The CrossFit® Open started with a bang as promised after the grueling couplet was announced last Thursday. For the first time ever in CrossFit Open history, dumbbells were used during the dumbbell ... Continue Reading
Video: Lu Xiaojun Snatches 150kg for 3 Reps at 77kg Bodyweight
World record holder and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Lu Xiaojun is training hard and pulling some serious weight as he trains for the Chinese National Weightlifting Championships in September. In a newly ... Continue Reading
The 8 Most Impressive Feats of Strength By Hollywood Actors
Usually when an actor needs to get a Hollywood Body™ for a role, it means cutting to unbelievable, unsustainable, but admittedly impressive levels of body fat. (Ryan Reynolds is said to have ... Continue Reading
Are These Two Videos the Most Epic 17.1 Showings Yet? (We Say Yes)
There isn't a whole lot more to say about the first workout 17.1 of the Reebok CrossFit® Open. Besides the deadline recently extending and learning the couplet of dumbbell ... Continue Reading
Translated: An Interview With World Weightlifting Champion Artem Okulov
Although he missed out on the Rio Olympics due to the blanket ban of Russian weightlifters, 22-year-old Artem Okulov still has his eye on weightlifting's most celebrated prize. Okulov is perhaps ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Games Athlete Kari Pearce on How to Unlock Your Inner Athlete This Open
Very few people may know the the journey behind Kari Pearce’s explosive rise to the top of the fitness scene. In just over two years, Kari has made herself an elite female CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading
Should Powerlifters Train Calves?
It's interesting to note that there are some generational differences among strength athletes. Older athletes tended to be much more wary of dietary fat, for instance, and younger lifters tend ... Continue Reading
Forget the Scams: These Nutrients Are What Matters for Testosterone
When most people think testosterone, they think huge muscles, better workouts, and a raging sex drive, and look: that’s not totally unfounded. Testosterone plays a significant role in muscle mass, bone ... Continue Reading
The First Workout of the 2017 CrossFit® Open Has Been Released
There's been a lot of hype and lead up to this year's Reebok CrossFit® Games Open. From Dave Castro's Instagram posts that hinted at full snatches and dumbbells, to the hype around the new CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Watch Pete Rubish’s Incredible Set of Ten 710-Pound Beltless Deadlifts
Raw powerlifter Pete Rubish is redefining the kinds of lifts we thought were possible without a weightlifting belt. At a recent training session at Maxed Out Gym in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the 249-pound ... Continue Reading
10 Lessons Learned From a Klokov Olympic Lifting Seminar
There's no question behind the strength and energy Dmitry Klokov brings to the sport of weightlifting. He's one of the most decorated in the sport, has created a complete weekend to honor heavy ... Continue Reading
The 1 1/4 Squat: How, When, and Why It Should Be in Your Training
If you are someone who gets stuck at the bottom of squats and/or heavy cleans, this may be the exercise for you. As lifters advance in their training, simply squatting may not be enough to address an ... Continue Reading
4 Quick Tips to Go Harder During Intense WODs
Whether you are a powerlifter, strongman/woman, weightlifter, functional fitness athlete, or everyday warrior, you have certain phases of your training where there is an increased emphasis on aerobic ... Continue Reading
Why I’m Doing a 100-Mile Run (with No Distance Specific Training)
“If there’s ever a Mad Max apocalypse, I’m coming straight to the gym and I’m stealing your car. You're the only real person who leaves his keys in the ignition and I know for a fact you’ll still be ... Continue Reading
Colin Burns Just Unofficially Broke the American Snatch Record… In the Weight Class Above Him
Juggernaut Training Systems is continuing to pump out more and more boundary-pushing athletes, a reputation that Colin Burns is helping by unofficially breaking the American snatch record this ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Share Your Strength Journey
I started uploading lifting videos of in the summer of 2014. What started as a journal of personal records and training footage, slowly turned into more of a diary of what it meant to be a strength ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw Long Bar Deadlifts 1031lb for an Unofficial World Record
A lot of ink gets spilled promoting the strength feats of Eddie Hall and Hafthor Bjornsson, but Brian Shaw is on his way to becoming a household name. Right now, Shaw is deep into training for the ... Continue Reading
6 Strategies to Get Through Tough Strength Training Sessions
“Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.” - Henry Rollins On paper never have truer words been spoken: two hundred pounds will forever be 200 pounds, but it doesn’t ... Continue Reading
Benefits of Bodyweight Training: Why YOU Should Try Calisthenics
If your usual training regimen involves lifting barbells stacked on either end with heavy iron plates, things like push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and handstands may seem like mere child’s play. In the age of ... Continue Reading
Watch These Two Weightlifters Fight Like Crazy to Save Their Lifts
As you grow and develop as a strength athlete, you begin to learn your body better than anyone. You understand when you're ready to go heavy, what your body can do, and in this case, when to save a ... Continue Reading
Two Days Training With Andy Bolton, First Man to Deadlift 1,000 Pounds
The traditional route to strength is heavy weights and volume. It’s the path that led Andy Bolton to his first forty eight 900lb pulls, but it won’t be the way he gets his last two. Instead, the former ... Continue Reading
Cailer Woolam Becomes First to Deadlift 400kg at 90kg Bodyweight
There are athletes who seem to possess a natural knack for strength. This can resonate in the form of raw power through every lift they perform, and then sometimes it's with a specific lift. ... Continue Reading
How 5 Champion Powerlifters and Coaches Warm Up for Their Deadlifts
Every body is different, and some of us respond to certain warmups and workouts better than others. Some find that static stretching can lead to an excellent workout, others swear that deadlifting with ... Continue Reading
3 Intense Hypertrophy Workouts for Serious Functional Fitness Athletes
When it comes to metabolic conditioning workouts, there can be a wide array of rep schemes, exercises, and expected training outcomes. Functional fitness athletes must have great work capacity, strength, ... Continue Reading