The 2024 Beasts of Burden contest was the first elite strongman contest of the 2024 season. It took place in Molendinar, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2024, and featured nine athletes competing across five ... Continue Reading
HIIT Vs. LISS — Which Type of Cardio Is Better?
You’ve just started surrendering to your cardio-happy friend who insists that you do something in the gym aside from picking up heavy barbells and putting them back down. Fine, you say, you’ll do…cardio. ... Continue Reading
Ilya Ilyin’s Lost Training Footage PLUS Larry Wheels Tries Pilates, Strength Weekly 1/22
Strength Weekly is the show keeping you up to date from around the barbell game! This week, we're covering: Here's the run of show for this week: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Run of show 01:55 Never before ... Continue Reading
The 6 Best Tried and Tested Non-Folding Treadmills of 2024
Whether you’re hitting the pavement or sprinting on one of the best treadmills money can buy, running has been shown to improve cardiovascular health, create stronger bones, lower resting heart rate, ... Continue Reading
The 10 Best Leg Stretches to Bolster Your Lower Body Training
If you do it right, leg day is an intense experience. Squatting, lunging, and hinging until you’re a puddle on the gym floor takes up a lot of time and mental real estate. But once you’ve crushed your leg ... Continue Reading
A New Study Reveals 2 Training Techniques to Maximize Muscle Growth
Muscles can stretch and contract. That might seem like an oversimplification, but who hasn't seen the gyms with countless members trying to get huge by slinging dumbbells around without loading their ... Continue Reading
Rondel Hunte Raw Deadlifts 380 Kilograms for Three Reps
Heavyweight powerlifter Rondel Hunte hails from Trinidad and Tobago. He won the 2018 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Junior world title by a considerable margin. Hunte endured something of ... Continue Reading
The 8 Best Tried and Tested Treadmills Under $1,000 of 2024, As Chosen By Our Experts
A baby is born, learns to crawl, then walk, and finally run. If that excitement carries onward — or weather impedes progress — the best treadmills can be helpful in allowing such athletes to hit their ... Continue Reading
Do These 5 Things Between Sets to Build More Muscle and Burn More Fat
If you lift weights: Have you ever considered that the vast majority of time during your “workout” is spent sitting on your butt doing nothing at all? Think about it — five good reps in the back squat ... Continue Reading
CBum and Dino — The World’s Top 2 Classic Physique Bodybuilders Team Up To Train Back
The rivalry between reigning five-time Classic Physique Olympia champion Chris Bumstead and defending Arnold Classic (AC) Classic Physique champion Ramon Rocha Queiroz stands as one of the most intense in ... Continue Reading
2024 Arnold Classic Men’s Open Preview
The 2024 Arnold Classic is set for March 1-3, 2024, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH. It will be the 36th edition of the contest, which dates back to 1989 ... Continue Reading
The 8 Best Compact Treadmills of 2024
Many of the best treadmills on the market have a big footprint, making them unsuitable for those sweating in tight apartments or gyms. The good news is that bigger isn’t always better — there are plenty of ... Continue Reading
The Stoltman Brothers Tour Ryan Terry’s £5,000,000 Custom Gym
2023 Olympia Men’s Physique champion Ryan Terry opened a state-of-the-art gym called RT Fit in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England in partnership with strength brand Primal. Terry invited other elite ... Continue Reading
The 9 Best Treadmills on Amazon of 2024
With such an overwhelming amount of products on Amazon, finding the best treadmills can feel overwhelming. There’s a reason many consumers turn to Amazon — fast shipping and flash sales chief among them. ... Continue Reading
Caliber Fitness App Review (2024): Personal Training in the Palm of Your Hand
Like other facets of fitness, personal training has gone digital, too. There’s no shortage of online personal trainers available — including the Caliber Fitness App — that keep your instruction and workout ... Continue Reading
“Drive the Bar”: Zack Telander’s Split Jerk Tips For Strongman Mitchell Hooper
2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Mitchell Hooper has been dipping into Olympic weightlifting to improve as a Strongman competitor. The techniques used in Olympic weightlifting offer ... Continue Reading
Austin Perkins (75KG) Raw Squats 1.5 Kilograms Over IPF World Record for a Triple In Training
Elite powerlifter Austin Perkins has the biggest total of any raw 75-kilogram lifter in the world at 851 kilograms (1,876 pounds) and the highest DOTS score of any tested athlete, ... Continue Reading
Team China Withdraws From 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The Chinese weightlifting team — the world’s most dominant contingent in the sport — has abandoned one of its two remaining 2024 Paris Olympic Games qualification opportunities by withdrawing from the ... Continue Reading
Sam Sulek — Workouts, Biography, Height, and More
When people think of the biggest names in bodybuilding in terms of competition, the most popular athletes to come up tend to be five-time Classic Physique Olympia champion Chris Bumstead and 2023 Mr. ... Continue Reading
Krzysztof Wierzbicki Deadlifts 510 Kilograms Beltless Off Blocks In Training
Polish powerlifter Krzysztof Wierzbicki is deadlifting unfathomably heavy again. The 110-kilogram lifter shared a video on his Instagram page on Jan. 17, 2024, wherein he pulled a monstrously heavy 510 ... Continue Reading
Is 10,000 Really the Magic Number? The Science Behind Taking 10,000 Steps a Day
If you’ve got a fitness tracker, the number of steps you need to hit to close those rings is often a crisp, clean 10,000. Even if you don’t wear a tracker on your wrist, plenty of smartphones are ... Continue Reading
Jeff Nippard Explains How To Get Abs by Summer, Using Science
For those in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is still many months away. But as the saying goes, summer bodies are built during the winter. If you're bulking now, you should plan to get your abs popping ... Continue Reading
Tony Pearson on Bodybuilding: “It’s Art”
Tony Pearson, famed for his aesthetic physique, symmetry, and electrifying stage presence, clinched the World Bodybuilding Guild (WBBG) Pro Mr. World and WBBG Olympus in 1979. A year later, he scored gold ... Continue Reading
How to Overhead Press: Technique, Variations, and Benefits
If you hit the gym, you've probably heard about the big three; the bench press, deadlift, and squat. There is, however, one more movement that you should consider a must-do — the overhead press. You may ... Continue Reading