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Harry Styles: the world’s most wanted man

Harry Styles has become a global pop icon. Now, he has his sights set on Hollywood. How does he make all of it look so easy — even when it definitely isn’t?

On a Friday night in New York, Harry Styles put on a show.

It wasn’t just any show; it was the first time he performed his third and soon-to-be-biggest album, Harry’s House, in its entirety. The crowd that May night covered Long Island’s UBS Arena in feathers and glitter and tears — a ritualistic skin shedding of sorts whenever Styles comes to town.

Fans noticed something different about the encore: Styles didn’t end with his usual closer, ‘Kiwi’; instead, he opted to finish the night with a second performance of his new single ‘As It Was’, his dance-through-the-tears pandemic reflection on isolation and change. When he played it, the crowd exploded in a way even Styles had never experienced. It left him a bit shaken.

“We came offstage, and I went into my dressing room and just wanted to sit by myself for a minute,” he tells me, two months later. “After One Direction, I didn’t expect to ever experience anything new. I kind of felt like, ‘All right, I’ve seen how crazy it can get.’ And I think there was something about it where I was… not terrified, but I just needed a minute. Because I wasn’t sure what it was. Just that the energy felt insane.”

Before his headlining set at Coachella in April, I caught Harry backstage, surrounded by James Corden, Styles’s onstage guest Shania Twain, and his girlfriend, Olivia Wilde. Later, I took in sold-out shows in New York and at Wembley Stadium. The immense love showering Styles was impossible to ignore — you see it in the faces of every fan, whether they’ve been supporting him for “one year, two years, five years, 12 years”, as he says in nearly every end-of-show thank you speech. Along the way I heard him everywhere, even when I wasn’t trying. ‘As It Was’ played in every cab. ‘Watermelon Sugar’ soundtracked breakfast. ‘Golden’ lurked quietly at a London chemist’s. ‘Late Night Talking’ blasted at a Brooklyn bar, leading one man to proclaim, “I like Harry Styles. I can admit it,” like it was a radical act of self-acceptance.

And while he may be everywhere in 2022, Styles is, at the moment, literally right in front of me, sitting in an armchair of a hotel business suite in Hamburg, Germany, on a sweaty June afternoon. After a dip in the Irish Sea this morning, he flew into town and is now enjoying a day off in the middle of his first European tour since 2018.

In person, Styles looks more like your best friend’s cute, sporty older brother than the gender-bending style icon he’s become. He’s left the boas and sequin jumpsuits in the dressing room, opting instead for a blue Adidas track jacket, gym shorts, and Gucci trainers. His hair, often described as “tousled”, like he’s a renegade prince in a romance novel, is clipped back with a hair claw, a signature day-off accessory.

Styles is a kind of millennial anomaly: he plugs his phone in across the room, never once sneaking a glance for a rogue notification. He maintains eye contact as his thoughts unfurl in his often slow drawl. He’s a bit more Zen, even stoic, than he once was; that goofy, class-clown energy he exuded when the world first fell in love with him in One Direction 12 years ago has naturally diminished. But he’s still as affable and charming as ever, remembering details from small talk we had in all the other cities where I had been (professionally) stalking him, and proving earnestly curious about how I was going to spend my time in Hamburg and how magazine deadlines work. (Back in New York, after surprising fans at a Spotify event for his new album, he asked me my thoughts on David Crosby’s most recent album, which he loved.)

“‘As It Was’ is definitely the highest volume of men that I would get stopping me to say something about it”

“My great uncle lives here,” Styles says of Hamburg. “He married a German lady, so I have a German cousin. They always used to come and visit when I was a kid, and the only word in English [the cousin] knew was ‘lemonade’. I didn’t know if she actually wanted lemonade or was trying to say ‘Give me some water, please!’”

Of course it wasn’t meant to take him this long to get back to places like Hamburg, where he’ll play for more than 50,000 fans tomorrow night at Volksparkstadion, a local football stadium. Love on Tour, the name for his current trek, was supposed to launch in the spring of 2020, a few months after Styles released his second album, Fine Line. We all know what happened next.

Styles didn’t get to play live again until last autumn, but something funny happened in the interim. While we were bound to our homes, Styles experienced his first number one hit in Fine Line’s ‘Watermelon Sugar’, a tune so sweet it may take a moment to realise he’s singing about cunnilingus. Less than a year later, he won his first Grammy for it.

When flying became an option, Styles came home to London. Later, he drove down to Italy in his late stepdad’s car with a friend, listening to the jazz CDs left behind. He visited the Trevi Fountain one day, likely wearing his short-lived pandemic moustache, and was greeted with just four other people instead of the usual throngs that surround the historic site: “I felt like every day you’d say, ‘Weird time, isn’t it?’ Then go, ‘Yeah, it’s fucking insane!’”

He credits his stream of roommates — friends, collaborators — with keeping him together during this time. “I really would’ve struggled if I’d done the whole thing by myself,” he says, mirroring the “Harry, you’re no good alone” lyric from ‘As It Was’. After Italy, Styles visited friends in France, then returned to work, eventually posting up at Real World Studios near Bath. By the time he set off across the US to finally tour behind Fine Line last autumn, Harry’s House was secretly finished.

Now, besides the unavoidable singles and the victory-lap world tour, there are other indicators of next-level stardom: his skincare, nail polish and clothing line called Pleasing and a fashion collection with Gucci, not to mention his flourishing movie career. He’s starring in the psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling and in the intimate drama My Policeman, and he’s nabbed a deal with Marvel Studios to play Eros in at least one of the Eternals films. “Everything in my life has felt like a bonus since X-Factor,” he says, referring to the singing competition that led directly to One Direction. “Get on TV and sing. I never expected and never thought that would happen.”

