Though many things stand out in the NPGL — the speed, range of skills, substitutions — one of the more notable particulars was the requirement that all teams must have active athletes (male and female) age ... Continue Reading
Laura Phelps-Sweatt Blows Us Away with 1:07 ‘Isabel’
Photo: Laura Phelps-Sweatt Laura Phelps-Sweatt is one of our favorite powerlifters to follow on Instagram, but calling her just a powerlifter isn't actually fair — she's also an accomplished CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Athletes to Watch on CrossFit Regionals Day 1
To say any athlete is going to dominate at CrossFit Regionals is always an iffy proposition; while there are good bets year in and year out, there are at least as many veterans who come up short on a ... Continue Reading
How to Watch USA Weightlifting Nationals and Olympic Trials
Update: NBC has confirmed with BarBend that there will be no TV subscription authentication necessary to watch weightlifting trials; anyone in the U.S. with the app should be able to watch whether or not ... Continue Reading
How Paul Anderson Became One of History’s Strongest Humans
If you mention the name “Paul Anderson” in front of a random group of people, most of them will probably think you’re talking about an unremarkable middle manager of a cereal manufacturer. A “Paul ... Continue Reading
Behdad Salimi Has the World’s Heaviest Power Clean (on Video)
We've seen some pretty big (if slightly unverified, and completed to football weight room standards) power cleans on video, but there's still one that takes the cake — and all sources indicate it's very ... Continue Reading
Jerry Pritchett With the Easiest 900+ Deadlift You’ll Ever See
The question "Would strongman competitors make great powerlifters?" is finally getting answered lift-by-lift, and records are falling as a result. This beautiful lift by World's Strongest Man finalist and ... Continue Reading
2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships Full Results
The 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships have come to a close. The event — held April 21-30 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan — featured a mix of various nations' best, along with plenty of other top ... Continue Reading
Alexandra LaChance on Fitness, Injury, & What She Didn’t Expect at the CrossFit Games
It’s the oldest story in the book: a female athlete comes seemingly out of nowhere to qualify as an individual for the CrossFit Games after only having done CrossFit for a short time. Once the shock (and a ... Continue Reading
Pyrros Dimas to Hold Q&A Session at Olympic Trials in Salt Lake City
To be the best, learn from the best. Attendees at Next week's US Olympic Trials/National Championships will have the chance to ask 3-time Olympic Champion (and 4-time Olympic medalist) Pyrros Dimas their ... Continue Reading
Justin Cotler on Coaching, GRID Champs, and the CrossFit Dynamix Superteam
In the world of "competitive fitness," we're getting used to athletes as crossover stars: weightlifters turned CrossFit Games contenders, powerlifters turned GRID competitors, individual CrossFitters ... Continue Reading
Throwback: Chad Vaughn Sets American Record with 190kg Clean & Jerk
Before the days of CrossFit boxes on every block, and before everyone from bankers to soccer moms knew the other definition of "snatch," Chad Vaughn was one of America's top weightlifters. To be fair, ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Profiles: Uzbekistan’s Ruslan Nurudinov (105 kg)
At the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships, BarBend weightlifting correspondent Mike Graber sat down with members of Uzbekistan's National Team to discuss their training and goals. First up is Ruslan ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Lovchev Challenges IWF Suspension in Anti-Doping Meeting, Maintains Innocence
Following a provisional IWF suspension after his world record clean & jerk, Russian superheavyweight Aleksey Lovchev continues to maintain his innocence in an anti-doping appeal. On ... Continue Reading
Nick Bloch Challenges Critics to a Head to Head “Grace”
A few weeks ago, Nick Bloch put the fitness community in a buzz when he completed the CrossFit workout Grace in under one minute. As far as we know, that’s a world record, which is all the ... Continue Reading
Max Aita Explains Abadjiev’s Bulgarian System. But Is It Sustainable?
For as much that's been discussed about the Bulgarian weightlifting system, there are hundreds of young impressionable lifters who have tried tackling it head on by maxing out their lifts daily and ... Continue Reading
Caitlin Yuhas on Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Take Up Strongman
It's the American dream: Move to New York City to dance, transition shortly thereafter to lifting Atlas stones and kegs as quickly as possible. So maybe Caitlin Yuhas' story ISN'T completely typical. ... Continue Reading
Powerlifting Weight Classes Across Federations (Infographic)
To call powerlifting a divided sport may be an understatement: While the sport and its athlete base are growing, and though the IPF is the oldest and most prominent governing body, there are a dozen ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Nathan Damron’s Crazy Strength Gains from Ages 13 to 19
Nathan Damron is one of America's best young lifters, and regardless of how he performs in the Junior Pan American Championships this week, the reigning Junior National Champ has built up an impressive ... Continue Reading
Weightlifting Legend, 3-Time Olympic Medalist Tommy Kono Dies at 85
Olympic champion weightlifter, competitive bodybuilder, celebrated coach, and IWF Hall of Fame member Tommy Kono passed away Sunday, April 24th, in Honolulu. He was 85 years old. Sources and local news ... Continue Reading
Flashback Friday: When Becca Day Cleaned 315 pounds
Call them the lifts that launched a thousand ships -- or at least the cleans that took Becca Day from social media phenom to pro athlete. While there are some seriously strong women in CrossFit and ... Continue Reading
At the Asian Weightlifting Championships, Host Uzbekistan Poised for Greatness
Today beings the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships, which will run from April 21st to April 30th in Uzbekistan’s capital city of Tashkent. Fun fact: Uzbekistan is one of two countries in the world ... Continue Reading
Attention New Yorkers: Weightlifting (and Mattie Rogers) Are Coming to Times Square
In an email blast on April 20th, USA Weightlifting announced Mattie Rogers will be joining a roster of other Olympians and Olympic hopefuls in a sports demonstration/meet & greet to mark 100 days until ... Continue Reading
Watch Mikhail Koklyaev One-Arm Snatch 242 Pounds
Mikhail Koklyaev is one of history's most impressive cross-sport strength athletes. He's been a Russian Champion weightlifter, World's Strongest Man medalist, Strongman Champions League winner, 2200+ lb ... Continue Reading