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Back in our February 2010 issue, three Winter Olympic hopefuls -- speed-skater Apolo Anton Ohno, snowboarder Seth Wescott, and hockey player Zach Parise -- detailed their training regimens. These Winter Warriors certainly made some noise: Ohno became the most decorated American Winter Olympian ever, Wescott defended his gold medal in snowboard-cross, and Parise nearly led the young U.S. team to another Miracle on Ice (Parise and Co. eventually settled for silver after a thrilling overtime game against Canada). So, how did these athletes achieve their medal-worthy bodies? Read on to find out...ZACH PARISE(25, 5'11", 191 LBS)Thirty years ago, the Americans shocked the Soviet Union, the world's best team, still the greatest upset in Olympic history. Parise and a young U.S.[...]

Back in our February 2010 issue, three Winter Olympic hopefuls -- speed-skater Apolo Anton Ohno, snowboarder Seth Wescott, and hockey player Zach Parise -- detailed their training regimens. These Winter Warriors certainly made some noise: Ohno became the most decorated American Winter Olympian ever, Wescott defended his gold medal in snowboard-cross, and Parise nearly led the young U.S. team to another Miracle on Ice (Parise and Co. eventually settled for silver after a thrilling overtime game against Canada). So, how did these athletes achieve their medal-worthy bodies? Read on to find out... APOLO ANTON OHNO(27, 5'8:, 145 LBS)After shedding nearly 20 pounds since the 2006 Games, Ohno earned three medals to become the most decorated American Olympian at the Winter[...]

A well-built guy just can't get a break. Jim Wendler, a strength coach and senior editor at elitefts.com, and the author of our "Build an NFL Neck" workout in the April issue, has said the following (pardon my paraphrasing): If a guy has big arms or ripped abs, people think he's a narcissist. If he has big legs, no one will ever notice.But a massive yoke commands instant respect.I've done ab and arm routines over the years, but for the last two months, the only muscle groups I really cared about bringing up were the traps and neck. And they were the most fun. Everyone in the gym thought I was crazy (you'll see why when you get a look[...]

The ball has dropped, the confetti's been swept from the floor and nobody's wearing cool hats anymore. And if you're like most guys, you opened your eyes in 2010 to a bad hangover and a list of resolutions, most of which were probably announced enthusiastically over tequila shots. Relax. It's not like the "Resolution Police" are coming to get you. But that's no reason to blame it on the alc-alc-alc-alcohol and pretend it never happened. You WILL achieve your fitness goals this year. In fact, if you're reading this you've already started. That was easy, right? Moving on.MF.com (and the mag, of course) is your best resource for annihilating any fitness goals you may have created for yourself this year.[...]

I can't help but be taken aback by how forcefully so many people in this country are campaigning against health care reform. They're tactics are ugly - name-calling ("our President is a communist!") and rumor-mongering ("He'll kill the elderly!") chief among them. Obviously, everyone's allowed to have their own opinion in this country, but it's a fact, not an opinion, that big corporations currently control the majority of the U.S's health care programs, and lesser-developed countries than our own (at least industrially) have far more effective gov't-run health care programs (and somehow, they haven't become militant, socialist states.) This may or may not be in our best interests.We should stop worrying so much about everyone else, about buzzwords and scare[...]

Jeff Cavaliere has been a strength coach and physical therapist to elite baseball players (including many New York Mets). Check out this recent interview he did with me.How did you get interested in training? Long before I ever touched a weight I grew up a huge fan of pro wrestling and action movies. Needless to say, with guys like Arnold, Stallone, Ravishing Rick Rude, and The Hulkster, I found myself wondering what it would actually take to look like them. Of course, I didn't want to do any work to get the look...but I sure thought it would be cool to be like them. It wasn't until high school and my first introduction to competitive sports that weight training became[...]