When Styles played two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium in June, the first thing he did after stepping offstage each night was take a shower. The post-show shower has become a ritual: a hygienic necessity, sure, but also a crucial moment of clarity and reflection. He washes away the screams full of love and desire to just be in his presence. Anyone would be overwhelmed by that. “It’s really unnatural to stand in front of that many people and have that experience,” he says. “Washing it off, you’re just a naked person, in your most vulnerable, human form. Just like a naked baby, basically.”

Those post-Wembley showers were especially gratifying. When One Direction, which Styles casually refers to as “the band”, played the stadium in 2014, he ended up with tonsillitis on the day of the show. “I was miserable,” he recalls. “We played the first one, and I remember I came off, got in the car, and just started crying because I was so disappointed.”

Styles’s solo shows at Wembley were a reunion of sorts: he had friends and family from all parts of his life and career in the audience on both nights. His mum, Anne Twist, sister Gemma, friends and his team all danced in the stands next to Wilde and her two young children. Even former bandmate Niall Horan swung by, smiling through ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.

As he’s become one of the world’s biggest pop stars, Styles’s need for privacy — for keeping that “naked baby” self out of the public eye — seems to have grown. Secrecy has helped to fend off constant questions about his sex life, the kind that were tossed his way as soon as he was of legal age.

“Everything in my life has felt like a bonus since X-Factor. Get on TV and sing. I never expected and never thought that would happen”

In the past couple of years, he started to go to therapy more routinely. “I committed to doing it once a week,” he explains. “I felt like I exercise every day and take care of my body, so why wouldn’t I do that with my mind?”

Through it, he started to process parts of himself he hadn’t figured out before. “So many of your emotions are so foreign before you start analysing them properly. I like to really lean into [an emotion] and look at it in the face. Not like, ‘I don’t want to feel like this,’ but more like, ‘What is it that makes me feel this way?’”

One feeling he needed to shed was shame, the kind of shame that comes from having your sex life scrutinised while you’re still just trying to make sense of it. Over the years, he learned to stop apologising for it. He learned he could be vulnerable in private while still protecting it from the public.

He’s found a vague balance through compartmentalisation. “I’ve never talked about my life away from work publicly and found that it’s benefited me positively,” he explains, perhaps preemptively. “There’s always going to be a version of a narrative, and I think I just decided I wasn’t going to spend the time trying to correct it or redirect it in some way.”

Drawing the curtain over his life has only made everyone who’s not behind it more curious. His sexuality, for example, has been a topic of near obsession for years. He has embraced gender fluidity in his fashion, like Mick Jagger and David Bowie before him, and has repeatedly pointed out how backward it feels to require labels and boxes for everyone’s identity. Critics of his approach have accused him of “queerbaiting” or profiting off queer aesthetics without explicitly claiming the community. Defenders feel it’s unfair to force anyone to label themselves as one thing in order to validate their gender or creative expression.

Styles, without prompting, points out how silly he finds some of the arguments about how he may identify to be: “Sometimes people say, ‘You’ve only publicly been with women,’ and I don’t think I’ve publicly been with anyone. If someone takes a picture of you with someone, it doesn’t mean you’re choosing to have a public relationship or something.”

Of late, this can be contested. While he is everywhere, so is Olivia Wilde. The pair met on the set of Don’t Worry Darling, which she directed (more on that in a moment), then made a splash when paparazzi snapped them holding hands at his manager and close friend Jeffrey Azoff’s wedding in January 2021.

Wilde and Styles have said little about the relationship, and rumours have filled the space. Anonymous tweeters acted appalled at their age difference (as if a 28-year-old man dating a 38-year-old woman isn’t completely normal) and criticised the director-actor dating dynamic (as if there isn’t a long history of beloved Hollywood couples meeting the same way).

More intense and jarring was a corner of Styles’s fandom that has made fun of Wilde’s dancing or made lengthy Twitter threads and TikTok videos cancelling her for bad or insensitive jokes made a decade ago. If Styles is already held up to a high standard, his potential partners are held to an unreachable one for some of his fans.

Styles is not the most online person — he uses Instagram to look at plants and architecture posts, has never had the TikTok app, and calls Twitter “a shitstorm of people trying to be awful to people” — but he’s still aware of how those small, toxic corners of the internet are treating the people closest to him. “That obviously doesn’t make me feel good,” he says, carefully. It’s a tightrope he’s treading in discussing this. He wants to — and does! — see the good in his fans, but there’s no denying that like every large online community, this one has a faction that runs on hate and anonymity.

Even with the boundaries he’s set between his public and private lives, sometimes “other people blur the lines for you”, he says. There’s a conversation he has to have early in a relationship, no matter how weird or premature it may feel. “Can you imagine,” he says, “going on a second date with someone and being like, ‘OK, there’s this corner of the thing, and they’re going to say this, and it’s going to be really crazy, and they’re going to be really mean, and it’s not real…. But anyway, what do you want to eat?’”

“Everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it”

While Styles takes comfort in knowing his whole fandom is not like that, he still wonders about how to respond when the noise gets too loud. “It’s obviously a difficult feeling to feel like being close to me means you’re at the ransom of a corner of Twitter or something,” he says. “I just wanted to sing. I didn’t want to get into it if I was going to hurt people like that.”

