Eighteen-year-old weightlifting wunderkind Clarence "CJ" Cummings put on one of the most remarkable performances of his career at the American Open Series 3 (AO3), a competition that was held over the last ... Continue Reading
Why Samantha Calhoun Is Someone to Watch At USAPL Raw Nationals
Last week, we wrote about the epic battle that's unfolding between Amanda Lawrence and Daniella Melo in the -84kg weight class at the 2018 USAPL Raw Nationals. Another epic battle that's been quietly (or ... Continue Reading
Joseph Pena Squats An Easy 870 lbs, Will He Be Youngest to Hit 1,000 lbs Raw?
Powerlifter Joseph Pena is a force to be reckoned with in the sport of raw powerlifting. Currently, Pena is in prep for 2018 USAPL Raw Nationals, which are going down in Spokane, Washington. At the young ... Continue Reading
Sarah Robles Breaks 13 Year Old American Weightlifting Clean & Jerk Record
This past weekend, the USA Weightlifting American Open Series 3 (AO3) competition came to a conclusion in Las Vegas, Nevada. For US based weightlifters and for the sport of weightlifting, this event was ... Continue Reading
7 Downsides of Being Crazy Lean
Sure, a strong deadlift is cool but you know what’s really cool? Six. Pack. Abs. Or eight-pack abs. Just getting super, stupid, crazy lean, bro, that’s what it’s all about. We’re being sarcastic here ... Continue Reading
Report: Tia-Clair Toomey Confirms Move to Cookeville, Tennessee
Well, Cookeville, Tennessee just got a heck of a lot fitter. Yesterday, in an interview with BOXROX, two-time Fittest Woman on Earth™ Tia-Clair Toomey confirmed the rumors about her and partner Shane ... Continue Reading
How Ultra High Rep (25+) Sets Can Improve Your Strength and Size
One of my favorite bodybuilding strategies involves ultra-high reps for growth: sets of 25, 50, or even 100. I love a challenge, and these ultra-high-rep sets require pushing yourself to the limit, even ... Continue Reading
10 Strength Athletes You Didn’t Realize Were in Movies
When you think about strength athletes that act, you probably think of the reigning World's Strongest Man™ Hafthor Bjornsson's role as The Mountain on Game of Thrones. Beyond that, well... ... Continue Reading
No Cow Protein Bar Review — Best Tasting Vegan Bar?
In this review, we'll be taking a deep dive look into the No Cow Protein Bar. No Cow protein bars are a non-dairy vegan friendly protein bar that made their name by not only matching niche nutritional asks ... Continue Reading
Turkish Get Up Exercise Guide
The Turkish get up is a movement that can benefit athletes of all levels and sporting goals. Strength, power, and fitness athletes alike can increase overhead strength, core and shoulder stability, and ... Continue Reading
Brent Fikowski Goes to The CrossFit Games In This New, Surprisingly Funny Documentary
When’s the last time you saw a documentary that took you right into the heart of the Reebok CrossFit Games, but wasn’t an official documentary produced by CrossFit HQ? It doesn’t happen often, ... Continue Reading
Ian Daniel Destroys a Huge 408kg Trap Bar Deadlift PR
When you break a personal record on a single lift, it's often by a few extra kilograms, granted, sometimes it can be a little more and fall in the ranges of something like 10-20kg. But rarely is a PR jump ... Continue Reading
Athletic Greens Vs. Organifi – Which Superfood Powder Wins Out?
If there's ever been an ultimate face-off between titans of the green superfood powder industry, this is it. These two companies are enormously influential and many consider them the default option when ... Continue Reading
New Elimination Style Format Coming to 2019 CrossFit Games
Over the weekend, Armen Hammer released a video that revealed more details and further clarification for some the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games changes. In the report from the video on ArmenHammerTV's YouTube ... Continue Reading
The Carnivore Diet: Does Eating 100% Meat Work?
If you’d thought extreme low-carb regimes had peaked with keto, remember that the human appetite for weird diets knows no bounds. Enter 2018’s fastest-growing nutrition trend and easily one of the most ... Continue Reading
Eliminate Shoulder Discomfort In Seconds With This Squatting Tip
Shoulder pain is a common complaint among powerlifters, and for good reason: the shoulder joint is enormously complex, and it’s placed under a lot of stress during bench presses, low-bar squats, and even ... Continue Reading
Junior Powerlifter Kostiantyn Musiienko Smashes Open Bench Press World Record By 39 Pounds
Ukrainian powerlifter Kostiantyn Musiienko isn't crazy famous, but he's responsible for some of the most impressive records we’ve seen in the equipped division. A prodigious bench press specialist, ... Continue Reading
Less Naked Mass Review – How Many Carbs for a Mass Gainer?
Naked Nutrition is a Florida-based nutritional supplement company and per their name, they’re pretty well known for stripped back products. That doesn’t just mean they eschew artificial flavors and ... Continue Reading
Second Qualifier for 2019 CrossFit Games Announced
Well, the floodgates seem to have broken for the announcements of the newly structured 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games qualifiers/official sanctioned events. In case you're late to the party, we'll catch you up ... Continue Reading
Greg Glassman Reveals More Changes to the CrossFit Games in New Interview
The CrossFit Games is in a state of uncertainty at the moment. In a lengthy article published by The Morning Chalk Up a couple of weeks ago, CrossFit’s CEO and founder Greg Glassman started to reveal ... Continue Reading
The Ideal Body Fat Percentage for Powerlifting
If you read my last article, you know that the Pioneer Tribute meet didn’t go all that well for me. And you know that I believe it didn’t go well because I tried to diet too hard, got too lean, and ended ... Continue Reading
Beltless Deadlifts: Their Benefits and How to Use Them
The question of beltless training, specifically for the deadlift, is a pretty great topic in strength training. Everyone has an idea that beltless deadlift training can be beneficial for their gains, ... Continue Reading
6 Reasons You Suck at Powerlifting Meets
You did it: you took the journey and brought your friends and family along – you competed in a powerlifting meet. Leading up to it, you posted training video after training video on social media, snapped ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Sarah Lewis Deadlifts An Easy 215kg Beltless Triple
Meanwhile at Armor Gym in Knoxville, Tennessee, powerlifter Sarah Lewis is moving big weight with absolute ease. Yesterday, Lewis shared a ground shaking deadlift triple on her Instagram page that reminded ... Continue Reading