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Rosabella Beetroot Capsules: The Case for Whole-Food Nitrates 

In recent years, health and fitness have become increasingly foregrounded concerns among many. This has been brewing, in one form or another, for decades now, as digital tools have given users the ability to gain a deeper, more thorough understanding of what is actually going into the products and foods they consume. Pair this with the proliferation of self-analysis spurred on by social media platforms, and you have an environment in which people are consistently being encouraged to better themselves and their health. To meet these needs, many new health and wellness products are entering the market. While many can be useful, one example is Rosabella Beetroot Capsules .  These capsules work through a well-documented pathway and are a whole-food, single-ingredient take on the category, with 1,300mg of organic beetroot powder per two-capsule serving, no flavoring system, no proprietary blend, no shaker bottle. Rosabella builds around a single idea: supplements people will actually ke...
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Inside Ben Shelton’s Explosive Tennis Workout and Recovery Routine

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The deeper Ben Shelton gets into a tournament, the less room there is for improvisation. In the later stages, the work is no longer about who hits the harder serves or who covers more ground. It becomes a daily exercise in managing keeping an explosive body healthy enough to endure long matches, quick turnarounds, travel, and the accumulated wear and tear that comes with a professional tennis season. This requires Shelton to be deliberate about the specifics around his training. He admitted that when he first arrived on tour, he was still approaching some of the preparation like he had while at the University of Florida. Experience has forced him to become more consistent with sleep, nutrition, supplementation, recovery, and understanding what his body needs. Hers Workouts 5 Tennis Drills to Get Pro-level Agility Use these moves to improve your lateral speed and dexterity. Read article There Is No Single Exe...
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Wrestling Star Genesis Shares Her ‘WOW’-Inducing Chest and Shoulder Workout

Selena O’Sullivan, better known to grapple fans as “Genesis,” is currently in training for Season 5 of WOW—Women Of Wrestling—and the martial artist tells M&F Hers that she’s working on her grip strength in order to tighten-up her grasp of the competition. They say that the best wrestling characters are those that draw from reality and in the case of Genesis, the facts speak for themselves. “I’m billed as being from the harsh Australian outback, which is 100% true,” says the star. “I’m from the Northern Territory. It’s not even a state. Very outback, very isolated, indigenous, a small mining town called Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land.” Growing up with a love of action movies, O’Sullivan says that she was a “super tomboy,” and a fan of Jackie Chan, finding herself drawn to the karate sessions that were offered at her local town hall. “That’s where I started my love of martial arts and fighting,” she says, eventually waving goodbye to her crocodile friends in favor of the bright lights ...
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Build Pro Speed & Stamina: Tommy Paul’s Tennis Conditioning & Interval Workout

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A warmup for Tommy Paul can start at 9:30 in the morning, and he still might not have an idea on when his actual workday will begin. It’s simply part of life in professional tennis. Maybe the first match on the schedule will end quickly, or it could turn into a three-hour battle. By the time Paul makes his way from the corridors to the court, he could have spent several hours trying to stay loose, field, engaged, and physically ready without burning energy he’ll need for the match. Managing that waiting game in a sport where livelihoods depend on explosive movements and split-second reactions is a skill in itself. It’s also the reason why Paul is a stickler to his routine. He spoke with Muscle & Fitness through his partnership with Celsius , which has become one of the fixtures of both his at-home training schedule and life on the road. When Paul is home, he prefers to get his tennis work done in the morning, eat lunch, and return for fitness in the afternoon. That second sessi...
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Beyond the Scale: How Metabolic Health Impacts Fitness, Energy, and Long-Term Wellness

For decades, weight loss has been a primary concern for people on a medical, aesthetic, and personal level. The idea of weight loss has been heavily romanticized in the media over time; the simple idea that seeing that number on the scale go down indicates positive progress. This makes sense as visual shorthand, and it is incredibly easy for the general population to latch onto, since a scale is one of the few health indicators that has become so commonplace that many people have a gym at home. However, ideal fitness and health improvement involves far more than simply lowering the number on a scale. Other under-discussed elements, such as sleep, metabolism, and nutrition, play an integral role in an individual’s health in ways a simple scale can’t interpret. Maintaining a healthy body composition is about far more than losing weight at all costs, and this has been misinterpreted over the years, with vital information becoming distorted and obscuring how people can take a more compreh...
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FDA Approves First Myostatin Inhibitor: What Isembyld Means for the Future of Muscle Growth