When asked about her experience with his fans, Wilde is diplomatic. Like Styles, she believes in what they stand for as a collective, calling them “deeply loving people” who have fostered an accepting community. “What I don’t understand about the cruelty you’re referencing is that that kind of toxic negativity is the antithesis of Harry, and everything he puts out there,” she tells me. “I don’t personally believe the hateful energy defines his fan base at all. The majority of them are true champions of kindness.”

Styles became a leading man when he was four years old, starring in a play called Barney the Church Man. Later, he transformed into Buzz Lightyear in a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang “because Buzz Lightyear was in the toy shop for some reason”. His other early theatre credits include: Razamatazz in Bugsy Malone (“the band leader”) and the Elvis-inspired Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (He would later audition for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, but was deemed too iconic by the director.)

But as Styles was preparing the release of his solo debut in 2017, he took his first foray back into acting, with a supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk. (The director said he had no idea how famous Styles was when he cast him.) By the time Marvel recruited him to become Eros, director Chloé Zhao had no one else but Styles in mind for the role. Thanos’s more heroic brother is portrayed in the comics as an intergalactic playboy of sorts, with superhuman strength and the ability to control people’s emotions (a fitting role for the planet’s hottest pop star). MCU boss Kevin Feige recently teased more from Styles, though so far, his only appearance has been the Eternals’ post-credits scene, alongside the Patton Oswalt-voiced Pip. “It’d be funny if that was it, wouldn’t it?” he jokes of his cameo.

Styles’s role in Dunkirk grabbed Wilde’s attention as she was beginning to map out Don’t Worry Darling. He was an early contender for the role of Jack, a charming but secretive husband to Florence Pugh’s increasingly troubled Alice. And Styles had plenty of reasons to be interested in Don’t Worry Darling. Wilde’s second feature film as a director reportedly started a bidding war among 18 studios, following the success of her directorial debut, Booksmart.

Pre-pandemic talks between Styles and the Darling team didn’t make it far; he was, after all, due on a global tour for most of 2020. Instead, Shia LaBeouf won the role, but by the end of that summer, Wilde had reportedly booted the actor for poor on-set behaviour.

“I’d wanted to act again,” Styles says. He spent a lot of the pandemic watching movies with his quarantine set of friends and collaborators: he rescreened favourites like the 2012 Belgian drama The Broken Circle Breakdown. Some nights, he and his friends would put a bunch of titles in a hat and choose. (“There was a couple different tastes in the house, so it was between, like, Parasite and Coyote Ugly.”)

Styles was announced as LaBeouf’s replacement a month before filming began. He proved perfect for the role of Jack, who’s brought Alice to the remote, fictional American town of Victory to work on a secret project the men at the company won’t tell their wives about. Jack’s become a star employee and is desperate for his boss’s approval. “We were looking for someone with innate warmth and palpable charm,” Wilde says. “The entire story depended on the audience believing in Jack.”

At the start, he was understandably anxious about taking on such a large role alongside stars like Pugh, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Nick Kroll. “In music, there’s such an immediate response to what you do. You finish a song and people clap,” he says. “When you’re filming and they say ‘Cut,’ there’s maybe part of you that expects everyone to start clapping, [but] they don’t. Everyone, obviously, goes back to doing their jobs, and you’re like, ‘Oh, shit, was it that bad?’” (Being an actor reminded him of session musicians: “You get called in to do your bit, and then someone else puts it all together and makes it.”)

The risk may pay off: he and Pugh are already getting awards season buzz. Wilde says one moment “left us all in tears” — Jack’s promotion scene during a big company gala. “It’s a strange scene, full of fascist references, and a disturbing amount of male rage,” Wilde says. “The scene called for him to stand onstage with Frank (Chris Pine) and chant their creepy slogan, ‘Whose world is it? Ours!’ over and over again. Dark as hell. But Harry took it to another level. He was so fully in the moment, he began screaming the lines to the crowd, in this primal roar, that was way more intense than anything we expected from the scene.”

According to Wilde, Pine backed away, understanding this was Harry’s moment. “The camera operator followed him as he paced around the stage like a kind of wild animal,” Wilde remembers. “We were all gobsmacked at the monitor. I think even Harry was surprised by it. Those are the best moments for an actor — when you’re completely outside your body.”

Within weeks, Styles went from the set of Darling to shooting the more intimate My Policeman. He had read the script the year prior, moved by the story enough to have contacted director Michael Grandage and request a meeting. Styles showed up with every line memorised.

Styles plays Tom, a policeman who develops feelings for a museum curator named Patrick (David Dawson). Set in the 50s, when it was still illegal to be in a same-sex relationship in the UK, the pair move in secret while Tom pursues a marriage with a schoolteacher named Marion (Emma Corrin). The film shifts between the past and the present, when the three reunite under dire circumstances. “It’s obviously pretty unfathomable now to think, ‘Oh, you couldn’t be gay. That was illegal,’” Styles says. “I think everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it.” To him, My Policeman is a very human story. “It’s not like, ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay.’ It’s about love and about wasted time to me.”

According to Styles, Grandage wanted to highlight what sex is really like between two men in the scenes between Tom and Patrick. “So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it,” Styles continues. “There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay, and [Michael] wanted to show that it’s tender and loving and sensitive.”

Darling and Policeman make their big premieres at prestigious film festivals in Venice and Toronto late this summer, but Styles isn’t sure his pivot to the silver screen will be permanent. “I don’t imagine I’d do a movie for a while,” he says. There are rumours about how many Marvel movies he’s signed on for and other franchises he might be secretly in talks to do. (In response to a rumour he’ll be starring in a future Star Wars series, he says, “That’s the first I’ve heard of that. I’d imagine… false.”)

