Mateo Vargas

Senior Correspondent

Mateo Vargas has been covering the personalities of sports for over fifteen years, with bylines in major publications before finding his home at No Bad Reps. He has a unique talent for getting inside the minds of the world's strongest athletes, revealing the discipline and mindset required to compete at the highest level. His profile of a record-breaking powerlifter was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in feature writing. Mateo travels extensively, documenting the evolution of gym culture from underground lifting clubs to global phenomena.