After four days of competition and 11 events for Individuals and Teams, the 2019 Dubai CrossFit Championship has determined its winners. Sara Sigmundsdottir and Brent Fikowski walked away with the titles ... Continue Reading
Dymatize Elite Casein Review | The Best Tasting?
Dymatize is a very popular name in the supplement industry. They're best known for their protein powders, with the company's general manager calling their ISO-100 whey powder their "flagship product," but ... Continue Reading
3 Pallof Press Variations to Superset With Your Lifts
Physical therapist John Pallof showed Eric Cressey and Tony Gentilcore the "belly press" back in the fall of 2006 when they were getting the now-famous training center, Cressey Performance, off the ground. ... Continue Reading
4 Reasons Not to Run a Short-Term Fitness Challenge
Fifty new clients is music to a small gym owner’s ears. And it’s the reason so many gyms advertise short-term, cheap challenges, like the popular 6-week challenges making their way through gyms around ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting 2020 Senior Pan American Championships Roster Announced
USA Weightlifting has announced the women's and men's team rosters for the 2020 Pan American Championships. This will be the final gold-level qualifying event for American athletes before the 2020 ... Continue Reading
Reebok Legacy Lifters and Apparel Giveaway
In need a new pair of lifters and an outfit to go with them? Not anymore because Reebok has you covered! To kick off our second December giveaway, we've teamed up with Reebok to offer two lucky ... Continue Reading
Pro Bodybuilder Victor Martinez Is Now a U.S. Citizen
IFBB Professional Bodybuilder Victor Martinez has won several titles in the course of his near two decade career, but on December 11 he added another one that has nothing to do with bodybuilding: United ... Continue Reading
New Year’s Resolutions for Strength Athletes
As we look back on the close of another year (and decade), many of us chose to set resolutions for ourselves to make positive life changes for the future. While many people pick one that will attempt to ... Continue Reading
Mike Matthews: What You Don’t Know About Supplements
Mike Matthews is the CEO of Legion Athletics and bestselling writer of numerous fitness books. He's also a no-BS kind of guy who isn't afraid to call out what he thinks are shortcomings in the supplement ... Continue Reading
NOBULL SuperFabric Trainer and Duffelback Giveaway Update!
We here at BarBend recently revealed our December giveaways this year. Together with NOBULL, the functional fitness performance and apparel brand, we are giving our readers the chance to win some ... Continue Reading
5 Big Offenses to Avoid When Visiting a New CrossFit Gym
One of the great perks of being into CrossFit® is how universal the community has become. For those of us who enjoy traveling—and working out while on the road—it gives us a chance to visit gyms ... Continue Reading
How to Break Through a Plateau By Switching to Kettlebells for a Week
So the barbell is feeling heavier on your back than it normally does. Or maybe you’re benching and benching and benching (because your chest can handle more volume), but your PR isn’t budging. If you’re ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey Latest Name Announced for Mayhem Classic
On the heels of The Mayhem Classic announcing that Ben Smith will be competing at their event in January, a current champion will also be there to take part in the inaugural Sanctional. Three-time and ... Continue Reading
3 Great Ways to Improve Your Shoulder Mobility (Not Stability)
Fitness pros have often debated which quality is more important to train in the weight room: stability or mobility. Stability is the ability to maintain or control joint movement or position. It's ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Peiman Maheripourehir Wins WRPF World Championship, Sets New Asian Record
Iranian strongman and powerlifter Peiman Maheripourehir is no stranger to the highest levels of competition and pulling unspeakably heavy deadlifts raw. So it should come as no surprise ... Continue Reading
Why I Can’t Just “Teach You” a Pistol Squat
No matter how hard I fight it as a coach, I get it: Some movements are just perceived as sexier than others. Butterfly pull-ups, handstand push-ups, pistols = Sexy, and must be ... Continue Reading
Does Your Recovery Suck? Low Iron Could Be to Blame
Twenty four cups of raw spinach. If you’re a woman, that’s how much spinach you’d need to eat to consume the hit the requisite 18 milligrams of iron per day. (If you cooked the spinach down, you’d only ... Continue Reading
Best Resistance Bands With Handles
Resistance bands have a bevy of fitness benefits. They are usually made of rubber with varying elasticity to provide light resistance to heavy resistance. Basic resistance bands are just that; bands. The ... Continue Reading
Ben Smith to Compete in 2020 Mayhem Classic
The 2019-2020 CrossFit season is seeing an increase in Sanctional events taking place and one of those is being promoted by a former Fittest Man on Earth. That event will now feature another former Fittest ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the Dubai CrossFit Championship, Cash Prizes, and More!
CrossFit fans, don't let your finger off the pulse just yet, because we're heading into the fourth Sanctionals competition of the 2020 Games season, the Dubai CrossFit Championship. In less than ... Continue Reading
Watch Powerlifter Dmitry Nasonov Deadlift 390kg (860lbs) at -83kg
Russian powerlifter Dmitry Nasonov is dominant in the sport in his home country. According to Open Powerlifting, Nasonov has never competed outside of Russia, but the weight he pulls stands with some of ... Continue Reading
SouthFit and Pandlaland CrossFit Challenge Sanctionals Recap
We are officially three CrossFit Sanctionals competitions into the 2020 CrossFit Games seasons and we're only getting started. This weekend, you can look forward to tuning in to yet another competition — ... Continue Reading
Mat Fraser Documentary “Pursuit for Better” Released
Last week, Beam, a CBD oil product producer, released a short documentary titled Pursuit for Better about Mat Fraser, the 4-time and current CrossFit Games champion, on their YouTube channel. In the ... Continue Reading
Russia Receives 4-Year Ban from International Sports Competition, Including Olympics
Earlier today at a meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland, global anti-doping leaders voted unanimously to ban Russia from major international competition for four years. This announcement bars Russia from ... Continue Reading