To say my client Trish has had success counting her macros is a huge understatement. Since January, 2019, she has lost 50 pounds, looks and feels incredible, and a recent body composition analysis showed ... Continue Reading
Strength Training Improves Quality of Life, Especially If You’re Stuck Training at Home
When we think about resistance training, we often think about its importance for long-term health through having stronger muscles, tendons and joints. Or maybe for its ability to speed up metabolism and ... Continue Reading
Are Your Abs Actually Strong, or Are Your Hip Flexors Doing the Work?
Do you find you feel your hip flexors more than your abs after a high volume day of toes-to-bars or sit-ups? Or maybe you’re really good at kipping toes-to-bar, but strict ones elude you? Chances are ... Continue Reading
7 Tips to Avoid Burnout As a Personal Trainer
No matter how extroverted you are, coaching and bringing energy to people all day can be exhausting. And it’s one of the reasons being a personal trainer and burning out often go hand-in-hand. In 10 ... Continue Reading
7 Ways to Improve Your Rowing Stroke
While becoming an efficient rower will probably never be as exciting to the average CrossFit athlete as getting your first pull-up, muscle-up, or a new clean and jerk PR, it certainly can help you handle ... Continue Reading
5 Big Offenses to Avoid When Visiting a New CrossFit Gym
One of the great perks of being into CrossFit® is how universal the community has become. For those of us who enjoy traveling—and working out while on the road—it gives us a chance to visit gyms ... Continue Reading
Does Your Recovery Suck? Low Iron Could Be to Blame
Twenty four cups of raw spinach. If you’re a woman, that’s how much spinach you’d need to eat to consume the hit the requisite 18 milligrams of iron per day. (If you cooked the spinach down, you’d only ... Continue Reading
Is Technology Hurting Or Helping Your Training? 4 Rules to Help You Decide
If you’re anything like me, you have a pretty set routine that you follow before you begin training. I like to get to the gym, spend a few minutes chatting to help rid myself of the pre-workout jitters, ... Continue Reading
How Strength Athletes Can Structure Low and Medium Carb Cycling Days
In my last article, I wrote about how I’m taking a break from powerlifting to apply my strength to building my physique. My goals are to give my joints a rest and my body time to heal, and to get my ... Continue Reading
The Underrated Benefits of the Leg Press for Powerlifters
By now, I’ve written a lot about assistance exercises for powerlifting — including the importance of not overdoing them. In case you don’t have time to watch the video, it basically comes down to this: ... Continue Reading
Winter Bulking Made Easy: 3 Strategies for Big Gains
Well, it’s wintertime, and that means it’s time to put the tees and tanks away, pull out the winter coats and heavy sweatpants, and start thinking about the holidays. It’s also time to start making gains! ... Continue Reading
3 Grip Tips and a Workout from Old Timey Strongmen
The prisoner was discovered, and he then had but one option: he must escape… He threw himself at the gate and shook the bars violently, but the iron refused to bend. The guards advanced in the dark, and we ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Modify Lifts When You’re Having a Bad Workout
We’ve all had those days: the ones where you walk into the gym and you’re just not feeling it. Whether you’re feeling under the weather, you’ve had a hectic day, or you’re just plain worn out, it’s ... 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
Why Strongman Fans Should Pay Attention to the Apollon’s Axle
Louis Uni is a name that probably means nothing to even the most ardent of strongman history buffs, and while his birth name might of fallen into obscurity, his legacy is still going strong. The ... Continue Reading
Which Event Really Finds the World’s Top Strongman?
“A monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.” When famed American economist Thomas Sowell declared the above, I sincerely doubt that he was talking about strongman. That doesn’t stop it ... Continue Reading
Strength Through Instability: Boost Control and Stability with These 3 Moves
When it comes to training, you have to walk a fine line. Delicately balancing the big and exciting, with the boring yet necessary. Go too far either way and watch your numbers and health drop. Take the ... Continue Reading
Should You Switch to Liquid Chalk?
Seeing as an awesome perk of my job is getting to drop into gyms around the world, lately I've noticed an uptick in gyms who are no longer using regular old block chalk. Up until recently, I'd ... Continue Reading
The 1977 World’s Strongest Man Is the Greatest Thing Since Sliced SPAM
When things are decidedly a little FUBAR in my life, like when there's 25 days before I blindly travel around the world for a year with a bunch of strangers and yet I still haven't packed, I find that the ... Continue Reading
How Mr. Royal H. Burpee Invented the Most Despised Movement in Fitness
You know those times when you're just going through life happy, bouncing along to the theme song you've made up in your head, when all of a sudden some jerk comes along ... Continue Reading