Rainbow Light is a supplement company that offers a women's multivitamin called Rainbow Light Vibrance Women’s Multivitamin plus Balance & Energy, which is vegetarian, gluten-free, certified organic, ... Continue Reading
Nike Free x Metcon Review – Comfiest Cross Trainer Yet?
Cross training shoes continue to grow and develop in the strength sports world. The latest model to hit the market is the Nike Free X Metcon, which is designed to be a bridge between Nike's Metcon and Nike ... Continue Reading
How Any Kind of Athlete Can Incorporate Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting
You are an aspiring athlete in a non-strength based sport. Like most athletes who get started in the weight room, your strength and conditioning programs are dominated by the big three powerlifting ... Continue Reading
Watch Actor William H. Macy Crush a Legless Rope Climb
We’ve been spending a lot of time talking about the insane back workouts that Sylvester Stallone is pulling off (or pulling down) in his seventies, but it’s definitely worth pointing out that he’s not the ... Continue Reading
Is the 2018 World’s Strongest Man Due for an Upset?
The Philippines will see an influx of super sized men in the coming weeks as the athletes arrive to vie for the title of World’s Strongest Man. Eddie Hall will not be back to defend his title, opting to ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey Wins Gold At 2018 Commonwealth Games
Earlier today, the 2017 Fittest Woman On Earth™ Tia-Clair Toomey walked away with a gold in the 58kg weight class at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Toomey finished her performance with a personal best ... Continue Reading
Hypertrophy Training Sets and Reps
In an earlier article we discussed the definition of hypertrophy and how strength, power, and fitness athletes can benefit from training for hypertrophy at specific phases of the annual training program. ... Continue Reading
What Is Hypertrophy? – Definition
In this article we will discuss muscle hypertrophy, a scientific term used to describe the physiological process of new muscle tissue development. Muscle hypertrophy is a key training process for every ... Continue Reading
Watch Kara Saunders’ Best-on-Earth 18.5 Workout
The current Second Fittest Woman on Earth™ Kara Saunders was the only CrossFit® athlete, male or female, to break the 200-rep barrier in the 18.5 Open workout. Saunders, who recently changed her name ... Continue Reading
310 Meal Replacement Shake Review — How Does It Taste So Good?
Based in Las Vegas, 310 Nutrition sells a variety of products that are largely geared toward weight loss. To that end there are fat burners, appetite suppressants, metabolism boosters, and a huge array of ... Continue Reading
Hips Or Knees: Which Should Break First In the Squat?
Chicken or the egg, which came first? The knees and hips argument has raged on since the dawn of time, well, at least since we started barbell squatting. On social media and other online outlets, it can ... Continue Reading
4 Arm Exercises You’ve Never Tried Before
Since I covered some cool variations on the squat, bench, and deadlift, I think it’s only fair that I do the same for some of the major body parts, starting with everyone’s favorite: Arms. Actually, ... Continue Reading
10 CrossFit Trainers Give Their Best Murph Tips
If you’re a seasoned CrossFit® athlete, you’ve probably memorized all the Girls, Hero WODS, and evil (and brilliant) open workout creations of Dave Castro that have morphed their way into CrossFit history. ... Continue Reading
The 3 Most Effective Workout Splits For Strength Training
Whether you know it or not, you follow some sort of training split — that is, how you organize which body parts to train when. There are full-body splits, push-pull splits, body part splits. However, when ... Continue Reading
Our Favorite Quotes From the First “Road to the Games”
With the Open now closed and CrossFit® fans experiencing a little downtime until the Regionals kick off on May 18th, CrossFit HQ has launched the first of their Road to the Games documentaries for the 2018 ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Daniella Melo Pulls a Smooth 495 lb Deadlift Triple
It hasn't taken long for -84kg powerlifter Daniella Melo to get back under and over the bar to perform impressive strength feats. About a month ago, we wrote on Melo's strong performance at the USA ... Continue Reading
Watch Mat Fraser and Josh Bridges Compete In CrossFit Open Workout 18.5
It’s hard to believe that after five weeks and five gut-wrenching, game-changing workouts, the CrossFit Open 2018 is over. For some of us, it’s because it was such a fun experience that the time just flew ... Continue Reading
Integrated Supplements Pure Creatine Review – The Best Unflavored Creatine?
Founded in 2006 and based in Algonquin, Illinois, Integrated Supplements likes having a narrow focus in that they just sell three products right now: a whey isolate, a collagen supplement, and a creatine. ... Continue Reading
Kettle Gryp Review — Just Like a Kettlebell?
Kettle Gryp is a United States based company that offers a unique product and solution for those who want kettlebell workouts, but lack a kettlebell. Their product the Kettle Gryp is designed to allow ... Continue Reading
Mat Fraser and Cassidy Lance-Mcwherter Win 2018 CrossFit® Open
Last weekend, we concluded the final week of this year's CrossFit® Open workouts. After a week of anticipation, CrossFit HQ has finalized the scores for the 2018 CrossFit Open. After five weeks of ... Continue Reading
105kg Weightlifter Wes Kitts Goes Big With New 221kg Lifetime Clean PR
California Strength's 105kg weightlifter Wes Kitts is back at it crushing big numbers to conclude a brutal training block. Over the weekend, Kitts hit a lifetime clean PR and continues on his journey to ... Continue Reading
Ben Pollack’s 3 Steps to a Better Night’s Sleep After Heavy Training
If I had to choose the one, single factor that’s most important in training success, it would be hard work balanced with sufficient recovery. And if I had to pick one thing that made for sufficient ... Continue Reading
Amazing Grass Protein Superfood Review — Is It Really Nutritious?
Amazing Grass is probably best known for their wheatgrass-heavy Green Superfood supplement, but their organic Protein Superfood contains many of the same ingredients. Let's check out the nutrition ... Continue Reading
Tall Jerk – Technique Video, Variations, and Benefits
In this article we will discuss the tall jerk (and its variations) to help coaches and athletes better improve technique, speed and precision of footwork, and aggression in the jerk. In the below sections ... Continue Reading