Like a true tousled-haired prince, Styles invites me to attend a concert with him by the philharmonic in Hamburg, eight hours before his own show.

On past tours, he says, “I was getting to a lot of cities and feeling like ‘I’ve been here six times and I’ve never seen any of it.’” This tour, he’s been taking in a lot of architecture. “It’s something I can do on my own, just sit somewhere and look at stuff,” he says.

Studying the finer points of buildings fits the regimented, disciplined and distinctly grown-up tour life he’s created. Styles has found himself enamoured with routine on the road: 10 hours of sleep a night, IV injections pumping him with nutrients and vitamins, a strict acid-reflux-conscious diet that cuts out coffee, alcohol and certain foods that affect the throat 50,000 fans are depending on. Last night, he slept with two humidifiers that apparently made it look like he was stepping out of a steam room when he opened his hotel room door.

The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg — “Elphi” for short — is a striking structure, looking something like a gorgeous sail. Styles is wearing the same outfit as when I met him in the hotel the day before, only with shorts swapped out for pinstripe pants and a surgical mask covering his face. He and I are both late and can’t be let into the show until intermission, so instead we comb through the backstage hallways and elevators to see rooms built for incredible acoustics and sweeping views of Hamburg. He marvels at all of it. In a temperature controlled room full of pianos, he asks our tour guide which is the best (“Is there a shining star?”) before sitting down at one and playing for a couple of dreamy, Beatlesque minutes. (He’d mentioned earlier that he spent last summer playing piano every day with his morning coffee.) He has questions about panelling. And like a true tourist, he takes pictures of everything.

The first time I ever met Styles was a lot like this. On his first headlining tour, in San Francisco in 2017, I went backstage to interview Kid Harpoon. Styles stumbled into the room where I was waiting, strolling around less like a headliner with fans lined up around the block and more like the lighting guy. Here was someone who is inexplicably difficult to casually enjoy (you watch one video of One Direction’s funniest interview moments on YouTube and suddenly you’re contemplating how many of their cardboard cutouts you can fit in your dorm) acting so casually. He greeted me then like an old friend, not someone who was still refusing to let go of a One Direction keychain at the time. He asked me how I had been, what I was up to in San Francisco, and if I was excited for the show. Of course I remember every second of it.

Styles has a gift for making those in his presence feel seen. Just ask fans who bump into him on walks through Central Park or Hampstead Heath, then detail those moments as if they had met the pope (granted, the pope could never pull off a hair claw).

Before the second half of the concert at the Elphi, the crowd mingles and grabs drinks. As we walk through, Styles goes unnoticed. (The mask helps.) It’s funny to watch one of the world’s biggest pop stars move through space with such ease, as if he’s blissfully unaware of how well-known he is.

“If you make your life about the fact that you can’t go anywhere and everything has to be a big deal, then that’s what your life becomes,” he says. “Now, in London, I walk everywhere. It’s hard to stumble across things and restaurants and places and stuff if you’re just driving everywhere, and it’s just not that fun.”

Styles outlines his upcoming months for me: in August, after he wraps his European tour in Lisbon, he’ll go on holiday with some friends, maybe catch up on the Love Island season he was “gutted” to miss, or see if The Bear is as good as everyone tells him it is. The next leg of his tour includes stops in LA, New York, Austin and Chicago as extended residencies, a decision that meets his personal need for a less strenuous touring schedule and a professional need to be able to attend film festivals and rent studios to write and record music for his fourth album. “I’m always writing,” he says. He and his collaborators are already throwing around ideas. “I think all of us are so excited to get back to it, which feels insane because we’ve just put an album out.”

“What I value the most from my friends is I’m reminded that it’s OK to be flawed. I’m pretty messy and make mistakes sometimes”

More than ever, he is thinking about the future. He wants to take meaningful time off at some point — from touring at least, he’s always writing — and ensure he’s a more present figure for his family and friends. In turn, he’s learned to define what real love looks like to him. “The fantasy, or the vision, or the version of you that people can build you up to be feels like a person that isn’t flawed,” he explains. “What I value the most from my friends is I feel like I’m constantly reminded that it’s OK to be flawed. I think I’m pretty messy and make mistakes sometimes. I think that’s the most loving thing: you can see someone’s imperfections, and it’s not [that you] love them in spite of that, but it’s [that you] love them with that.”

He’s thinking about what he wants to say, too. Styles admits he was uninterested in politics as a teenager, oblivious to things that didn’t personally affect him. But as he grew more famous, he worried about that, too. “I took a massive look at myself,” he says, “and was like, ‘Oh, I don’t do enough… or anything.” When conversations around anti-Blackness and inaction reached a fever pitch in 2020, Styles marched in the streets and read books like How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi, and The Will to Change, by bell hooks. He started thinking about racial and gender equity, especially as someone who employs many people on the road. “Pretending as a white person you don’t get a head start just isn’t true,” he says.

We were hanging out right after Roe v. Wade had been overturned in America. “I can’t begin to imagine how terrifying it is to be a woman in America at the moment,” he says. He’ll grab a fan’s sign that reads “My Body, My Choice” at the Hamburg show, displaying it proudly onstage. There’s an energy in the crowds that fills him with careful optimism. “I feel lucky to see a group of people, even just on this tour, who come together in a way,” he says. “I think that group of people is so much less afraid of opening the wound, talking about it, and doing the work, than the generation before us.”

