Lifting gloves, or cross training gloves, are tool a gym-goer can use to support and protect their hands. Like other supportive strength gear, gloves are used to enable someone to perform longer, while ... Continue Reading
VICE Profiles CJ Cummings, “The Lebron James of Weightlifting”
The sport of Olympic weightlifting is definitely going mainstream. As part of "The 16 Project," a series focusing on teenage athletes, VICE Sports just released a 6-minute documentary about CJ Cummings, ... Continue Reading
Deciding Between the Flat, Decline, and Incline Bench Press for Your Goals
How do you choose between the flat, incline, and decline bench press for your workouts? A few of the ways an athlete typically chooses between each bench variation revolves around their sport, body ... Continue Reading
Janae Kroczaleski Documentary Wins First Place at Austin Film Festival
"Transformer," the documentary about one of the world's strongest powerlifters coming out as a transgender woman, premiered at the Austin Film Festival this weekend and won best feature ... Continue Reading
Bowflex Blaze Review
Home gym equipment and systems are great ways to get a workout in at home, or perform maintenance work when you're crunched on time. Bowflex is one of the popular home gym equipment brands, and the offer ... Continue Reading
Harrison Maurus Hits a 2-Rep Snatch PR of 150kg
When Harrison Maurus won his 77kg weight class at the 2017 Youth World Championships in Bangkok, he set a youth world record in the clean & jerk (192kg) and the total (332kg), but not the snatch. The ... Continue Reading
Pre JYM Pre-Workout Review — Worth the Cost?
JYM is the supplement company founded by Dr. Jim Stoppani, who holds a PhD in exercise physiology with a minor in biochemistry and worked as the science editor at Muscle & Fitness for about ten years. ... Continue Reading
How Often Should You Work Out Your Abs? Plus Tips from Celebrity Personal Trainers
If you got a bunch of aesthetically-focused gym goers in a room and asked them to rank their prized muscle groups, chances are that a six-pack will be fairly high on people’s lists. In pursuit of a ... Continue Reading
Stuart Jamieson Deadlifts 286kg at 60kg, Breaking Lamar Gant’s Record from 1981
At the World Raw Powerlifting Federation (WRPF) 2017 World Championships this weekend, one of powerlifting's longest standing records finally fell. Scottish strength coach and entrepreneur Stuart Jamieson ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting Announces Final 20 Athletes for World Championships Team
Over the weekend, USA Weightlifting announced the final roster for this year's IWF World Championships team. This year, the Championships are being held on American soil in Anaheim, California, from ... Continue Reading
Evlution Nutriton’s Engn Shred Pre-Workout Review — Boost Fat Loss?
Evlution Nutrition is a Florida-based supplement company that has a wide variety of products that go beyond your standard protein powders and creatines. There are pump enhancers, thermogenic metabolism ... Continue Reading
Deficit Deadlifts vs Rack Pulls
Deficit deadlifts and rack pulls are two popular deadlift variations that can be used to address individual strength limitations and/or increase performance at certain phases of the lift. In this article ... Continue Reading
Blaine Sumner Makes a 1,003lb Pin Squat After Disc Herniation
There aren’t many people that’ll squat a thousand pounds a couple of months after herniating a disc, but most people aren’t Blaine Sumner. This summer, the world record-holding powerlifter suffered a ... Continue Reading
Deficit Deadlifts vs Regular Deadlift
In this article we will breakdown two deadlift movements, each offering lifters a great way to increase pulling performance, back and hip strength, and boost your deadlift. Let's examine the deficit ... Continue Reading
The Most Important Strongman Event…Ever?
Something unbelievable is happening, and in one way or another you need to be a part of it. December 15 - 17 are the crucial dates for the future of strongman. The Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina ... Continue Reading
How to Use Exercise As a Jet Lag Remedy
Understatement of the century: jet lag is awful. There are few things worse than spending hours and hours flying to an exotic part of the world only to effectively lose part of the trip to that cursed ... Continue Reading
Cellucor C4 Ripped Review — Do Fat Loss Blends Work?
C4 is the best known product from Cellucor, a Texas-based supplement company that also sells the whey Cor-Performance and the branched chain amino acid supplement Alpha Amino, among other products. ... Continue Reading
Unplug from Technology in the Gym for Bigger Lifts
As a science geek and man who loves data driven solutions, I am always looking for the next great piece of technology to help my lifters take their weights to the next level. If there is a piece of ... Continue Reading
More Weightlifting Changes Speculated for 2020 Olympics
News continues to drop about what to expect for weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Back in June, it was first reported that there would be significant changes to the weightlifting program at the ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Deficit Deadlifts
With so many deadlift and pulling (snatch and clean pull) variations to choose from, it can often be overwhelming which one to choose based on your needs, weaknesses, and individual goals. The deficit ... Continue Reading
GAT Nitraflex Review — Highest Caffeine Content?
GAT, which stands for “German American Technologies,” has been around for about 20 years and sells a huge variety of niche bodybuilding products like fat burners, testosterone boosters, mass gainers, and ... Continue Reading
Chinese Whistleblower Claims Over 10,000 Athletes Were Doped in 80s and 90s
A former doctor for the Chinese Olympic team during the 1980s and 1990s has turned whistleblower. Xue Yinxian, now 79 years old, claims that during her tenure, over 10,000 Chinese athletes, including ... Continue Reading
10 Elite Powerlifters Share Why They Started Lifting
As a strength sports writer I'm continually learning the unique qualities of each sport, along with how each athlete thinks and acts. One of my favorite questions for strength athletes and average ... Continue Reading
Are Pistol Squats Bad for Your Knees?
In general, NO, the pistol squat is not bad for your knees, just like squatting isn't bad for your knees. Rather, a poor pistol squat is bad for your knees… In an earlier article I discussed five ... Continue Reading