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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…
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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…
about 1 month ago
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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…
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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…
4 months ago
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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…
4 months ago
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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…
5 months ago
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“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…
5 months ago
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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…
7 months ago
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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…
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It’s a blue-sky December day in Santa Monica and Men’s Health is on an exclusive virtual tour of Apple’s new 23,000-square-foot, three-story Fitness+ Studio, led by Jay Blahnik, Apple’s senior director of fitness for health technologies. The interior is Apple-modern, all-white everything, wood accents, lots of glass, lots of screens. All the screens show whatever is going on in the wood-walled and wood-floored fitness studio, which has three sliding glass doors opened to reveal a verdant garden.…
about 3 years ago
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This interview was originally published in the May 2020 issue of Men’s Health. Rep. John Lewis died on July 17, 2020 at age 80. REP. JOHN LEWIS has been arrested 45 times in his 80 remarkable years on the planet. He’s been beaten, spat on, doused in scalding water, and insulted, impugned, and harassed in every way imaginable. Yet through it all—the marches with Martin Luther King Jr., the lunch-counter sit-ins, and even 33 years in the House of Representatives serving the Georgia Fifth—he’s cont…
almost 4 years ago
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Great sport sunglasses don’t just shield your eyes from the sun (and make you look 17 percent fiercer). They’re an essential piece of gear that filters glare off water, heightens contrast for ball sports, and can even play tunes. Here are the 6 best sunglasses for any sport this summer to keep your focus on the game. Nike HyperForceBest for Baseball and TennisThese $195 sports glasses increase contrast from all angles and provide relief from bright rays when you’re hungover at a Sunday softball…
almost 5 years ago
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Nothing really prepares you for the snotty-nose, ear-infection, stomach-bug fest that is toddler daycare. My son, Henry, went to a most excellent hippie-dippy rural learning center where the kids were ushered outside to play and get dirty at every opportunity. Every day seemed like a bout in the germ Thunderdome. Around the time Henry was leaning into the terrible threes, my wife started battling a recurrence of breast cancer, enduring multiple kinds of chemotherapy and other treatments that de…
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In the past year, Chris Hemsworth has appeared onscreen as an emaciated sailor, a supersized Norse god, and a fleet-footed hunter. Depending on the demands of each role, he’s had to either quickly drop weight, add muscle, or improve his agility.
The key for him—and for all of us—is to figure out the best way to eat and train to achieve results. It helps, of course, to have a live-in trainer and nutritionist like Hemsworth does.
(For a great total-body workout that will help you blast belly fat a…
about 8 years ago
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As a health editor, I know I should eat more oily fish.I also know that I hate oily fish. See the problem?Omega-3 fatty acids are what make these fish mega-healthy. In a 2012 study by Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, people who ate the most omega-3s were 29 percent less likely to develop atrial fibrillation than those who took in the least. “Omega-3s may have an electrical stabilization effect that ensures that heart cells don’t fire err…
over 9 years ago
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Pow, pow, boom. Jon “Bones” Jones, the UFC light-heavyweight champion, is blasting his way through a final sparring session, his punches and kicks adding pounding percussion to the Lil’ Wayne thundering out of the speakers at The Wat gym in New York City. With only a few days remaining before Saturday’s title fight against Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida, Jones—who stands 6’ 4” and weighs 205 pounds—oozes confidence. “Right before a fight is my favorite time of the year: I feel more alive,” says the…
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