As we wait for the philharmonic’s packed show to restart, I notice a few young girls with their families in the audience and ask Styles what he thinks the crossover between this crowd and his show tonight will be. He looks around at the mostly older faces and goes, “Less than one per cent… I know I’ll be at both.”

Styles watches the orchestra studiously. When the conductor leaves and then returns to a standing ovation, Styles whispers, “He’s about to play his big hit.” Even when he’s not peacocking in front of 50,000, he’s still trying to entertain the one person he’s with.

We walk out before the crowd fully disperses. Styles lingers a second to take some photos of the room before he heads out to get ready for his concert, where he’ll bounce around the stage, lifted by the wails of young fans who have been waiting years for this moment.

His fans will linger tonight, too, crowding in the hundreds outside Volksparkstadion. They’ll take photos of their outfits, their tear- and sweat-stained glittery faces, the piles of abandoned boa feathers. They’ll play his big hits back to him, holding a phone light vigil as they sing One Direction’s ‘Night Changes’ or the Fine Line ballad ‘Falling’. As the city echoes as much of him as it can take, he’ll probably be washing it all away.

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Zack vs. Scott

So I recently got chatting to a guy in my local gym who was checking me out as I trained and worked out. I started to notice the tattooed hunk staring at me as I worked out and trained with my partner, Matt. Matt isn’t a jealous guy, but he was starting to get annoyed with the guy, purely because he was now starting to take pictures of me on his cell phone, but making it look he was taking pictures of himself. Matt decided to confront him and asked him what he was up to? Zack the tattooed hunk explained himself and said he was looking for a challenge and was deciding if myself and Matt were gay as he was openly gay himself and loved wrestling, boxing, and especially a hard bareknuckle fight, but struggled to get a proper match up and opponent, plus he found it extremely erotic and a massive turn on. Matt answered his question without hesitation, and asked Zack was it myself or him he wanted to fight. Zack explained it was me he wanted to fight.

Zack continued to say he wanted stakes, was even confident he was going to win by saying he would fuck the two of us after knocking me out. Zack explained if he lost, which was highly unlikely that myself and Matt could do what ever we wanted to do to him. Matt said to him your a cocky fucker aren’t you, but Scott will be happy to put you in your fuckin place bitch. Zack came right back at Matt and said, oh don’t worry pussy I will take your guy down with ease bitch, your fuckin arses are mine and I will fuckin own you both punk.

I could see the tension building up between the two of them as I moved over towards them both. Zack looked me up and down and said you up for a fuckin beating punk, cos I’m sure going to give you a beating you won’t forget for a long time bitch. Shut your fuckin mouth bitch I said and let’s get this sorted bitch. Zack said your gonna fuckin regret that pretty boy Zack went to check if the private ring was free in the gym, and sure enough it was.

The doors were closed and locked to ensure complete privacy while myself and Zack stepped into the ring to fight and resolve our situation and issues towards each other. Zack said knock out decides the winner and no fuckin mercy will be shown in this fight, and that’s a fuckin promise pussy. I call myself Zack the tattooed fuck you up brawler, I said they call me Scott the blonde stone cold stunner. Zack laughed at me and said after I’ve finished with you pussy they will be call you the blonde pussy arse bitch. I stood and glared back at Zack thinking to myself this fuckin bitch needs putting in his place.

Enough bull shit I said let’s get this fuckin sorted punk. Both of us were wearing skin tight trackie trousers, Zack was wearing black Adidas and trainers and I was wearing blue Nike and white trainers. Matt said he would referee outside of the ring and jump in the ring to count or stop the fight when needed.

It was evident Zack had the weight advantage over me and height advantage standing at 6’4 , and myself standing at 6’2, but that certainly wasn’t going to stop me from giving Zack a hard fuckin beating. Zack flexed his guns saying get ready punk cos these fuckin guns are going to blow you away cunt.

Soon the two of us were packing some heat with our fists and trading hard vicious punches too each others mouths, heads, faces, jaws, abs and ribs.......wallop wallop wham wham kaapoow kaapoow wallop wallop bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam.......

Zack soon realised that he wasn’t in for an easy fight as I matched him blow by blow, punch by punch and jab by jab. Zack connected with some impressive solid hard punches too my face, jaw, head, mouth, abs, and ribs and in return I did the same against him.

Zack soon felt the full force of my right uppercut to his jaw stunning him and sending him down to the canvas as I connected with his jaw wallop and snapping his head back hard........Zack slammed his fists down hard onto the canvas and stood up and blocked a further right left combo from me and connected with a hard right left combo to my face and jaw kaapoow wallop followed by a hard solid barrage of punches to my abs and ribs bam bam bam bam bam bam, followed by a hard right uppercut to my jaw wallop sending me stumbling back onto the ropes. Zack connected with a further hard solid left right to my jaw and mouth wallop wallop as I bounced off the ropes sending me sprawling back and down to the canvas.......

Zack stood over me and flexed shouting nobody puts me down and fuckin gets away with it you fuckin bitch. I stood up and blocked a further combo of punches from Zack and connected with a hard combo to vicious punches too his abs, ribs, face, mouth, jaw and head.....bam bam bam bam bam kaapoow wallop wallop wham....Zack countered with a hard combo of his own to my jaw, mouth, face, head, abs and ribs wallop wallop kaapoow wham bam bam bam bam. Zack blocked a right from me and connected with a further right left combo to my jaw and mouth wallop wallop.......I caught Zack was a hard right left combo to his face and jaw kaapoow wallop followed by a hard combo of gutpunches to his abs and ribs bam bam bam bam, face kaapoow jaw wallop mouth wallop uuuurrrggghhhh aaaarrrgggghhhh........Zack said eat this fuckin bitch as he connected with a hard right to my mouth wallop........fuck you bitch I said as I landed at hard right left to his jaw and mouth followed by a hard solid combo of punches to his abs and ribs bam bam bam bam bam bam bam followed by a cracking right uppercut to his jaw stunning him and sending him stumbling and staggering back as his head snapped back wallop......Zack hit the corner turn buckle as I moved in fast towards him and connected with a further crushing combo too his abs and ribs followed by a further solid right uppercut to his jaw stunning him even more sending him crashing down to the canvas.......hell yeah punk not so fuckin tough now are you fucker I said.......

