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116 Feast Like a Beast! Our simple, chef- and sommelier-approved guide to navigating the holiday smorgasbord. BY NILS BERNSTEIN

125 Ask Men’s Fitness Does beer before liquor really get you sicker? Is there a mistletoe etiquette? What does it feel like to take Viagra? And other pressing questions from this month’s mailbag.

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When you think about big changes—remaking your body, your career, your life—you think about January: the month of resolutions, of renewal, of repositioning. There’s a whole industry built around the concept of “New Year, New You.” Heck, most gyms in America would close if they couldn’t sell your wins; that’s not helpful. Instead, memberships to all those people slipping guiltily into their tally up what was behind them. doors to sweat off the sins of the holidays. ¶ But there’s a Then, once you’ve figured that out, take a minute to look at your defeats. reason why most New Year’s resolutions fail. It’s that, as the What did you bring to them, and how old saw says, “Those who fail to learn from the past are bound was the way you approached those to repeat it.” That’s why, as I’ve worked my way up through the failures different from the way you ranks to become a CEO, I’ve always held December sacred. approached the wins? See where I’m No January resolution will ever come to fruition without a going with this? Why make a resolu- December reflection. tion for next year if you can’t figure out what worked, and what didn’t, Sometime this month, after all the presents are wrapped this year? Get to know yourself and (or unwrapped), take a moment to sit and really think what you’re good at before you try to about the year that’s passed. Think about what ground you build a plan for the future. gained in 2015—with respect to your career, your fitness, Our cover star, Michael B. Jordan, is a great example and your overall happiness. What changes did you make of how this philosophy works. He made a huge splash this year that helped push you in the right direction? How in the indie film Fruitvale Station a few years back and did your attitudes, your approaches, and the way you pre- emerged immediately as a serious actor. But a young sented yourself work best to your advantage? Don’t tally up guy on the verge can become much more than an indie film star if he plays his cards right. He had developed his mind and his talent, but by his own admission, Top gear. For the coolest new collection he’d never given much thought to his health or his of all things toys and physique. And he was the last guy you’d pick to star tech, flip the magazine. Trust us. as the son of Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed, who takes on Stallone as a mentor and launches a new generation of boxing superstars in Creed, out Nov. 25. So he took stock and made a change. He shares the workout that took him from lanky actor to boxer; it starts on page 134. Of course, you can’t take time to reflect on yourself until you’ve gotten your holiday shopping out of the way, so (literally) flip the magazine to find our guide to the latest, greatest, coolest fitness, outdoor rec, and tech presents, as well as a slew of other clever, imagi- native ideas for the most important people in your life (including you!). It sure beats tube socks and fruitcakes. My wish for you is that this holiday season is one of joy, celebration, and reflection—one that leads to a prosperous—and confident—New Year.

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If you’d describe a I huge hunk of steak as “man food” and rate getting caught eating “girly food”—like a salad or fish—right up there with, say, having one of your nuts served to you on a skewer, then listen up. ¶ Food makers have been peddling their “guys eat this, girls eat that” philosophy for years. Why? Because, as U. of Manitoba researchers recently found, we buy it. ¶ In the study, 93 subjects tasked with classi- fying foods as “masculine” or “feminine” labeled less-healthy fare (like fried chicken and potatoes) as manlier, and healthier items (salads, yogurt) as girlier. Worse, after tasting three identical but differently labeled muffins (showing a footballer, a ballerina, or a gender-neutral pic), all chose as “tasting best” the muffin packaged to appeal to their What part of own gender. ¶ So dump the stereotypes: Go get yourself a “protein packed, big, healthy salad—and threaten vitamin rich, and to break the arm of anyone who nutrient dense” tries to stop you.—ADAM BIBLE sounds girly to you? Food styling by Matt Vohr/Halley Resources Vohr/Halley Matt by styling Food

LEVI BROWN DECEMBER 2015 MEN’S FITNESS 21 Live, from the gym, it’s Streaming Fitness!

No longer do you have to hack N your hectic schedule to make it to a class, fight the after- work fitness crowds at exor- bitantly pricey gyms, or—sorry—get to brush off a workout because “the high- way’s iced up.” ¶ Now there’s live-streaming fitness, being called the “workout of the future” for its irresistible mashup of in-gym classes, virtual-reality fun, and cash-saving economics. Live streaming lets you choose when, where, and which instructor-led classes to take by watching on your smart TV, computer, tablet, or phone—it’s like having a gym in your living room, pocket, or travel bag. And best of all, most services start at around $10 a month. ¶ Check out DailyBurn, one And Now, from Our Exercise Hack Pack… of the granddaddies of online fitness, Get Out and which started its streaming service in Run…but Not Q Far be it from us to advocate laziness. Hey, when Too Far a recent government study reported that 36% of 2011. Crunch also has a streamer with Americans don’t get any exercise at all, we felt really CrunchLive, and upstart Live Streaming Q You don’t need to sad for all those poor schmoes who’ll never know the become an extreme Fitness features a variety of joy of breaking their PR. Or seeing their feet. You can spin, endurance athlete— Having said that, sometimes a few “shortcuts” can classes streaming all day. ¶ or even a hardcore come in handy in life—and, yes, even in fitness. Lazy lift, crunch, And if you’re addicted to spin- jogger to expe- or sly? You decide. rience running’s or punch with ning but find it hard to make maximum benefits. a live class— (or afford) the classes or just In fact, to lower Stand Up & Deliver: Most experts advise your weight, blood and never hate fighting a sweaty crowd 1 getting up and walking every few hours to Prop styling by Angela Campos/Stockla pressure, and risk prevent health risks like heart disease leave home. to get to your favorite bike, of respiratory dis- and diabetes. But simply standing can Peloton has created a top- ease and stroke, also work in a pinch: A European Heart you need to run Journal study found that standing instead notch indoor cycling-studio experience only three to six of sitting an extra two hours a day can that’s available both in-house and in your miles, or about 52 lower blood sugar and boost good choles- minutes, a week, terol. Walking’s better, but, just sayin’. house. It’s a bit pricier than your aver- according to recent age streaming class—you have to pony Stroll to Old Age: Researchers from findings in Mayo up $1,995 for your own carbon-steel and Clinic Proceedings. 2 Germany’s Saarland U. discovered that Researchers (U.S. just a brisk 25-minute stroll every day aluminum spin bike with a 21-inch HD can increase your life span by up to seven cardiologists, exer- touchscreen (which, of course, is yours cise physiologists, years. After six months of this regi- epidemiologists) in men, even former nonexercisers saw an forever) plus a $39/month fee. But for that nd Martel; On-screen: Jorg Badura the analysis, which increase in markers for DNA repair, spe- you get an amazingly immersive expe- cifically those related to aging. examined previous rience, with top indoor-cycling coaches large-scale stud- Cycle for Money: Stand-up desks, bal- ies, also found that 3 ance boards, and ball seats have all tried and access to more than 10 live rides a running 20 miles or to make the workday more of a workout. day, during which your stats are shared more a week may But desk cycling may be the way to go. No actually reduce the kidding: Researchers at the U. of Iowa put right in the studio in NYC so you can com- healthy benefits small pedaling devices under office work- pete in real time with riders across the For more quick of intense aerobic ers’ desks for 16 weeks, and those who fitness fixes, go to country—some of whom have actually exercise. used it for 50 minutes a day lost weight, mensfitness.com. concentrated better, and got sick less. raced in the Tour de France.—ADAM BIBLE

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Health Breakthroughs Hoping to die young? Oh, well then, the MocaHeart monitor’s not for you. Netflix: Better minutes. Caring than sex? for our children? 25. Hopping in the sack QOnline entertain- for some naked cal- ment behemoth isthenics? Two. Netflix is taking Makes you wonder over our lives. how we end up Yes, this just in having kids at all. from TGD Research: It’s being able to The only two activ- watch streaming ities average Amer- shows straight icans spend more through—with no time doing daily pop-ups or demonic than watching Net- 1-877-Kars4Kids flix (90 minutes) are ads—then instantly sleeping and work- queue up the next ing. Eating? 70 episode that really sucks us in, Netflix itself admitted. Clearly, our priorities are out of whack and some soul searching’s in order. So let’s all just stop and ask ourselves: What would Frank Underwood do?

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QChiropractors Q Reasons No. 2,141 are often thought and 2,142 to stop of as charlatans, smoking: Your teeth pressing and will fall out and twisting your body for an hour, cre- you’ll go psycho. ating some sat- A joint British/ isfying cracks German study found and snaps—then that male smokers telling you you’ll are almost four need at least 12 more months of times likelier to lose adjustments. But their teeth than non- recently they’ve smokers, as smok- gained some cred: ing ups the risk for A new study from gum disease and the U. of Alberta A smoke masks bleeding found that spinal Here’s some nervous- manipulation ther- gums—a key symp- making news: A 25-year apy actually can tom of periodontitis. detector for H release stiffness Cigs are linked study in the Journal of the and improve disk to psychosis, too. A your heart American College of Cardiol- health. Kings College anal- ogy found that 18- to 30-year-olds with 5, 4, 3, 2…ew ysis of 61 studies higher-than-average blood pressure end up with weaker tick- on almost 300,000 QForget the ers later in life—and you know what that can mean. ¶ So, how’s smokers and non- “five-second your heart doing? ¶ Luckily, health innovator MocaCare has rule.” When you smokers found drop food on that 57% of peo- just released a beaut of a monitor that makes finding out easy— Collection / Everett Capital Rights Media the floor, it’s the ple having a first and if you’re a gadget guy, you’ll love it. The MocaHeart ($149, amount of bacte- psychotic episode mocacare.com) is a sleek, credit card–size device that scans ria on the spot it smoked, and daily hits—not how long your thumb and in just 25 seconds sends your heart rate, blood it stays there—that puffers were twice oxygen, and blood flow (it uses calculations based on blood determines if it’s as likely to become speed as it travels through the body—displayed on a 1–5 scale— still safe to eat. schizophrenic. to assess heart health and bp) to an iPhone app (Android’s com- Just try to aim for Or, maybe psy- the carpet, Aston chotics smoke more ing any day now). ¶ “Once people monitor their vitals and see U. reports: Tile positive changes, they’re much more engaged and committed and wood have 70 because, hey, as we For more important all know: Ya gotta be health tips, go to to a healthier lifestyle,” says Moca medical adviser Adi Nosrati, times the germs. mensfitness.com. crazy to do it! M.D. ¶ We’d like to keep you around for a while.

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Just reading this will make your head hurt.* *But read it anyway.

Three scenarios: A skull- T rattling gridiron hit leaves a player writhing on the field. A soccer player goes head- first into a goalpost and is carried, uncon- scious, off the pitch. A guy bangs his head real good on the garage door and sees stars, then comes to after a minute and feels “fine.” Who should go to the hospital? ¶ All of them! ¶ Odds are they won’t, though: A new survey by global health-care company Abbott revealed that a full 64% of U.S. adults didn’t seek treatment the last time they hit their heads “very hard.” One “very ¶ Is “very hard” enough to cause a con- hard” hit could cussion? Absolutely. According to the put your brain on CDC, “Any bump, blow, or jolt to the head… injured reserve. that disrupts the normal function can cause a concussion.” Not all impacts will result in a concussion, of course, but if there’s a brief change in mental status or She Ain’t The syndrome max allowed by consciousness, or an extended period of may be advanta- law—for 20 sec- Heavy, She—Oh, unconsciousness or memory loss after geous for men (and onds at room tem- Wait, Yes, She Is future linebackers), perature and found the injury, then, bingo! That’s a concus- QBe careful how though: Previous no significant die- sion. ¶ Now, if you’re an athlete, there’s you share this one studies showed that off when compared some potentially good news: Currently with your siblings: firstborn males are with regular soap. being tested on the sidelines at sporting In a recent Austra- taller and heavier. Only after being events is a noninvasive device designed lian study involving exposed to the tri- to, in just 12 minutes, determine if an ath- 13,000 sisters, the Stick with closan for more than lete has had a concussion by using two firstborn were found nine hours did a high Good Ol’ Ivory earbuds—a transmitter and a receiver—to to be 29% more number kick off. likely to be over- QTriclosan, the So skip the sani- pulse a series of sound waves through his weight than the sec- most common anti- tizers and wash your cranial cavity. If the noninvasive gizmo, ond born; they also septic ingredient in hands vigorously developed by the Vanderbilt Sports Con- had a higher risk for antibacterial soap, with soap. It’s better cussion Center, is effective, it could be high blood pressure. isn’t actually that for us anyway, sci- approved by the FDA by 2017. ¶ But the The Auckland U. great at killing ence says: Our over- rest of us will still have only ourselves to researchers think it germs when used zealousness toward Associated Press trust to make the right decision and get may have to do with in “real world” germs is making earlier babies get- conditions, says a them stronger, not the care we need. So the next time you ting less blood and study in the Journal weaker—building smash your head hard enough that the nutrients in utero, of Antimicrobial their resistance and room spins, err on the side of caution and because of the nar- Chemotherapy. creating a super- see a doc. ¶ Ignore that advice, and you rower vessels that Researchers race that’s becoming For more ways to really should have your head examined. typically accompany increasingly diffi- stay healthy, go to exposed bacteria to mensfitness.com. first pregnancies. 0.3% triclosan—the cult to fight.

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Get tanked (you’ll feel better)

You can almost imagine scien- Y tists’ delighted squeals when England’s National Marine Aquarium announced its 2014 plan to empty its monstrous 550,000-liter tank, refurbish it, and restock it with boun- teous new species of fish. Knowing that exposing humans to “green space” like parks and gardens can lower blood pressure, fight stress, and lift depression, the researchers realized it was the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to talk almost 200 people into staring at a fish tank for months to see how it affected them. ¶ Actually, it was a pretty cool experiment: Just ﬁve minutes of For a few minutes one to three times a face time with a tankful week for 10 months, subjects observed the tank empty (just seaweed, coral, and of ﬁsh can lower water), semistocked, and, finally, fully your BP and brighten fished-up. And though even “fishless,” it your mood. had a calming effect, the more fish they added, the longer subjects watched— and, consequently, the lower their blood pressure dropped and the happier they Conspiracies distinguish between felt. ¶ It takes just five minutes to feel the The good news are for dunces actual conspiracy fishy effects, the Plymouth/Exeter study is, you quit news items and smoking… found, and, says the aquarium’s Deborah Q Believe the Apollo 4,000-plus false Cracknell, even “small home aquariums Q …the bad news moon landings were conspiracy items— is, you’re now For more ways to faked? That 9/11 was about Viagra-laden may very well provide well-being bene- addicted to Tetris. train your brain, an inside job? Con- chemtrails, for U. of Plymouth fits.” ¶ Live fish not in your future? Take visit mensfitness gratulations! A new example—that the .com/brainpower. found playing the a break with a deep-sea screen saver. game can reduce study shows you’ll researchers created. cravings for drugs, believe, well…just Conspiracy theo- alcohol, nicotine, about anything. ries are “formulated food, and even sex And no wonder: to convey general by about 15%. Return of the a statistical analysis “heavy user” as Italian researchers paranoia,” says the tinfoil hats? of hundreds of stud- someone who uses Roll over, exploring the world study’s Walter ies on low-intensity a cell more than 20 Alzheimer’s of conspiracy theo- Quattrociocchi, Ph.D. Q It’s baaaaaack: the radio frequency minutes a day for ries via public Face- We’d still like to get Q Sleeping on your idea that cell phones radiation (LIRF) and five to 10 years—so, side may help your book posts and a to the bottom of the From top: Mark Stock: Laita/Gallery NASA/Handout/Getty may boost your risk cell phone use—was like, everybody. Yet, brain. Stony Brook clever algorithm Kennedy assassi- of brain cancer. But conducted by sci- Yakymenko con- U. found that the found that conspir- nation, though. One who knows, maybe entists in Kiev and ceded, the incidence “lymphatic path- acy theorists got bullet? Bullshit. ways” of anesthe- this time it’s true? “revealed consistent of brain cancer in their news from, and —JAMES ROSENTHAL tized mice laid on A new study in patterns not seen in adults is just 6.4 per their sides got rid interacted with, only Electromagnetic single studies,” says 100,000. of amyloid beta— “alternative” sites, Biology and Med- team leader Igor Even so, “the less a plaque-causing believing that any- icine links long- Yakymenko. exposure the better,” protein linked to thing mainstream term exposure to “We saw that he warns. “Reduce Alzheimer’s—25% was simply part of better than in back radiation from cell ‘heavy users’ were call times, go hands- or belly sleepers. the conspiracy. phones to a higher at three to five free when possible, No claims of side One of the most risk of specific brain times higher risk and consider your sleeping prevent- revealing findings cancers, particularly for brain cancer and landline”—those ing Alzheimer’s— in the study, pub- when the phone is tumors of the acous- must still be big yet. But for now, lished in PLoS One, it might help with held against the ear. tic nerve,” he says. in Ukraine—“as an your snoring. was that conspiracy This never happened. The mega-study— The study defined alternative.” theorists couldn’t

