? That was our writer's six-week challenge.

Muscle Beach and the Dawn of Huge

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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In the 1970s, a new breed of American man emerged from the weight rooms of Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach. Led by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a clique of world-class bodybuilders — muscle-bound, steroid-fueled, bronzed like suntanned gods — pumped iron, chased girls, and changed the world’s exercise culture forever.

Chris Carmichael Can Make You an Olympian

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Chris Carmichael Can Make You an Olympian

Chris Carmichael coached Lance Armstrong to the best performance of his life. Check out what he can do for you.

Laird Hamilton Says: Turn Your Workout Upside Down

Monday, January 23, 2012

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Laird Hamilton Says: Turn Your Workout Upside Down

With his debut column, the big-wave surfer wants you to do the opposite of everything gym rats tell you.

Top Fitness Tech from CES 2012: Gallery

Friday, January 13, 2012

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With the increased popularity of social media-based fitness — live-tweeting weight via WiFi, posting 5K results to Facebook — a bevy of fitness-related gadgets hit the stores last year. Here are seven newcomers that caught our eye at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Last of the Blue-Water Hunters

Friday, October 14, 2011

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Spearfishing is about taking the fight to the fish — a pursuit as dangerous as it is macho. But this trip had one advantage: The guidance of the sport’s most legendary figure.

The Eight-Week Guide to Your First Triathlon

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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The Eight-Week Guide to Your First Triathlon

We enlisted Nick White, who coaches under Lance Armstrong's former cycling coach, Chris Carmichael, to design an accessible, eight-week program for completing your first sprint triathlon.

Men’s Journal Tries Out For the NHL

Monday, June 14, 2010

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We subjected our intern to the torture of the NHL Scouting Combine to see if he could make it out alive.

Robert Downey Jr.’s Cosmic Punishment

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Martial arts helped him overcome his failures. Now he just has to figure out how to overcome his success.

The Strongest Apps

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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There are 1,500-plus fitness applications for the Apple iPhone. Here are the four you should know about.

Fitness’s Final Frontier

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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NASA’s scientists looking to keep astronauts fitter during long missions to space have figured out how to keep us all younger.

How To Stick With It

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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For most guys it’s the difference between keeping fit and falling out of shape, but staying motivated is easier than you think — with the right incentives.

Fitness’s Founding Father

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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Every decade ushers in a new “revolutionary” exercise fad (or three). But as Mr. America, Mark Adams’s new biography, points out, most of them probably owe a nod to Bernarr Macfadden and his magazine Physical Culture.