Now that we know how to and who to watch at this weekend’s CrossFit Regionals, it’s time to address another vital question: who will come out on top? With fewer than 1% of athletes and teams ... Continue Reading
How USA Weightlifting’s Men Can Qualify for the Olympics: An Explainer
If you thought it was difficult to watch the Woman’s Olympic Trials Sunday night and keep track of who was on the team and who was not, your work isn’t done yet: We’ve still got the men to deal with. Allow ... Continue Reading
Get 1% Better: A Posture Solution
Mobility can be simple, and sometimes, our best tools for undoing damage from sitting and bad posture are gravity and time. But to see those benefits, you have to put yourself in the right positions to ... Continue Reading
Breaking Down Women’s Olympic Trials: Three Lifters Qualified, But Could That Change?
If the sport of weightlifting is referred to as the “Iron Game,” then the ability to track who is going to qualify for a USA Weightlifting (USAW) International team should be called the “Excel Spreadsheet ... Continue Reading
How to Watch the 2016 CrossFit Games Regionals
It's time for Regionals, and while it took awhile, CrossFit HQ has officially announced how to watch the competitions on line. And it's good news, because all events at every 2016 Regional will be streamed ... Continue Reading
Who’s Competing? The Big Names at This Weekend’s CrossFit Regionals
North Central combines with Central East for the Central Regional. South Central combines with Latin American for the South Regional...but South East ends up in Atlantic. All of Russia somehow gets lumped ... Continue Reading
The Regional Workout Change You Probably Missed
Now that all the Events of the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games Regionals have been released, we can talk about what we expect in the upcoming weekends. As elite CrossFit athletes evolve to become skilled across ... Continue Reading
National Strength & Conditioning Association Sues CrossFit, Claiming Defamation
In an article published on "The Russells" CrossFit subdomain, Russell Berger announced that the National Strength and Conditioning Association had filed suit against himself, Russ Greene, Greg Glassman, ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting Nationals Day 1 Recap (and Derrick Johnson’s Double Bodyweight Snatch)
Day 1 of the USA Weightlifting Senior National Championships is a wrap after a long first day of action in Salt Lake City. The highlight of today’s action was easily the new American Record Derrick ... Continue Reading
Wilde Boldr Review: Better Protein, or Same Old Bar?
There are so many protein bars on the market these days, that it’s nearly impossible to keep them all straight. It takes something snazzy to catch our eye, so when colorfully packaged and meat filled Wilde ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Profiles: U.S.A.’s Jenny Arthur (75 kg)
Leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympics, Jenny Arthur was the only American weightlifter named to the Olympic team before Olympic team trials. BarBend weightlifting correspondent Mike Graber spoke ... Continue Reading
Is This the Heaviest Front Squat of All Time?
The front squat is a lift we rarely — if ever — see tested under "competition" circumstances, but it makes up a big portion of strength training for athletes across disciplines. It's a pillar of ... Continue Reading
Cardio for Weightlifters? When Conditioning Is Important for Strength Athletes
As strength, power, and competitive fitness athletes, we are always concerned with the effect of endurance training on our top end strength and power outputs. Despite the plethora of scientific and ... Continue Reading
“School of Champions” Documents Ivan Abadjiev’s 1987 Bulgarian Weightlifting Team
The Bulgarian system of weightlifting generally refers to a style of intense, competition-centric training developed by Ivan Abadjiev in the 1980s and 90s. His Bulgarian team had immense success in those ... Continue Reading
Caffeine and Kilos’ Danny Lehr Accepts Doping Sanction, Warns Against Mystery Supps
In a statement released on Monday, May 2nd, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced weightlifter Daniel Lehr has accepted a four-year competition sanction for a positive doping text. From ... Continue Reading
NPGL Eliminates Age 40+ Athlete Requirement
Though many things stand out in the NPGL — the speed, range of skills, substitutions — one of the more notable particulars was the requirement that all teams must have active athletes (male and female) age ... Continue Reading
Athletes to Watch on CrossFit Regionals Day 1
To say any athlete is going to dominate at CrossFit Regionals is always an iffy proposition; while there are good bets year in and year out, there are at least as many veterans who come up short on a ... Continue Reading
How to Watch USA Weightlifting Nationals and Olympic Trials
Update: NBC has confirmed with BarBend that there will be no TV subscription authentication necessary to watch weightlifting trials; anyone in the U.S. with the app should be able to watch whether or not ... Continue Reading
How Paul Anderson Became One of History’s Strongest Humans
If you mention the name “Paul Anderson” in front of a random group of people, most of them will probably think you’re talking about an unremarkable middle manager of a cereal manufacturer. A “Paul ... Continue Reading
Behdad Salimi Has the World’s Heaviest Power Clean (on Video)
We've seen some pretty big (if slightly unverified, and completed to football weight room standards) power cleans on video, but there's still one that takes the cake — and all sources indicate it's very ... Continue Reading
Jerry Pritchett With the Easiest 900+ Deadlift You’ll Ever See
The question "Would strongman competitors make great powerlifters?" is finally getting answered lift-by-lift, and records are falling as a result. This beautiful lift by World's Strongest Man finalist and ... Continue Reading
2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships Full Results
The 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships have come to a close. The event — held April 21-30 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan — featured a mix of various nations' best, along with plenty of other top ... Continue Reading
Pyrros Dimas to Hold Q&A Session at Olympic Trials in Salt Lake City
To be the best, learn from the best. Attendees at Next week's US Olympic Trials/National Championships will have the chance to ask 3-time Olympic Champion (and 4-time Olympic medalist) Pyrros Dimas their ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Lovchev Challenges IWF Suspension in Anti-Doping Meeting, Maintains Innocence
Following a provisional IWF suspension after his world record clean & jerk, Russian superheavyweight Aleksey Lovchev continues to maintain his innocence in an anti-doping appeal. On ... Continue Reading