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49ers, 5'11", 210 lb NFL’s NFL’s leading rusher deadlifts 500—and does gymnastics. Bengals, 6'4", 217 lb Brains (career 98.6 QB rating) and brawn (see skater squat). Ravens, 6'3", 247 lb Churns out 3.32 yards after contact, thanks to a 500-pound squa

DIRECTIONS: Do pushup reps for 30 seconds, then rest for 30 seconds. Follow with a set of bodyweight lunges for 30 seconds. Do 2 rounds of this circuit. GET IN PUSHUP position, abs and glutes tight. Bend at the elbows and shoulders, lowering your che

THIS TIME, the call was different. At the end of each of Joe Burrow’s first four years with the Bengals, he’d buzz his longtime trainer, Dak Notestine, C.S.C.S., to plan his off-season workouts. But after Cincy was locked out of the playoffs last yea

LIFT WITH YOUR legs, not with your back. It’s a cue many trainers use anytime you bend down to lift something heavy. It makes sense, too, since conventional wisdom holds that rounding your back with heavy weight leads to injury. But if you look close

GET READY FOR DK Metcalf’s dirty secret. You’d think a six-foot-four, 235-pound slab of muscle would eat some high-protein, everything-bad-free diet, especially when priming for the biggest season of his football life. But as Metcalf speaks on this Z

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE EXPERTS, ADVISORS, AND READERS WHO BRING MEN’S HEALTH TO LIFE. I’ll go with Bo Jackson. He had elite power, speed, and balance. @michael.rogers Steve Weatherford. Dude was a punter, into fitness to an obsessive level. @cbar

ON A HOT EARLY-SUMMER AFTERNOON, JAKE PAUL SiTS iN HiS BACKYARD, TELLiNG ME ABOUT THE TiME GOD SPOKE TO HiM. We’re poolside at his $16 million house on the north side of Puerto Rico, where he lives andtrains. And while I’maware thata chat with God is

THERE ARE bone-crushing sacks that leave QBs eating turf. And then there’s what the Cleveland Browns’ Myles Garrett did before halftime against the Colts last year, speeding past Indy turnstile (we mean offensive tackle) Blake Freeland, then shoving

AMID ALL THE debate around body positivity versus weight-loss drugs, science keeps finding that obesity puts your health at risk. At age 35, musician Amandi Brown weighed 400 pounds and had a pins-and-needles feeling in his legs and feet. “It was a s

THE KIDNEYS HAVE a few important jobs, but primarily they’re waste-removal experts. Inside your kidneys, blood passes through filtering units called nephrons. The nephrons remove excess nutrients like salts and potassium and send them to the bladder

I THINK IF parents are being honest, none of us know what we’re really doing. The best that you’ll get out of us, maybe, is that we’re trying to protect our children from whatever wounds we may have suffered as kids. We’re course correctors. I know t

THREE-IN-ONE CLEANERS. Body brushes that quick-scour everywhere. Waterproof speakers that blast the headlines in 60 seconds. Why are we all in such a rush in the shower? Maybe it’s time to slow down with a little something we’re calling the Everythin

Just over a year ago, Kekoa Lansford watched from a hilltop as the Maui wildfires incinerated his hometown. While others fled to safety, he ran into the flames to save as many lives as he could. Today, the scars from that blaze—one of the deadliest i

//THE TEXT MESSAGES fly back and forth almost daily. Frank, a teenager in Massachusetts, will see a TikTok post from somebody like @vici.togi. Togi’s post starts with him discussing how he took “a little” of an anabolic steroid called trenbolone, the

The 2024-25 NFL season has arrived—and with it a class of athletes who are redefining strength. We’re talking about DK Metcalf, a six-foot-four WR who can hit a top speed of 21.66 mph. Or Christian McCaffrey, a run-catchblock RB triple threat who led

CHEF DAN CHURCHILL was supposed to be a cook at the Osprey in Brooklyn for only a few months. This was back in 2013, and the Australian expat was busy building recipes for Chris Hemsworth’s Centr app, writing cookbooks (Eat Like a Legend is his lates

An alpha who needs to convince you they’re right SOUNDS LIKE: “I’m going to straighten you out on politics.” YOUR RESPONSE: Head things off (“Let’s not go there”), or try friendly banter (“That was a good one!”). If you engage, find agreement first (

Levi’s updates the varsity jacket with a corduroy blend that’s warm enough for cooler temps and looks sharp. Throw it over a white crewneck tee to make it pop. The jacket will dress up any jeans, too. Jacket ($148) by Levi’s; T-shirt ($65) by Vince;

LONG BEFORE Younghoe Koo was kicking clutch field goals for the Atlanta Falcons, he was a middle school soccer player in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His approach then was simple. “It was just ‘see ball, hit ball,’ ” he says. Then everything changed. After

TROY IWATA, The Daily Show correspondent YOU ARE allowed to not watch everything; you are allowed to not read everything. We think that if you don’t know, therefore you don’t care, which is not true. There is no shame in logging off and taking time t

SINCE 2016, I’ve heard the term “election stress disorder” a lot, but I’ve only recently begun to take it seriously. The phrase was introduced by the couples therapist Steven Stosny, Ph.D., during the Clinton–Trump race to describe the effects of the