This fall, our favorite time of the week has been when Brute Strength publishes another installment of their hugely popular YouTube series, “Brute Showdown.” If you haven’t been following the show’s ... Continue Reading
Who’s Best at CrossFit: An Olympic Weightlifter, Powerlifter, or Bodybuilder?
Brute Strength has had a spectacular second season of their Brute Showdown series. If you missed it, last year was the first season that pitted a bodybuilder (Lawrence Balleneger), powerlifter (Steve ... Continue Reading
5 Coaches Name the Most Neglected Exercises in Strength Training
It’s likely you’re training the big 3 (squat, deadlift and press) because this is the meat and potatoes of all good training programs. And are good, correct? But to keep improving, you must look to ... Continue Reading
3 Tips to Help Coaches Be More Body Positive With Their Clients
When you step into a gym, what are your goals? Where did you get those goals? Did someone tell you you’d look better in that shirt, that dress, if you just would do x or y? Did someone — more frequently, ... Continue Reading
The Untold History of the First Weightlifting Competition
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, eight categories for Olympic Weightlifting existed for men and seven for women. In both cases the categories boasted roughly a dozen competitors or more. For those with a ... Continue Reading
Why Would You Start a Nutrition Company? An Interview with Ample’s Founder (Sponsored)
We've reviewed hundreds of different supplements so take it from us: the nutrition industry is hard to break into. There are countless shakes, powders, and potions lining the shelves of supplement stores ... Continue Reading
Why More Athletes Should Look to Vegan Protein (Brought to You by Ample)
It’s not controversial to say that human beings should have diverse diets. As omnivores, we want to get as broad a spectrum of foods as we can in order to consume as wide a variety of vitamins, minerals, ... Continue Reading
Why You Shouldn’t Drink Caffeine After Working Out
As much as we act and think we’re sometimes invincible, humans aren’t robots. (Shocker, I know). Our anatomy was built to handle external stressors but only by few amounts at a time. Stress unavoidably ... Continue Reading
5 Best Vegan Protein Powders
Well-designed, plant-based diets can provide a rich source of phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals. While it’s completely possible to reach your desired protein intake without supplementing, athletes of ... Continue Reading
The Untold History of Weight Machines
We live in a technological age, and the exercise machines being designed and manufactured today are better than ever. But your muscles were designed by evolution to overcome the pull of gravity rather than ... Continue Reading
IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros): Your Ultimate Guide to This Diet
The world of nutrition is awash in different diets and it’s safe to say that many of them hinge on rules surrounding what you can and can’t eat: nothing post-caveman for the Paleo diet, nothing from an ... Continue Reading
7 Tasty Keto Meals That Don’t Use Meat (Brought to You by Ample)
Keto diets have become phenomenally popular, with Google searches related to the term surging by almost 2,000 percent between 2016 and 2018. Halle Berry has done it, Tim Tebow has done it, Vanessa Hudgens ... Continue Reading
Check Out the Schedule for the 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic
The schedule and details about the events that will be held at the 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic have finally been released. Every year, this epic event takes place in Columbus, Ohio, at the Arnold Sports ... Continue Reading
NEW Adidas Powerlift 4s Offer Welcomed Construction Updates
Adidas fans get ready because the lifting shoe updates you've been waiting for are finally here. The new Adidas Powerlift 4s were recently released to the public and details about them have been relatively ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Build a Kettlebell Pyramid Workout
Ah, pyramid training. There’s something about getting in and out of a muscle group (or a cardio-esque workout) quickly and not-at-all easily that is immensely satisfying. Unlike traditional (and more ... Continue Reading
Low on Time? Why Rest-Pause Training Gets You Strong Faster
You, like so many others who have begun their strength training journeys before you, are trying to get brutally strong. And like so many of those who start or have been strength training for any amount ... Continue Reading
Why Olympic Weightlifting Improves Mixed Martial Arts Athletes
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a multi-faceted combat sport that combines many striking and grappling disciplines such as wrestling, jiu jitsu, judo, and kickboxing. Matches generally consist of 5 minute ... Continue Reading
Mat Fraser & Sam Briggs Win Dubai CrossFit® Championship, Qualify for 2019 Games
For one athlete, it was further proof of dominance, starting yet another season well ahead of the competition. For another, it was a return to form after a season dampened by injury. And ultimately, two ... Continue Reading
Reebok Has the Perfect Sale for a Strength Athlete On Your Shopping List
If you're like me, then you're probably ridiculously behind on holiday shopping, and you keep putting the event off saying things like, "It's only the beginning of December, I have plenty of time." ... Continue Reading
7 Micronutrients That Are Important for Athletes
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 ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Amanda Lawrence Squats 570 lbs, Discusses #Roadto600
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 ... Continue Reading
The Actual Pros and Cons of the Paleo Diet
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 ... Continue Reading
Low Impact, HIIT 15-Minute Kettlebell Circuit
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 ... Continue Reading
Why Jack LaLanne Is One of the Most Influential Athletes of All Time
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 ... Continue Reading