Ben Miles rode a stationary bike for 277 hours, 20 minutes, and 30 seconds in Mallorca, a Guinness World Record still standing today. Here is what multi-day endurance research says about sleep, pacing, fueling, and saddle injury risk at that scale.
On September 5, 2013, Jason Faulkner pressed 225 pounds for 107 decline bench reps on a Smith machine, a RecordSetter category record. Here is what RecordSetter actually is, how a fixed bar path and decline angle change what the lift tests, and what the research says about training toward high-rep pressing.
Bruce Klein leg pressed 750 pounds for 90 reps in one minute at age 73, a RecordSetter senior division mark set in 2016. Here is what was independently verified, what kind of record RecordSetter actually hands out, and what the research says about high rep leg press training after 70.
Blaine Sumner benched 885 pounds in single-ply gear at the 2016 Arnold. Here is what a bench shirt actually does, how his own record kept climbing, and why Jimmy Kolb's much heavier multi-ply lifts are a genuinely different category, not a straightforward beat of Sumner's mark.
Eugen Sandow is often credited with rotating light and heavy training days. We checked his 1897 book and the research on periodization.
Muscle confusion sells the idea that changing exercises constantly keeps muscles guessing. Six reasons that does not hold up, plus the honest case for planned variety.
A 30 minute standing cardio video from Kaji Pm claims real weight loss with no jumping. Here is what peer reviewed research on NEAT, standing energy expenditure, and low impact movement actually supports.
Ben Mulroney credits walking with his best-ever shape. We checked the peer-reviewed research on walking, heart health, mood, and social prescribing to see what actually holds up.
A workout video is making the rounds with a bold promise. Sixteen minutes of hard effort, done the right way, could raise your VO2 max faster than almost anything else you do in the gym. The video comes from Dr.…
A video making the rounds online promises something every athlete wants. It claims a special kind of water can unlock peak athletic performance. The video comes from a company that sells hydrogen water, a bottled product infused with extra hydrogen…