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Behdad Salimi Resumes Training After ACL Surgery, Still 50/50 for Rio

Update: At the Asian Weightlifting Championships on April 27th, BarBend correspondent Mike Graber spoke to the Iranian delegation regarding Salimi's status. They say he's resumed training but is still ... Continue Reading

Don’t Miss These Important Powerlifting Dates in 2016

It's a great year so far for powerlifting, including some World Record performances and the emergence of Blaine Sumner as one of the sport's greats (and potential all-time greats). But there's still plenty ... Continue Reading

The Shirtless Chef’s Kitchen: Healthier Chicken Alfredo

Shirtless Chef and CrossFit Union Square coach Andre Crews makes a few simple swaps to give chicken alfredo more protein and flavor than we've ever seen before. Don't fear the fat. [For more from ... Continue Reading

4 Badass Powerlifters You Aren’t Following on Instagram (But Should Be)

There are Instagram powerlifters, and then there are Instagram powerlifters worth following. The four athletes below have impressed us time and time again with their social media updates (and not always ... Continue Reading

Julie Abilgaard Wins Open Workout 16.4, Is Probably Still Going Team

After a bit of mystery and some delay on video verification, Danish athlete Julie Abildgaard has emerged victorious on Open workout 16.4 with 318 reps. Check out Abildgaard's performance below, which ... Continue Reading

Josh Bridges Wins 16.4, Ties Briggs at Seven Open Victories

Josh Bridges is incredibly fit. But the multi-time CrossFit Games competitor (and 2011's Second Fittest Man) has shocked once again with an absolutely mind-boggling 330 reps on CrossFit Open workout. While ... Continue Reading

Watch Weightlifting Prodigy Harrison Maurus Make Mindblowing Progress

Harrison Maurus is part of an exciting crop of young, talented, and rapidly improving American weightlifters under 17. Along with CJ Cummings, the 15 year old Maurus turns heads on social media and the ... Continue Reading

Wes Kitts clean & jerking at the Russian Grand Prix.

Bianco, Kitts, and Phillips Medal for USA at IWF Russian President’s Cup

It was a small competition, to be sure, but that doesn't make the performances any less impressive. American lifters put up three podium finishes at the IWF Russian President's Cup in Kazan over the ... Continue Reading

Hafthor Bjornsson Wins Arnold Classic Australia Strongman

Think the strongman fun was over for March? Think again. Just two weeks after the Arnold Classic competition in Columbus, Ohio, the world's biggest (and tallest) strength athletes headed down under for the ... Continue Reading

Kendrick Farris Squats 550 lbs for 10 Reps, Makes Us Winded Just Watching

Kendrick Farris is a two-time Olympian and a bit of a social media celebrity in the sport of weightlifting, so if you haven't seen the video below just yet, it's time to catch ... Continue Reading

The Ultimate Guide to Weightlifting at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Olympic weightlifting has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. And while it's easy to get caught up in debating exactly why the spike in interest has occurred - social media exposure, ... Continue Reading

See how the world's top strongman athletes compare in height.

Here’s How Top Strongman Athletes Stack Up in Height

Of all the strength sports, strongman gives athletes perhaps the biggest advantage for being tall. Strongman events like the stone lift and weight over bar benefit bigger, taller athletes who can move ... Continue Reading

This Australian Rugby Player Is Giving Us Hamstring Envy

Rugby players don't always get a lot of credit in the United States for their athletic feats off the field. But with the 2016 Olympics fast approaching and Rugby Sevens on the roster as a new sport for the ... Continue Reading

Caine Wilkes Is the Best Troll in American Weightlifting

Caine Wilkes may be America's best weightlifting troll, and we mean that in the best possible way. The reigning 105+ National Champion and World Team Member moves more weight than any other American ... Continue Reading

At 475 lbs, This Is the Biggest Football Power Clean We’ve Ever Seen

Football weight room power cleans could be a sport in their own right: Straps on, lift out of the rack, get some good pre-oscillation going in that bar, toss up, starfish legs, and rest the bar on your ... Continue Reading

Here Are All Sam Brigg’s World Record Open Performances

Sam Briggs is historically fit, that much is without question. But the 2013 World's Fittest Woman is especially well known for her engine and aptitude at high-rep, conditioning-heavy workouts, fame that's ... Continue Reading

You Can’t Understand Brian Shaw’s Size Until He Drops Ed Coan

Brian Shaw is one of the world's premiere strongmen; that much is certain. The Colorado native and three-time World's Strongest Man excels in a sport where a combination of size, explosiveness, and limit ... Continue Reading

Has the CrossFit Open Become a Spectator Sport?

The CrossFit Open is now in its sixth year, and while the movements, announcements, and length have changed - remember the six-week slog of 2011? - the epicenters of activity have not. Boxes big and small ... Continue Reading

Powerlifting After 40: American Record Holder Joanna Welsh

I sat down with Joanna Welsh, a masters powerlifter and multi-time American record holder, to chat about taking up a new sport at 39 and what’s next for her. In the four years since Welsh started competed ... Continue Reading

Blaine Sumner Is a Powerlifting Great, Deserves Your Instagram Follow

With the 2016 Olympics on the horizon, powerlifting is about to take a backseat in the public consciousness to its faster, snappier cousin. But that doesn't mean 2016 won't give us reason to celebrate the ... Continue Reading

In Case You Forgot, Artem Okulov Is Blisteringly Fast

Reigning weightlifting World Champion Artem Okulov is having a good year. After third place finishes in 2013 (Wroclaw) and 2014 (Almaty), the 85 kilo Russian came through big in Houston and took home the ... Continue Reading

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