You want more powerful legs. We get it. Explosively strong tree trunks can propel you quickly toward the basketball hoop, straight up for that high box jump, or help you drive your legs down into the ... Continue Reading
2 Weeks Out From Worlds: CJ Cummings Puts Up Strong Squat Jerks
We're only two weeks out from this year's IWF Weightlifting World Championships, and CJ Cummings is still squat jerking. In the first week of October we first wrote about Cummings squat jerking 170kg, ... Continue Reading
Check Out These Epic 4x+ Bodyweight Squats At the IPF Open World Championships
Currently, the IPF Open World Championships are taking place in Pilsen, a city in the western Czech Republic. The Championships started Monday and will go through Saturday, November 18th. If you're late to ... Continue Reading
Ring Dips Progressions
The ring dip is a fundamental bodyweight movement seen in competitive fitness events, gymnastics, and bodywight training. Performing dips on rings forces the body to create tension, stability, and increase ... Continue Reading
Interview: Eddie Hall Discusses Acting Ambitions and Breaking His Deadlift Record
Eddie Hall is the strongest human being on the face of the planet. Even before he won the 2017 World's Strongest Man he had made a variety of historic firsts in strength sports including the heaviest ... Continue Reading
2018 Arnold Strongman Classic Roster and Events Announced
The roster and event schedule for the 2018 Arnold Strongman Classic was just released, and it's going to be an epic event. In March, the Columbus, Ohio-based Arnold Classic acts as finals for the Arnold ... Continue Reading
IWF Sport Programme Commission Suggests Weightlifting Changes for 2020 Olympics
By now, chances are you've heard about potential changes for the sport of weightlifting, and more specifically weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In recent years, international weightlifting has ... Continue Reading
Ma Jianping Talks Differences In Competing After Taking 3 Decades Off
It’s taken a fair amount of time, but 1984 Chinese Olympian Ma Jianping (Coach Ma) -known to his peers as Coach Ma - came back and conquered the platform. Coach Ma’s last high profile competition was at ... Continue Reading
5 Benefits of Prowler Push
In this article we will discuss the prowler push, a versatile piece of equipment to train muscle hypertrophy, leg strength, metabolic conditioning, and more. We will cover five benefits of prowler pushes ... Continue Reading
Ruslan Albegov Provisionally Suspended for Potential Anti-Doping Violation
Russian superheavyweight weightlifter Ruslan Albegov has been provisionally suspended from international weightlifting competition after being charged by the IWF with an anti-doping policy ... Continue Reading
Kianoush Rostami to Auction Olympic Gold Medal for Earthquake Victims
On Sunday, Iran experienced an earthquake that was deemed the deadliest of 2017 so far. The Iranian government and surrounding countries have mobilized into action to provide immediate earthquake relief. ... Continue Reading
Marc Pro Review — Different Than Other EMS Devices?
Marc Pro — an acronym stands for "Muscle Activated Recovery Cascade" — is one of the biggest names in electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) devices. Based in California, the brand is used by a ton of ... Continue Reading
Standing Russian Twists – Muscles Worked, Benefits, and Exercise Demo
In this article we will discuss the standing Russian twist, a core/oblique exercise variation that can promote muscle hypertrophy in the obliques and abdominals; but not without some potential drawbacks as ... Continue Reading
James Hall, Strongman Eddie Hall’s Brother, Sets World Record in the Ski Erg
It looks like record-breaking feats run in the Hall family. James Hall, the brother of 2017’s World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall, is an incredibly accomplished athlete in his own right: he’s been a ... Continue Reading
Check Out Junior Powerlifter Yi-Chun Lin’s 4.5x Bodyweight Deadlift
It's Monday morning and we've already written three articles on epic deadlifts, and that's not a bad way to start the week. Currently, 2017 the IPF Open World Championships are taking place in Pilsen, ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2017 IPF Open World Championships
The International Powerlifting Federation’s Open World Championships is one of the biggest highlights of the year for any powerlifting fan, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, it’s available ... Continue Reading
BeachBody Performance Energize Pre-Workout Review — What’s Quercetin?
BeachBody is a fitness company that produces workout videos, supplements, and a wide variety of other fitness products. They’re responsible for P90X and Insanity, the workouts that made Tony Horton and ... Continue Reading
Why Are Jason Khalipa, Mat Fraser, and Rich Froning Training Together?
Over the last five years, Cookeville, Tennessee has progressively become a major training hub for multiple CrossFit® athletes. Rich Froning, a long-time resident of Cookeville, opened CrossFit Mayhem in ... Continue Reading
Mart Seim Jerks 255kg As He Preps for 2017 World Championships
Estonian superheavyweight Mart Seim is really ramping up his training as he prepares for the World Weightlifting Championships, which kick off in California on November 28. This jerk the heaviest we’ve ... Continue Reading
Why the Dumbbell Pullover Needs to Make a Comeback
Editor’s note: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed herein and in the video are the author's and don’t necessarily reflect the views of BarBend. Claims, assertions, opinions, and quotes have been ... Continue Reading
Nathan Damron Block Cleans a Huge 215kg in Training as He Prepares for Worlds
Meanwhile in North Carolina, twenty-one-year-old weightlifter Nathan Damron — known in weightilfting circles as "The Freedom Fridge" — has just hit a personal record in the block clean. It's not often ... Continue Reading
5 Uncommon Supplements to Boost Your Power
Workout supplements tend to all get lumped together: supplements for power, endurance, strength, and hypertrophy are often just labeled as supplements for "energy" or "athleticism." If you’ve tried as many ... Continue Reading
Bowflex PR3000 Review
Home gym systems are a great way for achieving fitness results and maintaining progress from the comfort of your own home. One of the many companies that has a strong name in home gym equipment is Bowflex. ... Continue Reading
Final Entry List for 2017 Weightlifting World Championships Released
We're another day closer to this year's Weightlifting World Championships, which are set to take place in less than three weeks. Yesterday, the IWF shared the final Worlds athlete entry roster, which is ... Continue Reading