Yesterday, USA Weightlifting made an exciting new announcement in regards to youth level weightlifting. They're launching development camps across the nation to help introduce new athletes ... Continue Reading
Predicting the 2017 World’s Strongest Man
Shortly after Hafthor Bjornsson leaked their qualification groups, the World’s Strongest Man shared the official heats for 2017. The final events are now public, and the top strength athletes are preparing ... Continue Reading
Olympians and Pioneers: Celebrating American Weightlifting’s Female Greats
I am a weightlifting fan. More specifically, I am an American Weightlifting Fan. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching Lydia Valentin and cheered my heart out for her to medal at the Olympics, but ... Continue Reading
Watch This 70-Year-Old Dominate His Final Powerlifting Meet
At BarBend, we're big fans of videos of strength athletes crushing PRs and pulling heavy lifts at an older age. (Some of our favorites include Fred Rice deadlifting 520 pounds on his 72nd birthday and ... Continue Reading
How Being Stressed Can Impact Your Strength Training
When it comes to strength training, stress can be something of a double-edged sword. We need stress to grow physically. For example, every time we pick up a weight, we're producing a calculated stress on ... Continue Reading
New Documentary: A Day In the Life of Mat Fraser, the Fittest Man On Earth
If you've ever wanted to follow The Fittest Man on Earth™ throughout a day of training, you're in luck. Bodybuilding.com and NF Sports (one of Fraser's sponsors) have come together to film this ... Continue Reading
Can Zydrunas Savickas Win the 2017 World’s Strongest Man?
Zydrunas Savickas has been racing against Brian Shaw to tie Mariusz Pudzianowski’s all-time record of five WSM championships, but he may be too rusty to defeat Shaw in the 2017 World’s Strongest Man. If ... Continue Reading
Foam Rollers – How to Use, Benefits, and Best Exercises
Once an obscure tool for self-massage, today it’s rare to find a commercial gym without an area dedicated to foam rolling, and with good reason. When used correctly, foam rolling can be used for myofascial ... Continue Reading
D’Angelo Osorio Sets a New PWA Clean & Jerk Record With 215Kg
D’Angelo Osorio has proven himself a force to be reckoned with. The 105-kilogram weightlifter (who rose to fame as a 94-kilo junior) set a person record and a new PWA record this weekend at a meet ... Continue Reading
Watch the Jerry Pritchett Documentary About His 1,031lb Deadlift
The full-length Jerry Pritchett documentary, Be Legendary, has been released on YouTube, and at sixteen minutes long, it’s the perfect length for your next lunch break. We first covered the trailer for ... Continue Reading
Strongman Showdown: Can Eddie Hall Beat Brian Shaw in 2017?
Perhaps the only person as tenacious as Eddie Hall is an Eddie Hall fan. Strength enthusiasts seem to rally behind him more than any other strongman. This claim is not merely anecdotal, though teems of ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting Announces 2017 Summer Universiade Team
Earlier tonight, USA Weightlifting announced the official lineup for their Summer Universiade Team, the group of young American athletes who are headed to Taipei to compete from August 19-30 of this ... Continue Reading
What It REALLY Means to Build a Functional Fitness Community
In the modern era of exercise, health, and wellness, functional fitness is the new craze. Many of the old powerhouse “globo gyms” have seen a large drop off in memberships to smaller, community based ... Continue Reading
Can Hafthor Bjornsson Dethrone Brian Shaw at the 2017 World’s Strongest Man?
In 2016, only two points separated Hafthor Julius Bjornsson from the World’s Strongest Man title, then won by Brian Shaw. And in 2014, “Thor” was only half a point away from tying Zydrunas Savickas’ ... Continue Reading
Odd Haugen Talks Mas Wrestling Haters and Deadlifting 750 Pounds at 67 Years Old
The word "legend" gets thrown around a lot in the strongman world, but Odd Haugen's footprint on the sport is indelible. Raised in Norway and known for his monstrous grip strength, Haugen was crowned ... Continue Reading
5 Moves to Help Prevent Tennis Elbow in Strength Athletes
There aren't many conditions with as misleading a name as "tennis elbow." Also (and more accurately) known as lateral epicondylitis, it's caused by the overuse of muscles and tendons in the ... Continue Reading
The One-Ring Muscle-Up Challenge Is Going Viral
Why use two when you can use one? After watching Dmitry Klokov PR his one-armed snatch and Yury Tikhonovich manage a one-armed muscle-up this week, we knew we had to post this when we ... Continue Reading
Mona Pretorius on South African Weightlifting, CrossFit, and Sports Psychology
The psychology of an athlete plays a big role in their potential successes or lack thereof on the playing field. I remember from my own weightlifting career: If I hit a Personal Record (PR) lift in ... Continue Reading
Dmitry Klokov Just PR’d His One-Arm Snatch
The one-arm snatch is relatively rare in the world of strength sports, but that didn’t stop Dmitry Klokov from honing his skill in the lift. Earlier today, the Olympic weightlifting medalist, President of ... Continue Reading
The Best Squat Stretch Routine: Great Exercises to Prepare for Squats!
Building a strong, healthy squat takes time, often more than many lifters think. While some lifters are blessed with beautiful limb lengths and levers, many of us are left to work through old injuries, ... Continue Reading
Why Women (and Men) Should Use Deadlifting Straps
“How do I keep my grip from holding back my deadlift? “Just do heavy deadlifts!” “But I can’t hold onto the bar over 85%” “...Do more deadlifts!” Well, no, but sadly I've heard some variation ... Continue Reading
Watch a Younger Ed Coan Total 1,021kg With a Torn Bicep
Who is the greatest powerlifter of all time? We wouldn’t claim to be able to answer such a question, but if you Google “greatest powerlifter of all time” — seriously — Ed Coan is the first result. As ... Continue Reading
Harrison Maurus Sets World Record and Wins 2017 Youth World Championship!
And then there were two. For the second consecutive day, Team USA has won a world championship and set a new World Record at the 2017 Youth World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. On Saturday it was ... Continue Reading
Generation Iron 2 Has Two New Trailers and a Release Date
This morning, bodybuilding's philosopher king Kai Greene posted to his Facebook the new trailer for the bodybuilding documentary Generation Iron 2. The film is the sequel to 2013's ... Continue Reading