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Reign BCAA Elite+ Review — Why Is There Pepper In This?

Reign Performance Nutrition is an Oregon-based supplement company that's not super well-known — they only ship in the United States — but they're committed to changing the game. Their website states that ... Continue Reading

Best Foam Roller Exercises for Runners

An athlete getting ready for a run, or a running focused athlete, will utilize a foam roller differently than a strength-focused athlete. Their body and muscles are being used in a different manner ... Continue Reading

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6 Things I Learned from 6 Months of Hip Thrusts

“Your butt is weak.” It’s not what I was expecting to hear when I visited a physical therapist for my excruciating knee pain, but that was the situation: I had a poverty posterior. Weak or inactive ... Continue Reading

Caine Wilkes Wins Pan American Championships Gold for Team USA!

American weightlifter Caine Wilkes has a lengthy resume that includes multiple National Championships and even a few of the heaviest clean & jerks in American history. Not, he can add a new title to ... Continue Reading

Goblet Squat vs Barbell Squat: Do You Need Both?

The goblet squat and barbell squat are two movements that every lifter should have within their arsenal. While each offers lifters and coaches unique benefits, we are here to lay out which movement reigns ... Continue Reading

Sarah Robles Wins Gold for Team USA at the Pan American Championships

Team USA can add another medal to their total at the Pan American Weightlifting Championships, which are currently underway in Miami, Florida. Just hours after American -105kg athletes D’Angelo Osorio ... Continue Reading

Wes Kitts, D’Angelo Osorio Add to Team USA Medal Count at Pan American Championships

Olympic weightlifter Wes Kitts just broke the American record in the snatch at the Pan-American Weightlifting Championships in Miami, Florida. On his third and final attempt, the athlete lifted 175 ... Continue Reading

Kinesiology Taping for Knee Pain and Stability

Kinesiology taping the knee is useful for the athlete who's lacking full joint stability and proper movement patterning. Will tape compensate for a serious knee injury? No, but for an athlete who has ... Continue Reading

4 Benefits of Ring Dips

Our Ring Dip Guide is a helpful resource to help improve upper body muscle mass, strength, and shoulder integrity in the ring dip, specifically: proper progressions, benefits, and exercise demos ... Continue Reading

Cellucor Alpha Amino Review — Why All the Extra Amino Acids?

Cellucor is a Texas-based supplement company that’s about 15 years old and probably best known for their pre-workouts, of which they have fourteen. The most popular is called C4, but Cellucor ... Continue Reading

USA Weightlifting’s Colin Burns Wins Gold at Pan American Championships

Lifting in the 94kg weight class, USA Weightlifting's Colin Burns went 5-for-6 on his lifts to take home three medals for Team USA: Gold in the Snatch, Silver in the Clean & Jerk, and Gold ... Continue Reading

Marte Elverum Deadlifts 248.5kg (546 lbs) at 72kg and Sets IPF Record

Yesterday, Norwegian powerlifter Marte Elverum set a new women's IPF deadlift world record. She competed at the 2017 Wroclaw World Games at a bodyweight of 71.6kg in the women's heavyweight ... Continue Reading

Ring Dips vs Bar Dips: Which Dip Is Best for You?

In a previous article we discussed the ring dip and the benefits it offers athletes and fitness goers looking for muscle mass, strength, and joint stability (just to name a few). While the ring dip is not ... Continue Reading

Team USA Wins 12 Medals (So Far) at Pan American Weightlifting Championship

The 2017 Pan American Weightlifting Championships are currently underway in Miami, Florida, and after three days of competition, Team USA is sitting in a solid position after six Americans brought home a ... Continue Reading

Thursday and Friday 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games Event Ordering Revealed

There's been a lot of speculation behind the ordering of events at the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games. In the last three weeks, Dave Castro has announced a total of six events for this year's Games, but ... Continue Reading

18-Year-Old Joseph Peña Squats 854lb For a Junior World Record

"There must be something in the water," the most frequent comment that usually follows videos shared of Joseph Peña's squat. This 18-year-old Texas based powerlifter has once again proven he means ... Continue Reading

Ring Dips – Exercise Guide and Benefits

Dips are an amazing exercise to build serious muscle mass, strength, and aesthetics for the chest, triceps, and anterior shoulders. Like the chin-up, pull-up, row, and press; dips are a staple of strength, ... Continue Reading

Dave Castro Shares Second 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games Individual Event

Dave Castro created quite the buzz within the CrossFit community over the last 24 hours. He shared a series of photos that asked athletes and fans to guess what the next 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading

After Knee Replacement, Vlad Alhazov Becomes the First to Squat 500Kg Raw With Wraps

Five hundred kilograms. One thousand, one hundred and two pounds. It’s a rare thing to find a human being who can get under that kind of weight without crumpling like a tin can, but Ukrainian ... Continue Reading

5 Benefits of Goblet Squats

The Goblet Squat Exercise Guide is a helpful resource to help improve squat performance, specifically: proper progressions, benefits, and exercise demos needed to properly perform the movement. While the ... Continue Reading

Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Vs. Isopure Low Carb — Which Is the Best Whey?

Optimum Nutrition's Gold Standard Whey is probably the most popular protein powder on the market, and with good reason: it's cheap, effective, and tasty. Isopure's Low Carb, on the other hand, is among the ... Continue Reading

Is This the Heaviest Set of Jerks Ever Completed?

Don’t get us wrong, we’re all about the heaviest weights ever lifted around here. But in our opinion, not enough cred is given to the heaviest sets ever lifted. Earlier this week, for instance, Chris ... Continue Reading

Harrison Maurus PRs His Jerk With 200kg, Three Days Before Pan Ams

The 17-year-old weightlifting prodigy Harrison Maurus looks pretty dead set on breaking some records at next week’s Pan American Weightlifting Championships. Take a look at this behind the neck jerk of ... Continue Reading

Inside the Crazy Strength Sport of Finger Wrestling

On first impressions it may look like a hyper macho show of competitive strength to win the attention of the nearby, 6-steins-of-beer-carrying waitress, but the German strength sport of finger wrestling ... Continue Reading

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