Health and Fitness

OUTSIDE OF MY ever-growing collection of nifty grooming and skincare devices, I am far from a tech junkie. Sure, I love my LED face masks and am always impressed with the latest hair growth devices, but that excitement has rarely branched out to Apple-style product launches—even with some of my favorite electric razors now being …

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THERE ARE ONLY so many 16-hour workdays a man can take. After graduating from culinary school in 2005, David Nayfeld was doing them six days a week. He hustled at the fine-dining mecca Eleven Madison Park in NYC, then eventually, in 2016, at his own Italian spot, Che Fico, in San Francisco, where he’s still …

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YOU CAN CLASSIFY exercises in a number of ways—by muscle group, movement pattern, or implement used, for example—but one of the most basic methods is whether it’s a compound movement (using multiple joints) or an isolation movement (which requires movement at only one joint). Think about it like this: Isolation exercises mean you’re hyper-focused on …

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The push press is a beast of a move for shoulder day at the gym—but it’s not just a great exercise for your shoulders. Think of it as a total-body movement that engages a variety of muscle groups, bringing your hips and legs into the equation to harness power as you drive the weight. This …

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SURE, MOST GUYS want to look like some Greco-Roman statue, with slabs of lean muscle layered onto their biceps and shoulders and chest and thighs. The thing we often forget: You don’t want to move like a statue too. You want to move like an athlete, capable of channeling your strength in multiple ways, quickly …

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ON A JUNE afternoon in Venice, California, nearly a thousand Angelenos lined up across two city blocks. They weren’t clamoring for a peek at Arnold working out at Muscle Beach or a Supreme merch drop, but perhaps something just as notable in the year of our Lord 2025: beef tallow French fries. They had come …

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The push press is a beast of a move for shoulder day at the gym—but it’s not just a great exercise for your shoulders. Think of it as a total-body movement that engages a variety of muscle groups, bringing your hips and legs into the equation to harness power as you drive the weight. This …

How to Do the Push Press to Add Power to Your Workout Read More »

SURE, MOST GUYS want to look like some Greco-Roman statue, with slabs of lean muscle layered onto their biceps and shoulders and chest and thighs. The thing we often forget: You don’t want to move like a statue too. You want to move like an athlete, capable of channeling your strength in multiple ways, quickly …

This Workout Will Teach You to Train Like an Athlete Read More »

ON A JUNE afternoon in Venice, California, nearly a thousand Angelenos lined up across two city blocks. They weren’t clamoring for a peek at Arnold working out at Muscle Beach or a Supreme merch drop, but perhaps something just as notable in the year of our Lord 2025: beef tallow French fries. They had come …

Welcome to the MAHAconomy Read More »

FOR ABOUT A a year, an exercise physiologist I know kept offering to do a VO2 max test on me. For more than a year, I’d been resisting it. Not because it’s not important. Plenty of trends have come and gone in my decades as a health editor, but VO2 max has been a nonstop …

I Dreaded Taking a VO2max Test. Then This Game Changer Came Along. Read More »