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On September 24, 2015, MEN’S FITNESS celebrated the 2015 Game Changers—men breaking boundaries in the worlds of sports, finance, fashion, health, and media. To recognize their achievements over the past year, MEN’S FITNESS took over the Palihouse in West Hollywood for a night of celebration. 2015 Game Changer cover star Miles Teller and model Keleigh Sperry

MEN’S FITNESS Editorial Director Dave Zinczenko and Matt McGorry

Charlie Barnett (in Vince Camuto) Colton Haynes (in Bulova)

Josh Hutcherson

Glen Powell (in Vince Camuto)

Johnny Whitworth and Maggie Day

Stephen “tWitch” Boss and Adam and Ryan Goldston of Travis Van Winkle Athletic Propulsion Labs Julian Morris Yvonne Strahovski Breakthroughs

Feed her, feed her passion

You’ve seen the covers of Y romance novels—muscly men in pirate pants having their way with bosomy wenches in bustiers. But if a guy really wants to sweep a lady off her feet and into the sack, he should just skip all the period drama and get her some dinner. ¶ Yes, the way to fire up a woman’s passion is to fill up her stomach, says a new study conducted at Drexel and U. Penn, where researchers showed 20 women—among whom half had fasted and half had eaten— romantic images like couples embrac- ing or holding hands, and found that the women whose stomachs were full were more turned on by the romantic cues than the women who were still hungry. ¶ “It could be that, evolutionarily, eating is more immediately important for sur- vival than sex and romance, so that need has to be met first,” says study co-author Alice Ely, Ph.D. “Once the hunger’s gone, sex and romance become more interesting.” (Though, when’s the last time you said, “Put your panties back on, let’s go get some food first”?) ¶ At any rate, while Are you “enthusiastic?” A “team a quiet dinner out is nice, a romantic din- Q Working 41–48 ner in, enjoying your signature dish (don’t player”? Keep it off your résumé Tell your boss hours a week have one? get one!) by candlelight is bet- you’re going instead of a QWhat gets job HR folks espe- the f**k home “normal” 35–40 ter. ¶ Remember: Treat her nice…make recruiters’ votes cially hate clichés, raises your risk her dinner…make her dinner. —J.R. for “worst résumé like saying you’re of stroke by 10%; gaffes”? “enthusiastic,” “a toiling 49–54 hours ups it by In a poll of 864 of team player,” or 27%; and slav- them, the winners— “a hard worker,” ing away for 55 An easier way to debtors to not give er, losers—were: reports London’s hours hoists it by get out of debt up on the task. New College of the a shocking 33%. Subjects were Typos/grammatical Humanities, which The University QThe classic given tedious typing errors conducted the poll. College London approach to pay- tasks, sorted by “eas- Overly casual tone “If you’re a ‘hard mega-analysis ing off debts—tack- iest first” or “easiest worker,’ be creative— of 25 previous ling them from the last.” Those who got Jargon/clichés studies involv- use a different largest (so you save to do the easiest first Two-plus pages ing some half a phrase, and back it on interest) to the were about 13% more “Snazzy” back- million adults in up with examples,” smallest—may not productive. ground/borders the U.S., Europe, says Swatee Jaso- and Australia just be the best strategy “Completing tasks Writing in the ria, NCH’s profes- confirms what in the long haul. in ascending order third person sional development we’ve always Instead, a Texas of difficulty leads to Images Getty Fuse/ Clip art/emoji director, adding that said: Sometimes A&M study found, better performance,” Cringeworthy quotes employers want the smartest four “snowballing” the says study head words a man can Unprofessional originality. debts—paying off Alex Brown. say are “Time to e-mail address We couldn’t go home.” the smallest first— Start small, win Unprofessional font agree more, dawg. may motivate big down the road.

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An impeccable tuxedo on a A well-groomed guy is near impossible to resist (say most women everywhere). Yet the tux-rental industry’s reputation for clunky tailoring, subpar fabrications, and awkward, inconvenient fittings has made tux shopping something most guys would (or have) run screaming from. ¶ But now…ta-da! A handful of websites are offering expedient, reasonably priced rentals of high-quality, perfectly fitting tuxes. The Black Tux (theblack tux.com), for example, walks individuals or whole Escape the aggravation wedding parties through selection, sizing, of in-store tuxedo shopping and ordering—and on the off chance by renting an elegant, yours arrives with a problem, they’ll speed you a replacement. ¶ Another com- perfect-ﬁtting tux online. pany, Menguin (menguin.com), takes a similar tack, offering a handsome selection of upscale styles as well as services covering the sorts of things guys aren’t great at, like, “groomsmen management.” ¶ Meanwhile, George “You’re gonna like the way you look” Zimmer, former CEO of Men’s Wearhouse, has started Generation Tux (generationtux.com) offering classic formalwear plus pre-styled looks. ¶ Now there’s no excuse for showing up in some fishy-looking penguin suit…unless, of course, you’re a penguin. —ANDREW C. STONE

Black is the forth our whole lives, there’s the new Q Of course you really they can.“Women new black Sure, you’ll wear guide Manmade: The won’t, and it’s not your don’t want to be seen that fuchsia in the same dress QPicking your Essential Skincare & fault: A recent thread crocheted beanie .com study found that twice,” Graves says, clothes for a date? Grooming Reference someday… most men wear only “but there’s no male Skip the color wheel for Every Man by 13% of all the clothes equivalent for that. and stick to black: Chris Salgardo ($30). in their closet. Men are more inter- 66% of women and This smart, It’s their wives and ested in projecting 46% of men like it straightforward girlfriends who may a consistent image, Skateboarder: The Collaborat whereas society pres- best, saying it com- manual from be forcing them to Are you a buy clothes they don’t sures women to con- municates intelli- made man? Salgardo, the presi- need or like—and then stantly reinvent gence, confidence, dent of skin care line resist wearing, says themselves.” and overall sexiness QThere’s a sweet Kiehl’s, will take you Thread stylist Sophie So how to go from without generating old notion that every from well-worn to Gaten. “Guys are wary wearing 13% to 100% negative flak, a young man has been perfectly shorn with- of those more daring of what you own? Pare down. “Having dark new survey by Brit taught how to shave out insulting your pieces, like prints or brights, because jeans that fit you well, website buytshirts by his dear, old dad. manhood (or try- they’re not sure how to a fitted tee in a neu- ionist; Book: Nick Ferrari online.co.uk reports. But for the rest ing to sell you any mix and match.” tral, and a navy, gray, Red, in second place, of us who’ve had to products). It’ll also fit But consumer or black sweater is a can seem “arrogant,” wing it in terms of nicely in your broth- behavior consultant great starting point,” said 66% of the shaving, skin care, er’s/hubby’s/buddy’s Philip Graves has says Gaten. And, hey, it’ll work study’s respondents hair styling, body holiday stocking—or another theory: that men wear fewer of with the beanie. and all the bulls in grooming, pimple under your grizzled their clothes because —PAM NULLET Spain. ablation, and so old pa’s straw pillow.

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Steamy. Stare up at what you skied down while hot-tubbing on the roof of Jackson Hole’s Hotel Terra.

So you’ve scored some precious days off and want to spend your time on the slopes, not in a hundred-mile convoy from the airport. Good news: These three top ski spots boast nearby airports with early flights, so you’ll be waist-deep in powder the day you fly in. (Soon, one destination, Heavenly, in South Lake Tahoe, will have a stoplight- free drive from the airport to the resort.) Plus, they’ve spent millions on upgrades and partnered with town businesses, so the terrain, amenities, dining, and entertain- ment options are world class. Let’s just say you won’t mind sitting out a storm day.

a steak the way it’s THE VIBE: The BLACK DIAMONDS SKI-IN, SKI-OUT SUN, SNOW, AND AND BLACKJACK SALOONS meant to taste at new SUNDANCE Sundance Film Festival Heavenly Ski Jackson Hole restaurant Local. Park City has turned Park City into Resort, CA Mountain Resort, Mountain, UT a mini metropolis with THE STAY: Hotel Terra WY a seriously interesting Q This “Heavenly” has full-frontal views of Q Starting this season, dining scene and quirky resort towers over Q Considered by many the mountain and free neighboring ski areas cultural offerings but revamped nearby to be the biggest, shuttles into town. Park City and Canyons still plenty of ski-town casinos (the area’s baddest ski spot in combined to turn charm. Don’t miss the THE TRIP: Jackson seen $100 million in America, Jackson themselves into the Hole Mountain Resort daily whiskey tasting at investment recently), Hole is also one of the largest ski area in the is about a half-hour High West saloon, where which means you can go easiest to get to. The country, with 7,300 drive from the Jackson the resident sommelier big on the mountain and quintessential Old West acres blanketed by Hole Airport, which has tour is a must. even bigger afterward. mountain town, it’s a Utah’s notoriously light, fromClockwise top; Courtesy of Hotel Terra; courtesy of Basecamp Hotel; Markeqitz/Aurora Scott Photos more direct flights and place where you can fluffy snow (350 inches THE STAY: Snag a room THE SLOPES: Aside connections than any shred black diamonds per year!). at the tony Washington from breathtaking views other remote mountain while wearing your For more winter ski School House, a across Lake Tahoe, airport in the country. THE SLOPES: On a favorite cowboy hat. getaway info, ideas, converted hundred- Heavenly has more (Planes land right in and gear, go to powder day, Jupiter plus-year-old stone skiable acres (4,800) THE SLOPES: Expect a Grand Teton National mensfitness.com Peak is the place to /easyski. boutique hotel. than any other resort few butterflies as you Park.) jacksonhole.com be. (Hiking the 10,000- in the region. board Jackson’s iconic foot summit is a fun THE TRIP: Park City is tram, then glide up over mission in itself.) When 40 minutes from Salt THE VIBE: The new the craggiest, steepest you’re cooked, ski Lake City International Hard Rock Casino lines in the Rockies. The intermediate blue runs Airport, with its several is a fun, Vegas-like brand-new Teton Lift down to the Quit’n Time daily nonstops from playground, hosting big- accesses 200 untapped trail, which will spit almost every major name bands all winter. acres of expert terrain, you out onto buzzing city in the country. For a quieter night, but lately Jackson Hole Main Street. parkcitymountain.com indulge in high-end eats has also made a big at 19 Kitchen and Bar. push to open up its more THE STAY: Eschew intermediate Casper lodge clichés by booking area, allowing skiers one of the area’s and riders to experience reimagined motels, like that big-mountain feel Basecamp, a manly spot without the vertigo. with a lived-in leather- THE VIBE: Jackson and-urban-rustic feel. Hole’s odd mixture THE TRIP: Heavenly of millionaires and is less than an hour ranchers gives it a from the Reno-Tahoe small-town Western International Airport, feel but with a subtle which has direct flights urban edge. Saddle from 18 cities, including up for at least one Powder and pints. Urban chic in the mountains at the new JetBlue dailies from beer at rowdy hangout Basecamp Hotel (above), near Heavenly; fresh tracks NYC. skiheavenly.com Cowboy Bar, then have at Park City (left), home of the Sundance Film Festival.

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Rage against the machines Is the equipment you’re using to build your body ineffective or—worse— downright dangerous? Don’t compromise your safety or your gains. Here’s what to do instead. By Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S. Photographs by James Michelfelder

If the Terminator I movies have taught us anything, it’s that machines can’t be trusted. This is especially true when discussing the exercise machines in your gym, which aren’t designed to accommo- date individual differences in body types, such as limb length

Incline to gain. and joint structure. As a result, Doing curls on training with machines, unlike an incline bench allows for safer, with free weights, can fail to stronger biceps stimulate your muscles opti- training. mally and put you at risk for injury. The following are three of the worst offenders, per John Rusin, D.P.T., a physical therapist and strength coach to pro athletes (drjohnrusin .com), and our picks for more effective alternatives. Illustrations by Harvey Symons

Enough preaching! Machine curls put the shoulders and biceps at risk.

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Band aid. Crunch-free Pallof presses (left) beat machine twists (above).

THE MACHINE: THE MACHINE: Preacher Curl Seated Ab Rotation (previous page) THE PROBLEM: This is THE PROBLEM: The the Chubby Checker– free-weight bench inspired ab machine version of the you sit in to do a preacher curl has its twistlike dance move. drawbacks, but the “Combining flexion, machine version is rotation, and side “orthopedically evil,” bending simultane- says Rusin, because ously at the lumbar you can’t reposition spine is a terrible your body to use it triad,” says Rusin. Not safely. It forces your only do the position shoulders into a pro- and added weight tracted position, “and put your back at risk, in some cases even but the element of internally rotates and increasing speed (the elevates them, put- machine allows you ting unwanted stress to swing your legs on the shoulder com- violently side to side) plex.” It can also lead and sudden direction to an extreme stretch changes prompt on the lower part of Rusin to call the ab the biceps, where it rotation “the most inserts into the elbow, debilitating machine which can result in a in the gym.” biceps tear. THE UPGRADE: The THE UPGRADE: The Pallof press. Attach prone incline dumb- a band to a sturdy bell curl. Set a bench object at chest height compressive forces to 45 degrees and lie and grasp it with on the hams where on it chest down both hands. Stand they insert into the with a dumbbell in perpendicular to the back of the knees. each hand; curl with “How many reps Higher reps—more than machine and press “The heavier you go, palms facing up, HARD should I do each 12—should make up a the band out to arms’ the more likely the smaller portion of your byGrooming Matthew Tuozzoli/Artists by Timothy Priano using Kérastase bringing your elbows set to build the length in front of compensation at the most muscle?” training until you’re forward slightly as FACTS you. Don’t let it pelvis,” says Rusin— BEN T., SANTA FE, NM experienced. At that the weights rise. OUR TRAINING twist your body. and that could cause point, sets of 20 or so “This movement DIRECTOR, SEAN Q The number of reps reps on leg exercises Resisting rotation, a knee injury. HYSON, SOLVES allows the shoulders rather than training it you need to perform (done with perfect THE UPGRADE: The YOUR WORKOUT should change over form) can shock the to remain in a neutral directly, integrates the Swiss ball leg curl CONUNDRUMS time, just like the exer- quads and hamstrings position,” Rusin says, shoulders and hips to “while also taking (photo and description cises themselves. into new growth. strengthen the core. Sets of one to ﬁve Finally, low-rep sets, advantage of the on page 138). It’s one of the few hamstring reps do the most to because they imply more natural move- build pure strength, heavy weights, should THE MACHINE: exercises that train ment paths that Seated Leg Curl but they also activate be used sparingly— dumbbells offer.” the muscles’ two your biggest muscle two or three times a THE PROBLEM: Sitting functions simultane- ﬁbers—so even if get- week on only a couple down tilts your pelvis ously—extending ting strong isn’t some- of exercises. backward, which the hips and thing you care about, The seated ab flattens out the bending the knees. don’t neglect them. Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S., rotation is “the arch in your lumbar Sets of six to 12 is the Men’s Fitness reps maximize mus- training director and most debilitating spine. An unnatural position to work the For more joint- cle size and can be author of 101 Best machine in hamstrings in, it friendly training, go used on most of your Workouts of All Time, to mensfitness.com. lifts most of the time. 101bestworkouts.com. the gym.” actually increases the

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O Game Changers Manual Crack the holiday code You know how it goes this time of year: You pop a cork, make a toast, exchange some gifts, and before you know it, somebody gets hurt. But not if you use these tips, tricks, and clever hacks. By Ted Spiker Photograph by Levi Brown

Get popping. To drink champagne properly, YOUR “CHAMPAGNE” CHEAT SHEET chill for 30 minutes and serve. Unlike wine, it Champagne Prosecco Sparkling doesn’t need to breathe, Wine and it doesn’t improve with age. Cheers! Where Champagne Italian hills Anywhere, as It’s From* region of France north of Venice long as it fizzes and Treviso

What Visit to in-laws Dinner party Brunch, as a Occasion(s) (or potential in- with three or mimosa mixer It Suits Best laws) or making four couples an important announcement

What to Know If you want Look for Chill for a couple sweet, look for ones that use hours, then let it “sec” or “doux.” “Prosecco” sit at room temp For dry, it’s grapes, not for 30 minutes “brut.” others. before serving.