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For decades, the bodybuilding world has treated myostatin like the Loch Ness Monster with a lab coat. Everybody has heard of it. Everybody knows somebody who supposedly knows somebody who inhibited it. And every few years another vial appears on the Internet promising that you’ll wake up looking like a Belgian Blue bull provided you’re willing to inject something manufactured behind a back-alley noodle shop. Well, something rather important just happened. On Sept. 11, the FDA approved Scholar Rock’s Isembyld—apitegromab-mstn—for adults and children age 2 and older with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who are already receiving an SMN2-targeted therapy. More importantly for our little corner of the universe, it’s the first approved SMA treatment designed specifically to target the muscle itself. And the target is myostatin. News The Future of Steroids and PEDs Explore the advancements being made to PEDs, emerging drugs, an...
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Nick Walker Wins the 2026 Mr. Olympia: How the ‘Mutant’ Defeated Samson Dauda & Derek Lunsford

There are bodybuilding stories you have to go looking for. This isn’t one of them. Nick Walker just won the Mr. Olympia. Yes, Nick Walker, the guy with the nickname that isn’t even remotely hyperbolic. The guy is built like somebody took a regular bodybuilder into Photoshop, highlighted everything from the neck down and dragged the scale slider until the computer overheated. The guy who finished sixth at this very contest one year ago is now Mr. Olympia. He beat 2024 champion Samson Dauda , defending champion and two time Olympia winner Derek Lunsford and 2026 Arnold Classic winner Andrew Jacked. Walker got the Sandow, $600,000 and the People’s Champion award. Dauda was second, Lunsford third, Andrew fourth and Tonio Burton fifth. But the part I like isn’t that Nick won. It’s how close he came to not winning. This wasn’t Ronnie Coleman standing next to a lineup and everybody immediately wondering what time the buffet opened. The final score was Walker 18, Dauda 20, Lunsford 24. Just ...
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How Smelling Dark Chocolate Can Instantly Increase Your Workout Volume

A “sweet” new study has found that simply smelling some chocolate could lead to more reps without the workout feeling tougher to complete, and while this news sounds like a bizarre work of Willy Wonka style fiction, scientists suggest that food aromas may increase our level of motivation, because of our relationship with eating. “Exposing moderately trained men to chocolate odors right before and between sets of resistance exercise significantly increased their overall training volume without increasing their perceived exertion,” said Dr. Mohamed Nashrudin bin Naharudin , who was a senior author on the study published in Frontiers . “Seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder is a fascinating psychobiological outcome.” How was the study carried out? A small sample of 23 men, in their 20s, were split into three groups. 15 minutes before exercise, the subjects were given repeated exposure as follows: Group ...
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“A Stronger Soldier Is Harder to Kill”: Military Fitness Leaders Reveal Peak Human Performance Secrets

The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia served as the host location for the fifth installment of M&F Senior Military Editor Rob Wilkin’s Military Health and Wellness Symposium series. Military leaders and experts from a variety of human performance fields gathered to share information and research that could be taken back to help service members, veterans, and their families improve their own health and fitness levels. Wilkins emphasized that due to how fast information can change and how often new knowledge is discovered, hosting events like this are vital because the physical well-being of those who wear the uniform is a matter of national security. Bringing in a mix of experts who have served in the military, the government, and a variety of leaders in other roles is what make these events so successful. Wilkins said, “No one organization can generate all of the answers. We want people to be able to know all this information so t...
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Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk in New Study

Eating too many calories from Ultra Processed Food’s has been linked with several health conditions, ranging from heart disease to diabetes, but a new study has added weight to the theory that UPF consumption can lead to a significant risk of prostate cancer, according to a new scientific study. The report , coming out of Florida Atlantic University and published in the American Journal of Medicine, showed that even after adjusting for age, race, smoking, and other factors, UPFs posed a significant risk to prostate health. This is a major concern, not least because Ultra Processed Foods, which are often high in sugar and preservatives, and have nutrients like fiber stripped away, make up almost 60% on average, of the energy intake of men in the United States. How Was the Study Carried Out? Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine crunched the data of over 17,000 men from the U.S., aged 18 and older, based on a Health and Nutrition Examinat...
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