Karate was slated to make its long-awaited Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games this year. That's been delayed until 2021—but for Tom Scott, possibly the most decorated karateka (the technical term for practitioners of the martial art) in the United States, training is still of the utmost importance for a shot at representing the nation on the highest stage.
Scott has won just about everything else there is to win in the sport. He's a 15-time national champion, six-time Pan American champion, and the first American to earn the number 1 ranking by the World Karate Federation in 2015. But with this new platform for karate on the horizon, he's eager to add first U.S. Olympian in karate to his accomplishments.

The karateka hosted the Men's Health crew at one of his strength and conditioning training sessions to see what it takes to be a karate champion, both in and out of competition. Scott was joined by his trainer of eight years, Christopher Stratis.