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GUY FIERI is PREPKRINBA SENSIBLE SALAD. It's nearing lunchtime at Fieri's 42-acre compound in California's wine country, a stretch of rolling Steinbeckian earth that is the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of [...]

MAXING OUT YOUR BENCH PRESS? THAT'S THE OLD WAY OF THINKING ABOUT STRENGTH. WE CONSULTED FORWARD-THINKING RESEARCHERS TO BUILD A FITNESS SUPER PLAN THAT MEASURES THE STRENGTH YOU NEED TODAY--AND [...]

'Functional' anything sounds boring--we get it. But in fitness, functional is one of the most exciting adjectives out there. It's a catchall word to describe the moves and exercises that [...]

In this adaptation from MICHAEL EASTER's new book, Scarcity Brain, the author details how our caveman wiring can push us to want more than we need and to make--and repeat--bad [...]

THE MILITARY BRASS all traveled to the South. Twelve higher-ups from different groups within the Army, like TACOM (Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command) and DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency), who had [...]

STAYING HEALTHY IS A NUMBERS GAME, BUT WITH THE NEWS CYCLE CONSTANTLY CHURNING OUT UPDATED AND EVEN CONFLICTING HEALTH METRICS, IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHICH OF THEM COUNT. OUR EXPERTS [...]

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, 2007. Joshua Appel, M.D., now chief of emergency medicine for the Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System, was a medical resident in Albany, New York, when [...]

CAN CROSSFIT'S TECHY NEW CEO, ERIC ROZA, AND ITS CONTROVERSIAL EXERCISE PICASSO, DAVE CASTRO, TRANSFORM THE TOXIC FITNESS GIANT AND LEAD IT TOWARD A HEALTHIER, MORE INCLUSIVE, AND MORE EXPANSIVE [...]

ALBI SKENDERI is sitting on a leather love seat in his studio apartment in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. A road bike leans on a wall and a punching bag hangs in [...]

WE SCOURED AMERICA to find men for whom MUSCLE--both physical and mental--is critical to doing a great job. Whether it's a BRAIN SURGEON in North Carolina finding his second wind [...]

Dawn's rays are creeping west across the Mojave, crawling up Joshua trees and barrel cacti, as a group of U. S. Special Operations warriors sit cross-leeged, all lined up and [...]

MORE AND MORE MEN THINK AN OBSCURE, POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS DRUG WILL HELP THEM LIVE LONGER AND BETTER. ARE THEY SMARTER THAN THE REST OF US, OR ARE THEIR INSECURITIES DRIVING [...]

It's time to get centered But there's more to a badass core than six-pack abs and countless crunches. It's actually essential for the extra-fun things you'll do over the next [...]

For most of the past two million years, men and women needed strength for basically one reason: to not die. But as horse, machine, and computer power slowly replaced man [...]

GREYSON LOPEZ'S friend was about to be kicked out of the military for being too chubby. It was late 2017, and Lopez noticed his friend started losing weight--fast. 'He'd lost [...]

That's right: 'fitness age,' which researchers believe can be a lot higher or lower than your actual age--depending, of course, on how you exercise. Here's how to calculate how old [...]

Sin City offers so much more than vice. Here are five ways to see its many virtues. 1 ROCK OUT Kraft Boulders, a 30-minute ride from the Strip, is a [...]

The hottest thing to eat for a new kind of energy and a better body is ... nothing. Should you join the cult of fasting? IT WAS THIS PAST SPRING, [...]

MAYBE YOU'VE SEEN the ads. They're for a simple handheld device that measures and claims to help you 'hack' your metabolism so it can be more 'fit' and 'flexible.' But [...]

THIS PRIMAL TEST OF A MAN YIELDS FITNESS, SUSTENANCE, INSIGHT, AND PERSPECTIVE.We've been up here for three days, trekking the 10,000-foot ridges of the Schell Creek Range of east-central Nevada. [...]

Byline: Michael Easter The hardships and stress of the past 12 months led many of us to lean into comfort: daylong loungewear, a constant flow of chocolate and sinking into [...]

ON A CERTAIN few days in March, I know exactly what'll wake me every morning at six: text messages from my buddy Gordo, an ex-athlete and East Coast finance guy [...]

Want to sleep better, build brainpower, and stop getting sick? (We know, of course you do!) Picking up a dumbbell might be the best way to get there.Remember when your [...]

Byline: Michael Easter WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, Billy Dee Williams worked out on his own. But when he heard he'd been cast in the new Star Wars movie, the 82-year-old [...]

Only 2 percent of Americans will pass up a ride 3n an escalator and take the harder way up. What do they know that the rest of us don't? I [...]

Americans today spend 92 percent of n| their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. Here's a three-number formula to fix it. THE HERD OF 400-pound caribou [...]

I RECENTLY FOUND myself standing in the Arctic tundra, about 120 miles from civilization, in Kotzebue, Alaska, with half a year's worth of dinner--100-plus pounds of caribou--strapped to my back. [...]

Sports science is helping elite athletes excel into their late 30s and beyond. We talked to top trainers to learn the moves that will enable you to extend your peak, [...]

THE HAIRCUT OCCURRED without fanfare on January 14,2015, at Hair A-Go-Go in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Patricia Smith was going short. 'I mean short-short,' says the blonde physician's assistant, age 40. Army [...]

Top military trainers and elite soldiers share their peak-performance tips. BY MICHAEL EASTER STIR STRENGTH AND SPEED I do circuits that include five strength exercises (for example, kettlebell swings and [...]

Try the Army's new combat test. BY MICHAEL EASTER SINCE THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION, the Army has tested fitness with two minutes of pushups and situps and a 2-mile run. 'That [...]

These military-style challenges harden your body and sharpen your mind. Sorry, no enlistment bonus. BY MICHAEL EASTER CrossFit Hero WODs Hero WODs honor fallen soldiers. Do Murph for Navy SEAL [...]

Small changes to your workouts can lead to big results. Welcome to tempo training. BY MICHAEL EASTER Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. --Ralph Waldo Emerson What [...]

FEB 4 These parties are usually snoozefests cobbled together at the last minute. Rarely is the actual game great (last year was an exception). So make your event the one [...]

? Nearly a third of the 80 million CT scans done each year may be a waste of time and cash. Here's how to tell if you really need one. [...]

LESSONS FROM SURVIVORS OF A ROUGH, TOUGH SPORT. BY MICHAEL EASTER You might assume that the NFL's veteran players love the big powerlifting exercises. But in a sport that batters [...]

THE INSIDER Ticket Resellers WE INFILTRATED TICKET SUMMIT, A VEGAS TRADE SHOW, WHERE OUR SOURCES REVEALED (ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY) HOW TO SNAG GOOD DEALS AND AVOID GETTING RIPPED OFF. [...]