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THE SUN BEATS DOWN, stadium jams blare from Skrillex and Imagine Dragons, and hordes of scantily clad people throng around me – stretching instead of dancing. It’s the first day of June, and I’m at Manhattan’s Pier 76 along with 5,300 other competitors for Hyrox, the German fitness-racing phenomenon. I’m working up a sweat just weaving through the masses to reach the warmup corral inside a giant hangar next to the Hudson River before my 11:30 heat time.We’ve signed up to tackle a series of eight…

WHEN HYROX STAGED its U.S. coming out party in New York City earlier this summer, the German fitness race sensation wasn’t hosting a limited field of elite athletes. The estimated 5,300 competitors came in all shapes and sizes, ages, and from a wide range of places. The crowd of people on Pier 76 exemplified Hyrox’s goal of being an event for the fitness-loving masses. After my own run at Hyrox glory in the Men’s Open division, I stuck around to talk with as many racers as I could. I was curious…

Jump to: Super Trainer Running ShoesWHEN I FIRST started running long distances, I had one goal: go as fast as I could for as long as I could. I ran the same 5k route a few times a week, always aiming to go faster. Every time out needed to be better than the last—because that’s how training works for everything, right? Plenty of guys have this mindset when they take up running or decide to train for a race. It seems logical, too, especially if you’re familiar with the principle of progressive ov…

This story is part of AAPI in Fitness, a series of articles highlighting the challenges and triumphs of fitness trainers, athletes, and gym owners from the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Read the rest of the stories here. LONG BEFORE INSTAGRAM and TikTok offered you instant workout motivation with a simple tap of your iPhone screen, and before the term “fitfluencer” was cool, a handful of intrepid individuals started sharing their training ideas in earnest. (And no, they didn’t…

TOM STOLTMAN IS once again the World’s Strongest Man. The 29-year-old Scot took back his SBD World’s Strongest Man title from Canadian Mitchell Hooper, who just edged out Stoltman for the top spot in 2023. The pair switched places for the 2024 contest, which was staged from May 1 to 5 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Stoltman, representing Great Britain, won the hallowed strength sport championship for the third time with 53 points. Hooper was the runner up with 47.5 points, and the USA’s Evan S…

WHEN STAZ NAIR needs to prepare himself for an acting job, he’s all business. His physical training is solely focused the needs of the character—and whether those needs are based around real-life backgrounds or in fantasy and science fiction worlds, which was the case for two of his most notable roles in HBO’s Game of Thrones and Netflix’s Rebel Moon saga. Nair played a Dothraki warrior in the former (and joked to MH that he’s loved to speak to Thrones star Jason Momoa about his Dothraki workout…

WHEN JOE THOMAS retired from the NFL in 2018, his wife Annie made it clear where she expected him to dedicate his attention going forward. “It’s family time,” he recalls her saying. “You don’t have an excuse to go to work every day, 50 hours a week or more.” The former Cleveland Browns star had four kids; the time immediately following his retirement were going to be peak dad years. “My wife has done a really good job of making sure that I understand that . . . your kids are only going to be kid…

THE ROCK’S RETURN to the WWE’s most hallowed ring at Wrestlemania 40 was fan service spectacle, as he paired up with Roman Reigns to take on Cody Rhodes, the eventual champion. Johnson took on a new persona for the arc: The Final Boss (which reflects the world outside the ring, since he now sits on the board of directors of the WWE’s parent company, TKO Group). Johnson revealed on Instagram that he underwent an intense 12-week training camp to prepare for the ring, which he called “intense and u…

THE ROCK’S RETURN to the WWE’s most hallowed ring at Wrestlemania 40 was fan service spectacle, as he paired up with Roman Reigns to take on Cody Rhodes, the eventual champion. Johnson took on a new persona for the arc: The Final Boss (which reflects the world outside the ring, since he now sits on the board of directors of the WWE’s parent company, TKO Group). Johnson revealed on Instagram that he underwent an intense 12-week training camp to prepare for the ring, which he called “intense and u…

MONKEY MAN, THE new Jordan Peele-produced movie releasing this week, defies easy categorization. It’s a revenge saga à la John Wick, but also a repudiation of India’s caste system. It deploys hero’s journey tropes the movie-going public will find immediately familiar, but also references Hindu mythology Western audiences likely haven’t encountered. It’s an underdog story that was initially slated to go straight to streaming, but was championed by one of the biggest names in modern movies to a wi…

SiR, THE SINGER and songwriter, has spent more time in gyms than most people. He wasn’t always exercising when he was there, though. The musician’s first jobs were at fitness facilities; he worked at big box chains Bally Total Fitness and LA Fitness in the days before he was a successful artist signed to Top Dawg Entertainment. Now, he spends his time in gyms putting in a different kind of work. The 37-year-old artist keeps up a consistent training regimen, training five days per week. He told t…

TO MAKE YOUR workout worth your time, whether you have five minutes or five hours to spare, you need one thing: effort. That’s the key to this five-minute, double kettlebell session designed by trainer Mickey Brueckner, founder of Annex Sports Performance. Complexity is not the order of the day here—instead, you’ll need all-out effort for the whole period in order to see the type of results you want. The four-exercise series uses a novel structure to pile up the reps. You’ll start the workout p…

NICK JONAS DOES not like cardio. He has a good reason for that, though. Jonas has Type 1 diabetes, and finds it can be a challenge to manage his glucose levels with that type of exercise in the midst of everything else he has going on as a touring musician and actor. He’s not just hating on treadmills because he thinks they’re boring. ‘[Glucose level] not only affects my basic health, but my emotional state, mental state,’ Jonas told the MH crew when he dropped by to talk through his experience…

NICK JONAS DOES not like cardio. He has a good reason for that, though. Jonas has Type 1 diabetes, and finds it can be a challenge to manage his glucose levels with that type of exercise in the midst of everything else he has going on as a touring musician and actor. He’s not just hating on treadmills because he thinks they’re boring. ”[Glucose level] not only affects my basic health, but my emotional state, mental state,” Jonas told the MH crew when he dropped by to talk through his experience…

JOSEF NEWGARDEN NEVER knows what type of gym he’ll find himself in while he’s on the road as an IndyCar Series driver. He’s used to adjusting—he’s a world-class race car driver, after all, with lightning-quick instincts honed behind the wheel—so finding himself in the MH gym during a recent visit in New York City was no problem. “We don’t always get to work out at our own gym,” he told the MH crew. Nevertheless, he was able to pull together a comprehensive maintenance routine he says is characte…

TREVANTE RHODES TAKES his training regimen seriously. That’s just part of who he is—the Moonlight and Mike star has always been an athlete, from when he was a kid growing up in school, yearning to train with the varsity squad, to his career as a sprinter at the University of Texas. Rhodes is still pushing his body to the brink, even now that he’s a successful actor. When he learned to box to portray Mike Tyson in Hulu’s Mike, he did more than just show up for stage punches. He told the MH crew h…