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Olivia Munn Is An Absolute BEAST In Combat Training Video For X-Men: Apocalypse [Video]A video posted by Olivia Munn (@oliviamunn) on Aug 1, 2015 at 11:15am PDT [Y]ou should be VERY, very scared of Olivia Munn. At least while she's training for her role as Psylocke—a... -
The Coke Effect: What Happens In Your Body After Chugging A Can Of Coke [Infographic][P]ssssssssh, how bad can an itty, bitty 140 calories really be? Not that it's mind-blowing whatsoever—we've been hating on soda hardcore for years—but if that 140 comes straight from a... -
The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V29 — Kaskade, Meek Mill, Major Lazer, & Martin Garrix[G]et amped. Every Friday we're dropping a five-pack of heart-thumping, blood-pumping workout songs to build out your playlist, hardwire a little energy into your workouts, and kickstart the... -
Upgrade Your Lettuce Game — Boost Your Nutrient Intake 3000% With This Two Second Salad HackImage: Epicurious [W]hat if we told you one mindless—and laughably easy—nutrition hack could boost your vitamin K, vitamin A, and vitamin C intake by over 3000%, and your potassium, calcium,... -
The Degree #GetMoving Challenge Week 4 — Push Yourself To Exhaustion With Crunch-Jump Rope Uber Supersets*This article originally appeared in Men's Health and was adapted for Lean It UP. [D]IPSET, DIPSET, DIPSET. We're halfway there. If you've been moving vigorously and maxing out over the... -
10 Naked World Class Athletes Dish On Body Image & Feeling Awesome In Your Own Skin [PHOTOS][O]ne size doesn't fit all. Want a little explosive inspiration to light up your week? Look no further than the lineup of world class athletes gracing the pages—completely au naturel—of... -
The Degree #GetMoving Challenge Week 2 — MAX OUT Your Body With Explosive Lunges, Push Ups, & Squats*This article originally appeared in Men's Health and was adapted for Lean It UP. [A]aaaaaaaaaaaand we're off. After a relatively simple week one—walk 12,500 steps/day—the Degree... -
[WOTM, 07/2015] SHRED UP Your Body Outdoors With The Bodyweight Hyperburner Workout Circuit[G]ET OUTSIDE. We adore the gym and love crushing weights just as much as anyone. It's basically a second home. But let's get serious for a second — it's July and it's GORGEOUS outside.... -
Washington Nationals' OF Bryce Harper Is Straight SHREDDED In ESPN's 2015 Body IssueImage: ESPN “You’re growing up and you go, ‘I want to be on the front of a Wheaties box, I want to be on the front of a Topps card, you want to be on the Body Issue” —... -
The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V28 — Flo Rida, Drake, Afrojack, & Dillon Francis[G]et amped. Every Friday we're dropping a five-pack of heart-thumping, blood-pumping workout songs to build out your playlist, hardwire a little energy into your workouts, and kickstart the... -
Shape Up This Summer With Chris Powell & The 6-Week Degree #GetMoving Challenge[G]et moving. We're PUMPED to announce that we've partnered with Degree, Men's Health, and Women's Health on a summer rendezvous to CRUSH a series of fitness challenges hosted by all-world... -
How Can I Get A Six Pack? 5 BIG Reasons Why Your Abs Aren't Growing[A]fter 1000's of crunches and seven brutally intense ab workouts per week, you'd think that it would all add up to that one coveted, magic number — 6. It's sad and discouraging when someone...
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Read MoreHow Can I Get A Six Pack? 5 BIG Reasons Why Your Abs Aren’t Growing
Building a stellar set of abs requires smart training, a LEAN diet, and minimal equipment — NOT ab workouts 7 days per week, ridiculous ab machines, or 1000’s of crunches. Here are the top 5 reasons why your abs AREN’T growing.
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Read MoreTweak The Way You Train — 5 Weight-Lifting Set Variations To Crank Up Fat Burn & Stimulate New Muscle Growth
Tweak your training and up the intensity with these 5 set variations; they’ll accelerate fat burn, spark new muscle growth, and burst frustrating plateaus.
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Read MoreThe 16 Best Shoulder Exercises To Destroy Your Delts And Carve Out Major Definition
Salivating over a pair of defined, striated, cannonball shoulders? Stay hungry. We’ve got an arsenal of powerful tools to destroy your delts and carve out gorgeous definition — a whopping 16 exercises deep.
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Read More8 Killer Superset Combos To Boost Workout Intensity And Invigorate Muscle Growth
If you’re still relying exclusively on straight, traditional sets as your only workout technique, blow up your training before it gets stale. Tap into your full-blown fat-incinerating, muscle-building potential with SUPERSETS.
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Eating Out? Here’s What A Quick 2,000 Calorie Meal Looks Like At Popular Fast Food Places
Love it or hate it, eating out is an unadulterated death trap. NYTimes.com recently did a profile honing in on one specific number: 2,000. More poignantly, what exactly does 2,000 calories look like, from a fast food or restaurant lens? Here’s the evidence.
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Life Hacks — Exhausted? Recharge Your Brain Quicker With A Coffee Power Nap [Study]
Hack your brain and recharge faster with a 20 minute coffee power nap. Here’s how it all goes down.
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Um, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Secretly Got A Name Change [News]
SCANDAL! High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) got a name change on labels and nobody seems to know about.
