September - October 2021

Men's Fitness South Africa

The new measure of success

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Men's Fitness
CJ Murphy, M.F.S. Owner, Total Performance Sports, Everett, MA Jim Smith, C.P.P.S. Owner, Diesel Strength & Conditioning Zach Even-Esh Owner, Underground Strength Gym, Edison, NJ Bob Harper Fitness expert; trainer, NBC’s The Biggest Loser Chris Powel
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readDiet & Nutrition
What Winners Know
■ After a well-deserved break and a more than likely very enjoyable festive season, you’ll want to rejuvenate your body and start your new diet with a fully cleansed metabolic and digestive system. We recommend Pureberry’s Weight-Loss Cleanse to incr
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Gun Show
Sets: 3 Reps: 8–10 Rest: 60 sec Hold an EZ-curl bar with a shoulder-width grip. Keeping your upper arms against your sides, curl the bar until your biceps are fully contracted. Sets: 3 Reps: 10–12 Rest: 60 sec Hold a dumbbell in each hand with your p
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Get Big By Going “Barefoot”
Think the whole “barefoot” sneaker trend is just for runners? Think again. According to researchers at Hong Kong’s Poly University, wearing minimalist shoes while exercising can make your legs and feet significantly stronger than wearing regular snea
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Want Max Muscle? Seize The Daylight!
Morning guys get out at the butt crack of dawn. Day guys try to squeeze something in at lunch. (Good luck with that.) Late guys hit it once the work whistle blows. But it’s all good as long as the workouts are consistent, right? Maybe not. According
Men's Fitness South Africa2 min readDiet & Nutrition
Eggs Boost Vitamin E In Salads
Eating a big, healthy salad that’s chockfull of a variety of colourful veggies — kale, peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots — for lunch is an easy way to get a wide range of essential daily nutrients. And a study from 2015 revealed that simply adding
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To HIIT It Big, Crank Up The Tunes
Scratch most “regular exercisers” and underneath you’ll find someone who tried HIIT (high-intensity interval training) once and just couldn’t hack it — the short-but-extreme bursts of effort can be daunting for fitness pros and sweating-like-a-pig ne
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Two Minutes Of Hell
Styling by Christina Simonetti; Grooming by Matthew Tuozzoli/Atelier Management using Dior Homme ■
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The Morton Mind Set.
At age 21, Morton was a struggling college student living off of taco bell and ramen noodles. Just two years later, he became a millionaire. Now, with his earnings elevating over $50,000,000, 31-year-old Morton is an entrepreneur, momentum creator, b
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Pain-free Push-ups
Push-ups are, undeniably, one of the best exercises for building a rock-hard core and improving total-body conditioning. But as any military grunt or CrossFit devotee can tell you, if you’re going big on push-ups, you need to take care of your wrists
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Screen Grabbers
The greatest invention in romance since condoms, dating apps are pure efficiency: thousands of women, no long profiles to read, no grammar mistakes to harrumph over, nothing but the essentials: picture, age, first name, and a fortune cookie. If you’r
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Hot Releases
The granddaddy of driving simulators finally makes its current-gen debut on the Sony behemoth, the PlayStation 4. For years the name Gran Turismo was seen as the ultimate in creating a true driving experience on your home console and GT Sport continu
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Getting Down In Dubai
Dubai has a well-earned reputation for its rapid progression and development. The iconic city with its sprawling skyscrapers brings truth to the saying “if you build it, they will come”, and indeed, they, the tourists, are coming. If you’re going on
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Lamborghini’s Poster Child Is Back!
Clear out that bedroom wall clutter, a new Lamborghini is on its way and happens to be inspired by the most iconic bedroom wall poster of all time, the Countach! If you were a kid of the 90s, like me, the holy trinity of bedroom posters went somethin
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Uber Or Neutered Hatch?
There are hot hatches and then there is the Audi S3. It’s always been something of the archetypal performance hatch, the one that added a few more steroids to the bloodline without enduring heavy compromises and brought a whiff of premium air with it
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Nissan’s New Ninja Kid
With all the SUVs, dinky crossovers and pickups currently on sale, it’s easy to forget that Nissan is pretty well versed in the making of sportscars and supercars – these low-volume, halo cars just haven’t been much of a focus of late. But in order t
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Firdous Asmodien. The All-rounder
Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and your history as an athlete. A: I’m a Physiotherapist by profession, running two physiotherapy departments at two specialised TB hospitals. As a child growing up, I was very athletic and active. I played all sports
