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RUBIK'S CUBE The package says: "While it has 43 quintillion combinations, it can be solved on [sic] incredibly few moves." M&F: You should have a very analytical mind. You're an [...]

CLOSE SHAVE I've noticed that when you're dieted down, shaving is definitely different--your face is much thinner when you don't have a lot of water and fat [under your skin]. [...]

ACCORDING TO MTV Cribs, "LIVING LARGE" IS AN athlete showing off eight carefully arrayed rides following a tour through a tract-mansion lacking only those things money can't buy: soul and [...]

Since 1990, Gunnar Peterson has been training celebrities, a term some might apply now to Gunnar himself. When he isn't working out Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and other A-listers in [...]

Benny Podda lives as a modern-day medicine man in the Cahuilla Nation in the mountains of San Bernardino National Forest, California. Benny Podda sleeps in a spirit-filled cave, using a [...]

Martians didn't oversee construction of the Great Pyramids, despite what some extrater-restrialists have suggested. Deserts produce earthly marvels. See: Kuwait, formerly dirt-poor, now among the richest of nations. See: Las [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most famous person in the world. (No? Then who?) After conquering bodybuilding by winning the Mr. Olympia contest seven times, and then taking health and fitness [...]

HER CONVERSATION VEERS unexpectedly, like a plot twist in one of her favorite novels. One moment, Amber Littlejohn tells of being raised by interracial parents so committed to social justice [...]

Just look at us dangling there in science class. The human skeleton appears so fragile we should have bubble wrap for skin, along with a "Handle With Care" label. As [...]

Press "When my, wrists start getting wrapped, there could be nuclear bombs going off and I wouldn't hear them," says Ryan Kennelly, 31, of Moses Lake, Washington, who has the [...]

A WEEK OUT FROM THE 1994 MR. OLYMPIA, Dorian Yates could barely lift his trousers, let alone the heavy weights expected of the world's best body-builder--260 pounds of muscle too [...]

"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some [...]

CERTAIN COUNTRIES HAVE EARNED reputations for certain things. For example, a used jock strap would be hailed as haute couture if the label said, "Made in France." Subtitle White Chicks [...]

Perhaps your three deltoid heads are so strangely proportioned that only Picasso could appreciate their aesthetic beauty. Maybe the medicine ball you're supposed to be using for training abs looks [...]

M & F: Is the low-carb movement, as represented by Atkins and South Beach, played out? Larry Krug, co-founder of eatwize.com, diet coach on VH1's From Flab to Fab: It's [...]

Greg Rando may be a rookie pro bodybuilder, but in an era when superstars and scrubs alike throw tantrums, it's still strange to hear gratitude pouring forth from a guy [...]

The ESPN show calls sports-caster a "Dream Job," but some gigs aren't work at all. With repeat business eliminating the need for other clients, Britney Spears' wedding planner has it [...]

A QUARTER CENTURY AFTER WINNING bodybuilding's defining contest, the Mr. Olympia, three times straight (1977-79), Frank Zane seems a figure oddly out of tune with his sport. Even then, the [...]

1) The oil slick that SIMON ROBINSON encountered on a winding road in England on March 25, 1998, changed the course of his BMW in the blink of an eye. [...]

FOR THIS INTERVIEW, Alicia Denson was asked to choose a meeting spot that would frame her personality and interests in some revealing way. In advance she had apologized for the [...]

Benny Podda lives as a modem-day medicine man in the mountains of the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California. He sleeps in a spirit-filled cave, using a rock as [...]

THE PHOTOGRAPHS, INTENDED FOR THE disposable medium of the magazine page, became iconography, referencing Southern California from the middle '60s through the early '70s just as surely as the music [...]

SHAWN LATTIMER Second place (860 pounds), heavyweight division, World Record Bench Bash, Arnold Fitness Weekend 2004 EVEN IN THIS AGE of political correctness, there is simply no euphemism for Shawn [...]

THIS IS HOW JOHN CENA ROLLS: IN A TRICKED-OUT '86 MONTE CARLO, BOUNCING WILDLY AT THE MOMENT IN RESPONSE TO ONE OF THOSE CRAZY HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE AS COMMON [...]

AISHA WASHINGTON AGE 28 RESIDENCE Fort Lauderdale, Florida OCCUPATION Special education teacher SPECS 5'2 3/4", 114 pounds Aisha Washington | Miami Dolphins M & F If you could have a [...]

