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Regardless of whether you’re moving your canoe 10 feet from the truck to the river, or spending days portaging through the Boundary Waters, proper technique is key to avoiding injury. C&K contributor (and certified Canadian) David Jackson shows his preferred trick for picking up a canoe without hurting your back. Last year, Jackson canoed 2/3 of the way across Canada while photo-documenting the efforts of repeat cross-Canada voyageur Mike Ranta. Check out more of Jackson’s images from on-the-water adventures, as well as correspondence with a searing look into how paddlers protested at Standing Rock....

Training to failure almost sounds like a self-defeating plan. Who wants to “fail” all the time, right? A lot of people. See, in bodybuilding, training to failure means doing so many reps that you physically can’t complete anything more. The objective is to induce the most possible muscle growth by pumping maximum blood to the area. To be fair, opponents of training to failure claim it will tire your nervous system, increase injury risk, wreck recovery, and beat your body to death....

Winter may be here, but we still have to wait at least a few months to find out the fate of Westeros. As we countdown to the next (and final) season of Game of Thrones premiering in 2019, there’s only one way to drown our sorrows: in a bottle of whiskey. ‘Game of Thrones’ Racks up $90 Million Tab for Final Season Read article Starting this month, Johnnie Walker is debuting a limited-edition GOT-themed whiskey, appropriately titled “White Walker”....

After eight movies and more than $5 billion grossed worldwide, the Fast and Furious franchise is getting its first spinoff. After showing some amazing chemistry in Fate of the Furious, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham are teaming up for their own film, tentatively titled Hobbs and Shaw, which is set for release on July 26, 2019. The film will follow Johnson’s DSS agent and bounty hunter Luke Hobbs, and Statham’s Deckard Shaw, an assassin-turned-good-guy, as they form an “unlikely alliance....

Kai Lenny Foiling vs. John John Sailing Kai Lenny and John John Florence are both titans in the surf world. The two watermen have made a living shredding the best waves in the world. In this new video, the duo take a break from the waves for a friendly competition. Watch as Kai Lenny races John John’s sailboat using nothing but a foil board and the swells of the open ocean....

Dreary eyed Londoners weren’t the only city dwellers using a jolt of coffee to get moving Monday morning. According to the BBC, some public buses began using a biofuel that contains coffee waste. Bio-bean created the new eco-friendly fuel to be added to the London public fuel supply. The company said it was able to make enough that it could actually power one whole bus on its own for a year....

Sky Brown may be small but she sure can pack a punch. At just 10 years old, the skateboarding phenom already has a number of major contests wins under her belt, has qualified for the 2020 British Olympic skateboarding team, and took home the win at the first-ever Dancing with the Stars: Juniors. Brown may be a serious competitor but she remembers it’s really all about having fun. Photo: Courtesy of Lewis Royden Born in Miyazaki, Japan, the goofy-footer grew up near the beach, surfing and skating the waves and streets of her hometown....

Coffey sea kayaking around Ireland solo in 2014. Courtesy Rob Coffey Christopher TestaniBy Nouria Newman Rob Coffey, paddler, psychotherapist, and author of the recently published article In the Eye of the Storm, sits down with French extreme kayaker Nouria Newman to discuss his article, the risks and rewards of paddling, and trends in the sport. Newman: In the introduction to your article, you mentioned that you had been trying to write this piece for nearly two years....

NRS Women’s Crux Drysuit NRS.com $990 Perhaps no one item is more essential for cold-weather paddlers than a good drysuit. The front-zip-entry Crux has a reasonable price tag for full waterproof-breathable coverage with all the bells and whistles (latex wrist and neck gaskets, attached dry-socks and relief zippers) from a trusted whitewater brand. More Gear The article was originally published on Standup Paddling For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube!...

Washington Nationals All-Star Bryce Harper has been know to train for power with intense and gritty workouts. On the flip side, when you max-out at the gym, you have to give as much effort to your recovery as well. ABC Sports reporter Scott Abraham gave us a glimpse of how the outfielder takes cupping therapy to the next level. Take a look for yourself: This is called cupping. Bryce Harper bringing it to another level....

