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* DORIAN YATES CHANGED bodybuilding forever. It was 1992, and eight-time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney finally hung up his posing trunks, opening the door for top talent such as Lee [...]

BRAZILIAN-BORN ANGELICA TEIXEIRA is an absolute force in the IFBB Pro League bikini division. Of her past 11 shows, she's managed to win 10, including top honors at two Olympias [...]

Tired of your steady diet of presses and laterals? Two-time Arnold Classic Figure champ CANDICE LEWIS-CARTER dishes up a five-move delt routine to break your shoulder rut. As important as [...]

WANNA HEAR A FUNNY STORY? In 2009, while working a BSN booth at an expo, that year's NPC Bikini Class F champ wandered next door to a North American Grappling [...]

HENRI-PIERRE ANO PUT the classic physique division on notice in 2018. A promising open-class bodybuilder, the Canadian decided to bring his aesthetics to a new division last year. The move [...]

In 2018, WHITNEY JONES became the first mom ever to win an Olympia event. But she's so much more than a trivia answer. Here are four things we can all [...]

Once upon a time, Stephanie Hammermeister could ball. 'I still hold a couple of school records,' Hammermeister says. 'And I was team captain my senior year.' A standout guard at [...]

Seven-time 212 Mr. Olympia 'Flex Lewis is leaving the smaller division behind and gearing up to battle the big boys in the open class. We visited with his world-class trainer, [...]

At just 11, ARIEL KHADR won her first fitness competition. Fifteen years-and several eye-popping costumes-later, she continues to dominate the stage.One thing you can never accuse Ariel Khadr (pronounced 'kuh-DAR') [...]

DAVID MORIN was one of the most successful models in the fitness industry. So why was he suddenly fighting for his life?DAVID MORIN WAS LYING in a hospital bed with [...]

EVERY BODYBUILDER IN THE IFBB Pro League dreams of one day appearing on the Olympia stage. Sergio Oliva Jr. accomplished this feat at just 2 weeks old, when his father, [...]

Want to look better by next summer? Then the time to build muscle is now. Adopt these 10 fundamental training and nutrition tactics from one of the biggest mass monsters [...]

LARRY 'WHEELS' WILLIAMS made his name as a powerlifting prodigy, performing mind-blowing feats of strength on Instagram. Now he's hoping to become something far bigger.THE STORY OF HOW LARRY WILLIAMS [...]

One of the first things you notice about IFBB Pro League athlete Eren Legend is the phrase tattooed on his chest: 'Lost in the world.' For I someone who has [...]

Fast-rising IFBB Pro League bikini competitor DARAH DIAZ talks stage presence, dirty burgers, and her secret desire to protect and serve.In your first year as a pro, you've finished second [...]

Of the 13 men to have won a Mr. Olympia title, Frank Zane has cemented his legacy in more ways than one. In addition to being the fifth bodybuilder to [...]

Tom Finn's crazy combo of powerlifting stunts and alcohol consumption earned him more than 100K Instagram followers. but that's got nothing on his greatest feat: recovering from a gruesome pectoral [...]

Six-time 212 Olympia champ Flex Lewis is going on hiatus after he competes in this year's O. Why now and what's next? FLEX: You are the reigning six-time 212 Olympia [...]

Think fitness takes singular focus* The perfectly proportioned person on these pages begs to differ. See, having numerous irons in the fire is a way of life for Cydney Gillon, [...]

Most bodybuilders nicknames are a bit of an exaggeration, purposely intended to conjure up images of sheer size and/or portray an individual as inhuman or even immortal. There was 'the [...]

As the reigning Classic Physique Olympia champion, Breon Ansley is dominating the division thanks to a devotion to the basics. Follow his lead to sculpt your own classic physique. After [...]

Back in the early 2000s--hell, even today--you would've been hard-pressed to find a more impressive back than that of four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler, who possessed one of the greatest [...]

JEREMY POTVIN's astonishing waist-to-shoulder ratio seems like a photo manipulation, but it's real. Now the IFBB physique pro shares his advice on how you can create your own version of [...]

> Vegan IFBB pro NIMAI DELGADO is proving that you can build a championship physique without eating animal products. Here's how he used the produce aisle to sculpt a trophy-winning [...]