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Open a Champagne Bottle in 5.5 Steps (Without Conjuring A Christmas Story)

1. Remove the foil, then hold the cork while you take off the wire cage. 2. Hold the bottle so the cork is pointing away Rules for Giving from you and the the Perfect Toast bottle is tilted at a

45-degree angle. 1. Make it no more Kaplan Sam Flutes: Resources; Vohr/Halley by Matt styling Drink than 45 seconds. 2a. Don’t point the bottle at your boss or 2. Say one thing girlfriend’s dad, even to make people as a joke. chuckle and one to make them tear up. 3. Hold the cork in (“I hear Uncle Max place and twist the and Aunt Sue split bottle carefully. up” doesn’t count.) 4. Shimmy the bottle 3. Specifics about till the pressure inside people in the room forces the cork off. > generalities that 5. Kiss someone. everyone says. 4. Always include the lady in your life. To send the right message with the 5. But never in the right champagne, same sentence as go to mensfitness .com/bubbly. “Ho-ho-ho.”

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Sweat fast, then party hard… You’re never going to burn enough calories to negate a holiday smorgasbord or open bar, but you can summon up some last-minute motivation to keep gluttony at bay. Right before you shower, pump out a 10-minute hype-up set— one minute of body-weight squats, 10 pushups, one minute of planks—while chanting: “Marshmallow yams will not defeat me.” Repeat for 10 minutes.

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Q Close to at least one person you can hit up this holiday season? Some suggestions:

Less than $25 (you’re an obligation): A PULLUP BAR PRESENTS TO IMPRESS YOUR POP Less than $50 Q Dad doesn’t want what every other dad gets, so think outside the (you’re liked): socks: Maybe he’s always yearned for a long bow (Best Made Co. Ameri- HEAVY-BAG GLOVES can Longbow, $795) to shoot rabbits or scare the crap out of your sister’s Less than $200 (you’re boyfriend. How about a new fly rod (Tenkara Sato Outfit, $259) with adored): HEAVY-BAG an IOU for a father-son fishing trip on the hook? Or get an SI with his GLOVES AND A BAG favorite team on the cover and hide game tickets inside. Still stumped? Just scour eBay for things in his wheelhouse till you can picture him Less than $500 (you’re stalker bait): Everlast Prime saying, “Wow!” A PROWLER Training Gloves, $50, everlast.com.

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[silence] “Really.” Top left: Richard Pierce; Prop by styling Nicole Sofer/Cornelia Adams; Still up on Not getting any avoid (split squats?). 798. [cough] “Gift Valentine’s Day Record the weight you Give Your Shoes receipt.” [cough] can do for 8 reps. Aim Proudly Charlie Not as hipster as Some Holiday Polish Brown-esque you think to add 30% of that A STRANGER YOU weight at 12 reps to that WANT TO TALK TO Q You fret about your Artificial, Better off not baseline number by fancy shirt and tie, but 1. “Seen the new BCS so it won’t having kids St. Patrick’s Day. she’s also looking at rankings?” shed needles or need water your fingernails and 2.“How’s the punch?” Bikers: Find a char- feet. Here, 3 easy steps ity ride, send e-mails/ 3. “Trump’s hair: Adorned Never going for shining your shoes.* with more to get married tweets to recruit 10 Think it’s a toop?” than one co-workers to join in. Dust off with a damp 432. “Sure hope the Giants cloth. Let dry. pork’s GMO-free…” ornament CrossFitters: YOU DON’T NEED NO RESO- Apply polish all over. A STRANGER YOU A palm Bound to end up on LUTION, WOD BOY! (Use a toothbrush to hit WANT TO GET RID OF @_FloridaMan crevices/edges.) Try 1.“GMOs—no can do.” Sloths: A “100” challenge: one rep a day Saphir (around since 2. “Punch? I’ll go.” 1925, $20). Let sit for on Jan. 1, two on Jan. 10 to 15 minutes. 3. “I’ve got this scalp To check out 2, up to 100 (spread itch…” our extended throughout the day) Brush polish off with a 711.“Into fantasy gift guide, go to mid-April. Pick burpees horsehair shoe brush. mensfitness. or pushups. Do not football?” com/gg.

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The four things to buy BOOZE MIXERS ICE THEMED (in excess) for your ultimate INGREDIENTS holiday blowout Q“You always want to QEven if you pare down QEven in the winter, overbuy a little when on spirits, don’t skimp in it’s amazing how fast QSelect two or three By Brian Good you hit the liquor store,” the mixer department. ice will go. Most experts specialty cocktails you says Dave Plate, co- That’s where every recommend a pound can make in advance You’ve got about a dozen founder of The Randolph good cocktail is won per party guest, min- and serve as needed. Themed ingredients are Qderelict drinkers on the way at Broome in New York or lost. “Get plenty of imum. “Whatever you City. “There’s noth- soda water—it goes with think you need, double another great option, over to your place for your annual ing worse than run- everything,” Plate says. i t,” cau tions Pla te. A nd says Tom Macy, co- New Year’s Eve bash. That means ning low during a party.” “You also need tonic, remember, that’s just owner of the Clover fun drinks—and lots of ’em— His advice: Stick to the cranberry juice, OJ, for the cocktails. Any Club in Brooklyn, NY. basics, like our bottle soda, and diet soda, and ice you need on hand to Consider the apple: All are definitely on the menu. But picks below, and don’t a bunch of lemons and keep beer or soda cold you need is cider and between spirits and mixers and try to be all things to all limes.” (Branch out with is additional. Need a apple brandy and you’re everything else you’ll need, how people. Don’t buy multi- blood oranges for a bit of quick makeshift cooler set. “Apple brandy ples of the same family holiday flair.) Round out that isn’t your bathtub? sounds sweet, but it’s a do you prep a home bar without of liquor and limit what your arsenal with a bot- Try filling your wash- full-proof barrel-aged blowing a week’s pay at the local you do buy to about $25 tle of bitters plus fresh ing machine with cubes spirit, kind of like whis- store? Our ideal plan of attack: to $35 per bottle, max. mint, cinnamon sticks, instead. It’ll create a key,” he says. “Both are “If you don’t, the guys maraschino cherries, second drink station in excellent two-ingredient who know what the good olives, and a jar of star your pad, and as the ice cocktail options. You stuff is will go for it right anise. (This licorice- melts, it automatically can pair either with any away just because it’s flavored seed is an ideal drains away for quick brown spirit—whiskey, free,” he says. cocktail addition.) cleanup the next day. rum, even each other.”

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Super freekeh Done with quinoa? Try this heartier, tastier, healthier option next time you’re craving carbs. By Bill Bradley Photographs by Christopher Testani

Fitness in a bowl: hot, spicy, tasty Sesame Freekeh with Seared Shrimp

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Freekeh White, owner of Another big plus: F has been Jim White Fitness & Freekeh cooks much waiting Nutrition Studios in the same way qui- Cook it! a couple Virginia Beach, VA. noa, brown rice, and of thousand years “It’s very versatile— even oatmeal do, but Freekeh is so for its moment in the perfect carb to it has a more robust idiotproof (add Sesame Freekeh the spotlight, and help you get lean.” flavor: The green it to boiling water with Seared it’s finally arrived. What makes wheat is fire-roasted in a 2-to-1 water- Shrimp (OPPOSITE PAGE) to-grain ratio This ancient grain freekeh ideal is its after harvest, giving SERVES 4 (meaning it hasn’t low glycemic index it a slightly smoky and simmer 20 minutes), you’ll been altered and score (meaning it taste. Toast it and INGREDIENTS want to make it a hybridized in labs has less of an effect add it to salad or diet staple. 3 plums, diced over the years like on your blood sugar) yogurt, or turn it into Here’s one way Salt 1 modern wheat and which prevents the dinner by adding a to do it: a freekeh /3 cup rice wine vinegar corn) with Middle spikes and falls that protein like chicken, dinner bowl 1 lb large shrimp created just for Eastern origins is spur snack cravings. fish, or steak. 3½ cups freekeh, even supplanting Plus, it has about “Or get more us by Gerardo cooked (see left) Gonzalez of NYC’s quinoa as the go-to twice as much fiber creative,” says ½ cup mint, finely cut El Rey Coffee Bar & healthy carb. as quinoa. “And White. “Freekeh can For more killer Luncheonette, ¾ cup white sesame “I’m not surprised complex carbs help be made into veg- post-workout grain who feeds some seeds, toasted freekeh has been rebuild muscle,” etarian burgers recipes, go to 1 cup celery, thinly mensfitness.com. of downtown’s top trending,” says Jim White says. and soups.” marathoners. sliced on a bias ½ cup scallion, thinly sliced ¼ cup cilantro, chopped ½ cup white sesame oil 1½ tsp chili or Aleppo pepper flakes Juice and zest of 1 lemon 1½ tsp sumac (optional)

DIRECTIONS 1) Season plums with salt, cover with rice wine vinegar, and let sit till plums turn bright red. Mix in a blender till smooth. 2) Sauté shrimp on the stove top. (Rockfish or red snapper can also be used.) 3) Mix freekeh with mint, sesame seeds, plum sauce (reserve a small amount), celery, scallion, and cilantro. Toss in sesame oil till glossy but not overdressed. 4) Top freekeh with shrimp, chili flakes, Smart by Sarah styling Prop Martel; Gatton/Stockland by Michelle styling Food lemon juice, and zest, sumac, and remaining plum sauce.

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Fiber GI Index Carbs Protein

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Brown rice 50 34.8g 3.7g 1.6g Smart carb. Freekeh beats quinoa Couscous 65 32.4g 5.9g 0.9g and brown rice in White rice 89 36g 3.2g .6g protein and fiber and has a robust, smoky flavor. All values based on ¼ cup, uncooked

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arts, and rock a biker jacket

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The Guy

Q Once an actor’s performed steamy onscreen sex scenes with J-Lo—as Ryan Guzman did in 2015’s The Boy Next Door—you’d think he’d use any rare downtime to relax and, just, well, replay those moments in his head. Not Guzman. Instead, the 28-year-old ex–MMA fighter and Heroes Reborn star oil paints (“an unforgiving medium”) and works on his screenplay (“a gritty MMA Rocky story”). And that’s aside from his regular Muay- Thai-meets-taekwondo workout. “I’m always trying to find out what I can do better, and how I can do it,” says Guzman about what drives him. “I don’t think I’m great yet—there’s always someone else who’s worked a little bit harder.” His drive’s certainly paid off career-wise: He leaped from modeling to TV ads to starring in 2012’s Step Up Revolution in just a matter of months. Next spring he hits the screen in Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused. It’s the challenge that always draws Guzman. Take the oil painting: “It frustrated the hell out of me in the beginning,” he says. “But by the third painting I felt at home— like I was almost able to fly away.”

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Q With its rugged biker silhouette, y Beaut Hamadi using Artists madi/Forward Ham by Jamal ming Groo rich leather, and upscale details, Michael Bastian’s new motorcycle jacket pairs equally well with a casual cotton henley and a vintage Honda cycle. The choice of brown over black “makes it more refined and individual,” says the designer. But you can still beat the hell out of it: “It molds to your body over time and just keeps getting better.” —MARTIN MULKEEN

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Superman or psycho? Alex Honnold brings us along on his most death-defying climbs.

Let’s kick some ass AMC’s new martial arts epic Into the Badlands takes in-your-face action to a whole new level By Martin Mulkeen

Q Good news for mixed- escape a reign of ter- martial-arts addicts, ror brought on by seven old-time Kung Fu buffs, Badlands barons. and fans of plain, old- This sets the stage fashioned knuckle bust- for a visual martial- ing: AMC, a network with arts feast (Jackie Chan– a rich history of mak- style kung fu, Israeli ing smart, niche-genre Krav Maga, samurai shows (see: zombies and sword fighting) that’s westerns), is at it again. presented not with the Into the Badlands, typical digital effects, which airs Sunday shaky-cam footage, and nights, stars Chinese vertiginous, fast-moving action-movie veteran editing, but with long (and, in this case, exec scenes and wide shots producer) Daniel Wu as that’ll make your eyes Sunny, a heavily tattooed bulge. “This is all about Look, Ma, no ropes! warrior—no joke: his 404 seeing how good the tats mark 404 kills—who kicks and punches really In Alone on the Wall, climber Alex Honnold explains why it’s not that sets out on a journey are,” says Wu. Note to crazy for him to climb “unstrung.” We almost believe him. with his young protégé Grasshopper: You’ll want MK (Aramis Knight) to to free up your Sundays. By Will Cockrell

QFree-solo climber he begins up a cliff face between first-person Alex Honnold is sick of or how he once pre- passages and Roberts’ The art of fake fighting being asked if he “feels pared by visualizing his fast-paced scene fear” when he climbs own demise, every tum- setting, and it never How Into the Badlands’ Oliver without ropes, he ble, every broken bone. ge ts bog ge d dow n in Stark mastered his moves reveals in his new book, We also meet Honnold climbing jargon or Alone on the Wall. But the human, a pretty historical tangents. Q With close-ups What did you let’s be honest: When regular guy who got But perhaps more like those in Into the do to prepare? you see him clinging— into free soloing only telling than anything Badlands, you can’t yes, ropeless—from a because he was such else in this book are I started doing yoga leave all the danger- granite cliff that’s a socially awkward kid the references to free- about 3½ months ous stuff to stunt dou- 2,000 feet above the that he had no friends solo and BASE jumping before. And I tried

bles. Oliver Stark and images) (2 AMC of Courtesy Chin; Jimmy left: top from Clockwise ground on 60 Minutes, to climb with. Hon- pioneer Dean Potter, bulking up—as an ecto- the rest of the crew in the Squarespace nold also talks about someone Honnold morph I struggle with spent six weeks at commercial, or in the the death of his father refers to as a “role putting on weight. hand-to-hand-combat pages of this magazine, when he was a teen- model and an idol.” So I did a lot of com- boot camp training isn’t that exactly what ager but stops short of The thing is, Potter was pound exercises and under Master Dee you want to know? exorcising his demons: killed BASE jumping big lifts and began eat- Dee (Crouching Tiger, Honnold’s confound- “It probably has between the writing ing between 4,000 to Hidden Dragon). ing you-fall-you-die something to do with and the publishing of 5,000 calories a day. style has made him the my own childhood,” he this book. As morbid as Was training solely most famous climber in says, “but I don’t want it sounds, references focused on fighting? So you’d do pretty we ll in a f i g h t now, or the world, and in Alone to go there.” to Potter in the present Yes, but sometimes just a fake fight? on the Wall we’re finally One thing that really tense were less sur- we’d learn a fight scene invited into his psyche. helps Honnold’s story prising given the fact that’s not even in the At first, I’d walk down Despite the physical- fly along is the expo- that it could have been Honnold show—they are trying the street and think, “I ity of his sport, Hon- sition by co-author any number of friends prepares for to train our minds, so if know martial arts, I can nold himself explains David Roberts, who and peers Honnold a climb by something needs to be do anything!” But I had that if he has any gift is one of the world’s mentions. What could changed on set, we can to calm down, because at all it’s a mental one. foremost climbing and likely illustrate the visualizing adapt quickly. Everyone the truth is, I’m really Indeed, it’s fascinat- mountaineering story- ephemeral existence of his own has to be able to hold good at almost—but not ing to learn how he can tellers. The book ping- guys like Alex Honnold their own. quite—hitting people. bizarrely switch off as pongs back and forth more than that? demise.

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If something’s By far the most important hours of your life are going to pop up in B those you spend in bed—for a lot of reasons. A good the bedroom, it night’s rest can keep you fit, sharpen your brain, shouldn’t be a and boost your sex drive, while losing sleep can mattress spring. depress you, boost your risk of heart disease, and even, according to a brand-new study, make you four times more likely to catch a cold. In other words—you don’t snooze, you lose. ¶ James Macari/Art + Commerce Macari/Art James When it comes to your Fortress of Z’s, your mattress is the foundation. The type you probably grew up sleeping on—a slab of metal coils under some cotton batting and fabric—has been around for more than a century. Often stiff and uncomfortable, innerspring mattresses were, for most of their history, a mor- ibund industry with little innovation and virtually no compe- tition. ¶ Then NASA went and developed an all-new foam.