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Zero Sugar? Zero Problem.
FOR MORE ON ZERO SUGAR DIET, BY DAVID ZINCZENKO (BALLANTINE), TURN TO PAGE 49. ■
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Pasta From The Garden
Rejoice, fellas: You needn’t banish your favourite bowl of gloppity goodness to cheat days, or — even more depressing — load your go-to sauce on some underwhelming pasta understudy (see: “whole wheat”, anything labelled “gluten-free”).Easy-to-make sp
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Eat To Win Guy Food
Zero Sugar Diet, is an in-depth eating plan specifically designed to detox your body, bring your hormones into balance, heal your liver, and take away food cravings while delivering rapid weight loss. Generally speaking, it works by doing one thing v
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Squeeze The Life Into Your Juice
Calling all juicing fiends: If you haven’t invested in a “cold press” (aka masticating) juicer yet, do it now. That’s right: Now. Here’s why: Juicers come in two basic types. The most common, the “centrifugal” juicer, grinds and spins fruits and vegg
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Super Cut
SWure, Swedish-born chef Gabriel Hedlund is a Michelin star winner. But seeing his lean physique and massive bi’s, it’s words like “fitness freak” not “full-time foodie” that instantly spring to mind. One of his secrets: the vegetable-heavy, intrinsi
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The Flab Blaster
If I’m eating clean, is three hours of cardio a week enough to lose fat? ELIAS S, JOHANNESBURG ■ If you make the right meal (and drink) choices, get enough sleep, and do resistance training (to boost calorie burning), then, yes, three hours of cardio
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Stepping Out
JACKET: ZARA R1 099; T-SHIRT: MR PRICE R49; JEANS: COTTON ON R5 SHIRT: ZARA R629 TIE: ZARA R429; JACKET:ZARA R799; WAISTCOAT: ZARA R89 9 PANTS: ZARA R899 ■
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Small Change. Big Difference.
NOW, WE ’D NEVER, EVER, try to stand between you and your first marathon, a major weight loss, or the job of your dreams. Thinking big — and having big goals — is important, especially as you set your sights on a new year. That said, sometimes thinki
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Conquer Your Cubicle
SO YOU FINALLY persuaded HR to buy you that standing desk. Congrats! (Also: Welcome to 2018.) Maybe you’ve invested in a stress ball, tomato timer, foam roller, and standard-issue sound-cancelling headphones, too. This is all great stuff to improve y
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Juice up YOUR SKIN
This Moisturising SPF15 Cream for Men is a luxurious day cream which will leave your skin feeling soft and cared for. R199, BEAUCIENCE.CO.ZA An all-in-one anti-ageing eye cream, formulated with Shea Butter and Caffeine to intensely hydrate the eye ar
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No Limit Egemen Ertugrul
I Egemen, great to have you on the cover this month! Everyone has their own special story about how they got involved in health and fitness, could you tell us a little bit about your journey to where you are today? Growing up in Izmir, Turkey, my fam
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Win The War On Sugar
IF YOU ASKED THE 25-YEAR-OLD ME TO PREDICT WHAT my 40s would look like, I would have used just one word to describe them: fat. Fat was my inevitable destiny. I’d grown up as a lonely latchkey kid with a serious sugar addiction; my best friends were t
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YOUR PERFECT body GAME PLAN
LET’S NOT KID EACH OTHER: AS MUCH AS WE HIT THE GYM TO FEEL AWESOME, LIVE LONGER, COMPETE WITH OUR BUDDIES, RELIEVE stress, and, of course, have a damn good time slinging giant pieces of steel, it doesn’t hurt that working out makes us look damn good
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The Friend Connection
There’s a terrible moment in every guy’s life, usually somewhere in his mid-30s, when he realises that he and his best friends have begun to drift away from one another. You know how it is. Those weekly rounds of beer? They’re not even monthly anymor
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Body Book Carve yourself
• REMEMBER THE OLD ADAGE that “abs are made in the kitchen?” Well, the same principle applies to your entire midsection. “You can do all the gym work in the world”, says Zach Even-Esh, founder of New Jersey’s The Underground Strength Gym in the US, “
Men's Fitness South Africa1 min readChemistry
The Protein Project
No question about it: Protein is king. But more isn’t necessarily better — there’s a limit to how much your body can use in a setting (about 30g). Plus, to avoid breaking down muscle protein, you need to pair it with just enough carbs (yeah, the macr
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Body Book Chow down
• ¾ cup dry (1½ cups cooked) oatmeal topped with: 1 tbsp raisins ¾ cup blueberries• 2 whole eggs + 2 egg whites (hard-boiled or pan-fried) 1 tsp olive oil for cooking Topped with ¼ avocado • 1 cup low-fat cottage cheese topped with: 1 tbsp slivered a

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