Men's Fitness South Africa

The performance magazine with training, nutrition and relationship advice to help you realise your full potential.

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Men’s Fitness

What winners know • Live smarter, look better, and play harder with tips from Men’s Fitness

BREAKTHROUGHS

Vegetarians build as much lean muscle

Bring it, bro: Competition gets you to the gym

Yoga lowers blood pressure

Broccoli: a pep stalk from Mother Nature

Enter the ring • Boxing checks off all the right training criteria: It’s anaerobic! Muscle toning! Core sculpting! And whether they’re grimy or sparkling, boxing gyms have become beacons of total-body fitness. Plus, you’ll never have more fun hitting things with all your might. Ready to go a few rounds? Step this way.

The beginner’s guide to picking a boxing gym • Before you can pull on the gloves, you need to find the right place — and the right trainer.

YOUR TOTAL-BODY BOXING WORKOUT • The beauty of boxing workouts is that you can still become a mini Mayweather whether you make it to the gym or not. Done right, this boxing workout will eventually transform you into a Golden Gloves god.

HOW TO TAKE A PUNCH

Change the pace! • Varying the tempo of your workout can bring huge improvements in strength and power

Challenge Accepted • USN 12 Week Body Makeover Challenge entrant, Two Oceans Marathon runner, mother and wife Alishe Vorster on how health and fitness changed her life.

STYLE SENSE • FASHION TIPS FROM THE PLANET’S BEST-DRESSED MAN

Cool running • It’s time to update your wardrobe with threads that’ll keep you stylish as you smash through those PRs

Forever fuel • WANT TO LIVE TO BE 100? THE PEOPLE IN SEVEN AREAS AROUND THE WORLD DO JUST THAT — AND WE HAVE THEIR SECRETS.

España in a pan • CREATE AN INCREDIBLY HEARTY, PROTEIN-PACKED ONE-POT FEAST BY UPDATING THE MOST DELICIOUS (AND ICONIC) OF ALL SPANISH DISHES — PAELLA — WITH A HEALTHY WHOLE GRAIN

ASK THE WINE HACKER • JEFFREY SCHILLER, AUTHOR OF WINE HACK: WINE EDUCATION THAT STARTS WITH YOUR MOUTH, NOT WITH YOUR HEAD @GONEDRINKIN

The model cook • Ex-pro swimmer, runway strutter, and underwear aficionado Franco Noriega is building an organic chicken empire by Nils Bernstein

THE FLAB BLASTER • FAT-LOSS TIPS FROM THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS TRAINER

Salad bar smackdown

Our “bar” fight winners • In our head-to-head salad contest, the ingredients highlighted in green came out on top:

Close the door on clutter • ONE EXTREMELY MESSY MAN EMBRACES THE GREAT UNKNOWN: AN ULTRA-CLEAN, HYPER ORGAN-ISED, AND “JOYOUS” APARTMENT

The Winter WARRIOR • WARRIOR Summer has come and gone and it is safe to say that winter is here and, if you’re a man who prides himself on always making sure to look his best despite the dreaded cold, no sweat, we have got you covered, literally! Check out these winter staples we think every man should have in his winter wardrobe.

MODERN classics • A great pair of white sneaks and a wonderfully bold sports watch are the ultimate finishing touches for just about any look. Pick from our favourites to incorporate some eye-popping — but still elegant — flash into your daily life.

Turn back your body clock • Can you be a 45-year-old but maintain the body of a guy in his 20s? According to one world-renowned exercise scientist, the inventor of a proprietary formula that assigns you a “fitness age”, the answer is: Absolutely. And it’s going to change the way you train — forever.

HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR FITNESS AGE • You’ll need to fill out a questionnaire devised by exercise scientist Ulrik Wisløff at worldfitnesslevel.org. Here Wisløff walks a casual lifter and an...