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How to do it The beneﬁts Get on up. J.J. Watt’s best box jump is 61 inches. You should 1) Set a box that’s Q “As opposed to ver- start with 24 inches. about 24 inches high tical jumps or broad on the floor in front jumps, which are of you. (Use a padded harder on the hips and box, if possible, so if knees,” says Bruno, you wipe out, you “the box jump lets won’t get seriously you train for power hurt.) Stand with your without a hard land- feet hip-width apart ing.” Almost anyone and swing your arms can do a box jump, if behind you as you they start cautiously bend from the hips and use good form. and knees to generate It trains the nervous power. “Come down system to fire the to a quarter-squat,” muscles explosively, says Bruno. which improves your potential to run fast, 2) Swing your arms change directions forward and jump up quickly, and acceler- onto the box, landing ate through sticking square in the middle. points on lifts. “Your landing should look like your takeoff.” Programming While you’ve surely seen people land in QPerform box jumps a deep squat on box after your warmup jumps, that’s not good but before any heavy form. For a safe land- training. You need ing that trains your to be fresh for peak body to absorb force, power. Do three sets of land in a quarter- five, resting a minute squat only. Bruno between each set. says if the box isn’t too When you feel high you won’t sink you’ve mastered a into a full squat. short box, add four 3) Step off the box to six inches to the back to the floor—don’t height. “If your gym jump off. Reset, and has only one small go again. Yes, you’ll box, you can progress see people jumping to seated box jumps, down from the box in which challenge you CrossFit classes, but by eliminating the according to Bruno, “it stretch reflex.” Set completely eliminates a bench behind the J.J. Watt damn the point of the box and sit on it. From J near broke exercise, which is to there, you’ll explo- the Internet train power with low sively jump off the BOX-JUMP (at least impact.” bench onto the box. among sports and fitness enthusiasts) last LIKE J.J. April when a video sur- Get power like the Houston Texans’ faced of his 61-inch box defensive end by mastering the box jump jump—no small feat for

By Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S. a 6'5", 289-pound defen- From top: Courtesy of Reebok; James Michelfelder sive lineman. You may not be ready to go up against Watt in a scrimmage, but chances are you’d like to be more explosive in your own backyard football games, or you’re at least interested in squat- ting heavier and building muscle. The box jump will help with all of the above, and we got Ben Bruno (benbruno.com), trainer to celebs and pro athletes in Los Angeles, to Jump to it. Your landing position should look like your takeoff: land in the center of the box in a quarter-squat. explain the finer points. Each landing should be soft and quiet.

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Don’t just press shufﬂe Create a smart, scientifically based playlist and make your regular workout even more effective By Leander Schaerlaeckens

There’s no doubt your favorite T tunes make working out more fun. But the perfect playlist can also spike athletic performance and make your gym time even more productive. ¶ “Humans have a tendency to lock into a rhythm, and that has a direct influence on physical work rate,” says Costas Karageorghis, Ph.D., a sports psychology professor at Brunel University London and one of the leading experts on the relationship between There are also third song, it’s time to the problem, build a music and athletic performance. Studies apps like BPM Tap jump right to a rocker. few different playlists show that listening to music will reduce or PaceDJ that can “We call it popping and keep them on your perception of how hard a workout not only search your the party,” he says. reserve for those days DJ on-demand is by 10% (so you’ll feel like working out library according to “Usually we’ll jump you just don’t feel like BPM but also allow to something over working out. Don’t feel like longer). Workouts will also become a building your own you to speed songs 200 BPM. I actually “Some days your lot more efficient, since syncing your BPM-based up or slow them down want to show what EDM playlist just isn’t stride or lifting motion to a beat will help playlist ? Don’t slightly to give you the finish line’s going going to work,” says worry—there’s reduce wasted muscle movement the right rhythm. to feel like—give a Radcliffe, “so you need an app for that. and slash your body’s oxygen uptake by taste of the intensity a mix that matches as much as 7%. ¶ Here are a few rules to Create mixes we’ll reach later on. your lower energy RockMyRun Q keep in mind as you compile your next with a musical arc After the third song level, which will help Aimed specifically you just want to keep you build intensity at runners, this app training set list: allows you to pick a Q Once you have it really mixed up, as you train.” music genre and a your arsenal of tunes, making sure there are BPM to match your it’s time for the fun intervals of pushes Use the beat to individual pace. Before you create doesn’t have a con- part—building your and sprints to keep raise your game a playlist, calculate sistent movement, actual playlist. the body on its toes.” Pandora your pace your heart will still “You can’t just hit And don’t forget the Q Something as Q The original free synchronize to the shuffle or you’ll cooldown, he adds. simple as a beat could streaming service Q The rhythm you music you play, so be all over the place,” “Finishing up with push your running actually has workout radio stations. You train at should dictate it’s good to keep it says SoulCycle something mellower or cycling to the next can even enter a BPM song selection, with nice and energetic, spin instructor and will give your heart a level, according to into the search func- your workout pace but not so ratcheted de facto music direc- chance to slow down Radcliffe. So when tion to be directed to matching the BPM up that you venture tor Parker Radcliffe. and provides a sense you’re looking to the ideal station. (beats per minute) of into an endurance “And you can’t just go of conclusion.” step up your work the songs you choose pace—hang out in hard straight out of rate, select a mix Spring Q to listen to. For run- what’s considered the the gate. You have to Match the mix that’s slightly faster All you need to do is punch in the type ning or cycling, count rhythmic “sweet spot” let momentum build.” to your mood than your natural of music you like your motions over of about 120–140 BPM. When building his pace—just a few extra and start running, Q a 60-second period. own playlists, Rad- Even the most dis- BPMs will make a cycling, or whatever Runners typically Build a library cliffe says he uses the ciplined guys dread difference. One study you enjoy doing. The move at 150–190 organized by beat first song to “establish a workout from time found that when app then measures, strides a minute, strength.” The second to time. To combat music was sped through GPS, which DaniloAndjus/ Getty and cycle at about Q Most music sites song’s meant to “get up, subjects riding songs make you 80–110 revolutions like iTunes or Spotify the oxygen moving stationary bikes move the quickest, Go to mensfitness and keeps you a minute. let you sort songs through the body” .com/playlists for not only did slightly motivated with its If you’re doing from your own library and wake your body some of our favorite more work, they also workout tunes. curated set. strength work that according to BPM. up a little more. By the minded it less.

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“You’ve gotta treat yourself. And then get right back on that workout.” Here’s Donny! The former ad executive, outspoken TV pundit, and lifelong fitness buff sounds off on his new show and the supreme importance of indulging in a cocktail after your last rep By Jason Adams

Some would say Donny S Deutsch has it all. Money? He sold his ad agency, Deutsch Inc., in 2000, for a reported $250 million. Fame? In 2004, the creative director made the leap to TV, hosting The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC, a success-oriented talk show, and he’s been an outspoken fixture on other shows since, popping up everywhere from NBC’s Today to Morning Joe on MSNBC. Women? He’s known a few. There was, however, one thing missing from his own bucket list: a sitcom. But Donny You play a sort of very protective of business. I think if snapper and a steak Deutsch also has a motto: “Just fuck- fictionalized ver- women. I’ve always you’re very success- once a week, once a ing go for it.” (Take note, fellas!) So he did, sion of yourself on had a lot of girl- ful in an intellectual month a veal parm. friends, and if they and he now stars in his own eponymous Donny! Have you enterprise and you You’ve gotta treat always been playing ever get hurt, I want can bring a physical yourself, and then scripted series, Donny! (which airs Tues- some sort of “Donny” to punch people. I’ve appeal on top of get right back on days at 10:30 p.m. EST on USA), on which character? been single a big it, it’s surprising. that workout. the real-life Donny Deutsch, 58, is reimag- As an agency head, chunk of my adult I also went through ined as a trashy talk-show therapist. Here I was a guy who life, so of course a tough period in In the second he helps us separate fact from fiction. ended up being I’ve dated. The only my life, a divorce episode of Donny!, seen in the business thing I’m not proud 11 years ago, and you get advice about as a maverick, so of, and I would never I put on 40 pounds. manscaping. Does you start playing do again, is getting I never wanted to be the real-life Donny How did Donny! At the end of the the maverick. On involved with a mar- that guy again. I try manscape? come about? meeting I said, “I’ve Morning Joe, I’m the ried woman. It ended to do an hour of car- I do basic. You don’t I had been doing got this crazy idea…” guy who fights with up in the New York dio five days a week, want to go too crazy. TV for a number Joe [Scarborough], Post. It’s the only and I try to work out Just make sure of years. I had my Is there a show that who flirts with Mika mistake like that I’ve with a trainer five it’s a non-event show The Big Idea inspired yours? [Brzezinski], who’s ever made in my life, days a week, doing down there. on CNBC, then I was Curb Your Enthu- a little bit more and I would never do weights, core, and doing the “Today’s siasm was the real liberal, who tends it again. stretching. What’s the biggest Professionals” seg- inspiration. I feel like to be rogue. It’s not myth about Donny ment on the Today an idiot even putting that it’s not me; it’s a You’ve always been Do you ever fight the Deutsch? show, and then I did myself in the same presentation of me. known to have a urge to pour your- I don’t want to say some Morning Joe sentence as Larry It’s exaggerated. well-developed phy- self a drink instead I’m a dork, but I’m stuff. But I was kind David, but as a genre, sique, and working of working out? a lot nerdier than of hitting a creative I would. Somebody You’ve called your- out is a big part of I’ll pour myself people think. My wall. I thought, “How told me it’s like a self a feminist. But your show. Talk a bit a drink after the personal life is not as do I break out of more current male you’re also known about that. workout. Tonight I’ll daring as what I’ve this?” I was with my Sex and the City, to be kind of a ladies’ It’s an important part go to dinner at one of done in my business production com- which I thought was man. How can you of my life. I work out my favorite Italian life. If I slept with pany, and we were interesting. It has a reconcile the two? every day. I always restaurants, I’ll have one-tenth of the talking about doing very urbane quality At my agency, nine thought being a glass of wine or a women people give Ben Fink a daily talk show to it. But I think it is of my 11 partners in good shape in vodka, no problem. me credit for, I would with a live audience. its own thing. were women. I feel business was good I’ll eat well. I’ll have be a pretty hip guy.

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Hot seat Social butterﬂy Look beyond all the Instagram pics of phenom Helen Owen’s scantily clad, sun-kissed curves, and Game Changers you’ll discover—nah, you’ll O never make it that far By Noah Davis

Helen Owen is what cynics might call “Instagram famous.” Yet the stunning bikini pics she posts daily aren’t just shameless eye candy—they’re a rallying cry for living large. “About a year ago, my manager suggested I could earn a living doing this,” says the 23-year-old, British-born and Bay-area-raised UCLA grad. Soon she had brands she already loved, from fashion houses to dating apps, paying her big bucks to show them in her photos. Today, nearing a million followers, she’s been able to go international and support her love of travel with her sexy smile (and other admirable qualities). “I figured out the traveling thing on my own,” she says of her move to cash in on what the rest of us consider “vacation photos.” “I was in Greece and thought, “Why not reach out to some hotels and see if they want to collaborate?’ ” It worked. Since then she’s been “flying around nonstop,” she says, “just riding the social media wave.” Now the biggest business decision she ever has to make is where to go next. “Maybe I’ll go to Australia or something,” she says. In fact, she’s been traveling so much it didn’t make sense to get an apartment, so she’s “I’ve been ﬂying been bunking with a friend in L.A.“I’ll probably start looking Derren Versoza nonstop, just for a place soon, though,” riding the social she says. If she needs a roommate, media wave.” we’re in.

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Recently, my wife had a chest rash we were concerned about but didn’t consider at all life threatening. So instead of embarking on an expensive and time- consuming trip to the ER, I fired up a new app—Doctor on Demand—and paid $40 to get her a 15-minute consultation with a nearby physician. It was amazingly easy: Through a FaceTime-like interaction, the doctor took a look at the rash and diagnosed it as ringworm, and had a prescription automatically sent to my local pharmacy. In fact, with its 1,400 doctors available 24/7, Doctor on Demand is an excellent way to treat many simple infirmities, such as muscle sprains, sports injuries, sore throats, and flu symptoms. If you don’t feel like beaming the doctor into the room live, you can text, too. Just download HealthTap, an app founded at Stanford that connects you with real doctors for free. And don’t worry: There are 73,000 doctors on the company’s roster, so someone will get back to you fast. You can even take it to the next level and share photos or test results, and pay a small fee (starting at $19.99) to get an answer, more insight into a condition, or just a second opinion. Obviously I wouldn’t advise using HealthTap for severe chest pains—but you get the idea. And if you really want to avoid your regular checkup, consider making a bigger investment: Smart, new, easy-to-use blood pressure and heart-health monitors from companies like iHealth (starting at $80) and MocaCare ($149, see page 28 for Turn your phone our report) bring the doctor’s office home. iHealth also has a $70 Wireless Pulse Oximeter to track your blood oxygen into a lifesaver saturation and, for diabetes sufferers, a Because being healthy isn’t just about accumulating $30 glucometer that reads your test strips data—it’s about what you do with it and records blood sugar levels.

Clear up your skin Like most guys these days who enjoy keeping round-the- clock tabs on their fitness levels, you probably know the If you’re dealing with a skin condition like unique pleasure of getting that late-in-the-afternoon acne, eczema, cold sores, or insect bites, wrist-tracker or smartphone message: Goal achieved! you won’t necessarily get what you need You’ve walked 10,000 steps. Great job! Though hardly the from Doctor on Demand or HealthTap, same level of satisfaction that follows a good four-miler since you’ll need to talk to a specialist. or an hour with the free weights, it’s nevertheless a nice Instead of waiting to get a referral from little confidence boost. ¶ But considering the pace at your doctor, log on to the new app Spruce, which technology is advancing, haven’t you also found which connects you with a board-certified yourself wondering why all these cutting-edge digital dermatologist for just $40. Rather than tools can’t do just a little more than count calories, steps sit in a dreary waiting room, you just fill taken, and heartbeats per minute? Say, beam a doctor into your living room in out a quick survey on your phone, use your an emergency? Let your smartphone double as a nutritionist, therapist, or even smartphone to take a few well-lit pictures medical specialist—or, better yet, all three? ¶ Well, get ready for some good news, of the affected area, and within 24 hours because that’s all I’ve got for you from here on in. you’ll have a prescription and a personal-

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ON SECOND AND GOAL, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS coach Pete Carroll called for a pass instead of sending Marshawn Lynch plowing across the goal line. Ben Affleck hopped a private jet from the Bahamas to Vegas with his nanny instead of his Hollywood- actress wife. Shame-faced Volkswagen ERROR NO. 1 The easiest way to get a handle on your execs admitted they’d tweaked the soft- Getting caught on the spending: Recognize the difference ware in their diesel engines to be able to “hedonic treadmill” between needs and wants, advises Gary cheat on emissions tests. ¶ Chances are, Schatsky, founder of objectiveadvice you committed some absolutely avoid- “The biggest unforced error of all.” .com. Needs include expenses such as able, almost comically boneheaded errors That’s how Allan Roth, a fee-only finan- rent, utilities, food, 401(k) contribu- this year, too—with your money. And cial adviser, describes the habit of boost- tions, and deposits to your savings while they may not be on the same level ing your spending in tandem with your account. And if you have money left as whiffing on a surefire Super Bowl win, income. Why? Because few people who over? Set your priorities. What would making Jennifer Garner want to divorce do it end up any happier. To understand make you happier, that new car or a you, or losing upwards of $18 billion why, imagine stepping into an air- Caribbean vacation? on a single vehicle recall, they cost you conditioned room on a hot day: At first it Surprisingly, research suggests the nonetheless. ¶ So I asked several finan- feels great. Then it just feels normal. vacation might be the better choice. cial experts to tell us the most expensive It all comes down to the most basic Dan Ariely, Ph.D., a Duke behavioral preventable mistakes they commonly see rule in the book: When you subtract economics professor, offers three rea- committed and what to do to avoid them. your expenses from your take-home pay, sons. First, it takes longer than a week to Because, let’s face it: The worst kind of the larger the amount you’re left with, tire of a beautiful beach, so you’ll leave mistake is the one you saw coming. the better off you are. before the initial joy wears off. Second,