Zack just beat the count and stood up........fuckin cunt Zack said your fuckin going out cold bitch, as he moved towards me......I blocked a further right left combo from him and connected with a hard solid vicious combo of punches to his face jaw mouth abs and ribs kaapoow wallop wallop bam bam bam bam followed by another hard right uppercut to his jaw stunning him even further as he staggered back onto the ropes.......Zack bounced off the ropes as I caught him with a cracking right left combo to his face and jaw kaapoow wallop sending him stumbling around the ring as I started too dance side to side and around him connecting with hard blows, punches, and jabs to his body, face, mouth, jaw and head.....bam bam bam bam kaapoow wallop wallop wham wallop wallop kaapoow wham bam bam wallop wallop kaapoow wham......Zack eyes started too glass over as I shouted lights out bitch and connected with a hard cracker of a right uppercut......Zack crashed to the canvas out cold and was counted out by Matt.......

Shortly after Zack came round, we hit the showers and then headed back to our place to claim our prize..........

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adidas and LES MILLS Unveil Innovative New Training Offering Built for Next Gen Fitness Fans

Meeting the most active generation where they are - adidas and Les Mills debuted first chapter of partnership, delivering over 10,000 workouts over the course of the weekend at LES MILLS LIVE L.A.

Training offering built alongside international research across 16–26-year-old next gen athletes reveals ‘Strength’ training as their top workout type[1] whilst 68%[2] say they are more likely to exercise in high-energy training spaces

New science-backed strength workout LES MILLS SHAPESÔ presented with adidas had its global launch at LES MILLS LIVE L.A. supported by adidas’ innovative training wear – Dropset 2 and the FW23 Strength Collection

This weekend, adidas and Les Mills took to the stage in Los Angeles, the home of fitness, for LES MILLS LIVE L.A. – the biggest event of its 2023 world tour. The two sports powerhouses showcased the future of training with world-class Les Mills trainers captivating thousands of fitness fans including adidas athletes Nia Dennis, Giselle Rodriguez and Francheska Martinez. Stronger together, the two brands launched some of the most powerful fitness programs, supported by adidas’ latest strength product innovations, with a focus on building a stronger mind and body for a worldwide community. The partnership is underpinned by membership rewards and benefits across adiClub and LES MILLS+, to create access like never before for members across the world.

To get closer than ever to the next gen community’s training attitudes and behaviours the partnership leverages data gathered from over 4,000 16-26-year-olds. Harnessing the knowledge that in the gym, 71% of Gen Z athletes enjoy bodyweight training, 63% practice Pilates, while 57% like to do yoga sessions[3], the partnership launches brand new workout LES MILLS SHAPES, presented with adidas. Expertly developed to meet the needs of the next gen, the strength-focused workout is inspired by Pilates, barre, and power yoga. The program has undergone rigorous testing with the next-gen community by scientific experts, with a University of the Fraser Valley study unearthing key improvements it can have on performance. This includes, back and abdominal endurance – helping to build core control and functional strength.

Complementing the new workout, and as part of adidas’ commitment to training as a sport, the collaboration spotlights its next iteration of high-performance adidas training apparel and footwear – the Dropset 2 and FW23 Strength Collection. With ‘Strength’ training revealed as the number one workout type for this community, the products have been designed to provide optimal fit and performance for this type of training.

Worn by world-renowned Les Mills trainers for the filming of LES MILLS SHAPES, presented with adidas,plus additional strength-based workouts, the adidas Dropset 2 features a low midsole drop height to provide athletes with a flatter grounding for stability and alignment, all whilst helping to distribute weight evenly when transferring force from feet to the ground. Whilst the Strength Collection brings comfort and functionality to the fore, made in part with at least 30% recycled materials, each piece incorporates adidas’ AEROREADY technology, to help the athlete feel dry during every power move.

With 72%[4] of 16-26 year old regular exercisers working out both in the gym and outside of it – LES MILLS SHAPES presented with adidas will be available both on the LES MILLS+ Training App and in-gym from early August. Providing the next generation with access, value and rewards, the partnership will offer members of adidas’s free global membership programme - adiClub - with generous discounts for LES MILLS+ Training App subscriptions. They’ll also have the opportunity to unlock redeemable adiClub points every time they complete an in-app Les Mills workout, including LES MILLS SHAPES presented with adidas. For more details on discounts and how to sign up, please follow this link.

