CBS Sports has just announced they'll be airing and covering the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games. Coverage is set to start tomorrow Thursday, July 20th, at 8 P.M. EST, and go through the final day of the Games ... Continue Reading
Reebok Launches Fantasy CrossFit (With Insane Prizes)
Reebok has announced that for the first time ever, fans will be able to play fantasy sports with the athletes at this year's Reebok CrossFit Games. They're calling it “CrossFit Games Pick’Em.” Veteran ... Continue Reading
Building Better Athletes With Joe Kenn (2016 NFL Strength Coach of the Year)
If you're in the strength and conditioning world, then there's a pretty big chance you've heard the name Joe Kenn before. For anyone who hasn't, then maybe you've heard of something called the Tier System ... Continue Reading
Do You Really Need High Glycemic Carbs Around Your Workout?
The idea that you need high glycemic carbohydrates to spike your insulin and replenish glycogen after a workout is common in the strength world. It’s an integral part of taking advantage of your “window of ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Torokhtiy Plans to Power Jerk 260kg at the Reebok CrossFit Games
Ukrainian weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist, and occasional ballerina Aleksey Torokhtiy just posted a clip of a training session in which he power jerks a huge 250 ... Continue Reading
So You Wanna Be a Powerlifter? Know Your Equipment
In our first episode, we discussed different powerlifting federations you can compete in. This week we’ll explore the equipment available to athletes in each of those federations. The decision about ... Continue Reading
4 Benefits of the Kettlebell Clean and Jerk
While many athletes and coaches are familiar with the barbell clean and jerk, only a select few train the kettlebell clean and jerk variation. The kettlebell variation offers us many unique benefits that ... Continue Reading
Could You Eat Like a Top Ranked Super Heavyweight Powerlifter?
Strength sports are a few of the occasions when an athlete's bodyweight can dictate their success, and their failure. It's common to hear about athletes gaining weight in the off-season, then cutting to ... Continue Reading
15 Things Only CrossFitters Understand
When asked why we love CrossFit® training, most of us will tell you it’s all about the community and personal growth we’ve experienced since joining a box. In herds, people sign up to give the sport a try, ... Continue Reading
How to Make Two-A-Day Strength Training Work for You
I try to avoid talking too much about lifting outside of the strength world. Understandably most people just don’t care what you do in the gym, and for the most part the ones who do are often after ... Continue Reading
Is It Okay to Work Out With Sore Muscles?
Ah, one of the age old fitness questions: Is it okay to work out on sore muscles? More isn't always better when it comes muscle growth and strength, but where do you draw the line between some soreness, ... Continue Reading
Wes Kitts Just Broke the American Total and Snatch Records in Training
Wes Kitts has once again shown that he’s one of the best Olympic weightlifters in the United States. In fact, there’s now an argument to be made that he’s the best American weightlifter in the 105kg ... Continue Reading
Learn About Arthur “The Iron-Master” Saxon, a True Strength Visionary
Arthur Saxon was born on April 28, 1878. He passed away in August, 1921 at a young age of 43 due to pneumonia, but not before leaving a legacy and lasting impact on the strength world. He's one of the ... Continue Reading
Watch Ray Williams’ and Jezza Uepa’s 1,000+ lb Squat Battle
This Sunday concluded the final day of the 2017 IPF Classic World Championships. The last flight of competitors was the highly anticipated men's 120kg+ weight class, which holds some of the world's ... Continue Reading
Ray Williams Totals 1,090kg to Win IPF World Classic Championship
There was no new World Record for Ray Williams at this year's IPF World Classic Championships in Belarus, but the American powerlifter easily repeated as champion in a performance that further established ... Continue Reading
Check Out These Rogue Fitness Colored Barbells
Oh yes, you read that correctly. We may be seeing Rogue Fitness barbells in new, bright colors in the near future. But how soon? Rogue Fitness has yet to release an official date of when these barbells ... Continue Reading
The Nordic Ham Curl: Pros, Cons, and Benefits
Some exercises go through phases in the fitness industry. First, they’re thought of as useless and not functional, then they’re considered as incredible cure-alls, and finally they settle somewhere in the ... Continue Reading
66kg Clifton Pho Deadlifts an Epic 285kg for New World Record (4.3 Times Bodyweight)
Junior Canadian powerlifter Clifton Pho has left his mark on the IPF's world record books after his latest performance at the 2017 IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships. Pho, 22, competes in the ... Continue Reading
CJ Cummings Repeats, Wins 2017 Junior World Weightlifting Championship
Lifting at around 4:30am Eastern Standard Time, USA Weightlifting's CJ Cummings won his second straight Junior World Championship at the 2017 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It's ... Continue Reading
How Battle Ropes Can Improve Powerlifting and Weightlifting
Battle ropes have been misused, misunderstood, and mistaken as a fad workout tool that traumatizes the shoulders and achieves little more than looking cool. We get it. Usually when an exercise looks as ... Continue Reading
11 Struggles People Who Work Out in the Evening Understand
Maybe you’ve heard that evening sweat sessions could bring on insomnia or that evening exercisers are less likely to stick with a workout. But sometimes waking up before the sun rises sounds about as ... Continue Reading
Watch John Cena Deadlift Jimmy Fallon On the Tonight Show
This may not be a new world record lift, but it's definitely a first for Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and guest star John Cena. In a recent interview on the show, Fallon brings up Cena's viral 600+ lb ... Continue Reading
2017 Junior World Weightlifting Championships: U.S. Team, Schedule, & How to Watch
The IWF Junior World Championships start this Friday, June 16th in Tokyo and runs for an entire week, and we’ve heard it from the folks at USA Weightlifting themselves: CJ Cummings may be gearing up ... Continue Reading
Dimitar Savatinov One-Arm Presses 143kg for New World Record
This weekend at the St Mary's Stadium in Southhampton, England, the Ultimate Strongman Summermania contest took place. Ten of strongman's top athletes went head-to-head in a series of five events with one ... Continue Reading