In the last five years alone, protein bars have grown in popularity across all spectrums of health oriented individuals. Whether you're a dedicated strength athlete or the casual lifter, chances are you ... Continue Reading
Adaptive Athlete Steph Hammerman Discusses Opening Her New Gym
Earlier this month, Stephanie "The Hammer" Hammerman opened up Hammer Driven Fitness, her functional fitness focused gym, in the town of Knightdale, North Carolina. Compared to other individuals who ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting Announces 2018 IWF World Championship Teams
In less than two months, USA Weightlifting will make their way to the 2018 IWF World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. This year's World Championships will be the first international competition ... Continue Reading
The Benefits of Towel Pull-Ups, Rows, and Much More
Believe it or not, you have a tool that can strengthen your grip sitting in your room, and you probably use it for everything but grip training every single day. What's this magic exercise implement? A ... Continue Reading
Olympians Oleksiy Torokhtiy and Rebeka Koha Teach the Snatch
Say what you want, but we're firm believers in the fact that there can never be enough exercise tutorials on the internet, especially on the snatch. Sometimes a cue can be explained and demonstrated ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Heavy Thrusters
Heavy front squats and push presses are two movements that are beneficial for building strength, muscle mass, and athletic potential for strength, power, and fitness sports. Thrusters, often seen in ... Continue Reading
The Top 5 Men’s Strongman Performances of CrossFit Workout “Grace”
One of my absolute favorite things about the CrossFit Games format is the Wild Card spaces, which though aren’t technically new are now a lot more official. These spots are to be reserved for any ... Continue Reading
11 Things I Would Tell My Younger Self (About Lifting)
There’s a point in one’s training career where they realize they cannot push forth the same way they have for the previous decades. Maybe it’s feeling run down, life/work family changes, or even an injury. ... Continue Reading
Check Out Shawn Rhoden’s Epic Transformation to Become Mr. Olympia 2018
Editor's Note 9/21/18: The original article wrote that Shawn Rhoden won $675,000 USD for his first place finish, but has since been corrected and changed to reflect his $400,000 USD prize. Over the ... Continue Reading
CJ Cummings Sets New Snatch and Clean & Jerk Records in Las Vegas
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