Well, we've reached our final day of giving in the second annual BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting. For our final giveaway, we're giving away the perfect gift for pretty much anyone, and ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Under Armour Cross Training Shoe Giveaway
We are down to the final days in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign and today's giveaway is one of the best yet. Why is that? For today's giveaway, we're giving one lucky winner a ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Vlad Alhazov Squats 525kg (1157lbs) Raw with Wraps
After squatting 525kg in training earlier this year, Vlad Alhazov cemented himself on our radar as one of the top powerlifters to watch heading into 2019. It turns out, his next jaw-dropping performance on ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: 5.11 Tactical Giveaway
Only three days remain in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign and today's giveaway is one of our favorites from the month. For our twenty third giveaway, we've teamed up with 5.11 ... Continue Reading
IWF Announces Positive Retests from 2012 Olympics; Torokhtiy and Nurudinov Among Named
Earlier today, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) announced on its website recent doping retests from the 2012 London Olympic Games have produced an additional five positives for banned ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Uesaka Training Bumper Set Giveaway
There are only four days left in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign and we have a great giveaway for you today. For the second time this month, we're teaming up with the barbell ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Reebok Shoe and Apparel Giveaway
On the twenty first day of Christmas my favorite strength site BarBend gave to me, a sweet Reebok Froning shoe and apparel package! For today's giveaway in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Diamondback Fitness Giveaway
There are five more days until Christmas, which means we have less than a week left of BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign. Today's giveaway is our biggest yet, and we're super ... Continue Reading
Watch Weightlifter Tao Wenli Smoke a 3.6x Bodyweight Front Squat
If you needed an end of the week pick me up to get you through your next training session, then look no further. Yesterday, Lawrence (@larrior) on Instagram, shared a ridiculous front squat video of ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Under Armour Giveaway
Welp, are are officially closing in on the three week mark of BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign, which means two things. One, there are only a few more days to enter in awesome ... Continue Reading
New to the Movement, Larry Wheels Hits a 500lb Snatch Grip Push Press
Larry Williams, better known to the strength community as Larry Wheels, is an enormously successful powerlifter and bodybuilder who has achieved world record totals in the 242 pound class (2,171) and the ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter John Haack Comes Back After Injury to Total All-Time World Record
Over the weekend in Miami, Florida, Hybrid Performance Method hosted the first ever Hybrid Showdown, which was a USPA hosted powerlifting meet. This meet was absolutely stacked with elite powerlifters and ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Ascent Protein Giveaway
For the eighteenth day in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign we've teamed up with the self-proclaimed sponsors of hard work: Ascent Protein. If you don't already know the ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson Puts Up Big Total At Powerlifting Meet
Over the weekend, the 2018 World's Strongest Man and Game of Thrones star Hafthor Bjornsson competed in Thor’s Powerlifting Challenge, which took place during the Iceland Open expo in Laugardalshöll, ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Mighty Bear Prints
The seventeenth day in our 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign features the most unique giveaway yet. For this giveaway, we've teamed up with Mighty Bear Prints, the custom strength ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: IdealShape Giveaway
BarBend and IdealShape have teamed up for the sixteenth day in BarBend's 25 Days of Gifting giveaway campaign. One lucky winner will be walking away with a an IdealShape supplement package. For this ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Isopure Giveaway
We have good news and bad news. The bad news is we are officially past the halfway point in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting campaign, so there's only two more weeks of giveaways. The good ... Continue Reading
Morgan McCullough Block Cleans an Epic 190kg At 15 Years Old
Morgan McCullough, aka #minifreedomfridge as per his Instagram page, and Mash Elite Performance athlete has once again dropped our jaws with one of his lifts. In McCullough's latest video he smokes a ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Wags & Weights Giveaway
We are officially at and past the halfway point in BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting giveaway campaign and today's gifting is possibly the most unique on our list. Today's giveaway ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Uesaka Barbell Gift Card Giveaway
We're officially halfway into BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting giveaway campaign and we've had some awesome giveaways thus far. Today's giveaway comes from the equipment and barbell ... Continue Reading
Watch This 95 Year Old Grandma Tackle CrossFit Workout “Fran”
In light of the 2019 CrossFit Games season kicking off this week at the Dubai CrossFit Championship, we wanted to take a moment and highlight a motivating story from the CrossFit community. About a week ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: Legion Athletics Giveaway
We're nearly halfway into BarBend's 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting giveaway campaign and we're continuing to heat up this frigid month of December. Today's giveaway is a MASSIVE supplement ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Tom Kallas Grinds for an Epic All-Time World Record Squat
Earned not given, that's probably the best way to explain powerlifter Tom Kallas' latest all-time world record squat (with & without knee wraps). It always seems like whenever we cover an all-time ... Continue Reading
25 Days of Gifting: IdealFit Giveaway
Apparel and supplement fans get ready. For day ten in BarBend’s 25 Days of Lifting…Gifting giveaway campaign we've teamed up with IdealFit to equip one lucky winner the apparel and ... Continue Reading