It has been an eventful two years filled with ups and down for powerlifting legend Kimberly Walford, although, judging from her last Instagram post hopefully her latest "up" trend continues. Yesterday, ... Continue Reading
Thailand’s Ability to Host 2019 IWF World Championships In Question After Positive Tests
In a story first covered by Inside the Games, four weightlifters from Thailand have tested positive for banned substances following the 2018 Weightlifting World Championships. The positive tests could ... Continue Reading
Hate Doing Mobility? Here’s How to Do It Between Sets
You should know (by now) that recovering from your training with rest, good nutrition, and the occasional soft tissue massage is essential for a body that not only looks good but performs well ... Continue Reading
The Untold History of Weight Machines
We live in a technological age, and the exercise machines being designed and manufactured today are better than ever. But your muscles were designed by evolution to overcome the pull of gravity rather than ... Continue Reading
The 2019 CrossFit Open Leaderboard Now Offers Customized Hashtags
The CrossFit Games just announced a really cool addition to the 2019 CrossFit Open Leaderboard on their Instagram page. This year, athletes will have the ability to customize and add hashtags to their ... Continue Reading
Pro Strongman Rob Kearney Teaches Us How to Z Press (VIDEO)
The Z Press is a shoulder press variation that can benefit every type of strength athlete and lifter. This shoulder press variation was first popularized in the sport of strongman, and it is often ... Continue Reading
IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros): Your Ultimate Guide to This Diet
The world of nutrition is awash in different diets and it’s safe to say that many of them hinge on rules surrounding what you can and can’t eat: nothing post-caveman for the Paleo diet, nothing from an ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey, Patrick Vellner Win Wodapalooza and Earn Invites to 2019 CrossFit Games
In the second competition under the new qualification system for the CrossFit Games, familiar faces once again punched their tickets back to Madison. Two-time defending CrossFit Games Champion Tia-Clair ... Continue Reading
Arnold Strongman USA Results: Licis Wins, 3 More Qualify for Classic in Ohio
The thousands of people who made their way to the Santa Monica Pier to watch the inaugural Arnold Strongman USA competition were in for quite the show. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, and ... Continue Reading
How to Fix Your Weakest Strongman Movements
You can’t be great at everything, but you certainly can get better. Everyone has their least favorite movements and those are usually the ones that do not come naturally. There are a number of techniques ... Continue Reading
Injuries in Training: How to Manage Risk
Nobody plans on getting injured, but it is common and sometimes seems inevitable if you are in strength sports for the long haul. Lifting can certainly beat a body up, especially the ultra competitive who ... Continue Reading
Why Program Hopping Isn’t Always Bad
If you were to ask the top 100 lifters of 2018 what their “secret” is, you might get a lot of different answers, but I bet that a lot of them would say exactly the same thing: Consistency. Consistency is ... Continue Reading
7 Tasty Keto Meals That Don’t Use Meat (Brought to You by Ample)
Keto diets have become phenomenally popular, with Google searches related to the term surging by almost 2,000 percent between 2016 and 2018. Halle Berry has done it, Tim Tebow has done it, Vanessa Hudgens ... Continue Reading
3 New Sanctioned CrossFit Events Announced for 2020 Games Season
It has been huge couple of weeks for the sport of CrossFit. If you've been following along with all of the updates, then you're probably aware that the official rulebook for the 2019 CrossFit Games season ... Continue Reading
How Strongman Jerry Pritchett Trains the Log Press
If you’re one of the people who plan on being at the Santa Monica Pier on January 19 to watch the first Arnold Strongman USA competition, then the first event you’ll see will be the Log Press for reps. ... Continue Reading
Powher Review – What’s Different About a Women’s Pre Workout?
Do women need different pre-workouts than men? Powher joins the ranks of brands like FitMiss, StrongGirl and other brands seeking to provide a boost to the slightly tricky female pre workout market, ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2019 Wodapalooza Fitness Festival
The 2019 Wodapalooza Fitness Festival is taking place on January 18th and this year, there have been a few big changes. For those unfamiliar, Wodapalooza is a CrossFit-like competition that takes place ... Continue Reading
How Will Larry “Wheels” Williams Do in Strongman Competition?
We all make mistakes, the hard part is owning them. Last year I was taken in by the hype and wrote about how Iron Biby might make a surprising impact at that year's WSM. I could not have been more wrong. ... Continue Reading
Powerlifting Vs. Bodybuilding Arm Workouts: What’s the Difference?
Recently, I wrote an article explaining what I think of bodybuilding — from, of course, my point of view as a life-long professional powerlifter. In that article, I explained that despite how different ... Continue Reading
Why Every Rookie Powerlifter Needs a Handler for Their First Meet
If you think that powerlifting is a solo sport, you may be largely correct. When you step onto the platform, after all, it is just you and the weights. However, similar to finely tuned race cars, ... Continue Reading
Build a Massive Upper Back and Traps With “Kirk Shrugs”
If you know a little bit about me, you might remember that I earned my PhD studying the history of strength, but that my own research focused specifically on the early 1900s — before powerlifting in its ... Continue Reading
The 5 Biggest Changes to the 2019 CrossFit Games Rulebook
To all of the CrossFit athletes and fans who have been eagerly waiting for the 2019 CrossFit Games Rulebook — get ready, because it's here. This year, more than ever, the Rulebook is incredibly important, ... Continue Reading
Arnold Strongman Classic Qualifier Taking Place in Santa Monica
If you’re someone who is a part of the sport of strongman, 2019 is starting off on the right foot thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the folks with the Arnold Sports Festival. The Arnold Strongman ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Be Pulling Sumo Deadlifts From a Deficit
Y’know, I think a lot of people overcomplicate lifting. It’s lifting weights — you don’t really need some super-scientific programming method or ultra-rigorous diet to do damned well. But you do have to ... Continue Reading