Men's Health Australia September 2022

“I GET KNOCKED DOWN, but I get up again.” You sing along defiantly as Tubthumping blasts through the stereo, the third time you’ve heard this anthem in as many hours thanks to the high rotation of the So Fresh: Hits of Winter CD in your stacker. You adjust the volume as the melody competes with the blare of a nearby siren and your own car horn: another New Volkswagen Beetle has cut you off, this one lime green. The commotion kicks off a fit of crying from your daughter in the backseat. She’s already on edge after the untimely passing of her Tamagotchi. “You’re never gonna keep me down.” You’ll likely miss tonight’s screening of Titanic with your wife due to this traffic, so it looks like another night on the couch…

“I GET KNOCKED DOWN, but I get up again.” You sing along defiantly as Tubthumping blasts through the stereo, the third time you’ve heard this anthem in as many hours thanks to the high rotation of the So Fresh: Hits of Winter CD in your stacker. You adjust the volume as the melody competes with the blare of a nearby siren and your own car horn: another New Volkswagen Beetle has cut you off, this one lime green. The commotion kicks off a fit of crying from your daughter in the backseat. She’s already on edge after the untimely passing of her Tamagotchi. “You’re never gonna keep me down.” You’ll likely miss tonight’s screening of Titanic with your wife due to this traffic, so it looks like another night on…

Tim Robards Four-time MH Cover Guy I was in my mid-teens when Men’s Health arrived in Australia – and it inspired me like no other magazine ever has. Pimply and quite skinny at the time, the sight of the classically shot MH cover guys made me want to train hard and often. When I appeared on the September 2008 cover, it felt both surreal and like a kind of destiny. I’ve since been on three more – and the thrill never wanes. Daniel Williams Associate Editor Though I’ve been an on-and-off sportswriter for more than three decades, June 28 last year marked the first time I’d spoken to Shane Warne – a wide-ranging interview for our September 2021 issue. It was great fun, Shane thoroughly charming me with his courtesy and candour. Little did I…

Q THE BIG QUESTION I work 10-hour days, yet I’m always running behind. Can you help? – HM Oh, we know the feeling. You sit down to work on that marketing strategy, when an email from your boss pops up – better read that. Soon, you’re on Slack looking for a message they sent last week, when you scroll past a financial report. Which reminds you, wasn’t there a business article you meant to read? Better Google it … Task-hopping is inevitable in today’s workplace, but it’s a killer for productivity. Which is why we’d suggest familiarising yourself with ‘deep work’. Coined by the author Cal Newport, deep work is when you direct your full attention to a task, says Micah Yongo. A novelist, Yongo first became interested in it when writing a…

YOUR MONTHLY DOWNLOAD OF THE LATEST LIFE ENHANCING RESEARCH THE POMEGRANATE has had a strange cultural journey. They were the seeds that condemned Persephone to a life half-lived in the underworld, according to ancient Greek mythology, and provided the world’s most troubling description of breasts in My Dad Wrote A Porno. The fruit has represented everything from death to blood to fertility. Rarely, however, has it been associated with gym gains. But perhaps it should: a study from the University of Washington has linked production of the compound urolithin A with improved muscle strength. Key to the gut’s production of urolithin A is a diet rich in ellagitannins – a type of polyphenol found in the ‘fruit of the dead’ – the pomegranate. Urolithin A works by revitalising mitochondria – your cells’ energy…

Tim Robards Four-time MH Cover Guy I was in my mid-teens when Men’s Health arrived in Australia – and it inspired me like no other magazine ever has. Pimply and quite skinny at the time, the sight of the classically shot MH cover guys made me want to train hard and often. When I appeared on the September 2008 cover, it felt both surreal and like a kind of destiny. I’ve since been on three more – and the thrill never wanes. Daniel Williams Associate Editor Though I’ve been an on-and-off sportswriter for more than three decades, June 28 last year marked the first time I’d spoken to Shane Warne – a wide-ranging interview for our September 2021 issue. It was great fun, Shane thoroughly charming me with his courtesy…