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YOU KNOW YOU'VE made it when your cat has 160,000 Instagram followers. Such is life for Natalie Katherine Neidhart-Wilson, aka WWE Superstar Natalya, or Nattie, whose showstopping strength and style [...]

LOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE IT: SAN FRANCISCO, 1878. Ah-Sahm, a martial arts prodigy, steps off a boat from China, searching for his sister. One fateful fight later, he's a [...]

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 [...]

Curtis Williams knows a bit about speed. The Performix House trainer and Training C.A.M.P. owner's first job was, oh, NFL wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. So he relished creating [...]

'I LIKE FEELING ATHLETIC. Getting through a workout and feeling my heart race and knowing I pushed myself makes me feel strong. It makes me feel capable, and I crave [...]

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') [...]

'I like feeling athletic. Getting through a workout and feeling my heart race and knowing I pushed myself makes me feel strong. It makes me feel capable, and I crave [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

From excelling at track sports to competing on Survivor to winning the Figure Olympia crown, Cydney Gillon has wasted no time. And the scary thing is, In getting started. For [...]

Real Estate Wars star HODA HAJIRNIA beat anorexia and bulimia with deadlifts and squats. Now she's moving property and iron on the reg-and bravely sharing her transformative tale. PERUSE THESE [...]

KATIE corio first dreamed of being an artist. Now her physique is the canvas, and she's touching thousands of lives online with empowered inspiration, handy tips, and even cool drawings. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You work in a lot of different modalities, from powerlifting to CrossFit to yoga. Got a favorite? I like getting into a mindset where you're just so focused on what [...]

You might think having 'eat to excess' as an athletic requirement would be a dream. But Colton Underwood, who shined as an Illinois State linebacker and bounced around the NFL [...]

When it comes to appreciating sweat equity, there are early adopters-and then there's Karina Elle. 'I remember in sixth grade using exercise to fix my mood when I was sad [...]

Growing up in Sacramento, CA, Ryan Guzman dreamed of Octagon glory, not Hollywood fame. But modeling led to acting, and suddenly the taekwondo black belt with no dancing experience was [...]

Looking back, Mary Elizabeth Lado's entry into the world of competitive figure happened almost by chance. After all, the former college softball star was simply pumping iron in a Louisiana [...]

Ten years ago, Martha Hathaway had an experience she'll never forget. She was staying at a hotel in central Vietnam when she heard an explosion. Rushing to the source of [...]

If you think of inline skating as simply a cool cardio activity, you've never seen Fabiola da Silva do it. A 5'2' whirling dervish on wheels, this 28-year-old Brazilian beauty [...]

Flick on the tube this weekend, stop at the channel where stock cars are zooming around a track, and you can't miss Jamie Little. Wearing headphones, a fireproof suit and [...]

Debi Purcell The Fighter Every sport has its pioneers--those who begin toiling in obscurity, then gain fame as their singular brilliance reveals their pastime's magic to the masses. Skateboarding has [...]

When Julie Darby was 13, her favorite TV duo wasn't Laverne and Shirley. Nope, it was Ponch and Jon. And when CHiPs wasn't on, she'd flip to Charlie's Angels, TJ [...]

CANNONBALL-SIZE DELTS. LEGS LIKE TREE TRUNKS. Calves resembling 2-liter bottles of Coke. Looking at Greg Atoyan's 219 pounds of hard, heavyweight muscle, one can't help but think, This is one [...]

Get ready, because we're about to sound like your mother. No matter how many times over the years we've told you guys, 'Your diet is just as important as your [...]

ROCK STEADY TO PARAPHRASE THE ever-poetic Sir Mix-A-Lot, 'climbers got back'--more specifically, strong lats, rhomboids and middle traps, which are needed for the quick, powerful movements common to any elite-level [...]

LUNGE LIKE A MAN >> YOU'VE DONE LUNGES, but have you ever done lunge explodes? These hit the glutes much harder, states Jim Liston, MEd, CSCS, strength and conditioning coach [...]

For Stacy Hylton, working her abs to chiseled perfection is all routine. After all, she is a champion fitness competitor. Since she's also an exercise physiologist, we thought, who better [...]

