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Think Coffee's Bad for You? Think Again
Ever since we began to learn of the correlation between caffeine and high blood pressure, that morning dietary staple, coffee, has gotten a bad rap. In recent years however, studies have shown java to...
View ArticleM&F Exclusive: Iron Maiden Nicole Michel Interview
M&F Editor-in-Chief Shawn Perine sits down with February Iron Maiden, the gorgeous Nicole Michel.The gorgeous Nicole Michel stopped by the Muscle & Fitness offices to talk to Editor-in-Chief...
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Rise of the Machines: Arnold Schwarzenegger on Training With Machines
SHAWN PERINE: How does your training today compare with the way you trained in the ’70s? ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: I always have done each body part three times a week, with the idea being to train six...
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The Lean Mass 15 Workout Routine
Gain muscle or get lean? It’s an age-old conundrum that plagues physique-builders the world over. To those looking for both it can often feel like the Judgment of Solomon—an agonizing choice that...
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Demolish Your Delts with The Sprinter
In the summer of 1996, everyone was watching the Olympics, held in Atlanta, and all eyes were fixed on Michael Johnson. The world-record-setting sprinter with the unorthodox running style and gold...
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Lean Mass 15 Supplement Guide
Here are some of the supplements Muscle & Fitness Editor-in-Chief Shawn Perine takes when following his own LM-15 routine.Creatine"Creatine has been show in multiple studies to boost strength...
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Eat Like a Caveman: The Paleo Diet
It's 50,000 B.C. and you're jonesing for some grub. Since it's about 520 centuries before the first 7-Eleven opens, you have two options--head to the nearest forest and scrounge up some berries, seeds,...
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Healthy Eating: Phil Heath's Winning Meal Plan
Time was, if you were a professional bodybuilder, you were expected to eat and eat and eat, until you could eat no more. You'd stuff your piehole morning, noon, night - especially at night - in an...
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Bodybuilding Protein Alternatives
1 of 7 Any of us who've put an ounce of thought into the process of growing and maintaining our muscles have also downed more than our fair share of poultry, beef, eggs and tuna and for many, the...
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Phil Heath: The Future of Bodybuilding
If the sport of professional bodybuilding were a patient, it would be sprouting IVs and surrounded by a team of frantic surgeons alternately administering CPR and shouting things like "Clear!" The...
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Abs 101 Workout
Picture this: Two guys strolling the beach, checking out bikinis, both of them regular gym-goers. One has 18"arms, a billowing chest and... a baby-smooth midsection. The other guy's arms barely stretch...
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Along Came a Spider Curl
My biceps aren’t big, but they do have detail and a bit of a peak, and I owe both to two things: my genetics, and spider curls. I can’t offer much help in the genetics department (talk to your parents...
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The 3X2 Strength Program
There's a natural tendency among us so-called evolved beings to gravitate toward chaos, and bodybuilders are no exception in our so-called "enlightened" 21st century. Back in the day, a person looking...
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Expert Advice on Your Biggest Training Questions
1 of 9In the world of health and fitness, old wives' tales and gym lore are oft repeated, chapter and verse, as hardcore fact. Opinions are bandied about as truth, and legend is taken as history....
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Our Editor's Fitness Philosophy
I get asked about my training pretty often, maybe because I’ve been doing it for so long that people think that I must know what I’m doing. It wasn’t until a recent photo shoot with the brilliant...
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Shawn Perine's Muscle-Building Workout Routine
5 Rules of Training1. Follow Your Own Path I decided to train like a bodybuilder. Others focus on strength. Still others aim to succeed in CrossFit. Each of our chosen paths are right for us, because...
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Arnold is Back in the Role that Made Him a Star
Get exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the set of Terminator Genisys in the June issue of M&F.I trained with the Terminator. And guess what? He likes using machines.In the June issue of Muscle...
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King Reigns With Unique Training Technique
On a recent Saturday morning, M&F Training Director Sean Hyson and I were working out at Gold’s Gym in Venice, CA, when I pointed out my friend Ron King, who was benching on a Smith machine. Ron,...
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Save Our Supplements!
On June 3rd, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, along with Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, added four senate amendments (S.A. 1560, 1561, 1562, and 1563) to the Department of Defense 2016 spending...
View ArticleThe Rock's Biggest M&F Issue of All Time
UPDATED: Here's what it meant to The Rock to be on our December cover:Best part about this #ManOfTheCentury issue (besides the bad ass old school style poster;) is what it all represents. Hard core...
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Age is just a number for Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man
Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man returns to TV on the Starz hit series Ash vs Evil Dead.If you were a child of the ’70s like me, Lee Majors was your hero. As Col. Steve Austin in The Six Million...
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Pumping Iron at 40: The Classic Bodybuilding Movie
Getty Images / Keystone / StaffIt’s hard to overstate the impact of director George Butler’s 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, not just on bodybuilding, but on society. For one thing, it introduced the...
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Remembering Mr. America's Body Shop
Courtesy Weider Health & FitnessIf you know anything about me, you should know that the first gym I belonged to was Mr. America’s Body Shop, in Farmingdale, Long Island. That’s not like saying I...
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's 7 Life Lessons
1 of 8 Zachary Tanne/ WME IMG First, there’s the gym. Always, the gym. Because the gym is his anchor and it’s his sanctuary, and because it helps him to remember, and because it helps him to forget....
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Double-Split Workout
The double-split routine that keeps Arnold in Terminator shape to this day.The breakdownDays 1, 3, 5AM - Chest, backPM - Legs, calves, absDays 2, 4, 6AM - Shoulders, triceps, bicepsPM - Calves, absDay...
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The Alpha Male Shoulder Routine
Professional athletes have them. So do bodybuilders, longshoremen, lumberjacks, and pretty much every guy we innately identify as a pillar of strength. In fact, of all the muscle groups, it is the one...
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Incline Lateral Raise
While the standard lateral raise (performed either stand-raise becomes a diferent movement altogether: one in which the stress is felt primarily through the first half of each rep, as opposed to...
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The 10 Strongest Humans to Ever Walk the Earth
1 of 11Heavyweight HistoryThroughout history, mankind has been obsessed with physical strength. Since the days when the legends of Hercules first took shape, to the ancient Olympic Games where...
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School of Rock: Dwayne Johnson's 7 Life Lessons
First, there’s the gym. Always, the gym. Because the gym is his anchor and it’s his sanctuary, and because it helps him to remember, and because it helps him to forget. The gym has been his home when...
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Train Like the Rock: Dwayne Johnson's Arm Routine
The cover of Muscle and Fitness' December 2015 issue features Dwayne Johnson, and we have dubbed him our Man of the Century. "It's a priveledge—M&F has inspired millions upon millions of people to...
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