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Consider safer stocks the vacation memories will provide hap- Q If the stock market roller coaster is freaking losing stock. You can then deduct the loss piness long after the trip’s over. And third, you out, consider a low-volatility exchange- against any taxable market gains or, if you won’t be committing yourself to big traded fund, or ETF. These funds own compa- you don’t have any, your ordinary income. spending in the future. A new car needs nies that tend to move less dramatically than Invest what’s left in a low-fee fund. upkeep, insurance, and, in few years, a the average stock. (Think AT&T and General Mills.) A good option: iShares MSCI USA shiny new replacement to show off. Not so Minimum Volatility ETF (USMV). ERROR NO. 5 with a great trip—you’ll never see a better Mistaking luck for skill one of those in your neighbor’s driveway. Turn your car into an ATM Q Your next road trip could prove profitable “The worst scenario is when some guy thanks to the Roadie app, which connects ERROR NO. 2 thinks he’s got a great idea and buys a drivers with people who need a package stock and it doubles or triples, and he Failing to invest in stocks delivered. You’re going there anyway, so why not get paid for the trip? think he’s a genius,” Wiener says. “Equity ownership is the best path to I spend a lot of time talking to finan- long-term wealth creation,” says “Money Start cutting your taxes now cial pros—on TV, at conferences, on the Honey” Maria Bartiromo, host of QBefore Jan. 1: Be sure to complete any phone—and I’ve noticed that the smartest Mornings with Maria on Fox Business charitable contributions, spend all the money guys have one thing in common: humil- in your flex spending account, and consider Network. The numbers back her up: Over selling any taxable investments that are trad- ity. Roth, for instance, loves to share the the long term, stock returns blow away ing for less than you paid—you can reinvest the lesson he learned early when, with the gold, real estate, bonds, you name it. But proceeds in a similar asset if you’re still bullish. certainty of youth, he spent all his college 2015 stocks have been a losing proposi- graduation money on an investment in tion in the short term: Think of the mar- gold. His average annual return over ket’s recent volatility as a temporary sale. oh-so-clever hedge fund guys were on 35 years: 1.49%, which means he’s lost But you should view the market from a track to fall short once again. And while money to inflation. Wiener will tell you much higher altitude. “Evidence shows some funds have done well, on balance the how he tried to predict the direction of that millennials are scared of stocks,” says industry has underperformed a simple interest rates, got it right a few times, Roth. “They saw Mom and Dad panic in stock/bond mix every year since 2002. then lost all his profits when his lucky the dot-com bubble, then lived through So turn off CNBC, says Wiener. Adds streak ran out. Chris Davis, a prominent the real estate and financial bubble. They Roth, “If you can’t explain it to an 8-year- mutual fund manager, devotes a wall of learned not to invest.” old, don’t buy it.” Invest in low-fee mutual his office to plaques commemorating his Consider, briefly, an alternative: A sav- funds like the Fidelity Spartan Total Mar- worst investments so that he and his team ings account at Chase pays 0.01% inter- ket Index Fund, which gives you exposure remember the mistakes and learn from est—at that rate, you’re set to double your to the entire U.S. market. Then add the them. And Warren Buffett is planning not money in just 6,932 years. In other words, Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Index only to give away all his money but also after inflation, you’re guaranteed to take Fund and get the rest of the world. If you to outsource the distribution, because he a loss. Meanwhile, the stock market has want to try and beat the market, consider thinks someone else will do a better job. averaged roughly 10% annual returns the Primecap fund Wiener recommended Now, that’s humble. over the past 90 years. Yes, that’s included to his son, but realize it will probably But humility’s sometimes hard-earned. vicious bear markets in which even diver- underperform in some periods. Case in point: As the market marched sified portfolios have been cut in half. steadily higher in recent years, it was easy But guys in their 20s and 30s have a huge ERROR NO. 4 to look at your returns and call yourself advantage over older investors: time. Overpaying your taxes brilliant. Then came the August blood- “The younger you are, the more risk you bath, when stocks plunged in a single ugly can tolerate,” Bartiromo says. Ditto Dan While it’s unlikely you’re purposely fun- week. How brilliant did you feel then? Wiener, CEO of Adviser Investments. neling extra cash to Uncle Sam, you may So admit you don’t know what the He told his son to put all his savings in be failing to take all the deductions you’re market’s going to do, or what will happen the Primecap Odyssey Growth Fund due. This past year, for instance, if you’d in your career, or if buying that house will (POGRX). In 2009, the kid complained: donated $400 worth of old clothes and turn out to be a great move. Only then can It had gone straight down month after other stuff, that would’ve knocked about you focus on the things you can control: month for a year and a half. But since $100 off your tax bill, says Gary Schatsky. paying low fees, saving, and benefiting then, it’s compounded at 20% a year. So hit up the charitable organizations and from compounding. Over time, you’ll Today, Wiener’s 31-year-old son has get receipts for all your donations. This do far better than a guy who thinks he’s doubled his money. advice gets more important as you make smarter than the crowd. “The best way more money: the higher your tax bracket, to build wealth is to avoid mistakes,” says ERROR NO. 3 the bigger the benefit of a deduction. Roth. “So live below your means, buy bor- Getting way too clever Also, did you act on that “hot stock tip” ing stock index funds, and don’t let Madi- your buddy gave you? Assuming you son Avenue tell you what car to drive.” Q Anything you’ve heard that makes invest- lost money (which is what happens with ing sound fun, exciting, or complicated, most hot stock tips), you have a potential Jack Otter is the author of Worth It…Not forget. Investing’s not easy, but it should tax deduction. “Man up,” says Schatsky: Worth It? Simple & Profitable Answers to be simple. For example, in 2015 those Admit the investing mistake and sell the Life’s Tough Financial Questions.

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Luckily, though he’d never lifted before—not like this anyway— Jordan had the raw materials. He’d always been an athlete— “supercompetitive,” he calls it. And that’s on full display when, between exercises, he and Calliet throw on boxing gloves and pads and work through combinations. Fast, then slow, then fast again until Jordan’s hands are a blur. He’s got the speed. It’s easy to see how he was a solid enough high school basketball player to get a few college looks. There was even a brief moment when he thought maybe things would break that way. “Like, maybe I could make a push and go Division I. But then reality set in, and I wasn’t over six feet. And this acting thing was starting to take off.” “This acting thing,” as he puts it with characteristic understate- ment, started as a lark. He was 11 years old, tagging along with his mom to her doctor’s office. The receptionist noticed young MBJ’s good looks and told his mother he should get a modeling agent. This was back in Newark, NJ, where Jordan grew up. (He was born in Orange County, CA, but the family soon moved east.) “You know, Newark isn’t, like, a dream to grow up in,” says Jordan, which explains why his mom, a guidance counselor, and his dad, who worked in airline cargo, were always looking for ways to keep him and his younger brother and older sister busy. “It was benign, just something to do,” he says. “I was still playing basketball and baseball—everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to get out of school early and go into the city.” He booked print work, which led to TV commercials and indie movies and, eventually, the role of a sensitive corner hustler named Wallace in the first season of HBO’s The Wire. Though that would change his life, at the time the young Jordan had no sense of its huge cultural impact—no idea that the line “Where the fuck is Wallace?” would become canonical, a sort of “I know it was you, Fredo!” for a new kind of post-Godfather gangster saga. “Looking back at it, it’s easy to try and connect the dots, like, ‘Man, this kid made great choices,’ ” he says of his roles in The Wire and Friday Night Lights, two shows often bandied about as the greatest of all time. “But beyond a certain point, I can’t take credit for that. It was just one of those things where that was the audi- tion I went in for and booked—the right mix of circumstance and timing. Up until Fruitvale, the choice thing wasn’t in my hands.” That doesn’t mean he wasn’t devastated when Wallace was offed at the end of Season 1. “I thought life was over, I was crying hysteri- year to morph from a normal guy into a heavyweight boxer. And cally,” Jordan says. “I was the youngest one on the set. Everyone was not just any boxer, but the son of the man who was badass enough like a big brother or uncle to me.” to take down Rocky Balboa. “The moment we knew we’d succeeded It makes sense that working on The Wire, with its high-caliber with the transformation,” says Calliet, “was when Sly Stallone came actors, writers, and directors, would be formative for Jordan. But in and checked him out and was like, ‘Wow.’ ” there’s another gig he also credits for shaping his intense work Jordan’s character in Creed, Adonis Johnson, was born after his ethic: Surprisingly, it’s the soap opera he worked on for three-plus father, Apollo, had already died, “so he grew up in the shadow of years, All My Children. “Honestly, soaps are great training,” he says. one of the greatest fighters who ever lived, but didn’t know him,” “You’re doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I says the actor. “So he’s constantly being compared with this guy built my foundation for showing up and being professional.” he didn’t know. He’s trying to figure out who he is. He’s got some As much as anything, it’s still that unwavering discipline that’s daddy issues and a lot of trust issues, but he’s a hard worker and enabled Jordan’s success, professionally and, over the past year, feels like he’s got what it takes.” physically. Dedication simply isn’t “optional” when you’ve got a If that sounds a lot like the dude playing him, it could be because

102 MEN’S FITNESS DECEMBER 2015 the role was actually written with Jordan in mind. In fact, Creed out you get picked on for being weak. Sometimes you have to hide writer-director Ryan Coogler began sketching out the character your intelligence. In front of your boys, you might put on a bit of right after the duo wrapped their first collaboration, Fruitvale bravado, be a little bit tougher. When you’re in front of your mom, Station, the true story of Oscar Grant (played by Jordan), you might put on the good boy, the son. Around your girl, you’re a 22-year-old father shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit putting on another front.” police on New Year’s Day 2009. Today the film, which recounts Not only was Fruitvale a critical and commercial success, it the final hours leading up to Grant’s senseless murder, is as rele- proved Jordan could carry a movie. “Doing ensembles and shows vant as it was when it was released two years ago—if not more so. is one thing,” he says, “but being able to front a feature is totally “You keep hoping for a different ending,” says Jordan, whose different. You can be a great actor, and supertalented, but there’s humanization of Grant, showing the way he had to jump in and something about carrying a feature that’s unique. There were a lot out of the different worlds he inhabited, gave the film much of its of questions I wanted to answer with that project.” power. “It’s the African-American experience,” he says. “You’ve Fruitvale also turned out to be a crash course in dealing with the got to wear different masks. When you’re in the hood, if you stand media. It was criticized by some outlets for making Grant overly

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At one gives up on his Nothnagel named Jacob point, a 27-year-old overhead press and drapes himself over his knees, his limbs named a strapping 27-year-old visibly shaking. Meanwhile, his hands at Vleck stares dead-eyed at a chinup bar, Van Blake tank top listing starboard.his sides, his soaked It’s a late summer afternoon at City Gym, in summer afternoon at It’s a late 1) STANDPOINT, IT’S LEGAL DOPING.” STANDPOINT, and he warily eyed its white walls and neon-green rafters with his hands in his pockets. Like all transgender people, Smith had suffered from gender dysphoria for much of his life, an acute and often harrowing psychological condition in which your biological sex and your “gender identity” are completely at odds (unlike the vast majority of people, who are known as “cisgender,” the opposite of transgender). He spent 16 years, starting “ MY BODY FELT in second grade, feeling like his body, as he describes STRONGER it, “was a house, but never a home.” It felt impersonal. OVERNIGHT AFTER He adapted as best he could, keeping his brunette hair THAT FIRST SHOT in a short bowl cut starting in elementary school, but OF TESTOSTERONE,” he would always panic and burst into tears when his SAYS ROLLINS. parents put dresses on him. “ I BEGAN RIPPING “When I was 10, I had to wear one to my brother’s HANDLES OFF OF wedding,” he says. “It seems trivial, but it was so trau- MY CLOSET DOOR.” matic. I remember trying to feign an injury to get out of it, like rolling out of bed in hopes that my arm would break.” When he exercised, he would take pains to hide his sports bra straps under more masculine clothing. Smith first heard the word transgender when he was a 25-year-old lesbian, dating his eventual wife, Cecilia, and working in IT in Kansas City. His only regret was that he wished he’d known sooner. When he looks in the mirror today, Smith says he sees someone he recognizes for the first time. “Every time I walk around, answer my door, or let my dogs out with my shirt off, I’m awash with relief. People need to understand that becoming a transgender person is not a choice. There is no choice. I’m finally at home in my body.” But back in 2012, Smith wasn’t so comfortable. Bland- Walsh approached him and led him around the sleek workout facility—past the cardio machines and spin classes filled with young Kansas City urbanites—and the two started talking. “He told me, ‘I’ve reached a point in my transition where I don’t feel comfortable in the locker room space anymore,’ ” says Bland- Walsh, who points out that there’s no bigger daily source of potential terror and shame for transgender people than a public restroom. “In any building I visit, I immediately know which men’s rooms are occupied, and how many people come in and out of them,” says Tien. “It’s a habit I’ll never shake.” It’s a habit born Everyone breaks out in laughter. out of fear of embarrassment—sometimes even violence. This When the session ends, the evidence of hard work lingers— fall, one Chicago school district banned transgender people a pungent, masculine musk fills the air, and sweat soaks the from locker rooms, and, in Houston, a proposal to allow trans benches. For most of these guys, it’s clear that hitting the people to use public bathrooms “of their choice” met rabid gym—and hitting it hard, for that matter—is still something opposition. (“Vote ‘No’ on Proposition 1,” says former Houston of a novelty. Each late rep is accompanied with a sort of I-can’t- Astro Lance Berkman in a TV ad, denouncing the initiative. believe-I’m-doing-this smile, each high-five as animated “No men in women’s bathrooms. No boys in girls’ showers!”) as you’d see in the NBA playoffs. Because, for these guys to And last spring, in fact, a woman in Midland, MI, sued Planet achieve the bodies of their dreams, they don’t just need drugs Fitness when it canceled her membership because, it said, or surgery or years of therapy—though those are all essential. she’d violated its “no judgment” policy when she encountered To go from female to male, joining the estimated 700,000 a transgender woman in the women’s locker room and flipped transgender people in America, these guys also need the gym. out, alerting the entire gym. And, as we discovered, City Gym is no normal gym—and But City Gym isn’t Planet Fitness—or any other traditional what these guys go through to bulk up is anything but easy. gym, for that matter—and Smith had heard that this new facility, founded by Bland-Walsh a year earlier, was equipped 2) “IT ALL BEGAN WITH A BATHROOM.” with four private shower suites instead of locker rooms. As Smith and Bland-Walsh hit it off, Smith told her about the In early 2012, a 31-year-old named Drew Smith quietly Union, “A Midwest Transguy Coterie” he’d recently founded wandered into City Gym, located in Kansas City’s hip Waldo and is now 124 members strong. Its goal was to be a support neighborhood. He’d heard about the space from some friends, group to area trans men and their significant others and to DREW SMITH CHASE TIEN JACOB NOTHNAGEL 31, IT CONSULTANT 26, IT ENGINEER 27, IT CONSULTANT