'We've get no brakes. We're done... I'll stay out here as long as I can, but it's gonna be a long day with these brakes, boys.' That's NASCAR driver Dan [...]

* tops 1. Under Armour Heatgear Long Sleeve All the features of the tank (itern #2), plus long sleeves. Our tester said: 'No chafing under the arms. Completely breathable.' $35 [...]

You probably don't walk into the gym and announce to your buddies that it's 'posture day.' Nope, when you go to the gym you're thinking bigger biceps, chiseled chest, tighter [...]

In a perfect world, the gym would be right next to the office, our workout partners would unfailingly show up and we'd never have to wait to use equipment. We'd [...]

What do you love about doing bikini competitions?I love to perform and do my thang. It's very challenging, too. It's taught me a lot about myself and made me kinda [...]

Brazilian bikini star RAPHA MIL AGRES opens up about cheese bread, West Coast hoops, and why you shouldn't even try sliding into her DMs.You were Brazil's national champ, won the [...]

That HBO show is great and all, but if you like your medieval-style action a little more realistic and a little less ... dragon-y, check out Netflix's The Last Kingdom. [...]

Just about any rookie NFL running back would be satisfied racking up, say, 1,300-plus total yards and 10 touchdowns-and beating the Steelers in the playoffs with 109 yards and three [...]

When Ironman world record holder TIM DON suffered a catastrophic neck injury last year, everyone assumed his triathlon career was over. Everyone, that is, but Don.A top-flight athlete who breaks [...]

You know the (frustrating) feeling: You're humming along with a leaning-out program, eating clean, getting your lifts and cardio in, and seeing real results ... when suddenly-boom-you hit a brick [...]

Wilton Colle built a supplement empire in Brazil. Now he and daughter Catherine are turning Midway Labs into a U.S.-based qiant. THINK THE AMERICAN DREAM is dead? Midway Labs insists [...]

Remember when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, and suddenly the company was crushing the competition with iPods and iPhones? A similar transition is under way at MHP, with Gerard Dente [...]

The World Cup kicks off June 14 in Russia. Brandish your rooting interests in these colorful, workout-friendly shirts. 1 URUGUAY AWAY JERSEY Led by iconoclastic goal scorer (and serial biter) [...]

FIT AS A SEAL Going into Season 1, the production team put us through something called SEALFit to give us a taste of what these guys really go through. It [...]

From the NFL to Season 2 of Dancing With the Stars to today, you've remained lean and strong at age 56. How? I do CrossFit and Peloton. People will be [...]

"Unfortunately, if the tattoo color bleeds, the only options are to go back to a tattoo artist to color over it or to attempt to remove the excess pigment with a laser", Dr. Zeichner says. FUZI (@fuzi tattoo), Paris, has tattooed Diplo and Scarlett Johansson "Homemade tattoo designs - the ones made outside of traditional shops - because it's usually things I haven't seen before." How to Choose a Tattoo Artist According to Matt Lodder, Ph.D., a tattoo researcher at the University of Essex. FEATURES ILLUSTRATIONS BY BEN HUA YU THE JOY OF INK Steve Mazzucchi went from zero to 20 tats, fast, largely because he learned what all the fun was about. [Extracted from the article]

WHEN GEORGES ST. PIERRE WAS GROWING UP in a rough part of Montreal, a gang took to jumping him for his money and clothes. Instead of walking around poor and [...]

WHILE MOST COMIC-STRIP HEROES WERE RELYING ON CAPES and superpowers for fame, Popeye came on the animation scene with nothing more than bulging forearms, tattoos and a serious addiction to [...]

MEET HERPETOLOGY'S ANSWER TO STEVE IRWIN, MINUS THE short-shorts. Teasing cobras and wrestling anacondas is an ultimate fitness challenge, and now you can witness it on Animal Planet's new Austin [...]

IF YOU THINK BOUNTY HUNTERS ARE A THING OF THE PAST, there's someone we'd like you to meet. Duane 'Dog' Chapman grabbed headlines last year when he nabbed on-the-lam rapist [...]

IF YOU'RE GOING TO KNOCK A GUY OUT OR GET KNOCKED OUT, you might as well look good doing it, right? So figures the Ultimate Fighting Championship's mouthy middleweight contender [...]