Get ready, because holiday season is prime time for the next iteration of #fraserfroningvstheworld. Do you and a friend have what it takes to beat two men with six individual CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Athletic Greens Christmas Bundle
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Athletic Greens are teaming up to give one lucky winner a holiday bundle package! The world's most famous greens supplement is ... Continue Reading
Should Weightlifters Do Hang Movements from Above or Below the Knee?
The hang position has many benefits for improving efficiency in the snatch and clean & jerk, such as more time under tension, increased back strength, and better awareness throughout the lifts. There ... Continue Reading
Our Favorite Sick Angles Photos from the 2017 Weightlifting World Championships
In the weightlifting world, Steve Galvan wears a lot of hats. He's an athlete, coach, announcer, and occasional color commentator. But he's probably best known internationally as the IWF's official ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: 2POOD Weightlifting Package
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend is teaming up with 2POOD to give one lucky winner an awesome package of weightlifting gear! Lift well, look good: BarBend and 2POOD are teaming ... Continue Reading
CrossFit® Athlete Armand Poreaux Trains with Cerebral Palsy and Excels Through Strength
If you're connected to the Instagram fitness world, then there's a good chance you've seen the video of CrossFit® athlete Armand Poreaux smoking a 70kg clean at his home box, Remes CrossFit. Within ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Myprotein Strength Supplement Package!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend is teaming up with Myprotein to give one lucky winner an awesome package of strength supplements! [Interested in learning more about Myprotein? ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: BarBend Weightlifting Belt and Apparel Package
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend is giving one lucky winner one of our signature white weightlifting belts, plus other great BarBend apparel like socks and wrist wraps! The ... Continue Reading
How to Survive (and Even Embrace) Rest Days
Ah, rest days… we know we need them (or so we’ve been told), yet for some reason they are so difficult. If you’re anything like me, you probably operate under the notion that more is always better. You’ve ... Continue Reading
When to Use Straps in Powerlifting and Strongman
All strength sports have their own little quirks; powerlifting has sumo deadlifts, CrossFit has kipping, and strongman, well, strongman kind of has a few that irk others. But it isn’t the hitching or the ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Lift Lab Co. Weightlifting Apparel Package!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Lift Lab Co are giving one lucky winner a HUGE apparel package (our biggest yet!) with multiple performance gear shirts, a Lift Lab Co backpack, ... Continue Reading
An Uncut and Unfiltered Interview With Strength Coach Mark Rippetoe
To date, this was one of the toughest interviews I've ever held. What do you ask one of the strength and conditioning world's better known coaches, who also writes for a living, and already has a boat load ... Continue Reading
Nike Officially Announces Metcon 4 Details and Release Date (Pics Included)
Nike Metcon fans get ready, there's been more news announced regarding the Nike Metcon 4. We first reported on this shoe in early November when we got first glimpses of what to expect. In a press release, ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Bear Grips Functional Fitness & Apparel Package
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Bear Grips are teaming up to give one lucky winner a Functional Fitness & Apparel Package! Work out in style and protect your hands ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Caffeine and Kilos Coffee and Apparel Package
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Caffeine and Kilos are teaming up to give one lucky winner a C&K Coffee and Apparel Package! Great coffee? Check. Hot threads? ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Reebok Nanos and Fitness Apparel!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Reebok are teaming up to give one lucky winner a pair of Reebok Nanos and a goodie bag of functional fitness apparel! Reebok revolutionized ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: $150.00 Trifecta Meal Credit!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend Trifecta are teaming up to give one lucky winner $150 credit for Trifecta meals! Find out why Trifecta is the athlete's choice for healthy meals! ... Continue Reading
Full Schedule for the 2018 CrossFit Games Season Released
CrossFit fans get ready, because CrossFit HQ just released the (almost) full schedule for the 2018 CrossFit Games Season. With the CrossFit Lift Off recently coming to a conclusion, athletes are now ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Supplement Package from Earth Fed Muscle!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Earth Fed Muscle are teaming up to give one lucky winner a Protein & T-Shirt Supplement Package! Earth Fed Muscle makes supplements for ... Continue Reading
Lasha Talakhadze (+105kg, Georgia) Sets All-Time Snatch and Total Records
Consider the envelope pushed. During the final session of the 2017 Weightlifting World Championships in Anaheim, California, Georgian superheavyweight Lasha Talakhadze earned himself a place in the ... Continue Reading
Sarah Robles (+90kg, USA) Wins 3 Gold Medals to Become IWF World Champion
American +90kg Olympic weightlifter Sarah Robles is the new IWF World Champion. She went 6 for 6 at the Weightlifting World Championships in Anaheim today and took home gold medals for the snatch, clean ... Continue Reading
Wes Kitts (105kg) Sets a New American Snatch Record With 176kg
At the World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, Wes Kitts set a new American record in the snatch with a huge lift of 176 kilograms (388 pounds) at -105kg ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: A 3-Month Supply of Athletic Greens!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend and Athletic Greens are teaming up to give one lucky winner a 3-month supply of Athletic Greens! Athletic Greens is one of the world's most ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: BarBend Double Leather Powerlifting Belt!
To continue our 25 Days of Gifting extravaganza, BarBend is giving one lucky winner a brand new Double Leather Powerlifting Belt! The BarBend Double Leather Powerlifting Belt is built to last a ... Continue Reading