“Some days are still hard. I still have curves, as “I lived in Singapore until I was 14 years old, and “Before testosterone treatments, I was very insecure small as they may be. It makes me think I’m not a there was a huge emphasis on diversity. But for gay and kept to myself. Now, my ﬁancée says, ‘You look man—and everyone knows my history.” men, you could still be jailed.” like exactly who you need to be.’ ”

educate them about all sorts of things they never learned growing (Otherwise, if they haven’t had a hysterectomy—surgery to remove up as girls—for instance, how to taste whiskey properly (smelling the the uterus, ovaries, cervix, and surrounding structures—most things pour with your mouth open) or how to tie a half-Windsor. Smith was will revert back, except the deeper voice, elongated clitoris, patchy looking for a fitness component to the program, too. Coincidentally, beard, and receding hairline.) Bland-Walsh was already doing 90-day boot camps. Three months If all of this sounds bizarrely simple—“just add testosterone of high-intensity exercise, she believed, would be the perfect jump- and you become a man”—it’s because, physiologically speaking, start for creating a masculine foundation and teaching these men the that’s entirely accurate. According to Joshua Safer, M.D., associate elementary rules of building a strong, balanced body. professor of medicine and molecular medicine at Boston University “I said, ‘Why don’t we just use that framework and make it specific School of Medicine and endocrinologist at Boston Medical Center, for what’s going on with these guys?’ ” says Bland-Walsh. Soon the testosterone is the only big hormonal difference in men and women, word spread among the area’s trans community, and this winter, the far bigger than estrogen, and it has greater immediate influence on group, officially called “Momentum,” will be three years old. your physical appearance than even your chromosomes. “But once his testosterone is raised, the degree of change in his body is influ- 3) TESTOSTERONE: enced by how old he is and when he gets testosterone,” says Safer. “THE FIRST SHOT’S LIKE CHRISTMAS.” The treatment can be challenging, and there are few informational and support systems in place to help the transgender man adapt to For Smith, Van Vleck, Tien, and thousands of other trans the hormonal changes, which includes acne, voice fluctuations, and men elsewhere working diligently to rid their bodies of their last sometimes hot flashes and mood swings, which Ali S., Blake’s wife, vestiges of womanhood—to erase the remaining pouches of fat describes as “going through menopause and puberty at the same around the belly button, under their armpits, and in their chest time.” The best resource for a trans man’s pressing medical concerns (where extra blubber gathers near the sutures of their double- is often YouTube, where other transgender people offer guidance. The mastectomy, also called “top surgery”), while at the same time Momentum guys say finding a doctor who is knowledgeable about building up shoulders, traps, and pecs—they need hormone replace- trans medicine is near impossible. “It’s true that we lack data in nearly ment therapy (HRT). And that means lots of testosterone. every aspect of cross-sex hormone care,” says Safer. “But we’re dealing Briefly, here’s how it works: The average male range of testosterone, with medications that have been used for years for other purposes the body’s natural anabolic steroid, is 300 to 1,000 ng/dl (nanograms with quite good safety profiles and known pitfalls to avoid. However, per deciliter), while female levels are closer to 30 to 200 ng/dl. From considering the long-term requirements, I would like to know which the moment trans men begin their weekly or biweekly testosterone approaches are the safest. Over many years, even small differences injections, the hormone makes quick work: In less than three weeks may add up to a significant difference in health in the population.” the libido increases and fat redistributes, the breasts shrink, and Bland-Walsh is more matter-of-fact when describing the current subcutaneous fat around the thighs and hips slip away and settle era of transgender medical attention. “It’s a little like Dallas Buyers around the midtorso, reshaping the female form. Menstruation stops Club,” she says. “A lot of doctors don’t even like the people they’re after about two months. In the first six to 14 months, facial and body helping. The problem is, the trans community will do whatever a hair sprout, then week by week, muscle mass and strength increase. professional tells them. Instead of the guys feeling empowered—and There’s a boost to red blood cells, too, which means more oxygen to having a conversation with their doctor if they’re not happy with the the muscles, increasing energy production, workout intensity, and way they’re transitioning—the doctors will say, ‘You look like a man, stamina. By now, he’s a man, at least hormonally—but he’ll need what else do you want?’ ” those weekly injections for the rest of his life to remain that way. The new trans man is also getting the good and the bad of being

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“Before my [mastectomy], I told my girlfriend I’m “In college the school paper ran a story about me. I “When I transitioned, I ﬁnally saw a future in which never going to have a shirt on again. I paid $6,000 for stopped going to class because of all the eyes on me. I my wife and I grow old together. I couldn’t picture this—I’m going to take my shirt off.” didn’t want to be an icon.” myself as an older woman.”

a guy: a male body and male muscle mass also mean a male risk of 4) “BULKING UP AND GETTING RIPPED.” heart disease and stroke, because the protective subcutaneous fat of women is gone. His hair will recede. He’ll also take on characteris- When Bland-Walsh conceived her Momentum workout, she tics that, as a female, he may have previously found annoying in the opted to have her clients take their sets to only momentary muscular other sex—such as finding himself facing sudden, testosterone-laden failure—that is, do as many reps as they can with good form and urges to size up other men and even perhaps pick a fight. “A majority stop the set.. Because, while the testosterone gives the men muscle of our group has expressed a newfound desire to mass, it’s forever attached to a female’s smaller speak their minds, be more confrontational with bone structure, wider hips, and more flexible hostile interactions, and to compete on a more tendons and ligaments—which means they have physical level with those around them,” says Smith, a stronger risk of injury when exercising. So it’s who adds that this is all normal guy behavior. And safer to work within your limits. That’s impor- then there’s the smell. Body odor, feet, sweat—an tant for the Momentum guys because they tend overwhelming dingy, locker room stench—that to get excited after their first treatments and takes everyone by surprise. “Yeah, it was bad,” says want to overdo it. “They read bodybuilding Cecilia, Smith’s wife, laughing. .com and hear tons of different info,” says Bland- But any drawbacks are worth the feeling of Walsh. “They all want to reduce body fat and gain testosterone charging through your veins, say the muscle mass.” Momentum guys. “I began ripping the handles off Each program is full-body and involves at of my closet door,” says Levi Rollins, a 36-year-old least five exercises that are performed with a employee at City Gym. “I kept breaking things. My high level of effort. She uses female standards for body felt stronger overnight after that first shot of City Gym owner Hailee body assessments for the men before they begin testosterone. I felt like a superhero.” Bland-Walsh, who transition. Once the physical manifestations of In the end, the treatments affected all the men co-founded Momentum with testosterone begin to show, then Bland-Walsh Drew Smith. differently. While Rollins’ voice plummeted imme- switches them to the male standards. From there, diately after the first injection, and he quickly she works the men the same way she works her sprouted a full beard, Tien lost a lot of weight, women. “When you want women to join a class and—because he wasn’t working out at the time—he ended up you say, ‘Tone and lengthen.’ When you want men to join your class gaining it back, chiefly in his gut and face. Van Vleck, who previously you say, ‘Bulk up and get ripped,’ ” she says. “But it’s the exact same looked like his mom, says he now looks exactly like his dad. Nothnagel thing: Women tone and men get ripped because women don’t have says his sex drive exploded. “Pre-T, I was attracted to women, but testosterone and men do.” more for their personality than their looks,” he says. “After T, I found The big five movements she relies on are seated leg presses, seated myself noticing women in a different, more ‘masculine’ way.” chest presses, lat pulldowns, seated rows, and overhead presses. Most One pleasant side effect for all of them, however, was a boost in of the workouts are tailored to the results she sees: the size, speed, and confidence. “Before transitioning, I would hold myself back from strength they are developing. “The results vary, depending on where meeting new people,” Nothnagel says. “They’d wonder, ‘Is that a the guys are in their treatments.” boy—or a butch lesbian?’ I would get more stares than handshakes Their lives will be completely changed, says Smith. “These are now and hellos. After transitioning, I’ve never been so happy with myself, their bodies, and they’re just here to work them out,” he says. “Hailee’s because this is who I am.” gym is one big home amid a hundred houses.” Q

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Our easy, step-by-step, chef-and-sommelier-approved guide to surviving the biggest cheat meal of the year—the holiday smorgasbord—with your abs intact By Nils Bernstein Photographs by Christopher Testani Food styling by Suzanne Lenzer Prop styling by Alistair Turnbull for BRUMLCONLON . ˚F So why So why

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In a large bowl, whisk milk, pumpkin, together eggs, and sugar. In a to- stir bowl, smaller salt, spices, the gether then powder, baking and whisk into the pumpkin pie mixture. a into Pour 60 to 50 for bake dish; tooth- a until or minutes, inserted center pick in in Cool clean. out comes least at for refrigerator 3 hours before serving. Preheat oven to 325 to oven Preheat And because e earned you’v it: weightless pumpkin pie Q the crust means you can make that recipe cherished other with no need- hacks health Ham- says ed. But, mer: “Savor it, be get then satisfied, b a c k to eat iand exercising n g the w e l l next day.” SERVINGS 8 MAKES: INGREDIENTS 1 (15 oz) can pumpkin 1 (12 oz) can low-fat 2 eggs ½ cup brown sugar 1 cinnamon ground tsp ½ tsp ground ginger ¼ tsp ground clovessalt ¼ tsp ½ powder baking tsp INSTRUCTIONS (preferably flat-leaf) flat-leaf) (preferably halved trimmed, ends lengthwise Brussels sprouts Brussels sprouts

seem saintly, but but saintly, seem easy pile to it’s on the bacon and cream. Instead, use this classic Italian relish to holiday your give bal- some plate un- without ance necessary fat and Oven sodium. roasting gives an appealing crisp- oil with less ness panfrying. than INSTRUCTIONS 425˚F. to oven Preheat For the gremolata, in a pars- mix bowl, small lemon and garlic, ley, zest; add salt and pep- large a In taste. to per bowl, toss sprouts with a on spread oil; olive single baking sheet a in Roastlayer. for 25 minutes, or until edges are warm browned. Toss with gremolata.sprouts y Savor brussels sprouts with ta gremola Q SERVINGS 6 MAKES: INGREDIENTS ½ cup minced parsley 1 garlic clove, minced 2 tsp lemon zest pepper and Salt 1½ brussels sprouts, lbs 1 oil olive tbsp But here’s the grim reality: Roughly 75% of Roughly reality: grim the here’s But

ry” or “Trump” talk with “Packers” and and “Packers” with talk “Trump” ry” or European Journal of Clinical Medicine Clinical of Journal European For more healthy more For twists on cheat meals, visit mensfitness .com/food. Pick a turkey had that’s the run of the pasture, because a raised bird without steroids is healthier and tastier. separated chopped turkey from or low-sodium turkey stock chicken large saucepan over over saucepan large Add heat. medium carrot, garlic, onion, celery, neck, and giblets stirring cook, and until occasionally, evenly browned. Add stock and soy sauce, bring to a boil, then partly heat, reduce andcover, simmer for 1 Strain;hour. keep stock warm over low heat. In a large sauté pan over melt heat, medium-low 2 tbsp butter; add flour, frequently, whisking turns slowly it until deep brown and nutty- smelling. Slowly whisk bring stock, warm the in to a boil, then reduce thick until cook and heat and gravy-textured. Add salt and pepper are there (If taste. to the whiz just lumps, gravy in a blender.) INSTRUCTIONS Me l t 1 tbsp bu t te r in a MAKES: 12 SERVINGS 12 MAKES: INGREDIENTS butter, tbsp 3 chopped onion, 1 1 chopped garlic clove, minced 1 carrot, stalk, celery 1 giblets and Neck good-quality cups 4 1 flour tbsp soy sauce tbsp 6 pepper and Salt “Lions”…By the time the feast finally arrives—in all its fatty, wine-soaked glory—the last last glory—the wine-soaked fatty, its all arrives—in finally feast the time the “Lions”…By calories. over is sweat do to want thing you Wearing that hideous sweater your aunt gave you. Using your black-belt-like black-belt-like your Using you. gave aunt your sweater hideous that Wearing conversational skills to supplant “Hilla any December, in November, gain we year entire of the course the over gain we weight the all in the a 2013 study January, and . dad’ with water s scotch your a registered R.D., Hammer, Miranda says health,” your derail won’t of eating day naughty a cycle begins commonly meal big the is, problem “The City. York in New based dietitian eating.” of poor a season month, a a week, to lead can that behavior of terrible roasting, not boiling, example, for by, get-go the from path a better on yourself set not Or sprouts? brussels still-flavorful yet butter-free for Opting fat? reduce to ham your mix? cauliflower with a great-tasting potatoes mashed belly-bloating those replacing these With recipe!) tried-and-true editor’s an it’s us, notice—trust even will one (No proteins centerpiece big three plates—including holiday classic on twists gut-friendly They up: heads fit. And stay to flavor surrender to have won’t sides—you several and too. leftovers, delicious make to cut Remembering Let’s face it: The

most delicious delicious most item on the table gets a bum rap. Gravy essen- is meat just tially thickened stock with roux—a mix of and flour— butter from bits the with pan roasting the dumped in. Too often, though, be- it comes a greasy, congealed mess from too much butter in the roux and pan drippings that are 90% fat and only 10% meaty fla- your Here’s vor. solution: Boost the stock’s flavor and cut out all by grossness the leaving the pan drippings out of it. Voilà: gravy that won’t give you a heart attack. guilt-free y grav Q Guaranteed When you’re you’re When

shopping, look for a bird labeled “pasture raised” “organic,” and because a turkey raised been that’s without hormones, steroids, or antibiotics—and inject- been hasn’t e d w it h f l av liquids— faking or- will better. taste When you prep it, with it season simply salt and pepper, not a slathering oil or of impor- butter—it’s tant that the skin dry completely be when you put it in the oven. 118 MEN’S118 FITNESS DECEMBER 2015 pepper and Salt INSTRUCTIONS 400˚F. to oven Preheat Place turkey, breast in rack a on down, side a large baking dish; rub over pepper and salt it. Cover with foil, poke holes in foil, and roast 45for minutes. Turn roast up; side breast instant-read an until registers thermometer 160°F in the breast and 170°F in the thigh. Let minutes. 30 rest for MAKES: 12 SERVINGS 12 MAKES: INGREDIENTS 1 turkey (12 to 16 lbs) Seriously y tasty turke Q Ride the gravy Can the crust. train. For a tasty, You’ll save time less fattening and a whole sauce, ditch the pumpkin patch pan drippings. worth of calories.

Portion the plate. Half veggies, half protein/starch, all good the next day.

Break bread. For stuffing, go easy on butter and use whole grains. (Full recipe at mensfitness.com.)

Make muscle sprouts. Brussels sprouts are great for you—don’t destroy them with bacon and cream. Make your red a Beaujolais. Bolder wines will overwhelm your food (and get you wasted).

