Month: October 2025

Popular strength and conditioning coach, Joe DeFranco, the owner of DeFranco’s Gym, a private facility based in East Rutherford, NJ, has trained martial artists, NFL players, and WWE wresters, motivating them to push past their limits. But in a recent Instagram post, the fitness pro explained why a lack of form could derail any athlete’s […]

When you picture every minute on the minute workouts (EMOM), you think of lifting weights fast while your lungs scream at you to stop, and sweat is pooling at your feet. But what happens when you flip the script and go heavy? You get stronger—fast. This 15-minute deadlift EMOM is more than just a workout. […]

It’s more than a week since Derek Lunsford was crowned Mr. Olympia. And as things have settled since bodybuilding’s biggest event, there’s still plenty to talk about. I must say that this year, as a spectacle, the event was reminiscent of a real, live, old-school bodybuilding show. Gone were the distractions of smoke, the enormous […]

While Joe Weider created an American bodybuilding institution with the advent of the Mr. Olympia competition back in 1965, the pop-culture phenomenon has continued to grow under the leadership of current owner Jake Wood, who is helping to connect the Olympia event with its larger than life athletes, passionate partner brands, and an expanding number […]

The bodybuilding action from the 2025 Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend is in the history books. The curtain came down on the annual tradition with champions being crowned in Bikini, Classic Physique, Men’s Physique, and the main event: the Mr. Olympia Men’s Open title. Resorts World Theater in Las Vegas was buzzing from […]

Months of speculation, promotion, and buildup led to this. The 2025 Olympia Weekend officially kicked off with the press conference and Meet the Olympians on Oct. 9, Friday, Oct. 10 began at the Las Vegas Convention Center with the Olympia World Fitness Expo, where prejudging for the 212, Figure, Women’s Physique, Fitness, Wellness, and Ms. […]

As per tradition, the Olympia Weekend’s annual kickoff was the Thursday press conference which featured some of the elite competitors from each division being contested in Las Vegas. This serves as the final opportunity for the superstars to share their thoughts to the fans in attendance and watching online, and to each other, before prejudging […]

History is guaranteed to be made in Resorts World Theater this coming weekend. For the first time since 2019, there will be a new Classic Physique Olympia champion. Six-time titleholder Chris Bumstead had his last dance and called it a career. He’s taken his final lap around the sport as champion and will watch someone […]

Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and with the world seemingly on his shoulders, Samson Dauda is making sure that he hits his peak physique to retain his Olympia title. To that end, the 2024 trophy winner is finding ways to win that are both smart and safe, revealing two genius shoulder blasting […]