Muscle & Fitness Winning Strategy: George Karlaftis Is Prepped for His Super Bowl Moment Kansas City Chiefs rookie defensive end George Karlaftis is one game away from every kid’s dream. However, the kick-off to his football career was far from a Super Bowl moment. “My first two plays I jumped offsides twice,” he recalls of…
Muscle & Fitness Small Steps Lead to Big Progress When You Train Like Arnold My “Train Like Arnold” Challenge is coming down the home stretch. After a workout in the middle of week four of the Arnold Challenge, I decided to check my progress. In my mind, I had taken steps in the right direction,…
Muscle & Fitness 8 Fitness Coaches Offer Their Best Tips to Build a Better Bench Press The bench press. It’s one of the original rite of passage exercises that many lifters spend countless—oftentimes too many—hours toward perfecting. When you’re a beginner, you most likely performed two main exercises—biceps curl and bench press. Then, the love…
Muscle & Fitness Gain Super Bowl Speed with These Sprint Drills Whether you are playing in the Super Bowl, training for the NFL Combine, or just want to improve your running speed for fun, you may have seen Coach Isaac Hadac’s popular social media channels since they are designed to help you smash your previous…
Muscle & Fitness Winter Gear You Didn’t Realize You Needed—Until Now If you made it through this past week’s frigid temperatures, you’re well aware that winter is far from over. Snow-covered ski slopes, wide-open winter trails, and frozen lakes all are indicators that backcountry sports season is still rolling. And if you want to stay…
Muscle & Fitness Proven Tips to Build Mental Toughness & Boost Performance We all play to win, but nobody comes out on top all the time. Even with crazy skills and insane natural ability, hiccups in performance are inevitable. This means it’s essential for all serious athletes to understand how to deal with disappointments when…
Muscle & Fitness Training Like Arnold is Not Always Like a Day at the Beach When you see the famous clips and videos of Arnold Schwarzenegger clanging and banging in “Pumping Iron,” it’s summertime in Venice Beach, CA. There are moments you can see him on the beach, in the ocean, or getting some sun…
Muscle & Fitness Kitt Wakeley Finds Harmony Through Music and Fitness For many of us, music is so important that our favorite songs have formed the soundtrack to our lives, but Kitt Wakeley has taken his love of music even further by composing his own, very personal scores. M&F caught up with the Grammy Nominated…
Muscle & Fitness John Doolittle Stays Fit in Order to Help Others Do the Same The Tampa Bay Frogman Swim is an annual fundraiser that works to increase awareness of the Naval Special Warfare community. It also supports the Navy SEAL Foundation. John Doolittle served in the United States Navy for 25 years, but he…
Muscle & Fitness The Best 4 Proteins You Should be Eating, But Probably Aren’t If you already saturate your diet with chicken, beef, and salmon, you’re off to a good start when it comes to getting the best protein you need to get a little more buff. And if you toss some beans into the…