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|  | | | #GymAmmo What's the name of the Oscar-style statue given out to Mr Olympia winners? |
 | | | THE ALTERNATIVE OSCARS SPECIAL | | | Because someone's got to honour the swole | |
| | MOST MOTIVATIONAL MONTAGE | |
Michael B Jordan, Creed
It's no Rocky IV, but Creed's blend of flashy padwork, faddish technology (hellooo, training mask) and fist-pumping triumphalism just about beats Ant-Man's stellar home gym design (pegboards and punchbags and gym rings OMG) and Suffragette's unexpected display of Bartitsu (the same martial art that Sherlock Holmes does) to take home the gold. Also notable: Jordan let Tony Bellew actually knock him unconscious during filming. Your move, De Niro. |
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Paul Rudd, Ant-Man
Everyone's favourite everyman spent months eating clean and doing flutter-kicks in preparation for one blink-and-you'll-miss-it shirtless scene in a film where he's otherwise swathed in ant-suit throughout. Be honest, though: if there was a chance of Evangeline Lilly glancing at your abs for even a second, you'd do the same. |
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Oscar Isaacs, Ex Machina
Bro-tech moguls take note: if you're aiming to simultaneously wrongfoot and out-alpha an employee before performance appraisals, forget the power-staring – just make sure they walk in on you while you're curling a set of Argos dumbbells in a sweaty grey vest, then make them pound wheatgrass shooters with you. |
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If this is the last time Arnie ever appears on screen shirtless, it'll be a fitting final hurrah: a gleaming, hairless computer-aided recreation of his chest from its Pumping Iron glory days, when it launched a cable-crossover boom that's barely slowed since. Go with him if you want to lift, etc. |
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Dwayne Johnson
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? If you can, it's probably fish: the man eats 400g of protein every day, and apparently most of that is cod. At his current rates of expansion, scientists predict that our oceans and waterways won't be able to keep up past 2021, but until then let's all enjoy him doing what he does best: being effortlessly charming and looking great in a dress shirt. |
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| HOW TO WATCH UFC LONDON | | | ONE OF THE GREATEST FIGHTERS OF ALL TIME TAKES ON THE UK'S MICHAEL BISPING THIS SATURDAY | |
Forget the it's-all-cuddling-really chat: this might be one of your last chances to see Anderson Silva, one of the fledgling sport of MMA's all-time greats, do his thing in real time. In case you're unfamiliar, Silva fights like a cross between Neo from The Matrix and Tony Jaa – in one case, actually finishing a man with a reverse-elbow he'd seen in Ong-Bak and practised on a sofa-cushion held aloft by his wife.
Silva's taking on perennial middleweight bridesmaid Michael Bisping (pictured), who's come within a whisker of a title shot several times, in a fight that's several years overdue. The smart money's on Silva, but if he can stick to the right gameplan Bisping's got the skills and cardio to make something special happen. It's streaming live on Fightpass, where you can sign up for a free seven-day trial.
Do say "Silva excels when people over-commit without using feints. As a disciplined striker Bisping could give him fits."
Don't say "Flying knee! Overhand right! Man, this is nothing like Tekken." |
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 | | | THE MAGAZINE | | | KEVIN HART IS FASTER THAN YOU'D EXPECT | |
| | You probably know him as that tiny, hilarious man from Get Hard and Ride Along, but Kevin Hart also likes a bit of a run. In fact, he enjoys a jog enough that he's developed his own Move With Hart series of 5Ks, taking place across 15 cities this year, and we caught up for a chat with him at the London leg. He was predictably funny, unpredictably fast ("This'll be a slow one, 21-22 minutes") and a thoroughly nice man. Also, fun fact: his sometime co-star/lip-sync buddy Will Ferrell ran the Boston Marathon in 3hr 56min. You should probably buy some new trainers. | |
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 | | | COFFEE | | | STILL GOOD FOR YOU, ASSUMING YOU DON'T FILL IT WITH SYRUP | | It's been another good week/bad week situation for coffee houses everywhere. On the upside, the black stuff got a PR boost from the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and therapeutics, which suggested that two cups a day might reduce your chances of developing alcohol-related cirrhosis. The downside? Action On Sugar's report on the amount of sugar in high street hot drinks, which found that 98% of the drinks tested would receive a red nutritional value label for high sugar content. The (obvious) takeaway: stop drinking hot drinks that sound like a child's dessert, and invest in some quality beans and a decent way of prepping them. |  |
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| STUFF YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW | |
The NFL Combine is one of the weirdest events in sports and brilliant to watch
Insect bread? It's a thing – or could be in the future
Could climate change mean the end of snow sports?
This light-hearted (but surprisingly poignant) film on losing weight
#GymAmmo Answer The Sandow, named after pioneering Prussian strongman/bodybuilder/statue-impersonator Eugen Sandow (born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller) |
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