ABBY GENNET A prom queen and cheerleader who wore blue nail polish, Abby Gennet still has the same mixture of ethereal beauty (think Kate Hudson) and punk hellfire (think Chrissie [...]

CAUTION: A GARBAGE MAN, A PREACHER AND A BODYBUILDER--THIS ISN'T THE START OF A BARROOM JOKE, IT'S JOE ALLEGRO'S RESUME REVEREND JOE ALLEGRO has hoisted more tonnage than Lee Haney, [...]

Now and then something comes along so breathtaking in concept, so daringly engineered, so wildly over the top, that it has never before seen the light of day--or at least [...]

DEEP IN THE HEARTLAND, an icy wind buffets the walls of a warehouse inside of which the course of human evolution will forever be altered. Or not. Electricity hums, powering [...]

EXCUSE US WHILE WE GET UNDER YOUR SKIN. Sorry, but we need to get at the muscle tissue lying beneath the surface, and the only method at our disposal is [...]

>>Has the sports world discovered the missing link between The Rock, Mike Tyson, The Beatles and Godzilla? If you answered "fat chance," you're probably unfamiliar with Bob "The Beast" Sapp, [...]

Three-time Mr. Olympia Frank Zane may be renowned for a body that modernized the Platonic ideal of Greek sculptors, but at 5'9", 185 pounds, he defeated larger foes more with [...]

When trainer extraordinaire Mark Verstegen talks about macaroni, he's referring not to the sludge served in school cafeterias, but to that near-perfect synchronization of an athlete's energy management, strength training, [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger likens the building of his body to the forging of a samurai sword. Heating, pounding, firing, sharpening, cooling--repeated sufficiently, this process alchemizes raw materials, whether iron or muscle [...]

JENNY WORTH TURNED PRO at the NPC USA Fitness Championships in July 1998, then made her pro debut that same month at the Jan Tana Pro Fitness Classic, placing sixth. [...]

HELTER SKELTER [PADDLING GORE CANYON IN COLORADO] Big Splat, Double Suck, Slaughterhouse Five--the names of Class V rapids sound like pinball games, which is a good analogy for these ribbons [...]

NEKESHA GIVENS ORLANDO MAGIC DANCERS Tracy McGrady is one of the best players in the NBA and a human highlight reel for ESPN, but he doesn't even have the hottest [...]

It won't make newspaper headlines until the battle is already lost, but the supplement industry is under attack. And if you use supplements, so are you. The DHEA pill you [...]

STRONGEST, FITTEST, OLDEST: THREE EXTRAORDINARY MEN REACH THE PRECIPICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT STRONGESTMARKHENRY WITH HIS BRAIDS IN A PONYTAIL and his eyes behind shades, massive Mark Henry looks small for [...]

it won't make newspaper headlines until the battle is already lost, but the supplement industry is under attack. And if you use supplements, so are you. The threat to the [...]

It won't make newspaper headlines until the battle is already lost, but the supplement industry is being attacked. And if you use supplements, so are you. The DHEA pill you [...]

LL Cool J TOURING BY BUS in support of his latest joint, LL Cool J brought a new concreteness to the phrase "hitting the road." Had you been cruising along [...]

The signs of spring are everywhere. Meadows festooned with wild-flowers. The lazy thwack of exhibition baseball. "Girls Gone Wild" at spring break, and willing to be filmed in the process [...]

Everything I do gon' be funky from now on," musician Lee Dorsey once said. A noble premise for many a human endeavor, but not for ab training, where precision is [...]

I reen-eyed and chestnut-haired, her forehead dotted with a mole that serves as an exclamation point, as if her maker wanted to shout "Ta da!" after fashioning such a gorgeous [...]

Growing up near San Antonio, Monica Brant trained horses and rode them for show, so it seems fining that she rode a horse to train for her most recent physique [...]

this is FITNESS Susie Curry wins her fourth Fitness International contest at the 2003 Arnold Fitness Weekend, whose very slogan was "The Fitness Experience of Your Life," that word, fitness, [...]

Having spent her hectic weekdays in San Francisco meeting deadlines, Bambi Francisco, Internet editor at CBS.MarketWatch.com, frequently takes off on Saturdays for lengthy bike rides, the Bay Area's spectacular countryside [...]

Dancers-actresses-musicians THE KLONE TWINS: Diane & Elaine K. When it comes to conquering the entertainment world, these two sisters are doin' it for themselves. The 5'4", 115-pound sex symbols are [...]