Brute Strength has had a spectacular second season of their Brute Showdown series. If you missed it, last year was the first season that pitted a bodybuilder (Lawrence Balleneger), powerlifter (Steve ... Continue Reading
3 Goblet Squat Variations to Make Leg Day Fun Again
The goblet squat has revolutionized the way the squat is being performed and taught throughout the world. Especially for folks who struggle with maintaining correct form during barbell squats, the goblet ... Continue Reading
3 Shoulder Prehab Exercises That Will Improve All of Your Lifts
As a pretty seasoned lifter, I’ve had my fair share of injuries — it’s just the nature of the sport. In fact, I get more questions about injury rehab than any other topic. That said, though, I can rarely ... Continue Reading
Ladder Energy Review – Enough Caffeine for a Pre Workout?
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lebron James. Lindsey Vonn. Cindy Crawford. These are the founders of Ladder, a piping hot supplement company with some of the biggest names in the worlds of sport and fitness ... Continue Reading
Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Men’s Recap: Curry Stands On Top!
The Arnold Classic is the season opening event for the IFBB Pro League, and it's generally considered the second most prestigious title in the sport of bodybuilding. The winner is often considered an ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson Wins 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic (Plus Final Results)
We asked it before, and we're going to ask it again — can Hafthor Bjornsson be stopped? At the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival, the highly anticipated Arnold Strongman Classic wrapped up Saturday night with ... Continue Reading
Ray Williams Squats an Incredible 490kg (1,080 lbs) RAW
Powerlifter Ray Williams has blown the minds of strength fans yet again with his latest performance at the SBD Pro American. The SBD Pro American took place at the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival and hosted ... Continue Reading
19.2 CrossFit® Open Workout Tips from Top Athletes and Coaches
Athletes and fans thought CrossFit Open Workout 19.1 was tough, but Open Workout 19.2 may have taken the cake by a long shot. This workout is a multi-round time-based workout featuring three movements, and ... Continue Reading
Jillian Michaels’ 5 Problems With CrossFit Generates Controversy
Former host of NBC's The Biggest Loser and enormously influential fitness titan Jillian Michaels has been trending in the CrossFit® community for coming out with a list of concerns she has with the ... Continue Reading
Are Beets the Ultimate Pre Workout Food?
If you’re in the market for a pre workout, there’s a good chances you’ve seen the letters N.O. emblazoned on many a tub. (Usually surrounded with terms like “insane pump” and “extreme ... Continue Reading
5 Coaches Name the Most Neglected Exercises in Strength Training
It’s likely you’re training the big 3 (squat, deadlift and press) because this is the meat and potatoes of all good training programs. And are good, correct? But to keep improving, you must look to ... Continue Reading
Max Clean & Deadlift: Weightlifter, Powerlifter, Bodybuilder, and CrossFitter Face Off
Brute Strength had tremendous success last year when they pitted a male weightlifter, bodybuilder, powerlifter, and CrossFit® athlete against one another to see which would fare the best across several ... Continue Reading
Study: Do Low Carb Diets Actually Increase Risk of Heart Disease?
A new meta-analysis of eight high quality, randomized controlled trials published in Nutrition Reviews aims to help answer the question of whether or now low carb diets increase the risk of heart ... Continue Reading
3 Tips to Help Coaches Be More Body Positive With Their Clients
When you step into a gym, what are your goals? Where did you get those goals? Did someone tell you you’d look better in that shirt, that dress, if you just would do x or y? Did someone — more frequently, ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival LIVE
We're less than one day out from the official kick off of the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival. This year, the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival begins on Thursday, February 28th in Columbus, Ohio, and runs through ... Continue Reading
Plated Meal Delivery Review: Was It Really That Simple?
It’s not hard to see why Plated is one of the more popular meal delivery services on the market: They offer fresh and sustainably raised produce and meats, flexible ordering and subscription options with ... Continue Reading
Study: How Much Training Volume Do Women Need to Get Stronger?
I don't know about you, but I'm often a huge fan of lifting studies that highlight the idea that "less is more" when it comes to improvement in strength gains. After all, when life gets busy, isn't it nice ... Continue Reading
Hip Thrust Exercise Guide
Glute training exercises can be used to increase glute activation, improve hip extension performance, and enhance overall glute hypertrophy (size). Strength, power, and fitness athletes rely heavily on the ... Continue Reading
Your 2019 Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Preview
The 2019 bodybuilding season is arriving, and the 31st Arnold Classic will be a great way to start. The lineup that will be competing in Columbus, Ohio is a stacked one with three previous champions in the ... Continue Reading
The Untold History of the First Weightlifting Competition
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, eight categories for Olympic Weightlifting existed for men and seven for women. In both cases the categories boasted roughly a dozen competitors or more. For those with a ... Continue Reading
Press With Purpose: 3 Ways to Cue the Bench Press for Stronger Lifts
The bench press is arguably the most technical lift of the big three in powerlifting. Granted, everyone has their best and worst lift, so this argument could vary from athlete to athlete, yet there's still ... Continue Reading
Does Cayenne Pepper Really Burn Fat?
Experts are pretty sure that chili peppers evolved their spiciness as a defense mechanism to keep them from getting eaten. But somewhere along the line, humans decided they love the feeling of their food ... Continue Reading
5 Super Simple Rules to Get Your Weightlifting Competition Prep on Track
Everyone’s got that ideal version of themselves created inside their mind. Some days, we fully live who this person is and the “perfect” lifestyle they lead, other times, we completely fall off the wagon. ... Continue Reading
10 Incredibly Useful Powerlifting Tips
I’ve been lifting for a long time. I began competing in powerlifting in 2012, but I’ve been a gym rat since high school. I’m 31 now, so you can do the math! When I started lifting, there wasn’t nearly as ... Continue Reading