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Never Challenge Gaston To A Push Up Contest, He WILL Destroy & Humiliate You [Video]
If you’ve ever felt brazen enough to think about challenging Gaston—the uber-buff villain from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”—to a push-up contest, here’s a nice little PSA for everyone: DON’T.
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[WOTM, 01/2015] Revamp Your Body And Dominate 2015 With The New Year’s Body Blaster Workout Program
Let’s dominate 2015. January’s WOTM is a three workout dynamo that’s designed to hammer the core, ignite metabolism & attack fat, and construct a layer of fresh muscle across the body.
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Resolution Better — 5 Tips For Making Successful New Year’s Resolutions In 2015
Every January gyms around the world become flooded with a rush of new members. The reality though is that by March or April, the majority of those new gym members will revert back to their old ways. Use these 5 tips to set better New Year’s resolutions and succeed in 2015.
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[Fitness Lists] Gym Etiquette — 14 BIG Reasons Why You Might Be A Gym Idiot In 2015
Whether it’s stomach-curdling BO, curling where you’re not supposed to, or painting every piece of equipment with freshly manufactured sweat, there’s always one person that the collective gym population would LOVE to banhammer forever. Here are 14 BIG reasons why you might be a gym idiot in 2015.
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I Hate New Year’s Resolutions, But I Made Six For 2015 Anyway
I mostly hate New Year’s resolutions. They’re evil. They haunt you, coerce you into making them, and flaunt their sexy potential. Only to let you down and serve as a source of failure and disappointment later in the year. That said, I cemented 6 for 2015 anyway. Because why not? Feel free to steal mine.
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Feats Of Strength — 8 Fitness Challenges To Conquer In 2015 [Fitness Lists]
We’re dishing out a series of 8 fitness challenges to conquer in 2015. Whether it’s squatting 1.75x your bodyweight for a set of 5 or holding a plank for 3 minutes — wage a war against yourself and develop a bloodthirsty hunger to crush your former self.
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Runny Poached Eggs On Spicy Avocado Toast [Recipes]
Make this for breakfast. Brunch. As a snack. Dinner. Post-workout. Whenever…wherever. Just make it. Our recipe for Runny Poached Eggs On Spicy Avocado Toast might just be the closest thing to a god-like breakfast. Or anytime meal, really.
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The Workout Music Friday Five-Pack, V16 — Beyonce, Kaskade, J. Cole, & Pusha T (12/15–12/19)
We’ve got a new five-pack of power workout songs to carry you into the weekend. This week — Beyonce, Kaskade, J. Cole, and Pusha T.
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Lean Cooking 101 — How To Poach An Egg Perfectly In 5 Minutes [Recipes]
If you love gooey, runny, perfectly-cooked egg yolks that flow like radiant waterfalls—you know, the kind that crown the top of any stellar plate of Eggs Benedict/Florentine—you HAVE to master the technique of egg poaching. Here’s how, in a quick 5 minutes.
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Friday Five-Pack V15 — 5 Workout Songs To Energize Your Workouts And Kickstart The Weekend (12/8–12/12)
We’ve got a new five-pack of power workout songs to carry you into the weekend. This week — Madeon, Axwell, Ingrosso, and Rae Sremmurd
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Perk Up Your Derriere With The Build-A-Butt Workshop Glute Workout Plan [Workout Plans]
Welcome to the Build-A-Butt Workshop. It’s an intense, 7-exercise butt workout plan that attacks the glutes and builds a firm, perky derriere. Dive in, butt first.
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We’re Ranked 34th In Life Expectancy — Eat These Global Power Foods To Boost Longevity [Infographic]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the average life expectancy in the US stacks up at 79 years — that’s good for 34th overall worldwide. Not surprisingly, FOOD plays a major role. Here are a few of the top foods eaten globally by the world’s healthiest countries.
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Straight Flex With This 15-Minute Recipe For Steamed Mussels With White Wine, Tomatoes, & Chorizo [Recipes]
Hold up, hold up, hold up — we’ve got your next weeknight smorgasbord. Straight flex your culinary muscles with this 15-minute recipe for, well, steamed muscles with white wine, tomatoes, and chorizo. It’s a stupidly easy, uber-lean, quick-to-make dinner recipe that’s piping hot with aromatics and light, savory flavor.
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Stop, Drop, And Listen — DJ Earworm Drops Uber-Mashup Of The Top 25 Songs From 2014
Stop, drop, and listen to this. Right now. If you thought the musical landscape from 2014 was…fancy, you’ll go bananas for DJ Earworm’s annual uber-mashup of the year’s top songs — “The United States Of Pop 2014.”
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL…The World Is Running Out Of Chocolate (No Seriously, We Are) [News]
According to the Washington Post, two of the world’s largest chocolatiers are predicting that there could be a massive global chocolate shortage by 2020.
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47 Shocking Food & Nutrition Facts That’ll Blow Rainbow Confetti Out Of Your Noggin
An inaugural list of obscure, perplexing, research-backed food facts, stuffed from start-to-finish with 47 shocking tidbits that’ll send rainbow confetti spewing out of your noggin.
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This Badass 77-Year-Old Grandma Can Almost Definitely Deadlift More Than You Can [Video]
Everyone, meet Willie Murphy. She is an unadulterated badass. More badass than you or I. She is also a woman and a 77-year-old grandma—no, a COMPETITIVE POWERLIFTER—who can almost certainly lift more than you can.
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Nutrition
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