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Bodybuilder Sam Sycamore fell head over heels for farming after suffering a biking accident that left him unable to continue his intense gym regime. Weakness in his elbow led to [...]

Q What type of training should I do to lose weight? When it comes to weight loss, you need a combination of weight/resistance training and cardiovascular exercise. Many people make [...]

They were famous long before she became an Olympia champion. In fact, for the first five years of her career, Juliana Malacarne stood on a pair of legs that made [...]

Want to look like IFBB physique superstar RYAN TERRY in 2018? Start by incorporating these muscle-building tips, each supplied by a different fitness expert. AS THE 2017 CALENDARS MAKE WAY [...]

There is no right time to hit the gym. If you have to squeeze in a high-intensity session at lunch, go; if it happens after work, fine; if pumping iron [...]

Are your abs a mess? Clean up your core with tips from two-time Olympia Men's Classic Physique runner-up Chris Burnstead. * CHRIS BUMSTEAD IS INTENT on making the 'vacuum' cool [...]

So, first off, dumb question, but how do you say your last name? Kuh-DAR. That's not a dumb question. That's probably one of the better questions, ha ha. And then [...]

IN ALMOST TWO DECADES OF COMPETITION, DEXTER "THE BLADE" Jackson had won it all--except for the kitchen sink. He had taken the Arnold Classic and Australia Grand Prix three times [...]

Athletes thrive on challenges--physical, mental, you name it. So when it came time for us to design one for our readers, we knew that just any old challenge wouldn't do. [...]

SOMETIMES A PERSON'S LIFE WILL FOLLOW THE seemingly hollow declarations of our most reviled cliches, and in the process those cliches will come to define that person in the best [...]

CONSISTENCY SUMS UP MELVIN ANTHONY'S HISTORY at the Mr. Olympia. In September, he took sixth at the 2008 Super Bowl of Muscle--matching his finish in 2007, which was only a [...]

DREAMS ARE FUNNY THINGS - SOMETIMES they have to be almost completely out of reach before you finally realize what you must do to make them happen. For a body-builder, [...]

IT'S UNFORTUNATE THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IS MADE UP OF just 12 letters, because that only restricts the number of adjectives one can use to describe native son Chris Faildo. Having [...]

Today, right now, as you read this, more than at any time in the short, bumptious history of man, we have more knowledge of more things than ever before. (And [...]

"Nobody wants to be a big guy who looks like a puss." Phil Heath, IFBB pro and bodybuilding's most promising young talent, speaks an eternal truth (though the same can [...]

A THUNDEROUS COLLISION OF HARD-FORMED plastic helmets echoes off the stadium bleachers and is immediately absorbed by the crowd's collective inhale. Henry County's tailback hits the earth with a thud. [...]

TROY ALVES HAS BEEN CALLED A NUMBER OF things--all-star centerfielder on scholarship for his college baseball team, senior airman and squad leader in the U.S. Air Force, amateur USA national [...]

Your gym is probably filled with guys who claim to know everything about chest training. These omniscient iron-lovers wax physiological about how different fibers are stimulated by this or that [...]

"WHEN I GO TO THE GYM, IT'S NOT LIKE, 'HEY, We're going to the waterslides!' I'm going to the gym to get some type of a feeling, because I have [...]

Only 11 men on the planet know the feeling. They understand the difficult labor, the myriad sacrifices, the steadfast resolve and the dash of competitive luck required to reach the [...]

Chris Aceto was thinking, it's a relief. It's a relief. And he wasn't thinking. He couldn't, not rationally anyway. Melanoma? He couldn't quite place it. Even as the doctor told [...]

Who made the rule that states you have to wait until January to make your resolutions? It seems so arbitrary, so defeatist--putting off your goals as if they're not important [...]

COMPETING IN THE TOP TIER OF PROFESSIONAL fitness is a dream for many female athletes, but Stacy Simons has found that some of life's greatest rewards don't come with championship [...]

For an event that many believe has only two possible outcomes, barring plagues of one kind or another, the 2007 Mr. Olympia is as compelling a competition as the sport [...]

RECOGNIZE THE FACE? PHIL HEATH IS THE GUY ON whose fast-growing shoulders rests bodybuilding's arguably biggest buzz. He's the genetically gifted wonder (nickname: "The Gift") who blazed out of nowhere [...]

LOU JOSEPH ISN'T AFRAID OF A CHALLENGE, EVEN when the deck is stacked against him. Thus, he has had as many failures as he has had successes. He's glad to [...]

The 1984 Mr. Olympia contest in New York City was characteristically rife with storylines. Some were talking about the inevitable anointing of a much-improved Lee Haney. Others discussed the contest's [...]

Want sympathy? Stumble around the gym with a cast covering your broken leg or tear a pec doing heavy benches. Brother, I can feel your pain. But you're not getting [...]

When it comes to aspiring to a particular type of physique, one guy might like the look of a pro bodybuilder, while another would rather have that leanness but half [...]

"You must tap the potential within you." --Michael Jai White "Now, I'm going to throw a punch at you, but don't let me connect. Okay?" The setting is the Weider [...]

IT'S TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 2005 OLYMPIA AND FOR the several hours it takes JAY CUTLER to wind down from a workout, he sits in his living room, his muscles [...]

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE THIS: You place your palms together in front of you, pressing them forcefully into each other. The contraction spreads up your forearms, through your biceps, [...]

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 [...]

BY THE TIME THE AVERAGE man turns 36 years old, he has started to settle down a little bit. At first glance, Darrem Charles is no different. He's a dedicated [...]

SNAPSHOT Birthdate: Oct. 26, 1970 Birthplace: Fort Hood, Texas Current residence: Marine del Rey, California Height: 5'4" Weight: 130 pounds Competitive highlights: 2004: Figure Olympia, 3rd; Figure International, 2nd. 2003: [...]

YOU PROBABLY FIGURE any guy nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" would have to be an agitator, a trash-talker, the kind of guy who gets under everybody's skin. But if you're talking [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SPANNING BACK TO its recorded origins, the tiny strip of land hugging the eastern bank of the Mediterranean Sea, now called Lebanon, has played host to enough history to fill [...]

NOT THAT HE MINDS being called Mr. Schlierkamp, but one of the world's most massive bodybuilders is in search of a new last name: Olympia. As in Mr. Olympia, the [...]

Forget everything you think you know about King Kamali. Forget the smack talk he dishes out in magazines and on the Internet. Forget about his war-of-words with rival bodybuilders. King [...]

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, [...]

Dexter "The Blade" Jackson has, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable physiques the bodybuilding world has ever seen. He's managed to pack an insane amount of shredded mass [...]

Put the rocking chair back in the attic. Scrape the cobwebs off the squat rack. Grab the posing trunks from the hamper. Load that protein shake into the blender. Shawn [...]

VICTOR MARTINEZ ALWAYS dreamed of being a superhero. Growing up in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan, the slender youth escaped reality by devouring any comic book he [...]

As Chris Cormier has transitioned from established pro to true threat to win the Mr. Olympia, he has become more candid and more articulate in his assessment of the current [...]

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to be a champion, to become an IFBB pro, a member of the physique elite? It's a question often asked, but the answer usually dissatisfies those [...]

FULL NAME: Quincy DeWayne Taylor. AGE: 32. BIRTHDATE: July 12, 1969. BIRTHPLACE: Las Vegas, Nevada. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Los Angeles, California. HEIGHT: 6'4'. CONTEST WEIGHT: 280 pounds. OFFSEASON WEIGHT: 310 pounds. [...]