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
NC State Lineman Kentavius Street Squats a Monster 700 Pounds
Have you ever seen a better way to get hyped up for a heavy lift than this? Kentavius Street is a senior at NC State and a strong-side defensive end for their football team, The Wolfpack. And it looks ... 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
Amit Sapir Is the First Man to Hold the Squat Record in 4 Weight Classes Simultaneously
The Israeli bodybuilder and powerlifter Amit Sapir just squatted 762.5 pounds (345.9 kilograms) weighing 181 pounds (82 kilograms), an official UPA world record. He pulled off the lift raw and with ... 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
CrossFit Team Series Takes New Formatting for 2017
Late last week, CrossFit announced that their annual team series will be taking in a new format. In previous years, teams were composed of four, with two men and two women, but this year teams will come in ... 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
Watch: CrossFit Games Athletes Make Fun of Gym Stereotypes
“I need more chalk for burpees!” "I could go faster but I gotta play it safe, I could make Regionals in a couple of years." So, this is pretty great. Reebok Canada has just released a sketch that's ... 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
MusclePharm BCAA 3:1:2 Review — Why the Different Ratio?
MusclePharm is a Colorado-based supplement company that has a decent following among bodybuilders, but is probably best known for their line of “combat” supplements like Combat Whey and their Combat Crunch ... Continue Reading
6 Tips to Make Counting Your Macros Way Easier
Editors note: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed herein and in the video are the authors and don’t necessarily reflect the views of BarBend. Claims, assertions, opinions, and quotes have been ... Continue Reading
Chris Bridgeford Deadlifts 370kg for Five Reps at 119kg Bodyweight
Twenty-two year old powerlifter Chris Bridgeford is repping awfully close to the world record deadlift: five reps of 370 kilograms (815.7 pounds) with wrist ... Continue Reading
Dave Castro Announces 1RM Clean & Jerk Team Event at the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games
The barbell is indeed back. The morning after letting the world know that the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games will include a one-rep max snatch individual event, Director of the CrossFit Games Dave Castro ... Continue Reading
Watch This 52-Year-Old Smash the World Record for Most Push-Ups In an Hour
In the Body Club Fitness Center in Margaret River, Western Australia, construction worker Carlton Williams has hit a pretty serious PR. Well, it's an all-time WR, actually: Two thousand, six hundred and ... Continue Reading
Dave Castro Announces Max Snatch Event for 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games
Dave Castro has been dropping a slue of announcements for the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games, but his newest announcement may take the cake for most shocking. Late last night, Castro shared a video on his ... Continue Reading
How to Grow Strongman in the United States
In 2017, strongman Eddie "The Beast" Hall stepped from the backstage shadows to a roaring capacity crowd at the Doncaster Dome in England. The event is on YouTube in amateur and professionally edited ... Continue Reading