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I like to travel and I do special Olympics basketball I am athletic I go to the gym working hard healthy food be fit I like to do yoga eating healthy drink healthy be fit I like music. My favorite thing that I like to do running on the beach because my dream job is. personal fitness trainer at the gym to help people at the gym. Only being at the gym because of my favorite thing. I like doing the weights at the gym I like be around trainers at the gym. I was thinking about go online college making money. I was thinking about looking another dog Chihuahua is rescue service dog for me. I like technology tech sabby to help. I'll let the view of the beach sundown I like looking at the city lights in San Diego and at Los Angeles and I do like NBA Lakers and women's basketball Sparks. I like to travel to vacation I always taking my time grocery sopping. I like taking time clothes shopping and shorts walking out after gym Nike outlet store and Adidas clothings under armor outlet store. And other store is Aldi's BJ's I always go there too and that's one of them I always get preparing my own food properly at home because it go by mails I always like vegetables with my meals together because it's more healthy that way at home is still going out to eat is not healthy. I like exercise because it's my favorite thing at the gym I always stay busy

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𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬@𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙖_ 𝙘𝙤𝗽𝗽𝗲𝙣. _𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙨

@𝐣𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧.(here; The Boss)

.joshuacoppen Come on a 10km run with me 🔥

Morning routine:

Woke up 7:00am

Brush teeth

Eat (protein oats and honey + coffee) 7:15am

Get dressed

Digest food

Have electrolytes and water 7:45am

Stretch

Run 7:50-8:45am

Shower

Eat 9:10am

Workout top @umbro

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Shoes @hoka @hoka_eu

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𝗜'𝗠 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗛𝗨𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡 ( He is one god)

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Model, trainer, graduate in History and Brutally perfect

This is the 𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 for 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻. He is not responsible for the comments, opinions etc .. of this page that is subject to Joshua Coppen will retract, act or apologize if 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻 considers it so.

This page will always respect, abide by and obey the decisions, orders and directives of 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵𝘂𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻

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- Age: 22 ( Jan 18 2001)

- Capricorn

- Height: 1.85 cm

- Chest: 103 cm

- foot: 45

- hair: dark brown

- eyes: greenish brown

- Smile : ( the most beautiful in the world )

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: ON Running Women’s Cloud 5 - Undyed White/White - W10 / UK8.

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marcopollio · 4 months

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: New Balance y2k 812 Womens Walking Shoes Size 9.5 tan sneakers shoes shoe.

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urbanthreads · 4 months

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Streetwear vs. Athleisure: The Fashion Face-Off

What is Streetwear? Streetwear, a style born in the heart of urban landscapes, traces its origins to the surf and skate culture of California in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It's a blend of hip-hop fashion, punk, and sportswear elements, evolving with each subculture it touches. The essence of streetwear lies in its rebellious spirit, a form of self-expression that goes against mainstream fashion norms. Key Elements of Streetwear: - Bold Graphics and Logos: Streetwear often features oversized logos and bold graphic designs. - Exclusive Drops: Limited edition releases create a sense of exclusivity and a cult following. - High-End Collaborations: Collaborations with designers and luxury brands are commonplace. - Sneaker Culture: Sneakers are a cornerstone, with brands like Nike and Adidas dominating the scene. - Layering: The art of layering is central, with hoodies, jackets, and oversized shirts. What is Athleisure? Athleisure is the fusion of athletic wear with leisure clothing, a trend that signifies a shift towards functionality and comfort in everyday fashion. It emerged in the 2010s, driven by a growing interest in health and fitness and the desire for versatile clothing that fits a busy lifestyle. Athleisure is about blending performance wear with style, making it suitable for the gym, the office, or a casual day out. Key Elements of Athleisure:

- Performance Fabrics: High-tech materials that offer comfort, flexibility, and moisture-wicking properties. - Minimalistic and Sleek: The design leans towards a clean, minimalistic aesthetic. - Versatility: Clothes are designed to transition seamlessly from workout to social settings. - Sporty Influences: Inspirations from yoga, dance, and gym wear. - Comfort and Functionality: Emphasis on comfort, with pieces like leggings, sports bras, and trainers. Comparing and Contrasting While both styles prioritize comfort and have roots in sportswear, their expressions and cultural significance differ greatly. - Cultural Origins: Streetwear is deeply intertwined with urban youth culture and music, while athleisure is a product of the health and wellness movement. - Aesthetic: Streetwear is edgier, often oversized, and makes a bold statement. Athleisure, on the other hand, is more about sleekness and subtlety. - Functionality vs. Fashion Statement: Athleisure is designed for performance and comfort, whereas streetwear is more about making a fashion statement. - Community and Identity: Streetwear often fosters a sense of community and identity among its followers, while athleisure is more individualistic and lifestyle-oriented. The Blurring Lines In recent years, we've seen a blurring of lines between these two styles. Brands traditionally associated with one are dabbling in the other, creating interesting crossovers. For example, athletic brands are incorporating street style elements, and streetwear brands are experimenting with performance fabrics. Final Thoughts Both streetwear and athleisure reflect the changing dynamics of fashion, where comfort, functionality, and self-expression take center stage. Whether you gravitate towards the bold and rebellious streetwear or the sleek and functional athleisure, there’s no denying the impact these styles have had on the fashion landscape. As these trends continue to evolve, they remind us that fashion is not just about clothes; it's a reflection of culture, lifestyle, and personal identity. Whether you're a streetwear aficionado or an athleisure enthusiast, the key is to wear what resonates with your personal style and lifestyle. Embrace the trend that speaks to you, and don't be afraid to mix elements from both to create your unique fashion statement!

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ranjith11 · 8 months

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The Best Gym Trainers Ever | Adidas Yeezy Boost 350

Here we discuss The best gym trainers Ever , as well as the benefits and comfortability of adidas yeezy 350s, Watch the video to know more

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yenso · 5 months

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⸻ THE RIGHT KIND OF MOTIVATION ﹙GOJO SATURO﹚

（IMAGINE）﹔gojo pushing you to do your very best at the gym !

