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IdealLean Pre Workout for Women Review – Is It Good for Fat Loss?

What kind of stuff would you find in a women’s pre workout? IdealLean has released a product, just called “Pre Workout for Women,” that joins the slowly growing market for female focused workout ... Continue Reading

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French Throwdown: How to Watch, Roster Breakdown, and More

The CrossFit Sanctionals™ will wrap up with the CrossFit French Throwdown in Paris, France, which takes place between June 28th and June 30th. The French Throwdown is the final competition ahead of the ... Continue Reading

Overhead Press Plateau

5 Tips to Bust Through an Overhead Press Plateau

Are you dedicated to your overhead press? Making sure you’re getting in upper body compound exercises that aren’t just the bench press? Are you sure your form is beautiful—tight core, tight quads, tight ... Continue Reading

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CrossFit Mayhem’s Elly Kabboord Tests Positive for a Banned Substance

CrossFit Mayhem Independence member and team captain Elly Kabboord, has tested positive for banned substance, Clenbuterol, at the Reykjavik CrossFit Championship in Iceland. Kabboord is a three-time ... Continue Reading

Squat Challenges

Push Your Limits and Try These 4 Grueling Squat Challenges

The Squat. Love em or hate em, they are one of the most effective and efficient movements you can do to increase muscle mass, drive anabolic adaptations, and develop serious lower and total body strength. ... Continue Reading

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Breaking News: Martins Licis Wins 2019 World’s Strongest Man

After one of the most exciting, back-and-forth competitions in recent memory, we have a new World's Strongest Man: Martins Licis of the United States. With his victory, Licis becomes one of the few ... Continue Reading

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These Are Your Finalists for the 2019 World’s Strongest Man (Day 3 Results)

On the last day of the qualifying events for the World’s Strongest Man, the name of the game was Atlas stones. The event was Last Man Standing: the second and third place finishers from each of the five ... Continue Reading

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Laurence Shahlaei and Sigfus Fossdal Both Tear Achilles, Withdraw From World’s Strongest Man

Two Achilles torn, two athletes dropped out. Both Laurence Shahlaei (Great Britain) and Sigfus Fossdal (Iceland) have dropped out of the 2019 World’s Strongest Man event due to injuries sustained on the ... Continue Reading

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2019 World’s Strongest Man Day 2 Results

In Bradenton, Florida, the World’s Strongest Man has wrapped Day 2 of its four-day competition and it’s clear that this year’s event is a real nailbiter. After winning last year’s event with a ... Continue Reading

Kimberly Walford IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships

Kimberly Walford Wins Her Seventh IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championship

Yesterday was a huge day for multiple athletes at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships. Some of the most competitive weight classes at this year's IPF Classic Worlds wrapped up their ... Continue Reading

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2019 World’s Strongest Man Day 1 Results

The first day of the qualifying rounds for the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition has come to a close, with a few surprises. For those unaware, these first three days of the strongman competition ... Continue Reading

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IdealShake’s IdealShape Superfood Blend Review – Spinach and Whey?

The company behind IdealShape has an impressive variety of different brands on the market, including the organic-focused IdealRaw, the female-focused IdealLean, and their popular meal replacement ... Continue Reading

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6 Reasons Walking Is the Most Underrated Exercise

There’s an eternal chasm between the athletes who think that the only way to do cardio is high intensity interval training and those that think something like jogging or cycling is the way to go. I’m ... Continue Reading

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Chinese Seniors Are Throwing Stones Around Like Kettlebells to Stay In Shape

The other day, we stumbled across a viral video on Facebook with the title "Elderly Chinese are Throwing Massive Stone Locks in the Air and at Each Other to Stay in Shape". The video highlights ... Continue Reading

Pressing Variations for Explosiveness

8 Pressing Variations to Improve Upper Body Power

Upper body power and explosiveness is essential for Olympic weightlifting, athletic sports, and overall functional fitness. Performing standard exercises with constant speeds and tempos can develop ... Continue Reading

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Why Are People Annoyed That Chick Fil-A Uses MSG?

The popular fried chicken chain Chick-Fil-A is in hot water this week after somebody read the ingredients list and learned that the tasty breading contains, horror of horrors, monosodium glutamate. (That’s ... Continue Reading

Maria Htee World Championship

Watch the Epic Powerlifting Showdown Between Maria Htee and Meghan Scanlon

It might be a little premature to say, but this year's IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships have been nothing short of thrilling. Yesterday, we covered Ida Ronn and Kloie Doublin's epic battle for ... Continue Reading

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How to Watch the 2019 World’s Strongest Man Competition

The most hotly anticipated strongman competition of the year is upon us: the 2019 World's Strongest Man event will take place in Bradenton, Florida from Thursday, June 13th until Sunday, June 16th. Every ... Continue Reading

Deadlifting for Big Lats

Deadlifting for Strength Vs. Size: Small Form Tweaks for BIG Lat Growth

So, if you’ve been keeping up with my articles so far, you know that one of the most important aspects of training for aesthetic development requires strengthening the muscle, not the movement. You can ... Continue Reading

Ida Ronn IPF World Championships

Powerlifter Ida Ronn Defies the Odds to Bring Home World Championship Title

Swedish powerlifter Ida Ronn stunned the crowd and her competitors after her third deadlift attempt at the 2019 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships. Competing in the women's -72kg junior weight ... Continue Reading

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Xtend Pro Whey Isolate Review: Why Add BCAAs?

BCAAs and protein powder in the same product? That’s what you get with Xtend’s very unusual Pro Whey Isolate, a product that hits you with 50 percent more branched chain amino acids than you’d normally get ... Continue Reading

The Underrated Benefits of Using Iso Deadlifts In Your Program

The deadlift can be both one of the easiest and most frustrating movements to progress. For many athletes, the deadlift is usually the lift that progresses the most quickly when first starting out with ... Continue Reading

Explosive Squat Variations

3 Explosive Squat Variations to Build Lower Body Power

Lower body power is a key determinant of overall athletic ability, squat performance, and lower body power output. Developing powerful legs, however, is not as simple as performing squats, lunges, and leg ... Continue Reading

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Study: Red Spinach Is the New King of Pre Workouts

Move over beets, there’s a new nitrate-rich food that looks like it might be better for workout performance. A new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research is asserting that ... Continue Reading

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