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What winners know • Live smarter, look better, and play harder with tips from Men’s Fitness
Breakthroughs • HARD-HITTING NEWS FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF RESEARCH
Rice goesdown!
Exercise your health options • ▪ There’s nothing wrong with working out to look great. The true benefits of exercise are the ways it can make your health do a complete 180. Here are four ways working out can improve your life, and one important way it can’t.
AND SPEAKING OF SITTING ALL DAY…DO THIS INSTEAD
Curried rats helping cure PTSD?
An avocado a day keeps the LDL away
KALETTES: “FRANKEN-SPROUTS” THAT ARE SCARY HEALTHY
Brain Breakthroughs • Learning a new language opens up new worlds
Trying to remember can make you forget
Brain Food • This month’s smart-eats leaderboard:
THE GUY’S GUIDE TO SHOPPING THE FARMERS’ MARKET • Swap the produce aisle for farm-to-table and your body will thank you
OTHER GREAT FARM FOODS
Blood and muscle • For muscle growth, restricting blood flow safely may be the next best thing to weight training itself
HARD FACTS • OUR TRAINING DIRECTOR, SEAN HYSON, SOLVES YOUR WORKOUT CONUNDRUMS
Liquid sun • Celebrate the return of summer with these five modern twists on the classic rum drink
Can’t-miss rum tips
Past, Present, Future • BMW DOES EVERYTHING TO ENSURE THAT THE 3 SERIES STAYS AT THE TOP
Sweet Spot • PORSCHE’S THREE-LETTER TREA MOVES TO THE NEW PANAMERA
Pixar meets Horror meets Combat • TAKE TO THE SKIES THIS NEW YEAR WITH THESE EXCITING NEW GAMES.
e-Tread lightly • Keep the earth green and save some lives in the process, by recycling and disposing of your electronic devices the responsible way
INVEST AND REST • Now almost anyone can invest in a hedge fund
Don’t fear the pizza • Can a cheese and sauce covered pie can be healthy? Damn straight it can—and we’ve proved it with these four cleaner, leaner versions that will satisfy your cravings but keep you looking and feeling great.
Josh Coburn • Meet our 2018 USN Men’s Fitness Cover Search winner, Josh Coburn. We have an in-depth interview with Josh on how his fitness journey started and his training and nutrition philosophy. We always see the muscular, jacked images on social media but here Josh shares with us how at the lowest point of his life, he was able to turn things around and get on the road to success.
The indispensable dozen • ▪ KEEP THESE 12 FOODS ON YOUR GROCERY LIST AND YOU’LL ALWAYS HAVE AN ARRAY OF SIMPLE, SURPRISINGLY TASTY, AND IMPRESSIVELY CREATIVE MEALS RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
The Perfect Pantry • Here are nine essentials that should always have a place in your kitchen.
You’re not born to run (Here’s how to learn…) • Why do more than 42 million Americans injure themselves every year running? Well, if you believe the world’s top biomechanical experts and elite coaches, it’s not for lack of conditioning. It’s not because we’re wearing the wrong shoes, either. I t ’s because no-one taught us how to run. See our correspondent gets a crash course in Running 101.
BIGGER, FASTER, STRONGER • The three exercises guaranteed to make you a better runner
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SHORTY THE BARBER • ENLIGHTENED ADVICE FROM GROOMING EXPERT SHORTY MANIACE
SEX FILES • THERAPIST AMBER MADISON ADDRESSES YOUR MOST INTIMATE QUESTIONS
Build a “Baywatch” body • Use the workout that got Zac Efron pumped for Baywatch to create your own sun-and-sand worthy...