Use it or lose it

Taking a year off performing, Gorka Márquez is

Soak up the benefits of a bath

P icture the scene: it’s 9pm on a

News you can use

Your TL;DR on the latest health and fitness research

I’ve been considering weight-loss jabs. Is this cheating?

PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES First and most importantly, weight-loss

Luke Humphries

Think darts is more about pints than protein? Not so, says the world number one

To hell and back

Fitness racing is all the rage right now, but nothing offers quite the challenge posed by a backyard ultra, which tests both body and spirit in equal measure

I eat late at night?

While the odd splurge is no big deal, when a one-off turns into a nightly habit, this is how you can curb evening feasting

King of the castle

Thirty years ago, work began on turning a disused pumping station inside a castle into one of Europe’s finest climbing centres. That goal has been summited, but the work to expand, update and evolve The Castle Climbing Centre continues

Top of the drops

The coolest product launches that are commanding our attention right now

Fitness trackers are ruining our enjoyment of working out

We’re not saying they don’t serve a purpose. But an over-reliance on tech is taking us away from the core reasons for working out in the first place

STRICTLY BUSINESS

GORKA MÁRQUEZ

FREDDIE ROACH IS IN THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE

The legendary boxing trainer has been doing this thing for decades – the drills, the throwing mitts – but the past summer felt different. As he primed one of his oldest prodigies, Manny Pacquiao, to regain the welterweight champion title, he quietly had his own battle to face

The wide-awake club

One in three adults in the UK struggles to sleep through the night; among them is writer Nick Pope. Could embracing the multibillion-pound sleep economy fix his night-time woes or would obsessively attempting to crack bedtime cause another problem altogether?

THE MEN’S HEALTH TECH AWARDS 2026

Working out, working on your side hustle or tending to your work-life balance, here’s our expert edit of the year’s best gadgets to help you reboot your life

Is there plastic in my penis?

Or the air I breathe? Or the burger I just ate? Inside one man’s search for the tiny particles that might (might!) be causing big problems for every human being on the planet

SERVING GAINS

Fine dining and fitness aren’t exactly natural bedfellows. But no one seems to have told Tom Aikens, the Michelin-starred chef who’s as fanatical about his training as the food he serves

MINERAL OF THE MOMENT

From performance support to sleep management, magnesium is being hailed as supplement royalty . But does it deserve its crown?

RUNNING ON EMPTY

Training hard? Under-fuelling? There’s more at stake than a couple of off days – including your health. Here’s what you should know about the condition known as Red-S

YOUR NO-NONSENSE NUTRITIONAL GUIDE TO WINTER BULKING

Here’s how to enjoy the festive period while putting those calories to good use

Tuning up

Always wanted to unleash your inner musician? Writer Joel Snape thought he’d left it too late until he started playing around on the piano and found it was just the note he needed

Swim through the darkness

When Covid brought to the surface old wounds, Al Mennie took to the sea – at night – to help cope with the pain. He now uses night swimming to help bring awareness to intergenerational trauma in Northern Ireland, and beyond

The mind-boggling world of brain boosters

Which mind-enhancing supplements actually work – and which are just magical thinking?

IS THE WORLD FITNESS PROJECT THE NEXT BIG THING IN FUNCTIONAL FITNESS?

Set to rival CrossFit and Hyrox, here’s the lowdown on the newest contender in the realm of fitness competitions

BEAUTY IN THE BALANCE

Olly Murs’ physical transformation is about more than a before-and-after shot

’TIS THE SEASON FOR SIZE

Your guide to the opportunistic winter bulk

ARMS RACE

One MH editor took on a month-long curling challenge – 100 reps a day, every day – to see if relentless repetition could finally bring his biceps up to size

BRACE YOURSELF

New hope for healing one of the most common – and catastrophic – injuries in sport

HEAVY METAL

Nobody believed half a tonne was possible. Then Eddie Hall broke 500. Nobody thought that deadlift would be beaten. Then Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson pulled 501. And then 505. As he attempts to lift 510kg, we went backstage at the Mutant World Deadlift Championships to witness history in the making

Watch talk

We round up four key players in the world of watches to up your wrist game

Beauden Barrett is built to last

The legendary All Black is already one of the game’s greats. At 34, he’s learning to listen to his body

Chain reaction

Smooth and seamless in their design, integrated bracelets are a growing trend you need to get behind

Satellite state

Bell & Ross’s BR-03 Astro will make you the master of your own little universe

DIY TRIATHLON PERISH

What happens when the Men’s Health fitness director is tasked with road-testing two bikes? He does a double triathlon –and ends up going from review to revelation

Paddy ‘The Baddy’ Pimblett

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