Better-than-Grandma’s For top meat and The Wildly good booze pairings, SOMMELIER TIP! green bean casserole visit mensfitness luscious leg whipped .com/drinks. Binge Q The sensible thing to do? Serve steamed Away on of lamb sweet green beans in place of your grandmoth- Muscadet and Q Who says you potatoes er’s gloppy treat. But hey, the holidays Beaujolais can’t bust out your Q Sweet potatoes aren’t always about making sense. So if grill for the holi- you’re going with this odd but beloved are already deca- days? Not only is dently sweet and dish, which involves fat-and-sodium- your backyard filled canned soup and french-fried onions, s i l k y, s o t h at smoker perfect for popular topping of swap the soup for a from-scratch sauce firing a hearty leg and the fried onions for caramelized ones mini marshmal- of lamb, it’ll also lows and brown (or baked Lay’s potato chips). “Green beans free up your oven are loaded with fiber and vitamin C,” says sugar? Serious for side dishes. overkill, dude. Hammer, “and should occupy a lot of the But to do it right, real estate on your plate.” “Instead, add fruit be sure to have for more natu- the lamb butter- ral sweetness,” MAKES: 8 SERVINGS INSTRUCTIONS flied, or cut in such says Hammer. Bring a pot of salted a way that it “un- “You’ll get added INGREDIENTS water to a boil, add folds” to a uniform nutritional mile- 1½ lbs fresh green green beans, cook for 5 thickness. (Your age from the fruit, beans, trimmed and minutes, then drain and butcher can do this avoid processed halved crosswise cool. Melt 1 tbsp butter easily for you.) sugar, and gain in a pan over medium 2 tbsp butter, And while most extra vitamins, separated heat, add sliced onions, marinade reci- salt lightly, and cook un- minerals, and 2 onions, peeled and pes for lamb con- fiber.” We recom- thinly sliced til onions are browned. Preheat oven to 400°F. t a i n ton s o f ol i v e mend going with Salt In a large pan, add Courtesy of oil, opt for ours, bananas, to boost 8 oz mushrooms, mushrooms, chopped Jason Wagner, which cuts it out both the sweet- chopped coarsely onion, garlic, and 1 tsp beverage director completely. That ness and the 1 onion, chopped salt; cook for 10 min- at Fung Tu in New makes for pure creaminess, and coarsely utes over medium heat. York City protein flavor and In a separate saucepan, apples, whose 2 garlic cloves, minced about 1,000 natural acidity will bring stock and milk to Q 1 cup chicken stock a simmer; add flour and Many wines are fewer calories. brighten the sweet 1 cup milk cook, stirring constant- naturally low in You’re welcome. potatoes’ natural- alcohol, which means 3 tbsp flour ly, for about 2 minutes. ly deep flavor. Add stock mixture to they have fewer calo- MAKES: 12 SERVINGS mushrooms; bring to a ries than the heavy, MAKES: 8 SERVINGS boil, stirring until thick. boozy red zinfandels INGREDIENTS Put beans in a baking and cabernets so dish, add mushroom 2 lemons INGREDIENTS often served with mixture, and top with 2 tbsp fresh rosemary 2 lbs sweet potatoes, the caramelized onions; winter meals. “Wines pricked with a fork 8 garlic cloves, peeled cook for 15 minutes. from Beaujolais and 2 ripe bananas the Loire Valley of 1 tbsp salt 1 cup all-natural France are lower in 1 boneless leg of lamb, applesauce alcohol and higher in Courtesy of about 6 lbs, ¼ cup honey SERVING TIP! Miranda Hammer, acidity; and not only butterflied 1 tsp ground cinnamon The Perfect Amount registered dietitian do they have fewer of Portion Control calories, they’re also Salt and pepper in New York City INSTRUCTIONS This page: Nick Ferrari; Prop styling by Rachel Stickley/Bernstein & Andriulli more versatile, so Sugar Q Really want to In a food processor, they go with a wider survive the holiday puree lemons—skin array of foods,” says INSTRUCTIONS meal with your abs and all—with rose- Wagner. For red, intact? Follow Ham- mary, garlic, and salt to Preheat oven to 375°F. mer’s most crucial look for a Beaujolais a paste. Rub the paste Roast potatoes on a piece of advice. When that’s labeled “cru into the lamb and let sit rimmed baking sheet in the refrigerator for at for 40 minutes, then composing your plate Beaujolais”—mean- least 6 hours, prefera- add bananas (with peel (which should be ing it’s from the best vineyards; and bly overnight. Heat on) and cook for anoth- nine inches or less in a charcoal or gas grill er 15 minutes. When for white, grab a diameter), fill half of to a medium-high potatoes cool, split it with vegetables, muscadet. “Big, bold temperature. Laying lengthwise and scoop a quarter with the wines can overwhelm the lamb flat, grill until the flesh into a bowl; protein, and a quarter some dishes and get an instant-read peel bananas and add with starch (sweet you drunk faster,” thermometer inserted with applesauce, hon- potatoes, mashed Wagner says. “But into the thickest part ey, and cinnamon, then potatoes, gravy). these wines can be reads 125°F—about season with salt, pep- 15 minutes per side— per, and sugar to taste. This is an easy way consumed in greater then remove to a platter. Mash we ll wi th a p otato to guarantee less fat quantity without (Alternately, roast the masher, or whip with an and carbs and more getting you wasted— lamb uncovered in a electric beater. Trans- fiber. Also: It wouldn’t and they’re a great 425°F oven for about fer mixture into a but- hurt to hit the gym counterpoint to rich 45 minutes.) Loosely tered baking dish; bake beforehand, too. holiday dishes.” cover with foil and let for 30 minutes, or until rest for 20 minutes. heated through. Why puff up? Bottom line, sweet potatoes don’t need marshmallows.

Break out the grill. When cooking lamb, avoid the biggest source of unnecessary calories: oil-thick marinades.

Green light. Do a green bean casserole—but swap the soup for a from-scratch sauce and caramelize the onions. For Southern-style corn bread, sub in honey for sugar and yogurt for milk and butter — it’s hearty and healthy. Boil your ham. Because baking it retains fats. And slather it in Srira- cha and honey.

Spicy, Mouth- healthy watering ham mashed Q Truth is, ham potatoflower is a pretty lean, Q One cup of healthy meat. regular mashed (Don’t believe us? potatoes has 240 See page 26.) It’s calo ries, 9 grams the salty cure, lay- of fat, and 35 grams ers of skin and of carbs. Thank- fat, and, usually, fully, when you’re Cut your mash. sticky-sweet glaze pureeing the Add cauliflower that ruin it. But if to your potatoes. potatoes, you can (Really. You won’t you boil the ham c ut it i n h a l f w it h even notice.) rather than roast cauliflower and no it, you’ll cut much one will know the of the salt and fat difference. Plus, but keep it as moist “cauliflower is rich and tasty as ever. in antioxidants And instead of and vitamins C lathering on a sug- and K,” Hammer ary honey-baked says. It retains glaze, we recom- the richness of mend this thin the potato while coat of spicy Sri- giving a lighter racha—balanced texture and more with honey— complex flavor. which will deliv- (For bonus flavor: er a delicious, more Try it with a few complex punch to carrots or turnips the already-rich as well.) meat.

MAKES: 6 SERVINGS MAKES: 12 SERVINGS

INGREDIENTS INGREDIENTS 1 lb potatoes (russet ¼ cup honey or Yukon Gold), scrubbed, peeled if 3 tbsp Sriracha sauce CHEF TIP! desired, and 1 tbsp soy sauce quartered The Coolest Condiment Juice of ½ lime ½ head cauliflower, You’ve Never Heard Of 1 “City ham” (5 to 7 lbs; core removed and wet-cured and chopped coarsely smoked, as opposed 2 tsp olive oil to dry-cured, ¼ cup Greek yogurt Courtesy of Jeremy Glover, chef at prosciutto-like Ceia Kitchen + Bar in Newburyport, “country ham”) Salt and pepper MA

INSTRUCTIONS INSTRUCTIONS Q Glover, a farmer in addition to being In a small bowl, mix Place potatoes in a together honey, Srira- large saucepan; cover one of the Northeast’s most talked- cha, soy sauce, and lime with water by 3 inches. about chefs, swears by cranberry juice; set aside. Place Bring to a boil. When mayo, a hugely versatile but largely ham in a stockpot; add potatoes are almost unknown condiment that can be eas- water to cover. Bring to tender (a butter knife a boil, then discard and can almost but not quite ily made by mixing one part leftover replace the water and go through them easily), cranberry sauce (whole or the jellied bring to a boil again. Re- add cauliflower; cook

variety) with two parts mayo and a mayo:Cranberry Nick Ferrari duce heat; simmer for another 10 minutes, or dash of Dijon mustard. Loaded with 15 minutes per pound. until the potatoes and vitamin C, it’s healthier than plain old Drain and remove the cauliflower crush eas- skin and external fat. ily with the back of a Spread it. mayo and great for schmearing on Preheat oven to 375°F. spoon. Drain, return to Cranberry mayo rye bread with turkey and stuffing, Place ham in a shallow the pot, and mash well is more nutritious making a leftover turkey or potato than Hellman’s— baking dish, brush with with a potato masher. salad, or using as a dip with turkey the glaze, and bake for Stir in olive oil and yo- and a little more 30 minutes. Let rest for gurt; add salt and pep- aristocratic, too. skin as the (carb-free) chips. 20 minutes. per to taste.

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There’s going Funny, popular as far away as to be lots of, uh, we’ve the Netherlands (“Bier celebrating F always op wijn brengt venijn, this month. Is heard it as wijn op bier brengt the saying “Beer before whiskey, versie!”)? ¶ “It’s likely “Beer before always risky…” But more psychological liquor, never the bottom line is, it’s in nature,” St. Pierre sicker; liquor not true—at least tech- says. “Most people’s before beer, nically. ¶ “Ethanol is first few drinks are the never fear” ethanol,” says Brian slowest to go down. actually true? St. Pierre of Precision Then, once they’re TONY T., LIMA, OH Nutrition. “The amount slightly inebriated, of alcohol you drink they drink faster. This matters more than is where order can be the type, or the order a problem. Liquor has you drink it in.” ¶ So a far greater alcohol what would account content than beer, so for the saying being if you start with beer when you’re stone- cold sober, become mildly intoxicated, then switch to liquor and drink that faster, you could theoreti- cally consume more alcohol in less time, thus leading to increased amounts of sickness.” ¶ On the other hand, if you drink your liquor first—and therefore, more slowly—then switch to beer, it’s the less-dangerous booze you’ll be guzzling and you’ll be less likely to get sick. ¶ Oh, the trouble that could’ve saved us back in college.

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I’ve heard alpine touring is fun and a great workout. So what the hell is it, how do I do it, and what do I have to buy?

ANDY M., RENO, NV

If you’ve ever felt like say- I ing, “Screw the ski lift, I want It’s a ski boot. It’s a to walk up!” then alpine tour- hiking boot. It’s a ing, or AT, is for you. ¶ Also “No, you take the called “skimo” and “randonee” (from the lift—I’ll meet you at French for “hiking”), AT involves climb- the top” boot. ing up a hill—skis on—then skiing back down. ¶ “For the ascent, you attach ‘skins’ to your skis for traction and climb using a motion somewhere between hiking and Nordic skiing,” says author/ endurance athlete Travis Macy. At the top, you remove the skins before skiing back down. ¶ To do AT, you’ll need skis with special bindings (so you can attach just the toe of the boot—not the heel—to the ski for hiking, then clip the heel in again for skiing) and light, flexible, highly specialized boots. ¶ To give AT a try, Macy says, “first watch online videos showing climbing form and the tran- sitions between climbs and descents. Then start training in controlled conditions, always away from downhill traffic.”

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Step Out of the Shadow Q Maybe you didn’t get in the shape you hoped to in 2015— but it’s not over yet. There’s still time to achieve a goal or two, like setting a new bench press PR (see page 148 for how to do it) or dropping fat in four weeks (page 136). Need more inspiration? Flip to the workout (page 134) that got Michael B. Jordan the Rocky-ready body he needed to star as Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis, in the new, much-anticipated film Creed. And trust us on this: If Jordan’s physique can match muscle-for-muscle what Sly Stallone and Carl “Apollo” Weathers brought to the screen,

Grooming by Carola Gonzalez/Forward Artists using Kiehl’s so can yours! O Body Book Fighting fit Get the body of Adonis This routine earned Michael B. The movie Creed, out Thanksgiving, is about stepping out of someone else’s shadow to Jordan the body of a Greek god for Q create your own legacy. In the case of Michael B. Jordan, who plays Adonis Creed, son the upcoming Creed—and it can do of Rocky Balboa’s chief rival turned pal, the task was living up to not only the iconic physique the same for you of actor Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in four Rocky films, but also the astronomical By Sean Hyson, C.S.C.S. expectations of fans hungry for a follow-up to one of the most successful action franchises of Photographs by James Michelfelder all time. Here’s an excerpt of the routine that turned him—and can turn you—into an Adonis.

DAY I : CHEST, TRICEPS, ABS Pusher How It Works man. The pushup trains Q Jordan’s trainer, 1 the chest, Corey Calliet (calliet 5 shoulders, TREADMILL fitness.com), needed DUMBBELL arms, and abs. to build both the actor’s RUN KICKBACK muscles and his work Run one mile at a moder- Sets: 3 Reps: 15 capacity so that he ate pace to warm up. Hold a dumbbell in each not only looked like a hand and bend your hips boxer of championship 2 back until your torso lineage but moved like INCLINE is parallel to the floor. one, too. “The training DUMBBELL Keep your lower back was pulled from the PRESS flat. Bend your elbows fundamentals of ath- Sets: 3 Reps: 12 and tuck your upper letic conditioning, as arms to your sides. well as from bodybuild- Set a bench to a 30- to From there, extend your 45-degree angle and lie ing,” says Calliet. The elbows and raise the back against it with a sessions combine car- weights behind you, dumbbell in each hand dio and circuit training squeezing your triceps. at shoulder level. Press to melt fat off the abs the dumbbells over 6 while tightening them, your chest. TRICEPS and each muscle group PUSHDOWN Big dipper. is trained with volume 3 Sets: 2 Reps: 20 Don’t dip lower for a maximum pump. DUMBBELL than where The result is a look that Attach a rope handle to your upper FLYE would have made the the top pulley of a cable arms are Sets: 3 Reps: 12 parallel to late, elder Creed proud. station and grasp an the floor. Lie back on a bench end in each hand. Tuck with a dumbbell in each your elbows to your sides and extend them Directions hand. Press the weights over your chest and to lockout. spread your arms apart as if you’re reaching to 7 The program give someone a bear BENCH DIP consists of four hug. Lower the weights Sets: 10 Reps: 10 to 1 workout days. Day until you feel a stretch in Stand perpendicular to your pecs and then bring I appears here, and a bench and rest your your arms together you can find the palms on it behind you. in front of you again, rest of the work- Rest your feet on the squeezing your pecs. outs on mensfit floor in front of you. ness.com/creed Suspend your body over (along with the ab 4 the bench and lower circuit that finishes PUSHUP your body until your Day I). Perform Sets: 10 Reps: 10 to 1 upper arms are parallel the exercises as Place your hands to the floor. Perform straight sets, com- shoulder-width apart 10 reps your first set, pleting all sets for on the floor and extend then nine on the second one lift before mov- your legs straight set, and so on down to ing to the next. Rest behind you. Brace your one rep. as little as possible core. Pull your shoulder between sets and blades together and the exercises. lower your body until your chest is an inch above the floor and then Jordan’s workout

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O Body Book Get ripped Train your legs, show off your abs The key to rapid, core-revealing Leg training hurts. It’s difficult, it burns, and it leaves you gasping for air—which is why fat loss? Working your lower Q it’s so effective for losing fat. Most guys in search of leanness will work their pecs from body every single session. every angle, pedal a bike, or go for a run, then tell themselves they’ve done their lower-body By Ben Bruno training. ¶ And that’s why they don’t see results. ¶ Stop wimping out and stay lean through the Photographs by James Michelfelder holidays with this: a four-day, full-body split that turns your legs into a body-fat furnace.

How It Works DAY I

Q The legs have the body’s biggest mus- 1A 1B cles, and big muscles TRAP-BAR PUSHUP burn a lot of calories, DEADLIFT Sets: 4 Reps: 12 including when they’re Sets: 4 Reps: 8 Place your hands recovering from a shoulder-width apart workout. That means Use a trap bar (hex bar) and stand with feet hip on the floor and extend they help you get lean width. Bend your hips your legs straight behind on days you don’t back and grasp the you. Brace your core. even train. But you handles. Keeping your Lower your body until have to challenge them. lower back in its natural your chest is about an Tough exercises like arch, drive through inch above the floor and deadlifts, squats, and your heels to stand up then press back up. stepups tax the heart straight and extend your and the lungs as much hips and knees. as any type of cardio— so, assuming your nutrition is on point, you don’t have to do Grasp the handles in any endurance work to the middle so the bar get lean. You don’t have doesn’t tip forward or to work your pecs from every angle, either—but backward as you lift. don’t worry, there’s upper-body training in the program as well.

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Perform each workout (Day I, II, III, and IV) once per week. Exercises marked “A,” “B,” and “C” are done 1C in sequence, and there are two BAND groups of these PULL-APART sequences in each Sets: 4 Reps: 20 workout. You’ll do Hold a band with hands one set of A, rest as shoulder-width apart needed, then one and arms extended in set of B, rest, and front of you. Pull the then C, rest, and band apart until your repeat until all sets arms are out 90 degrees are complete for to your sides. Squeeze the group. your shoulder blades together as you pull.

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2A 2C CHINUP BARBELL Sets: 3 Reps: As many HIP THRUST as possible Sets: 3 Reps: 12 Hang from a chinup bar Sit on the floor and roll a with hands shoulder- loaded barbell into your width apart and palms lap. (You may need to facing you. Pull yourself wrap it in a towel or use up until your chin is over a bar pad for comfort.) the bar. Lie back against a 2B bench, bend your knees, and plant your feet on SINGLE-LEG the floor. Brace your RDL abs and drive through Sets: 3 Reps: 12 your heels so you raise your hips off the floor to Hold a dumbbell in one full extension. hand in front of you and balance on the opposite leg. Bend your hips back and lower your body until you feel a stretch in your hamstrings. Allow your knee to bend as Training your needed and keep your glutes will help lower back in its natural arch. your posture and strengthen your lifts.

DAY II

1A 1B BENCH CHEST- PRESS SUPPORTED Sets: 4 Reps: 5 ROW Lie back on a bench Sets: 4 Reps: 12 and grasp the bar with Set an adjustable bench hands just outside to a 45-degree angle shoulder width. Arch and lie down with your your back and tighten chest against it and a your glutes and abs. dumbbell in each hand. Plant your feet firmly. Squeeze your shoulder Pull the bar out of the blades together as you rack and lower it to your row the weights to your sternum. Push your feet sides. into the floor as you press the bar back up.

