In high school, my masochistic P.E. teacher liked to put students through a series of fitness tests every few months to determine our grades. One of these was an isometric chin-up hold in the top position ... Continue Reading
Amazon Is Releasing Their Own Fitness Tracker
Amazon! They’re the biggest online retailer in the world (take that, Alibaba) and the third most valuable publicly traded company after Apple and Microsoft. They can make anything they want! They could ... Continue Reading
Kristine Best: First-Time CrossFit Games Competitor Talks Breaking Through and Training for the Unknown
Kristine Best’s quest to qualify for the CrossFit Games started in 2014 when she placed 21st at the North East Regional competition. Every year since then, she has contended, but has never quite broken ... Continue Reading
North Carolina
North Carolina’s 50 Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 Spanning various terrains, North Carolina is a state that presents more than just southern charm. The Appalachian Mountains in the ... Continue Reading
New Mexico
New Mexico’s Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 Nicknamed The Land of Enchantment, New Mexico offers a wide array of vivid landscapes, national parks, and indoor recreations to keep any ... Continue Reading
Pedro Meloni: The Future of Weightlifting Events in a Pandemic (Podcast)
Today we're talking to Pedro Meloni, Events & Sponsorships Director at USA Weightlifting. Prior to his role with USA Weightlifting, Pedro was the Weightlifting and Powerlifting Sport Manager for the ... Continue Reading
North Dakota
North Dakota’s Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 North Dakota’s long history of preserving natural resources makes this a top destination for healthy, outdoor lifestyles. The Theodore ... Continue Reading
New York
New York’s 50 Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 New York ranks among the top states in the country for its health culture, being a haven for the fitness and mindfulness gurus. The New ... Continue Reading
4 Hanging Band Exercises That Can Improve Your Powerlifts
Remember the ‘functional training’ craze when people were squatting and pressing on all kinds of unstable surfaces? Barbell squats on Swiss balls? The thought was they achieved better muscle activation and ... Continue Reading
Could You Just Live On Meal Replacement Shakes?
There was a very popular meal replacement that was all the rage in 2013 — Soylent, we're talking about Soylent — whose inventor lived on it for one month straight and said he felt superb. Better skin, ... Continue Reading
Strongman Contests and Safety: How the Sport Can Adapt to Social Distancing
With every state setting it’s own recommendations for Social Distancing, traveling from other places, and what businesses can operate, holding an athletic event can be a nightmare. COVID has canceled ... Continue Reading
New Jersey
New Jersey’s 50 Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 New Jersey is one of the top ten healthiest states in the nation, ranked for its inclination to healthy behaviors, access to healthcare, ... Continue Reading
Nevada
Nevada’s Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 Located predominantly in the Great Basin, Nevada is home to rolling deserts lands, mountain ranges with thick forests, and major rivers. Lake ... Continue Reading
More Than 1RMs: 4 Ways to Measure Your Progress In Weightlifting
Every sport measures success differently, but whether you’re using a stopwatch or a scoreboard, numbers are always involved in determining the podium finish. In Olympic weightlifting, the gold medal ... Continue Reading
Vilma Olsson Squats 14lb Over IPF World Record at 21 Years Old
At just 21-year-old, Vilma Olsson of Sweden has already made a name for herself in competitive powerlifting in the -72kg weight class. She made her debut with a win at the 2017 at the Svenska Styrkelyft ... Continue Reading
How CrossFit Athlete Games Athlete Jacob Heppner Recovers
While the CrossFit Games are altering their form this year, 4x Games athlete Jacob Heppner is staying on schedule this offseason. In a recent video shared on his YouTube channel, Heppner lets viewers in on ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Games Athlete Mike Fournier Dies Fighting California Wildfires
Mike Fournier began competing in CrossFit in 2012. He competed at the 2013 CrossFit Games in the 45-49 Masters division where he scaled the podium with a third place finish. On August 19th, while piloting ... Continue Reading
Ohio
Ohio’s 50 Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 Ohio is known for its deep love of football, a passion that comes to life through top tier football teams, fitness training programs, and ... Continue Reading
New Hampshire
New Hampshire’s 50 Top Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020 New England charm meets major recreational activities in New Hampshire, a state known for being a great place to experience all four ... Continue Reading
Steph Chung: Community, CrossFit, and Competition Goals (Podcast)
Today we're talking to Steph Chung, an elite CrossFit athlete who’s also on the executive committee of the Professional Fitness Athlete’s Association. After a lengthy gymnastics career in the US, Steph ... Continue Reading
3 Tips for Picking the Best Weightlifting Accessory Exercises
Olympic weightlifting is a sport, like many others, that requires a ton of repetition. Repeating the same movements over and over again with the goal of chasing perfection. Over time, due to unique ... Continue Reading
Macro Counting Might Bring Results, But At What Cost?
To say my client Trish has had success counting her macros is a huge understatement. Since January, 2019, she has lost 50 pounds, looks and feels incredible, and a recent body composition analysis showed ... Continue Reading
No On-Site Fans Allowed At the 2020 SBD World’s Strongest Man
A spokesperson for the 2020 SBD World’s Strongest Man competition revealed there will be no on-site spectators for the November championship event due to concerns surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ... Continue Reading
3 Partial Range Of Motion Lifts To Boost Your Powerlifting Game
Back in the 1800s, strongmen used partial range of motion (ROM) lifts, like the silver dollar deadlift, to impress the crowds with their feats of strength... because they knew they could lift more weight. ... Continue Reading