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Whether you’re a powerlifter or an Olympic weightlifter, if you compete at any level there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the fabled pre-meet cut.The cycle is like clockwork: spend a few months (or perhaps most of the year)...

If you’re looking to build muscle, you probably already know you need to eat a lot of calories. There’s a good chance you’ve got your hypertrophy program figured out, if you’ve really done your diligence you’ve worked out your...

If you read this title and thought to yourself, "Wait, didn't I just read an article covering Amanda Lawrence and one of her strong lifts," then we'd have to answer yes, yes you did, and you're not wrong in...

One of the hottest and diets around and one that's especially popular among functional fitness athletes, the Paleo diet — sometimes called the Paleolithic or Caveman diet — focuses on nutrient-dense foods and tends to be higher in fat...

There are more awesome things about kettlebells than I can list in the fifteen minutes it will take for a lifter to perform this low impact, high intensity interval training circuit. Suffice it to say, for now, that whether...

Speaking to reporters in the late 1990s, a then vibrant eighty-three-year-old Jack LaLanne told his bemused audience, ‘I can’t afford to die, it’d ruin my image.’(1)Earlier that morning, LaLanne had engaged in his daily exercise regimen of swimming and...

Yesterday, elite CrossFit athlete Annie Thorrisdottir announced that she'd be withdrawing from the Dubai CrossFit Championship. This news comes only four days after we covered the first workout for the Championship, which was also the first official workout for...

The sixth giveaway in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign is everyone's favorite...shoes! For this giveaway, we've teamed up with Reebok to provide one lucky winner with a pair of Reebok CrossFit Nano 8 Flexweaves. These shoes are perfect for the both the...

If you have missed a deadlift near lockout, then you probably have been told that you need to do more block/rack pulls. In theory, it makes sense right? If the top end of the lift is weak, train it...

We're three days into our 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign and we're just heating up. For today's giveaway, we've teamed up with Kettlebell Kings. One lucky winner will be walking away with a Kettlebell King's 24kg Powder Coat Kettlebell, which has a retail...