Ben Court

IT’S A BLUE-SKY March day on the New York Street back lot at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. The acrid smoke of burning rubber wafts in the air around The Fall Guy director David Leitch and star Ryan Gosling. The reported $125 million movie drops May 3 and is loosely inspired by the ’80s TV action series about stunt performers. The smoke comes from stunt driver Logan Holladay, who is behind the wheel of a 750-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. He’s spinning doughnuts around Gosling and L…

This story is part of This Is 50+—an in-depth look at guys who are thriving later in life, with tips and tricks on how all of us can future-proof our bodies.LONG TIME LISTENER, first-time caller. That’s what it feels like doing this Zoom interview with Rich Roll, the Malibu-based podcaster, the author of Finding Ultra, and the man MH dubbed the World’s Fittest Vegan back in 2018. I feel like I know Roll intimately; after all, he’s been in my ears for years—on my commute, on road trips, on slow Z…

This story is part of Fit at Any Age: New Frontiers—a next-level guide to the latest science and tips for a stronger, longer life.WHEN I SIGNED up for a movement and musculoskeletal assessment with a new performance-optimization company in Austin called 10 Squared, I was dreading the VO2 max test, when you’re strapped into headgear that measures how much oxygen you breathe in and out while you run on a treadmill and the speed is ratcheted up until you tap out. But I’m struggling already, we’re o…

BLAME THE PANDEMIC. The slouch toward athleisure clothing all the time became a sprint during Covid – and it’s not slowing. ’Guys now expect their work trousers to fit and move the same way their gym clothes do,” says Ben Checketts, cofounder and creative director of Rhone. ‘Our Commuter pants take design cues from our athletic shorts that flatter, not flatten, the glutes, and we use four-way-stretch materials with no bunching, no diaper butt.’ Last year, sales of Rhone’s slim Commuter trousers…

This is part of the Men’s Health Body Bible, a collection of cutting-edge stories focused on helping you build more muscle using the latest science and lessons from some of the finest athletes and trainers on the planet.IF YOU HAVE ever done any kind of long swim, run, or ride, you’re probably familiar with lumbar pain, the persistent aching in your lower back that drains your leg power. Rudy Garcia-Tolson knows it intimately. Now 35, Garcia-Tolson says his lower back is the part of his body tha…

This is part of the Men’s Health Body Bible, a collection of cutting-edge stories focused on helping you build more muscle using the latest science and lessons from some of the finest athletes and trainers on the planet.BLAME THE PANDEMIC. The slouch toward athleisure clothing all the time became a sprint during Covid—and it’s not slowing. “Guys now expect their work pants to fit and move the same way their gym clothes do,” says Ben Checketts, cofounder and creative director of Rhone. “Our Commu…

DJ STEVE AOKI is best known for his wild gigs (he plays 250 per year!) all over the world, while also holding down a Las Vegas residency at Hakkasan and Omnia. The EDM star ranked number eight on DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJ list and spins a multicultural and multigenre mix of “foot-stompers,” from K-pop to country to rock to grunge to pop to rap to reggaeton. Aoki just released his eighth studio album, Hiroquest: Double Helix, which includes collaborations with Akon, Ángela Aguilar, JJ Lin, Danna Paol…

“IT ALWAYS fucking hurts, no matter how many times you do it,” says Steve Aoki. “Oh yeah, baby. I’m telling my brain to relax through the pain, but it’s telling me to run. Breathe, breathe, breathe.” It’s 102 degrees midafternoon on a blue-sky day in early September in Henderson, Nevada, and Aoki, the superstar DJ known for popularizing electronic dance music (EDM) in America and a budding biohacker, is hard at it, optimizing his mind and body with a workout/ice plunge/sauna trifecta. He’s about…

For our 35th anniversary issue, we’re spotlighting 35 men who embody strength in all of its forms. To see the full list, click here.HE PLAYS THE God of Thunder, and we know him as an invincible superhero—and A-list Aussie-family bro—so when Hemsworth was hit with a genetic lightning bolt, it hit all of us. He took a genetic test for Limitless with Chris Hemsworth, the Nat Geo documentary series on longevity, and it revealed that he has two copies of the gene APOE e4, which is linked to an increa…

LIKE MANY OF you, especially those over 40, I envision myself as younger than my chronological age. Subjective age—how old you feel—is a thing, and people over 40 on average feel 20 percent younger. That head game is in the crosshairs of new technology that targets patterns in DNA methylation. These chemical tags on your DNA code serve as dimmer switches to shift your genes up or down and reveal your biological age. Unlike chronological age, which progresses at the same pace, one candle per year…