Joel Snape

London

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Freelance Editor at Men's Fitness (UK)

Writer, video maker, BJJ black belt, piano dabbler. Work in @guardian, @ObserverUK, @thetimes, @sciencefocus, and a bunch of other places.

Articles

I ditched the gym and you can too – here are six ways to get fit without it

1 week ago | msn.com | Joel Snape

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I ditched the gym and you can too - here are six ways to get fit without it

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joel Snape

After almost two decades of regular gym-going, I’ve finally cancelled my membership. The reasons for this are many and varied – I’m trying to save money, gym music is terrible these days, everyone seems to have forgotten how to share the equipment – but the main one is, I think it may actually make me fitter.
The power secret: simple, everyday moves you need for a healthier and happier life

4 weeks ago | taipeitimes.com | Joel Snape

By Joel Snape / The Guardian It’s fairly well established that strength training is helpful at every age: as well as building muscle, it strengthens tendons and ligaments, increases bone density and seems to have protective effects against everything from osteoporosis to dementia.
The power secret: simple, everyday moves you need for a healthier and happier life

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Joel Snape

It’s fairly well established that strength training is helpful at every age: as well as building muscle, it strengthens tendons and ligaments, increases bone density and seems to have protective effects against everything from osteoporosis to dementia. But a new study based on data collected over two decades in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, suggests that another physical attribute might be just as important – and it’s one that declines even faster than strength as the years go by. The good news?
Fake fitness influencers: They tell us about their morning ice baths and deep breathing, but not injections

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Joel Snape

Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 1980s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”.
How build lean muscle and lose belly fat in your fifties

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Joel Snape

In FocusAs TV presenter Ben Shephard shows off his toned torso in ‘Men’s Health’ magazine, fitness writer Joel Snape considers how men who might not have the same time and resources can still maximise results (and minimise injury risk)Can you really be in the best shape of your life in your fifth decade? The obvious answer is yes, if you weren’t in great shape before, but the slightly less obvious answer is: yes, if you’re Ben Shephard.
‘Breath-stoppingly tense’: which Mission: Impossible film is the greatest?

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Radheyan Simonpillai |Joel Snape |Stuart Heritage |Benjamin Lee |Jesse Hassenger |Pamela Hutchinson | +1 more

Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible’s slick and sensuous surface bears no trace of the drama behind the scenes making it. During production, the screenwriters of Jurassic Park (David Koepp) and Chinatown (Robert Towne) sent in duelling script pages for director Brian De Palma and producer Tom Cruise to wrestle over.
Ben Shephard’s secret to lean muscle and low body fat for men in their fifties

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Joel Snape

In FocusAs the TV presenter shows off a toned torso in ‘Men’s Health’ magazine, fitness writer Joel Snape considers how men who might not have the same time and resources can still maximise results (and minimise injury risk)Can you really be in the best shape of your life in your fifth decade? The obvious answer is yes, if you weren’t in great shape before, but the slightly less obvious answer is: yes, if you’re Ben Shephard.
Erfolg auf Pump: Über Lügen und Steroide in der Welt der Fitness-Influencer

1 month ago | freitag.de | Joel Snape

Rückblickend auf das Jahr 2022 scheint es unfassbar, dass irgendjemand jemals geglaubt hat, Brian „Liver King“ Johnson habe seinen Körper ohne pharmazeutische Hilfe aufgebaut. Er sieht aus wie eine Wärmflasche vollgestopft mit Bowlingkugeln, eine 80er-Jahre-Actionfigur nur mit noch mehr Adern – ein unglaublich muskulöser Mann, der seinen selbst für Bodybuilder immensen Körperbau auf eine Diät aus „roher Leber, rohem Knochenmark und rohen Hoden“ zurückführte.
Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most enviable physiques

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Joel Snape

Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 80s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”.