1C 2A LOW STEPUP LANDMINE Sets: 3 Reps: 15 2B 2C (each leg) PRESS LANDMINE SWISS BALL Sets: 3 Reps: 12 Place a 12- to 14-inch (each side) ROW LEG CURL box on the floor and Wedge the end of a Sets: 3 Reps: 12 Sets: 3 Reps: 12 stand behind it with a (each side) dumbbell in each hand. barbell into a corner, or Lie on your back on the Raise one leg and place load it into a landmine Use the same setup as floor and extend your your foot on the box. station. Load the oppo- the landmine press. legs, resting your heels Drive through your site end with weight and Roll a bench up to the on a Swiss ball. Brace heel to raise your body grasp it toward the end end of the bar so it’s your abs and drive onto the box, but don’t of the sleeve with your perpendicular to the through your heels to let the trailing leg rest. left hand. Stagger your bar. Kneel on the bench bridge your hips up. Step down and repeat. stance so your right foot and rest the same side Now bend your knees Complete your reps and is in front and press the hand on it for support. and roll the ball in switch legs. bar overhead. Grasp sleeve of bar with toward your butt. your palm down and row Extend your knees again the bar to your side. and begin the next rep.

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DAY III

1A FRONT SQUAT Sets: 4 Reps: 10 Grasp the bar with hands at shoulder width and raise your elbows until your upper arms 1B are parallel to the floor. LATERAL Take the bar out of the RAISE rack and let it rest on Sets: 4 Reps: 10 your fingertips. Step back and set your feet Hold a dumbbell in at shoulder width with each hand at your toes turned slightly out. sides. Raise the Squat as low as you can weights up and out without losing the arch 90 degrees, keeping a in your lower back. slight bend in elbows.

1C 2A 2B 2C CHEST- ROMANIAN DUMBBELL SIDE PLANK SUPPORTED DEADLIFT ROW Sets: 3 Reps: Hold 30 sec. (each side) REVERSE Sets: 4 Reps: 10 Sets: 3 Reps: 15 (each side) Lie on your side, sup- Hold a barbell with a FLYE porting yourself on your shoulder-width grip. Hold a dumbbell in one Sets: 3 Reps: 12 forearm. Bridge your Bend your hips back as hand and rest the op- hips up and hold your Set up as you did for far as you can. Allow posite arm and knee on body in a straight line the chest-supported your knees to bend as a bench. Pull the weight with abs braced. row but use light needed while you lower up to the outside of your weights and raise your the bar along your shins hip and lower it until you arms out 90 degrees until you feel a stretch in feel a stretch in your lat. to your sides. Squeeze your hamstrings. Keep your shoulder blades your lower back arched. together at the top.

Push your hips back as if you were trying to touch your butt to the wall behind you.

140 MEN’S FITNESS DECEMBER 2015 1C DAY IV WALKING LUNGE 1A Sets: 3 Reps: 15 INCLINE (each leg) DUMBBELL Hold a dumbbell in each PRESS hand by your sides. Step forward with one Sets: 4 Reps: 8 leg and lower your body Set an adjustable until your front thigh is bench to a 30- to parallel to the floor and 45-degree angle and lie your rear knee is just back against it with a above the floor. Push off dumbbell in each hand your front foot and step at shoulder level. Press forward with the other the dumbbells over foot and lunge again. your chest. 1B INVERTED ROW Sets: 4 Reps: 12 Set a bar in a rack at hip level and hang from it with your legs extended in front of you. Pull yourself up until your back is fully contracted.

2A 2C SEATED SINGLE-LEG OVERHEAD HIP THRUST DUMBBELL Sets: 3 Reps: 10 PRESS (each leg) Sets: 4 Reps: 8 Set up as you did for the barbell hip thrust Sit on a bench with a but without the barbell. backrest and hold a Raise one leg off the dumbbell in each hand floor and extend it in at shoulder level. Press front of you and have the weights straight the other planted close overhead. to your butt. Brace your abs and drive through 2B your heel to raise your LAT hips up until they’re level PULLDOWN with the floor. Sets: 3 Reps: 12 Secure your knees under the pad of a lat- pulldown station, reach up, and grasp the handle outside shoulder width. Pull the handle down to your collarbone, squeezing your shoulder blades together as you pull. If you hate cardio, train legs in every workout. Tank: LULULEMON You’ll burn more Pants: CHAMPION Sneakers: calories each NEW BALANCE Tech: WITHINGS session and Want it? See page 162. during recovery. O Body Book Supplements

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INGREDIENTS 1½ cups low-sodium vegetable broth ¾ cup quinoa 1 tbsp canola oil 1 large sweet potato, peeled and grated 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 shallots, minced 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved 4 cups chopped kale 4 large eggs 1 tsp white vinegar, divided 2 oz diced feta cheese 2 tbsp chopped chives ¼ tsp black pepper Hot sauce, to taste

DIRECTIONS 1) Boil the broth in a saucepan. Add quinoa and simmer, covered, over medium-low heat until grains are tender and liquid has absorbed, about 12 minutes. Remove pan from heat and let stand covered for 5 minutes, then fluff quinoa with a fork. 2) Place a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil. Add grated sweet potato and cook 4 minutes, or until beginning to turn tender. Add garlic and shallots; cook 2 minutes. Stir in cherry tomatoes and kale; cook until greens are slightly wilted. Stir in quinoa, remove from heat, and cover skillet Smart by Sarah styling Prop Martel; Gatton/Stockland by Michelle styling Food to keep warm. 3) To poach eggs, place ½ cup water and ¼ tsp vinegar in 4 small microwave- safe bowls. Carefully crack eggs into each bowl, cover, and microwave individually DINNER ¼ tsp black pepper over medium heat and until whites are Hens allowed to on high for 1 minute, 4 large eggs add 1 tbsp oil. Add set and the outer or until whites are set Zucchini Pasta tomatoes and garlic; edges start to curl up. forage outside and opaque but yolks ¼ cup chopped w/Fried Egg PAGE 144 heat 2 minutes, or If you prefer an over- are still runny. Remove walnuts will lay eggs with until tomatoes have e asy e g g, f lip and eggs from bowls with MAKES: 4 SERVINGS ½ cup chopped fresh softened. cook an additional more vitamin E a slotted spoon. basil 3) Add zucchini noodles, 30 seconds. INGREDIENTS than barn-raised, 4) Divide quinoa mixture 1 capers, red pepper 5) Divide zucchini noo- /3 cup grated Parmesan say Penn State among bowls and top 4 zucchini cheese flakes, and black dle mixture among each with a poached 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive pepper; heat until serving plates and top researchers. egg. Garnish with feta, oil, divided DIRECTIONS zucchini is tender, each with an egg. chives, black pepper, about 2 minutes. 6) Garnish with walnuts, and a couple of squirts 1) Use a julienne peeler, 1 pint cherry tomatoes, 4) Heat remaining oil in a basil, and Parmesan. of hot sauce. mandoline, or sharp halved separate skillet over knife to cut zucchini 2 garlic cloves, chopped medium-low heat. into noodlelike NUTRITION (PER SERVING) NUTRITION (PER SERVING) Carefully crack eggs 1 tbsp capers, drained strands. into the skillet. For 259 calories, 14g protein, 341 calories, 16g protein, ¼ tsp red pepper flakes 2) Place a large skillet sunny-side up, cook 11g carbs, 19g fat 40g carbs, 14g fat

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1 /3 cup oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes 1 /3 cup reduced-fat sour cream 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp minced chipotle chili pepper in adobo sauce 1 garlic clove, minced 2 large portobello mushroom caps Salt and black pepper, to taste 4 large eggs 1 cup arugula

DIRECTIONS 1) In a bowl, blend sun- dried tomatoes, sour cream, oil, chipotle, and garlic with water until slightly chunky. 2) Preheat oven broiler. Scrape dark grills from portobello caps and place stem side down on a baking sheet. Brush tops with oil and season with salt. Broil until tender, about 5 minutes. 3) In a bowl, gently whisk eggs, salt, and pepper. Pour eggs into a cold greased skillet; turn heat to medium- low. Cook, stirring frequently, until creamy curds form. Remove from heat while eggs are still slightly runny. 4) Place mushrooms cap side up on a plate and top with eggs, sauce, and arugula.

NUTRITION (PER SERVING) 319 calories, 18g protein, 12g carbs, 23g fat

SNACK ¼ tsp chili powder pickling liquid. Seal LUNCH 8 large eggs 2) Preheat oven to 375°F. shut and chill in the In a large bowl, whisk 4 slices sprouted ½ lb smoked mackerel, Pickled-Egg fridge for at least Smoked-Fish together ricotta whole-grain bread, skin removed and 1 day. cheese and eggs. Stir Avocado Toasts toasted Egg Cakes roughly chopped 2) When ready to eat, in cooked vegetables, MAKES: 4 SERVINGS MAKES: 6 SERVINGS 3 tbsp chopped 1 tomato, sliced mash together avoca- mackerel, dill, horse- fresh dill radish, mustard, and ¼ cup chopped cilantro do, lemon juice, and INGREDIENTS chili powder in a bowl. INGREDIENTS 3 tbsp horseradish pepper. 2 Black pepper, to taste /3 cup white vinegar Spread avocado mash 1 tbsp canola or 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 3) Grease 12 muffin cups on toast; top with grape-seed oil with cooking spray 1 tbsp sugar DIRECTIONS sliced tomato. ½ tsp black pepper and divide mixture ½ tsp salt 1 onion, diced 1) In a medium-size 3) Slice a pickled egg among them. Bake for ½ lb mushrooms, DIRECTIONS 4 hard-boiled eggs, saucepan, bring and place on top. Gar- 20 minutes, or until peeled 2 chopped eggs are set. Let cool vinegar, /3 cup wa te r, nish with cilantro and 1) Heat oil in a skillet over 2 garlic cloves, sugar, and salt to a freshly ground black 1 red bell pepper, medium heat. Add for about 5 minutes smashed boil. Simmer 1 min- pepper. chopped onion, mushrooms, before unmolding. ute, then let cool. Add and red pepper. Cook 1 tsp whole black 3 cups chopped peppercorns eggs, garlic, and until softened, about peppercorns to a NUTRITION (PER SERVING) spinach 6 minutes. Stir in NUTRITION (PER SERVING) 1 avocado clean jar and pour 260 calories, 12g protein, 1 cup reduced-fat spinach and heat until 281 calories, 20g protein, Juice of ½ lemon in cooled vinegar 22g carbs, 14g fat ricotta cheese slightly wilted. 8g carbs, 19g fat

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American Media, Inc., 1000 American Media Way, Boca Raton, FL 33464-1000. “Man, hats off to my buddy Miles,” Jordan says. “I’ve had situations where >1% Shareholders of American Media, Inc.: Chatham Asset Management, 175 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 2210, Chicago, IL 60604; Omega Advisors, Inc., Wall St. Plaza, people take what I’ve said out of context, where I say something as a joke and 88 Pine St., 31st FL., New York, NY 10005; David Pecker, 4 NY Plaza, New York, NY. 11. Known Bondholders, Mortgagees and Other Security Holders Owning or Holding somehow it winds up in print as not a joke. You realize you can’t always say 1 Percent or more of Total Amount of Bonds, Mortgages, or Other Securities: Allianz the first thing that comes into your head.” Global Investors US. LLC, 600 W. Broadway, 29th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101; Davidson Kempner Capital Management, LLC, 65 East 55th Street, 19th Floor, New That caution kicks in as we ask Jordan about the mess that was Fantastic York, NY 10022; Chatham Asset Management, 175 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 2210, Four. Not that he tries to dodge the question or pretend the film was Chicago, IL 60604; State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), One Lincoln Street, 27th Floor, Boston, MA 02111; Nomura Securities International, Inc., Two World Financial anything other than what it was—a critical and box office flop—but he won’t Center, Bldg. B, 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281; ING Financial Markets, go so far as to lay blame or trash-talk (unlike the movie’s unhinged director, LLC, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019; Cohanzick Management, LLC, 427 Bedford Road, #260, Pleasantville, NY 10570; Dalton Josh Trank, who went on Twitter and blamed the studio). Jordan addresses Investments, LLC, 1601 Cloverfield Blvd. #5050N, Santa Monica, CA 80404; Omega it so carefully he sounds like a studio president: “I think everyone wanted Advisors, Inc., Wall St. Plaza, 88 Pine St., 31st Fl., New York, NY 10005; Manulife Asset Management (U.S.), LLC, 101 Huntington Avenue, 7th Fl, Boston, MA 02199; to make a great movie. Sometimes you just miss your mark. There’s a lot of Northeast Investors, 100 High Street, Suite 1000, Boston, MA 02110; Tricadia Capi- things that go into making a big, huge film like that.” tal Management, LLC, 780 Third Avenue, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10017; Silverpoint Capital, LLC (US), Two Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830; Western Asset It’s at moments like this, when Jordan’s unwavering self-discipline makes Management Company, 385 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101. 12. Tax Status: him seem so mature, collected, and controlled, that you wonder: “Dude, are Has Not Changed During Preceding 12 Months. 13. Publication Title: Men’s Fitness. 14. Issue Date for Circulation Data Below: September 15. Extent and Nature of Cir- you having fun? Are you enjoying the ride?” So I ask him. “I’m having a blast, culation (a) Total Number of Copies (Net press run): Average No. Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months: 768,187; No. Copies of Single Issue Published Nearest man,” he assures me—which is, of course, the playbook answer. But then, to Filing Date: 812,083. (b) Paid Circulation (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscrip- because no one’s really posed the question before, he stops and considers it, tions Stated on PS Form 3541: (I) 421,120; (II) 462,781. (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions Stated on PS Form 3541: (I) 0; (II) 0. (3) Paid Distribution Outside the drops his guard, and opens up. Mails Including Sales Through Dealers and Carriers, Street Vendors, Counter Sales, “Look, it’s hard to see the forest when you’re in the trees,” he admits. and Other Paid Distribution Outside USPS: (I) 87,477; (II) 87,391. (4) Paid Distribution by Other Classes of Mail Through the USPS (e.g. First-Class Mail): 0; 0. (c) Total “Everything is moving and happening so fast. Day by day I see my privacy Paid Distribution [Sum of 15b. (1), (2), (3), and (4)]: (I) 508,597; (II) 550,172. (d) Free going away. I’m constantly thinking about what’s next. It’s hard to really Distribution by Mail (Samples, complimentary, and other free): (1) Free or Nominal Rate Outside-County Copies Included on PS Form 3541: (I) 38,927; (II) 43,988 (2) enjoy it. My family is enjoying it.” Free or Nominal In-County Copies Included on PS Form 3541: (I) 0; (2) 0. (3) Free or Still, doesn’t he ever want to just go nuts? To be the lead story on TMZ, if Nominal Rate Copies Mailed at Other Classes Through the USPS (e.g. First-Class Mail): (I) 0; (II) 0. (4) Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Outside the Mail (Carriers or only on a slow-news weekend? “I always told myself I’d sacrifice all of my other means): (I) 2,248; (II) 2,775. (e) Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution (Sum 20s—every day—to my career,” he says. “Once I turn 30, I’ll start to live a of 15d. (1), (2), (3) and (4)): (I) 41,175; (II) 46,763. (f) Total Distribution (Sum of 15c. and 15e.): (I) 549,772; (II) 596,935. (g) Copies not Distributed: (I) 218,415; (II) 215,148. (h) little bit more. I can honestly say I’m not living to my full ability right now. Total (Sum of 15f. and g.): (I) 768,187; (II) 812,083. (i) Percent Paid (15c. Divided by Do I sacrifice a lot? Yeah. Do I stay in the house probably more than I would 15f. Times 100): (I) 92.51%; (II) 92.55%. 17. Publication of Statement of Ownership: Publication required. Will be printed in the December-15 issue of this publication. if I were a lot more comfortable financially and had my family set up? Yep. 18. Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner: David I’d probably go out a lot more. But right now, what do I gotta go out for?” Leckey, EVP, Consumer Marketing. Date: September 30, 2015. I certify that all information furnished on this form is true and complete. I understand that anyone Because even when he’s not acting, he tells me, he’s working on new ideas. who furnishes false or misleading information on this form or who omits material or information requested on the form may be subject to criminal sanctions (including “If I’m not working,” he says, taking a big gulp of water. “I feel like I fines and imprisonment) and/or civil sanctions (including civil penalties). PS Form should be.” Q 3526, July 2014 (Page 2 of 3).

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