BN Labs is based in Irvine, California, and while they have a variety of products under different lines, including your standard whey protein powders and branched chain amino acids, a lot of their ... Continue Reading
Vice Features Westside Barbell & “Westside Vs. The World” Premiere Announced
Score another point for strength sports making an appearance in major news outlets. Vice Canada recently released a video that goes inside Westside Barbell to learn more about the gym's infamous owner, ... Continue Reading
Ghost Size Creatine Review — An Endurance-Boosting Supplement?
Ghost is a pretty interesting supplement company that prefers to call itself a “sports nutrition lifestyle brand,” and as such they sponsor both bodybuilders and DJs and their website includes music ... Continue Reading
Could This Gadget Zap Your Brain to Improve Lifting?
Strength athletes hear a lot about how they need to perfectly perform every one of their reps to create and enforce the right neural pathways involved with the lift. But what if there were a device that ... Continue Reading
Ray Williams Squats 1,003 Pounds for an Insane Double
Ray Williams is one of the best raw squatters in the world, and he’s reminding us all why with this astonishing double he just pulled off in training at his local gym in Fulton, Mississippi. The number: ... Continue Reading
The Hype Is Real In Jerry Pritchett’s 2018 Road to the Arnold Video
"I want to sit on top of the podium that's the ultimate goal, it's to win the Arnold. It's going to happen, whether it happens this year, or next year...it's going to happen." Let it begin. The series ... Continue Reading
Do Women Who Arch in the Bench Press Get More Hate Than Men?
The Roosevelt Arch, the Gateway Arch, L’Arc de Triomphe. All very famous arches that are adored around the worldwide. However, when it comes to powerlifting, some people aren't so supportive of these feats ... Continue Reading
Barbell Clean and Press Alternatives
The barbell clean and press is a very popular movement in fitness, strength, and power sports. While it does differ from the barbell clean & jerk (view comparison article here), the clean and press vs ... Continue Reading
10 Commandments of the Bench Press
Oh man, where do we begin. It's chest day, also known as bench day, also known as that time of the week when you get to walk around the gym with your chest feeling swole. The pecs are poppin' and your ... Continue Reading
Beast Creature Creatine Review — Why 5 Kinds of Creatine?
Beast Sports Nutrition is based in Boca Raton, Florida, and while their products focus on bodybuilding goals like muscle gain and fat loss, they sponsor a couple of powerlifters as well. The sell some ... Continue Reading
Natalie Hanson (84kg) Squats a Massive 275kg (606 lbs)
84kg Powerlifter and Beefpuff Barbell Co-Founder Natalie Hanson is crushing her training cycle in lead up to the 2018 Arnold Classic. In her latest squat video, Hanson surpassed two huge training ... Continue Reading
84kg Powerlifter Daniella Melo Deadlifts a 225kg (495 lb) PR
When we wrote about -84kg powerlifter Daniella Melo's strong squat set back in mid-January, we didn't think it would be the last time writing about her in lead up to her next meet. We're less than three ... Continue Reading
How to Work Swimming Into a Strength Cycle
Swimming rarely makes an appearance in conditioning plans, and we’re here to change that. There’s this persistent belief that swimming just isn’t great cardio. Freestyle messes up your shoulders. It ... Continue Reading
The Real Pros and Cons of the Bodybuilding Lifestyle
Over my career, from beginner all the way to the Olympia stage, I heard it all. Every sleazy comment, every myth and misconception about the bodybuilding lifestyle. In my experience the average person, ... Continue Reading
5 Things You Can Expect When Attending a Women’s Powerlifting Event
I recently had the pleasure of attending a “Women In Strength” event at my gym; The Warhouse Gym in Reading, Pennsylvania. The event was hosted by Dana Linn Bailey, Jennifer Thompson, and Megan Gallagher ... Continue Reading
7 Things Not to Say to Katrin Davidsdottir on a Date
“You look like you’re pretty strong… for a girl.” Whether you’re a powerlifter, weightlifter, strongwoman, or a CrossFit® athlete like Katrin Davidsdottir, if you’re competitive and you excel at your ... Continue Reading
How to Fix Your Overhead Lockout in Strongman
Giant traps, huge glutes, and freaky shoulders can indicate a strong, powerful lifter. When the rubber meets the road in a contest, looks are out the window and the athlete who has a complete game will ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Joe Sullivan Uses Quick Thinking to Avoid Injury After Equipment Failure
Powerlifter Joe Sullivan escaped a sticky situation a couple days ago when he experienced equipment failure during a back squat. His quick thinking and composure under the bar saved him from what could ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson Deadlifts 455kg (1,003 lbs) With Ease
Yesterday, Hafthor Bjornsson pulled a massive 455kg (1,003 lb) deadlift and managed to make it look easy. Granted, easy in this scenario is completely relative for the 6' 9" professional strongman. Outside ... Continue Reading
Powerlifting Slows the Aging Process. Here’s Why
Doctors understand aging as a loss of one’s reserves. Here, reserves means abilities – physical and mental. To a doctor, then, we age when we lose physical ability or mental capacity. While we all, of ... Continue Reading
Watch: The 2017 Reebok CrossFit® Games Documentary Has a Trailer
"What our athletes are doing, everyone thinks is impossible. That you can be that fast. That you can be that strong. That you can have that many different skills.” Isn't that CrossFit in a nutshell? ... Continue Reading
Reebok CrossFit® Nano 8 Flexweave Review
Cross training shoes are becoming increasingly more common in strength sports. These are shoes designed to feel like flexible tennis shoes, but with a strength athlete in mind. This being said, they're ... Continue Reading
R+D Body CRE HD Creatine HCl Review — Cheap for HCl
Based in Manhattan Beach California, R+D Body’s goal is to help you “reach the next level” — that’s the slogan that’s all over their website — and to do that they offer a variety of supplements for ... Continue Reading
Is It Normal for the IT Band to “Pop”?
It’s quite common for our joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments to make popping and cracking noises throughout day-to-day activities and our training routines. These sounds are thought to be caused by a ... Continue Reading