ISAAC HEENEY AND I are walking through Centennial Park on a hot and sticky Sydney afternoon. It’s just over a week out from the opening night of the 2024 AFL season and as we leisurely make our way across the open parkland, Heeney is at ease, barefoot and shirtless....
IT’S NOT HARD to pick out Tyson Pedro at Ethos Fitness in Sydney’s Silverwater. Inside the simple glass box of a gym tucked away on the ground floor of a nondescript office building on an industrial street, I find him midway through a series of barbell hip-thrusters....
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. There’s a scene in When We Were Kings, the seminal sports documentary about the 1974 title fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, in which Foreman, then heavyweight champion of the world, is hitting the heavy bag. Each time Foreman sinks one...
The Rock is just finishing off a text when he pops up on my screen. “Be there in 20 minutes,” he says aloud to himself before hitting send and looking up at me. “How you doing, man?” he says with a wide smile. The Rock, or to use his given name, Dwayne Johnson, is...
Adam Goodes is standing on the headland at Bondi gazing intently at a whale frolicking out at sea. “Look at him, look at him,” Goodes yells out to our crew. “Whoa, he breached there. That was like a side flick on your BMX. He got out of the water and then bang!” The...
After a quiet 2023 the Sydney Swans forward is fresh off his first full preseason in a decade. As he tells Men’s Health, now is the time for he and his teammates to fill the void left by you know who and make a premiership run. For Heeney, that could mean making the leap from star to superstar.
The UFC light heavyweight grew up fighting and has continued to battle the odds in a career that hasn't always gone to plan. But as he explains to Men's Health, adversity has only sharpened his focus, stoked his ambition and steeled his determination. He wouldn’t be here without it.
The Tongan Australian actor has had a trying year. First his show got cancelled, then came the actors’ strike. For the first time in a long time, Latukefu began to doubt himself. Fortunately, he was able to lean on two things: his faith and a new-found passion that helped him get in the best shape of his life: physically and mentally.
As Dwayne Johnson enters his 50s – or what he calls his fifth level – he’s in the best shape of his life. Here he explains how he did it and why, above all else, you should strive to be true to yourself, even if that means being a bad guy every once in a while.
Former Sydney Swans superstar
Adam Goodes wasn’t a born leader. So how did he become one of our country’s most compelling and inspiring figures?
The star (and creator) of this winter’s F9 is an action hero, a family man, a trailblazer, and much, much more.
Former The Bachelor Australia star Sam Wood’s world changed forever back in 2015. But some things stayed the same: his love of training and people. Find out how together they made him an irresistible force.
This may or may not be Sydney Swans superstar Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin’s ‘Last Dance’ – he’s yet to decide if he’ll play beyond this season. But as he explains to MH in this exclusive interview, he’s ready to give everything he’s got to see if he and his teammates can make a return to ‘The Big Dance’.
When it comes to his craft, Pete Murray aims to write songs that endure. And that’s the same approach he takes to his body, which he transformed recently via a lifestyle shake-up. Preparing for a hectic year on the road, Murray reveals in this exclusive interview with Men’s Health how he plans to stick around as both a titan of Australian music and a devoted family man with a new lease on life.
What do you do when you’re following in the footsteps of a giant? If you’re Tim Tszyu, you train like hell to match him – and then set your sights on the stars.
Artist, surfer, dreamer, Otis Hope Carey is inspiring a deeper connection to both culture and community.
For many of us, it feels like yesterday when a teenaged swimmer named Ian Thorpe was toppling world records, seemingly at will. Yet that precocious soul has just turned 40 – and is ready now to peer both backwards and forwards on a remarkable life, one punctuated by great achievements and profound personal challenges. These days, something that speaks eloquently to Thorpe’s complexity and the costs imposed by a life in the spotlight is the nature of his most heartfelt yearning: to be able to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
