Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tristan Lavalette is an Australia-based reporter who covers cricket.

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Some people on Venice Beach spent the day looking at buff bodies. Gym junkies and fitness buffs gathered at the Venice Beach Recreation Center to watch the Mr. and Ms. Muscle ...

Jeff Kovick first competed in the Montana State Bodybuilding Championships in 1989. He was 19. Now, at 41 and the owner of the Max Muscle store in Missoula, he's promoting a championship that's been ...

Flexing your muscles is more than just a way to show off the results of your strength training workouts. It can also be a way to build strength. Muscle flexing is more accurately known as muscle ...

Ganrude trains about five days a week, lifting weights to hit the main muscle groups — and practicing his poses, an important element to competition. The process gets tough, and often Ganrude feels ...

In the right circumstances stress can be beneficial. David Foster Wallace, the late essayist and novelist, was at one point in his life a moderately good junior tennis player. That experience led him ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti â Impoverished Haiti is not renowned for its bodybuilders. Only a handful of gyms exist â air-conditioned ones where the country's tiny elite and foreign aid workers work out, ...