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
Watch Julio Mayora (-73kg) Hit a 165kg/364lb Snatch
Julio Mayora of Venezuela competes in the -73kg weight class and in a recent training session, he got very close to tying China's Shi Zhiyong's world record snatch. The 23-year-old Mayora started his ... Continue Reading
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
USA Powerlifting To Forego Qualifying Totals For 2020 Nationals
According to an announcement by USA Powerlifting (USAPL) on April 21st, Open, Youth, Bench and Raw athletes will no longer be required to secure a qualifying total in order to register for 2020 ... Continue Reading
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
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
3 Ab Challenges You Might Not be Able to Complete on First Attempt
While you’re likely not going to PR your deadlift or clean, or achieve your first muscle-up while doing bodyweight workouts from your living room, there are tons of areas where you can still improve. One ... Continue Reading
Julius Maddox 800lb Bench Press World Record Attempt Date Announced
If there is any athlete on the planet capable of being the first person to ever bench press 363kg/800lb raw, it is Julius Maddox. World's Ultimate Strongman (WUS) announced on Thursday, April 23rd that ... Continue Reading
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
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: 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
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
Try These Exercises To Maintain Your Biceps Without Weights
It’s not too hard to get your push work in while you’re not in the gym — push-ups, chair dips, and squat varieties have probably been your best friends since your gym closed. But if you’re getting ... Continue Reading
Rich Yun Cruises To A New Paused Deadlift Rep PR
Rich Yun, also known as "The Korean Hulk", shared a post on his Instagram page of a video that showed him flying through a paused deadlift set with 265kg/585lb on the bar for six. The 23-year-old Yun ... Continue Reading
Brandon Curry Interview: Mr. Olympia Talks About Family, Business, Moving Forward
At the 2016 Olympia press conference, Brandon Curry was speaking about being happy to be there and there was talk within the bodybuilding fanbase about the possibility of him moving down to the 212 ... Continue Reading
Bar Floating Away From You In the Deadlift? Try This!
Bar path is key for strong deadlifts regardless you pull sumo or conventional. In the deadlift, if bar path is a problem, then likely leverages are not being optimized. Think about the last time you tried ... Continue Reading
4 Mini Band Exercises That’ll Give You Stronger and More Stable Hips
When it comes to the hips, the glute max gets all the love. Browsing through Instagram only reinforces this point, since after all, the aesthetics of a firm tush are pretty highly valued. Remember the ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw Hits New Bench Press Rep PR
The 4-time World's Strongest Man (WSM) champion (2011, 2013, 2015, 2016) Brian Shaw is not letting the postponement of the 2020 WSM competition derail his training. He is using the additional time as an ... Continue Reading
Strength Athletes: Don’t Overlook Your Wrists
If you suffer from poor range of motion in your wrists, you likely long for the day that you can get into a better front rack position, pain-free. Or if you’ve ever had an acute wrist injury, you know ... Continue Reading
Watch Emil Norling Squat a Humongous 661lb
Emil Norling is a 22-year-old powerlifter from Sweden who made his competitive debut in 2016 as a -93kg athlete, claiming bronze with a 647.5kg/1,427lb total. Since then, he has moved up to the -105kg ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Mike Tuchscherer Front Squats 565lb and Sets Two New PRs
The front squat is dynamite for strengthening your core, quads, and upper back, all of which has direct carryover to improving your back squat as well — along with almost every other exercise. This is ... Continue Reading
First Impressions of the Reebok Nano X (Worth Buying?)
After receiving a pair of the Reebok Nano Xs, I have some initial thoughts on them based on my first week of workouts. I'll be performing an in-depth BarBend review like normal that will drop in the next ... Continue Reading
Mark Henry Tells How He Won the First Arnold Strongman Classic
For fans of muscle, strength and power, no event is as eagerly awaited as the Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC). Created in 2002, the ASC is, alongside the World’s Strongest Man, the Super Bowl of the ... Continue Reading
13 Single Kettlebell Exercises to Improve Your Deadlift
If you’re having nightly dreams about deadlifting while you’re missing your barbells, it’s easy to get demoralized. When all you have is a single kettlebell — and even a heavy one doesn’t hold a candle to ... Continue Reading