> Weave these demanding exercises-as demonstrated by IFBB Pro League men's physique pro ANTON ANTIPOV-into your routine with this four-week plan that will build slabs of muscle and get you [...]

Q Will sprinting get me more shredded than standard cardio? Sprinting is one of the few forms of conditioning that will burn a significant amount of fat within a short [...]

From the moment I returned from the 2016 World's Strongest Man to the moment I set off for the 2017 event, I gave 100%. I didn't miss one training session, [...]

Though he's only 22 years old, CHRIS BUMSTEAD came within three points of shocking the bodybuilding world and winning the Classic Physique Olympia in Las Vegas in September. Raising the [...]

SIMEON PANDA is one of the Internet's biggest fitness superstars, with some 9 million followers on Instagram and Facebook. As he prepares for his next career move-Hollywood-Panda tells us how [...]

Magnus Ver Magnusson has built a powerful body of work. Though it's been a while since he officially held the title of World's Strongest Man, he's been carrying the competition [...]

'THERE IS MORE to my story--it's more of a journey for me,' insisted IFBB physique pro Chase Savoie. It was mid-February, a few months out from stepping onstage for his [...]

Snapshot Birthdate: Oct. 26, 1990 Birthplace: San Jose, CA Current Residence: Murrieta, CA Height: 5'8' Weight: 175 pounds contest; 194 pounds off-season JEREMY BUENDIA 'I WOKE UP EVERY MORNING to [...]

WHAT'S IN A NICKNAME? For 25-year-old bodybuilder Calum von Moger, a lot. He's already been dubbed 'Arnold 2.0,' and both the resemblance and resume are fitting. At 6'2' and 245 [...]

It's just after 10 p.m. in the Levesque household. The kids--three of them, all under the age of 9--are finally nestled in their beds and an eerie silence has beset [...]

Louis Jude Ferrigno started lifting weights when he was 12 1/2 years old to protect himself against bullies who made fun of his hearing loss, the same punks who made [...]

In the 1970s there was no need to consult grizzled mountaineers or your dentist's dog-eared copies of National Geographic to find the world's most awe-inspiring peak. Denizens of any local [...]

A lot has changed in bodybuilding since the inaugural Mr. Olympia competition in 1965. Training equipment has become more high-tech, supplement science is light-years ahead of where it was then, [...]

Martin Rooney has a question. He doesn't have any secrets to share, nor is he about to tell you what you need to do in the gym or anywhere else, [...]

Picture a room. Just a room. The details don't matter. The wallpaper, the flooring, the art on the wall--they're of no consequence. Two chairs sit in the middle, close enough [...]

* Restraint isn't the first word that comes to mind when looking at pictures of Brooke Mora. Yet she'll be the first to tell you that verbalizing her needs and [...]

* Nicole Wilkins Lee knows her body. The 12 years she spent as a gymnast before launching into fitness competitions in 2002 gave her an intimate sense of how to [...]

This 18-year-old Instagram star made it big by pulling off astonishing fitness stunts. PASSION PROJECT Social media started with me posting my training, me having fun, me posting my videos [...]

Who inspired you to compete? My boyfriend was competing, and once I started going to the gym with him, people were saying, 'You should compete, you look like you have [...]

Just three short years ago, when he finally toppled Ronnie Coleman to win the 2006 Olympia, Jay Cutler was the toast of the bodybuilding world. It was, it seemed, The [...]

A case could be made by some purists that bodybuilding has lost its mojo in the past few decades. Mention the word 'body-builder' in a crowded room these days, and [...]

ALTHOUGH HE'S FIRMLY established at age 42 as one of bodybuilding's high-ranking pros, Toney Freeman's rise to the top wasn't exactly meteoric. In fact, you could say it was more [...]

There are reasons why Weider Publications has had Dennis James under contract for nearly a decade--since he placed fourth at the 2000 Arnold Classic. For one, he's popular. Come Arnold [...]

Some time ago, we sat down with Dr. Franco Columbu in his West Los Angeles chiropractic office and asked him to share stories from his days in bodybuilding. What we [...]