If you’ve been following CrossFit for a while, there’s a chance you’ve noticed a significant change in the company’s focus in the last year or so. We’re not exactly talking about the changes made to the ... Continue Reading
17 Year Old Jackson Powell Front Squats a Monstrous 675 lbs
Teen powerlifting sensation Jackson Powell is moving big weight once again. In his latest video, the 17 year old Powell veers away from the traditional big three to hit an absolutely monstrous front ... Continue Reading
The Bodyweight Skull Crusher Is An Underutilized Tool for Building Strong Arms
When the average gym-goer thinks about training their triceps in isolation, the pieces of equipment that come to mind are barbells, dumbbells, and cables (or bands for you CrossFitters). What if I told you ... Continue Reading
Alex Uslar: Overcoming Addiction and Creating Opportunity (Podcast)
Alex Uslar wears a lot of different hats with Hybrid Performance Method. At Hybrid, Alex serves as the General Manager, Director of Operations, run Hybrid Apparel, and per Instagram is also Stefi Cohen’s ... Continue Reading
Paralympian Siamand Rahman Has Passed Away At Age 31
Paralympic powerlifter Siamand Rahman passed away on Sunday March 1st, 2020 in his hometown, Oshnavieh, Iran, after suffering a heart attack. He was 31 years old. Rahman made his powerlifting debut ... Continue Reading
Reports: Arnold Sports Festival to Screen Athletes for Coronavirus
The Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio is expecting an estimated 22,000 athletes and over 200,000 people from over 80 different nations to attend their annual fitness festival, which is scheduled to ... Continue Reading
Best Thigh Compression Sleeves
Thigh compression sleeves offer a wide array of benefits to athletes. The most significant benefit being improved blood flow (1) which can potentially lead to better injury prevention, improved athletic ... Continue Reading
2020 Arnold Pro Strongwoman Preview
The eyes of the fitness world will be focused on Columbus, Ohio during the first weekend of March for several reasons. Bodybuilding, powerlifting, and strongman are just a few of the strength sports that ... Continue Reading
The 2020 IWF Junior World Championships Have Been Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Two weeks before it was scheduled to take place, the 2020 International Weightlifting Federation Junior World Weightlifting Championships have been cancelled, with the outbreak and global spread of the ... Continue Reading
5 TRX Exercises to Build a Rock Solid Upper Back
While on the battlefield way back in 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick came up with the first version of what is now called the TRX®. Because dodging bullets and staying alive wasn’t enough. He wanted to stay ... Continue Reading
How to Watch Weightlifting at the 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
The Arnold Sports Festival, also just called “The Arnold,” is arguably the biggest event on the strength sports calendar. The Arnold holds big time competitions for many strength sports, bringing ... Continue Reading
Tempo, A New Home Gym, Is Aiming to Replace Trainers and Coaches
Fitness and tech continue to collide and evolve. Tempo is the latest tech and artificial intelligence (AI) based home gym that plans to disrupt the fitness industry. Standing at roughly six-feet tall, ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter James Strickland Smokes a 615 lb Bench Press Double
This year has been an absolutely huge year for the bench press. We're seeing handfuls of athletes push new boundaries on the bench and one athlete in particular that we're excited to see compete in the ... Continue Reading
Elite Gymnast Jaime Da Silva Teaches 4 Move Pull-Up Progression
There is no debate that the pull-up is one of the greatest upper body building exercises. Pull-ups should be incorporated into your training because, among many benefits, they can help ... Continue Reading
Meet Heather Pivoras and the CrossFit Coach Who Helped Transform her Life
When Heather Pivoras arrived at CrossFit Murray in Kentucky seven years ago, she was down and out. “I was in an abusive relationship. My self-esteem was at an all-time low. I had a hard time looking in ... Continue Reading
The Right Way to Prime Your Muscles for a Great Workout
When you’re painting furniture, cupboards, or the exterior of your house, you want it to look good. And for it to look good, you can't just slap a coat of paint on. You need to prepare the surface for the ... Continue Reading
Watch Anthony Hobaica’s Jaw Dropping, 4.4x Bodyweight Squat!
Eight hundred pounds. (Talk about a nice, round number.) But “nice, round number” is a criminally understated way to describe the weight that Anthony “Hollywood” Hobaica had sitting on his back when he ... Continue Reading
The Heaviest Women’s Snatch and Clean & Jerk Ever Made in Competition
In the world of weightlifting, all records are cool, but heaviest EVER is just so much fun to talk about. So who holds the marks for heaviest women's snatch and clean & jerk of all time? When ... Continue Reading
East Asian Weightlifting Championships Postponed Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Probably the strength sport most affected by the spread of the coronavirus is Olympic weightlifting. Given the highly regulated nature of the sport, the frequency of its competitions, the huge number of ... Continue Reading
Joey Szatmary: Building a Home for Strongmen and Powerlifters (Podcast)
Building ANY community is tough. So building a space and community for people obsessed with strength brings its own special challenges. And no one knows more about that than Joey Szatmary. Joey is a ... Continue Reading
Larry Wheels Has PRd His Bench Press With 650 Pounds
Around these parts, we talk a lot about Julius Maddox’s proficiency at the bench press: the way he keeps pushing his PRs, pushing past Kirill Sarychev’s all time world record, setting his own of 744.1 ... Continue Reading
Patrick Vellner Talks Winning Wodapalooza and His Future Competition Plans
Patrick Vellner is arguably having his best CrossFit season to date (and it's still very early on). He’s coming off of his first career Open worldwide victory and emerged victorious at Wodapalooza in a ... Continue Reading
Eddie Halls Performs “Isabel” and Claims New World Record (Update)
2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall was at the European Championships (CrossFit) in Colchester, England on February 23 to take part in a personal challenge. It may be strange to some that a strongman ... Continue Reading
Coronavirus Threatens Cancellation of 2020 Olympic Games
About two weeks ago, the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Inspection Team, John Coates, said at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan after meetings with organizers of the 2020 Olympic Games, ... Continue Reading