(⛔️) smut (porn with plot) ﹢inappropriate use of gym equipment ﹢swearing ﹢ fire hydrant (a sex position) ﹢ ripping clothing (briefly mentioned) ﹢usage of nicknames ﹢ clothing description for the reader ﹢established relationship !

a/n: this is my way of coping on how the last episode went about nanami ! have fun reading !

what's life without a little bit of excitement here and there? some found it within course of their day-to-day life, while others received that ruse of excitement by participating in highly adrenaline-driven activities. in your case? your form of excitement came as a tall, white-haired man whose eyes rivaled the glimmer of sapphires. the same man that was standing in front of your peaceful, slumbering figure.

"c’mon sweetcheeks, you promised to come with me at the gym today." his playful voice traveled into your ear as a handful of light kisses against your cheek made you groan tiredly—turning your body away from the loving touch as an attempt to flee the inevitable doom that was waiting for you in a skin-tight tank top, gray sweatpants, a pair of white adidas sneakers and a charming smile on his lips. the sweatband kept his locks of hair from obscuring his sight. "in ten minutes we're going to hit the gym like we planned yesterday, remember?" as a reply, you pulled the thick covers of your bed over your body, letting the warmth and darkness embrace you. you knew you've kept chattering gojo's head off about wanting to start hitting the gym more as a healthy activity; just running up the treadmill. lifting a few weights. the basics honestly. you weren't looking to train like a soldier. a simple goal for simple results.

it was just...if only you could find the motivation to get out of bed.

"gojo, it's six o'clock in the morning. please give me five more minutes." from how deeply you pressed your head against your soft, big pillows, your voice was barely audible. "pretty please, baby? just five more minutes. nothing more than that." as much as he wanted to let you have your way, especially by how adorable you looked to him, gojo knew that you would end up sleeping for much then just 'five' minutes. "nah, get your pretty face up and get dressed. or do you want me to carry you out of the bed like the princess you are?" dating the man for quite some time has let you find out that, most of the time, he means what he says. even when his words come over as a form of jesting.

"fine, fine. i'll come along. you own me breakfast after this."

once you've put your feet inside of your house slippers, you go preparing yourself for the day. changing from your pajamas to a matching set that includes a white hoodie, seamless leggings, and a pair of trainers to finish it all off. after a swift ten minute walk of the two of you having pleasant conversations― you've reached your destination, the gym.

"alright, you're ready to break a sweat, babe? trust me, you're going to feel much better with blood pumpin’ through your veins." the arena was rather deserted since it was so early in the morning. leaving both of you with the choice to use whatever equipment was available. with a reluctant nod, the two of you parted ways.

now laying down onto the bench, the man finds himself grunting and huffing during every rep he does. his chest heaving as his hands tightened on the metal bar that was holding the heavy weights he had attached on the sides. his muscles tensing and bulging against his tank top in some measure. a delicious sight to feast on. and to the intensity of your gaze burning on his skin, he wasn't obvious to it. as a matter of fact, how you tried desperately to pretend you were ogling him once he caught you looking at him with such...appetite brought a cocky grimace onto his face. the imprint of his dick getting more apparent by the minute. and more uncomfortable the longer he kept himself from doing anything to it. "you doing good over there, angel?" he placed the barbell onto the handles of the fitness gear and approached you standing at the free weights― wrapping his sturdy arms around your waist, bringing your ass right against his hardened cock. grinding it right between your cheeks. his breath was hot against your ear. "seems like your mind is not that focused on those weights you're holding, huh? how ’bout you put them down for a sec? i got an exercise in my mind that needs you to use all of your muscles. it will be fun. trust me on that." if only you would've believed him.

"g―gojo! you're going to pay for that!" the barbell has been replaced by your legs spread apart by the handles of the equipment. several drops of your arousal fell onto the faux leather of the weight bench underneath your body. all due to your boyfriend ripping a hole into your legging out of impatience. gojo was standing right behind you, smirking as he got to rubbing his reddish tip right against your soaked entrance while giving your butt a good squeeze. "yea, yea. i'll let you use one of my black cards so you can buy yourself a new pair in no time, y/n. now go ahead and arch that beautiful back of yours for me. just like that." he stares down at your back, his finger tracing down your spine― you bite your bottom lip harshly while he eases his dick inside. "ffuck yes, you feel amazing.."

the grip of his fingers around your hips was definitely going to leave markings. your spongy walls leaving a coating of moisture all over his cock as you felt his hips repeatedly ramming up against your rear. a rough pace that turned your mind into slop and your muscles tense. the recoil of your ass against his pelvis made his dick throb and twitch. every one of his thrusts stringed out moans from the depths of your throat. his cockhead kept kissing your cervix over and over again. he nibbled onto your earlobe, mocking the high-pitched moans you were making. "'oh, gojo! yea! oh, yes!' do you even hear yourself, baby? you sound so nasty. i fuckin’ love it." "oh god, gojo―!" not caring if your words started to transform into a bundle of blabber as more driblets of fluids got out of your puffy cunt that his balls continue smacking against. you let your body do the talking instead.

"goddamnit you are gettin’ so tight around me." he grunts, his movements getting more sloppy. "you gettin’ close, huh? cum for me, baby. i want you to lose that cute mind of yours." that alone was enough to push you over the edge into a pool of pleasure. your eyes rolled into your skull, all of your senses were overloaded. ropes of his creamy seed sprouting against your walls. gojo whistled at the view once he pulled out of your pussy. his face flushed with a rosy hue. letting out a breathy chuckle. "you're tired yet? or would you like to stretch to cool down, y/n?"

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