Nobody wants to hear someone complain about having a hard time gaining weight. However, the fact remains: if your goal is to gain muscle and/or get stronger, you probably need to consume more calories than ... Continue Reading
How to Count Macros for Weight Loss, Muscle Gain, and Maintenance
Unless you’ve been consciously avoiding all fitness content for the past five years, you have probably heard someone talk about counting macros. You also possibly heard them mention how macro counting or ... Continue Reading
What Men Should Look For in a Multivitamin (Brought to You by Ritual)
You may not eat enough fruits and veggies — plain and simple. Ok, maybe you do. But recent data shows that men, in particular, are falling behind women when it comes to their diets — from general fruit and ... Continue Reading
Could You Just Live On Meal Replacement Shakes?
There was a very popular meal replacement that was all the rage in 2013 — Soylent, we're talking about Soylent — whose inventor lived on it for one month straight and said he felt superb. Better skin, ... Continue Reading
Layne Norton Discusses His Exact Supplement Routine and Macronutrient Split
Dr. Layne Norton is a titan in the field of nutrition, a veritable behemoth of knowledge who holds a PhD in Nutritional Science along with seven bodybuilding titles and six powerlifting titles — for a ... Continue Reading
5 Supplements That Might Help With Muscle Soreness
Sore muscles suck. Your WODs are modified, you scale back only to train movements that don’t cause you discomfort, but it’s still not the same as before. Sticking to your physical therapist’s ... Continue Reading
A Vegan Bodybuilder and Powerlifter Talk Eating for Strength and Muscle
Your body doesn’t exactly run on meat and plants and dairy. It runs on macronutrients and micronutrients (and, OK, enzymes and phytonutrients and other stuff) and there are no essential nutrients you can’t ... Continue Reading
Intermittent Fasting For Bodybuilders: Should You Do It?
You’ve probably heard of intermittent fasting before, and you might even know someone who’s doing it. The idea is simple: you only eat within a certain time window each day, and the fat supposedly just ... Continue Reading
Scott Herman Explains How to Stay Strong Without the Gym (Brought to You by BSN)
Scott Herman is a legendary BSN-sponsored athlete with over 2 million YouTube subscribers and half a million Facebook fans. As one of the most influential trainers online, if you’ve searched for an ... Continue Reading
7 Proven Strategies to Lose 2 Pounds Per Week
The amount of weight you can safely lose each week depends on many factors, ranging from your weight and body fat percentage to how much sleep you get per night and your activity levels. (Genetics, height, ... Continue Reading
25-Time World Record Holder Stefi Cohen Talks Eating Like an Athlete
Twenty-five all-time world records. Twenty-five. Dr. Stefi Cohen — she’s also a physical therapist — is one of the great athletes of our time. We know that sounds hyperbolic, but did we mention ... Continue Reading
Kari Pearce, America’s Fittest Woman, Reveals Her Diet Tips
Kari Pearce is a 5-time CrossFit Games athlete and she earned the title of “America’s Fittest Woman™” in 2016, 2018, and 2019. So right now, she is the best female CrossFit® athlete in the United States. ... Continue Reading
Jujimufu Doesn’t Count Calories — Everything You Want to Know About His Diet
Jon Call, better known as Jujimufu, is a very unusual guy. He's a man who does not take accept dogma of any kind, an athlete who experiments relentlessly with how far he can push his body's boundaries, and ... Continue Reading
What Does the ‘World’s Strongest Gay’ Eat? – Rob Kearney’s Strongman Diet
Rob Kearney spent a lot of our interview talking about how boring he is, but there are a lot of reasons he’s a remarkable dude. For starters he won the 2019 Arnold Australia Strongman championships, ... Continue Reading
BarBend Reads Your Meanest YouTube Comments – Who Got It Worse?
Jake Boly and I have made hundreds of videos because, well, we just want fitness and nutrition content to be better. We want a happier, healthier world. We ventured into cyberspace with our hearts, minds, ... Continue Reading
14 CrossFit Games Women Reveal Their Daily Macros
While you can’t paint all elite CrossFit women with the same dietary brush, I thought I’d investigate to find out how similar, or different, their diets really are. BarBend spoke with 14 female athletes ... Continue Reading
After MS Diagnosis, Alex Ortiz Turned His Life Around Through Fitness
One morning in March 2018, Alex Ortiz woke up and couldn’t move his body. “I was completely paralyzed on the left side of my body,” said Ortiz, now 37. Stubborn, he didn’t go to the doctor for five ... Continue Reading
Elite Powerlifter Jen Thompson Explains Her Diet
The name Jen Thompson has become synonymous with a strong bench press. Right now it's her squat that graces the top of the IPF’s records page and this -132lb athlete is very talented at all of the big ... Continue Reading
Meet Heather Pivoras and the CrossFit Coach Who Helped Transform her Life
When Heather Pivoras arrived at CrossFit Murray in Kentucky seven years ago, she was down and out. “I was in an abusive relationship. My self-esteem was at an all-time low. I had a hard time looking in ... Continue Reading
Why Protein Isn’t Created Equal (And How to Find the Best Sources for Your Needs)
Eat your bodyweight in grams of protein per day. For athletes, that’s often the recommendation. So, if you’re 150 lb., you should eat 150 grams of protein each day. Turns out, it’s not quite that ... Continue Reading
When Is the Best Time to Drink a Protein Shake?
Any time. That’s the short answer to this question, you can have a protein shake any time of day. There are a lot of myths surrounding protein shakes because many influential folks say they’re ... Continue Reading
How Mickey Jogoleff Lost 80 Pounds While Working Out Less and Eating More Carbs
Mickey Jogoleff had to change something. He was obese, weighing at least 245 pounds (he might have been heavier, but he actively avoided the scale). He abused his body, smoked cigarettes, drank a lot, ... Continue Reading
Everything You Want to Know About Katrin Davidsdottir’s Diet
Only three people in history have repeated as the Fittest Woman on Earth™ and Katrin Davidsdottir is one of them. She only started CrossFit in 2011, but she had ten years of gymnastics training under ... Continue Reading
Joe Rogan Tried the Carnivore Diet and Looks Pretty Good?
At any given time, Joe Rogan's podcast is pretty much guaranteed to be in the top five most popular on iTunes, and the man has millions of listeners hanging on his every word about fitness and nutrition. ... Continue Reading