How to Build Muscle with Periodization, Tapering, and Avoid Overtraining

Building muscle, strength, and performance is more than challenging your body and then expecting great things in return. It is a combination of periodization, tapering, peaking, and active rest days. To know these techniques is to know your own body, and when you become one with your own training… well, that is when some truly […]

Celebrating National Bikini Day: 79 years in the Making

Like a fine wine, the bikini has been aging gracefully over the last 79 years. It actually debuted on July 5th in 1946 by a designer who had previously been an Automotive engineer. Louis Réard left his automotive career for the opportunity to work with his mother on her lingerie business and after going through […]

Urbasm Salutes America – 2023 edition

The Average American male under the age of 45 knows more about the 50 hottest women on the planet than they do about the history of America and their founding fathers. So we thought, why can’t you mix the two in order to tickle both the titillations and American pride of our fellow man. And […]

Shelby Cobra: A Hodgepodge that Became America’s Greatest Supercar

If you get hot while driving a Shelby Cobra, you go faster, if you need a cup holder, bring a friend; if you’re wondering if that left front tire seems a bit low, you’d better get out and check. And if you’re losing traction in the turns, well, then you’re just not driving it right. […]

50 Hottest Women Most Guys Fantasized About Growing Up

Becoming a sex symbol of legendary stature that defines a generation of women and men involves the planets and stars aligning at just the right moment in time. It requires a camera, canvas, or written prose to capture the spirit and charisma of a woman who represents everything we want, need, and desire. Occasionally those […]

How to Survive the Urban Apocalypse – Interview with Ex-CIA

Last year in Denver’s storybook, upwards of 5,000 violent crimes were committed, including assault, robbery, and murder. In our own neighborhoods we have witnessed drive-by shootings, car jackings, car theft, and at least one death from a teenager throwing a small boulder through the windshield of a moving vehicle. We are on the way to […]

Mark Schiff on Jerry Seinfeld, Drunks, and a Burning Trunk

True story. Mark Schiff, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, Larry Miller, and Michael Hampton-Caine walk into a Cafe on News Year’s Day and ask the waiter, “How’s the Squab?” If you don’t know what squab is, you’ve likely not spent much time in New York where the common rooftop pigeon is occasionally on the menu. But, […]

Blind Barrels: The ONLY Blind Craft Whiskey Tasting Subscription Box

Label failure has kept many of our country’s best craft whiskey off the shelf, where almost nobody will ever find it. “Prohibition never really ended,” explains Bobby DeMars, the founder of Blind Barrels. “The three-tier system is complicated–[A top shelf worthy distiller will often] be rockstars for 50 miles, but then drown out after that.” […]

What You Need to Know: How COVID-19 Affects the Heart, the Athlete, and Men’s Health

When I got COVID and landed in the emergency room, they checked my oxygen levels pretty quickly. As a doctor, I know how to interpret those readings and was happy to see my numbers were not too bad. So, I was surprised when my doctor wanted to do a CAT scan. I didn’t realize how […]

Kourtney Kellar on Priorities, Tacos, and Hidden Talents

Kourtney Kellar might be as close to the real thing as possible. Most know her by her day job, which is a popular Instagram model and fashion model. In the evening, she becomes the girl next door who loves ‘Dad jokes’, late-night Taco Bell runs, driving a stick shift, and watching basketball. Kourtney is a native of the big […]