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CJ Cummings

CJ Cummings Just Did a 3.5x Bodyweight Front Squat In His Driveway

CJ Cummings is a 4-time junior world weightlifting champion — he won them consecutively in 2016, 2017, 2018 in the -69kg weight class, and 2019 in the -73kg weight class where he currently competes. The ... Continue Reading

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There Will Not Be Age Group Competition at the 2020 CrossFit Games

It was announced on Thursday, April 30th that the 2020 CrossFit season for age group athletes has come to a close earlier than expected: the "Online Qualifier marks the end of the 2020 season for age group ... Continue Reading

Best Leather Lifting Straps

Best Leather Lifting Straps

When it comes to powerlifting, weightlifting, or strongman, having reliable and durable lifting straps can improve your training involving most movements with a barbell. If you are like most athletes where ... Continue Reading

Kyle Traynor Podcast

Kyle Traynor: Find Your Zen to Build Your Fitness Empire (Podcast)

Kyle Traynor is head of Business Strategy & Mind Performance at Elite Vitality. At Elite Vitality, handfuls of top coaches help new business owners in the fitness industry tackle and prepare for the ... Continue Reading

Mattie Rogers

Mattie Rogers Talks Quarantine, Recovery, And Q&A From Her Ice Bath

Member of Team USA Weightlifting and two-time World Weightlifting Championships silver medalist Mattie Rogers has been posting much more regularly to her YouTube channel since lockdown started, and in her ... Continue Reading

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COVID-19: The Launching Pad to Fix a Broken Fitness Industry?

“The fitness industry is devastated,” wrote a strength and conditioning coach friend of mine on social media a few weeks ago, in a post questioning why we locked down so hard in Vancouver, B.C., where ... Continue Reading

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4 Challenging Pull-Apart Variations For A Stronger Upper Back

Seven years ago, my right shoulder was hurting. My A/C joint was inflamed, and any bilateral pressing movements were out of the question. Life in and outside the gym sucked. The only option was to give ... Continue Reading

7 Upper Body Landmine Exercises for Building Strength and Mass

The landmine is a seriously underutilized tool when it comes to building strength, size, and power. A lot of times the landmine isn't left out of programs due to dislike of the implement, but simply not ... Continue Reading

Arnold and Hafthor

Arnold Sports Festival Announces New Dates for Two 2020 Contests

It’s hard for many people to believe that it’s already been almost two months since the shocking announcement was made by the Arnold Sports Festival that the 2020 Arnold Expo was cancelled and that ... Continue Reading

Kristof De Coninck

Kristof De Coninck Deadlifts 18kg Over His Competition Best — Without a Belt

Kristof De Coninck is an accomplished powerlifter from Belgium who competes in deadlift-only events in the -125kg weight class. The 34-year-old made his competitive debut at the Global Powerlifting ... Continue Reading

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Op-Ed: The “Big 3” Core Exercises You Should Do Every Day

Being injured sucks. Back injuries suck even more. And there are so many connections from your spine to the rest of your body that it's impossible to be prescriptive and say these exercises will fix ... Continue Reading

Noémie Allabert

Check Out Noémie Allabert (-52kg) Squat a 155kg/342lb PR

Noémie Allabert is a powerlifter from France who, like her fellow countrymen, has been putting up extremely heavy lifts recently. Since she entered the competitive powerlifting scene in 2017 at the age of ... Continue Reading

Amanda Lawrence

Amanda Lawrence Squats a Gigantic 255kg/562lb

At only 22 years of age, Amanda Lawrence has already ascended to the highest level of competition on the world stage. In 2019 alone while competing in the -84kg weight class, she took gold at the USA ... Continue Reading

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Study: Low Vs High Training Frequency for Strength and Mass

In the day and age of more, more, more, frequency is often a training variable that is taken to the extremes, but does it need to be? A better question to answer is, "how much does frequency really ... Continue Reading

Caroline Suné

Check Out Caroline Suné Deadlift An Epic 185kg/407lb PR

French powerlifters have been consistently pumping out head spinning PRs lately. Recently Yanis Bouchou deadlifted an unofficial junior world record of 332.5kg/733lb and Prescillia ... Continue Reading

Barbell Mash

Pay Attention to Your Foot and Ankle Mobility: Your Lifts Will Thank You For It

Foot and ankle mobility is a bit like clean drinking water: We take it for granted and don’t truly appreciate its value until we lose access to it. While seeking to improve ankle mobility or stability ... Continue Reading

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15 No-Equipment Moves For Lower Body Hypertrophy

Your muscles respond to training stimulus, and unless you have an awesome home gym, you’re sorely missing your favorite stimuli right now (think barbells). So when you’re training your lower body at home ... Continue Reading

David Meltzer Podcast

David Meltzer: Pro Sports Recovery & Fitness on the Road (Podcast)

David Meltzer is the co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing, and he was formerly CEO of the sports agency that was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. Today, he's an international best-selling author ... Continue Reading

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IWF To Move Operations From Hungary To Switzerland

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be relocating their offices from Budapest, Hungary to Lausanne, Switzerland. Editor's note: This article has been amended to clarify that ... Continue Reading

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Best Resistance Bands With Bar Attachments

Resistance bands with bar attachments usually consist of one or more resistance bands that attach to a bar or bow that can then be used similarly to a barbell. The resistance range offered by each product ... Continue Reading

Single Leg Romanian Deadlift - Push the Hips Back

3 Progressions for Nailing the Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift (RDL)

The single-leg Romanian deadlift (RDL) is one of the most popular unilateral lower body exercises for training the posterior chain and for good reason. The single-leg RDL targets multiple muscle groups, ... Continue Reading

Heidi Stevenson

CrossFit WOD Named After Canadian Mounty Murdered in Nova Scotia Shooting

Canada has experienced the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. On Sunday April 19th, 2020, a mass shooting took place in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia where, according ... Continue Reading

Meg Reardon Podcast

Meg Reardon: Training for the CrossFit Games (While Injured!)

Meg Reardon is a multi-time CrossFit Games athlete living and training out of New York City. One of America's fittest women, Meg gives insight into the life of an elite CrossFitter training at the top ... Continue Reading

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Jujimufu Doesn’t Count Calories — Everything You Want to Know About His Diet

Jon Call, better known as Jujimufu, is a very unusual guy. He's a man who does not take accept dogma of any kind, an athlete who experiments relentlessly with how far he can push his body's boundaries, and ... Continue Reading

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