Before you toss this steak on the grill and cook it to crispy, juicy perfection, marinate it in a bright and tangy chimichurri sauce overnight. Top with a few quick-to-make pickled red onions, fresh cilantro, and crumbled cotija cheese for an impressively tasty—not to mention protein-rich—taco dinner. Recipe by Aarón Sánchez, courtesy of Tequila Cazadores. For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube! Makes 6 servings...

There’s something about a V-12 motor that makes our heart scream in adrenaline-fueled ecstasy. Bigger is better, right? Twelve is better than eight, and those dozen cylinders are just part of why we love the the Mercedes-Benz AMG S 65 Cabriolet. Its beastly biturbo V-12 cranks out a staggering 621hp and 738 lb-ft of torque. The motor gives you so much power you’ll be grunting in rhapsodic pleasure, Tim Allen-style, every time you stomp the accelerator....

Finding out that there is a sale going on at Todd Snyder is a great feeling. Because Todd Snyder is a site that just contains tons of great pieces of clothing. It’s what Todd Snyder does. Just make and sell a lot of top of the line product. Now that the fall is in full swing and the winter season is not too far away, it is time to start adding new items to the wardrobe....

Boutique gyms with cult-like group classes and trendy ‘new’ workouts are a dime a dozen, but one studio aims to incorporate a teenage pastime into the ultimate high-intensity workout – or at least, one worthy of breaking a sweat. LazRfit, a Los Angles-based studio, is the first laser tag-devoted gym, offering sessions within their expansive LazRpark, a modern, 4000 sq. foot space with parkour-like obstacles and ramps, not unlike an adults’ version of a skate park....

Blood Meridian—Cormac McCarthy’s fifth, and arguably greatest, novel, about a band of scalp hunters along the Texas–Mexico border—contains, without a doubt, some of the most gruesome, troubling scenes in all American literature. Dead babies hang from tree limbs. A man wears a necklace made of human ears. A teenager is grotesquely murdered in an outhouse. But I’d make the case that, though Blood Meridian is no light read, McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God, from his early Appalachian period, is the Pulitzer Prize winner’s scariest work—at least in terms of classic gothic horror....

If your kryptonite is in the kitchen, you need a few recipes on which you can rely to keep you eating healthy when you’d otherwise go astray. Basically, you need the Superman Diet. Here, Henry Cavill’s nutrition coach, Erin Blevins (wife of Cavill’s trainer Michael Blevins), offers the meals that keep the Man of Steel on track. Prepare them all for a perfect day of eating—one that will fuel gains in the gym and keep body fat off without sacrificing flavor....

The new year always takes some adjustment. Now that the holiday dust has settled, job duties (hopefully) back on track, maybe even sticking to some resolutions, it’s time to plan some travel. If getting outdoors is a 2020 priority, we’ve got some great news: This upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday, Jan. 20), all entrance fees for every single national park will be waived. As the National Park Service (NPS) does every year, it designates a handful of days throughout the year as “fee-free” days to all visitors....

If you’re looking to do something for all those healthcare workers who don’t have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic—but you’ve got zero sewing skills—Rob Corddry’s got the answer. Tonight, the actor and comedian from shows like Ballers and Medical Police is hosting an online event tonight called Funny You Should Mask. Coronavirus: Here’s What Experts Are Saying About the Global Health Threat Read article It benefits Project C....

Borrowing a page from Patagonia, which recently filed a lawsuit against President Trump as well as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other members of the federal government to protect Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, Wenonah Canoe recently took a similar approach to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA). On June 21, the canoe manufacturer, along with seven BWCA outfitters and organizations, fellow manufacturer Northstar Canoes and nonprofit Northeast Minnesotans for Wilderness, sued the U....

YouTuber Colin Furze comes up with all sorts of far-out concepts for Frankenstein-ing things together. Part humor, part science, Furze has been “making weird stuff since 2006 and a bit before.” His latest endeavor sees the British Furze attempting to replace the tubes on a bike with springs. Needless to say, it’s a fairly difficult one to get right. It took Furze three different sets of springs to finally get something that could actually hold the weight of a human....