Men's Health UK

Men's Health is the UK's best-selling quality men's magazine packed with expert tips and advice on everything today's man needs to feel fitter, healthier, and happier. Every month Men's Health delivers the inside track on the subjects that matter most to men. Naturally there's fitness, weight loss and general health plus the best advice on food, nutrition and meal plans. The award-winning Men's Health also delivers the very best in sex and relationships, gear, style, grooming, travel and wealth. Small steps, big results: It's an essential read for any man who wants to make his life better without turning his world upside down.

Men’s Health UK

Ben Shephard: Fit at 50

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News you can use • We’ve sifted through science journals to bring you the latest health and fitness intel

Can I run and lift on the same day?

Is this ‘manopause’? • Low energy, low sex drive, low everything. Perhaps this is just what middle age feels like – but does it have to be?

Listen to your heart • Overhyped metric or profound predictor of future health? We put a finger to the pulse of heart rate variability

Nico Rosberg • When you’re competing in a sport where the difference between winning and losing can be a kilogram of surplus weight, it pays to be detailed about your diet

Sound investments • The right pair of ’phones can help you fine-tune your performance – in the gym, on the road and in the water. Here’s our sweat-tested edit

I skip the SPF? • It might not be at the top of your grooming priorities, but here’s why it pays to up your protection

‘Sport was a way to express myself, even when I couldn’t be open about my sexuality’ • Footballer turned Hyrox relay champion Jake Williamson is using his platform to create a more inclusive sporting space for all

Making waves • Board of your normal gym routine? Bristol’s inland surf park, The Wave, offers a different kind of full-body workout

Join Men’s Health SQUAD • Enjoy interactive training plans designed to fit any goal, plus access to the number-one rated fitness app FIIT, with over 2,000 workout videos and 40 training plans to suit all levels, (worth up to £120 a year) when you join Men’s Health SQUAD! You’ll also receive the print edition of Men’s Health delivered direct to your door and full access to the Men’s Health app.

THIS IS 50 • HITTING THE HALF-CENTURY ISN’T ABOUT STALLING DECLINE – IT’S ABOUT BREAKING NEW GROUND. WITH THE RIGHT APPROACH, YOUR BEST DAYS IN THE GYM CAN STILL BE AHEAD OF YOU. JUST ASK BEN SHEPHARD. THE TV PRESENTER IS EXCELLING IN HIS MIDDLE-AGED PRIME. AND, MORE THAN A DECADE ON FROM HIS LAST MH COVER, HE HAS THE BLUEPRINT TO HELP YOU DO THE SAME

YOUR GAME PLAN FOR MIDLIFE MUSCLE • WHETHER YOU’RE IN YOUR FOURTH, FIFTH OR SIXTH DECADE, YOU DON’T GET A BODY LIKE SHEPHARD’S BY ACCIDENT. TRAINER STEVE COLEMAN HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE PRESENTER FOR OVER A DECADE, HELPING HIM TO NOT ONLY MAINTAIN SIZE AND STRENGTH, BUT INCREASE IT, TOO. THE KEY? ‘CONSISTENCY, BALANCE AND BANTER,’ SAYS COLEMAN

THE BATTLE OF THE BOTTLE • From microplastics in your mineral water to ‘forever chemicals’ in your kitchen tap, rarely has there been so much collective hand-wringing about the quality of our H2 O. You know hydration is paramount, but does it matter where you source it from?

WORK OUT. FILL UP. GET MOVING! • Fit chef Justin Bogle hits the work-life-dad balance with the gym, jiu-jitsu – and this simple, high-protein rice bowl

CRUNCH TIME • Seeds add texture, flavour and a bucket-load of nutrients to your salads, snacks and desserts. Make them the star of the show this month

Do you have brain fog? OR DO YOU JUST NEED A BREAK? • Whether it’s tied to Covid, ADHD or plain old exhaustion, more and more of us...