Lots of functional fitness gyms get stuck at the mythical 150 member mark and can't break past it. Why is this? If you've spent any time watching TED Talks or reading blog posts from thought leaders, ... Continue Reading
How I Address Back Pain After Heavy Deadlifting & Squatting
There is rarely a strength athlete who has not experienced back pain at one point in their career. When it hits the pain can be so devastating, bending forward to pick a pencil off the ground can feel like ... Continue Reading
What Strongman Will Look Like in 2025 (and Beyond)
The first games held by our hunter gatherer relatives would have been simple by today's standards. Contests of speed, strength, and agility were contested by distance markers like “Race you to that tree ... Continue Reading
“Strong Like Her” Celebrates the Game-Changing Women in Sports
Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes shines a light on history’s rule breakers. From the Greek mother who disguised herself as a male trainer and ... Continue Reading
CrossFit’s Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Inclusion
The close of the 2020 CrossFit Games seemed like the perfect time to write a piece capturing the tumultuousness of the year for the CrossFit brand and to cast a hopeful light on 2021. After all, despite a ... Continue Reading
What Virtual Fitness CAN’T Replace in Coaching and Strength
When I was 15 years old, I was an aspiring young athlete, hoping to play sports (basketball and golf) in college. I didn’t know much about strength training at the time, and 30 years ago we couldn’t just ... Continue Reading
Strongman Corporation Nationals 2020 — A Tale of Resilience and Grit
Logan Pragovich was two weeks into auto stem cell therapy for his second battle against cancer when he decided to compete in Strongman Corporation Nationals. No stranger to training, Pragovich had ... Continue Reading
3 Overhead Carry Trap Bar Variations and Their Benefits
Normal farmer's carries might appear to be of no value besides strengthening grip. However, when you pick up weights and walk, you’ll find there’s so much more to it. Taking a weight into an overhead ... Continue Reading
How Deep Stretching Promotes Emotional Release
Developing a yoga practice isn’t just about hopping onto your yoga mat every Sunday. It’s about the kind of deep stretching that you need to engage in regularly if you want to be a healthy, injury-free ... Continue Reading
Animal Flow and The Benefits for Powerlifters
Figuring out how to improve your powerlifting routine without taking away from your recovery or program specificity can be tough. Adding new moves for the sake of it won't necessarily amount to much, and ... Continue Reading
9 Kettlebell Benchmarks To Strive For
It can be tough to track progress when working with kettlebells. If you only have access to a limited weight range, it can feel like a game of diminishing returns. How can you tell if you’re getting ... Continue Reading
Can You Train With Kettlebells Every Day?
Maybe you fell in love with kettlebells during quarantine, or maybe your love affair with them has been going on for far longer. It doesn't matter. Your eyes have been opened to the benefits kettlebell ... Continue Reading
Chris Cuomo Sets Lifting World Ablaze With Allegedly Fake 100-Pound Dumbbell Press
Chris Cuomo is the host of the prime time cable news show "Cuomo Prime Time", which airs weeknights on CNN. More often than not, Cuomo covers the news. But sometimes, he is the news. A video of ... Continue Reading
IATBP Is Transforming Powerlifting and Bodybuilding For Trans And Nonbinary Lifters
Powerlifters and bodybuilders — athletes across strength sports, really — have been struggling with the lack of competition and in person camaraderie during the Coronavirus pandemic. That loss has been ... Continue Reading
Will Apple Fitness+, Peloton, and Others Spell the End for Fitness Studios?
When it comes to studio fitness, many of us have sipped the Kool-Aid. The rapid growth of brands like CrossFit®, Barry’s Bootcamp, and SoulCycle are easy indicators that we’ve liked what we experienced. ... Continue Reading
Most Effective Strength Training Splits For Bodyweight-Only Programs
Whether getting back to basics for a training cycle, or sprucing up your at-home workout routine with some actual routine, it’s worthwhile to figure out the best training splits for bodyweight-only ... Continue Reading
3 Ways To Reduce Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
Almost all lifters have experienced some sort of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Waking up a morning or two after a hard training session and it is a struggle to stand up or sit down with out more ... Continue Reading
7 Stretches That Can Help Your Posture
When your commute has been about the length of your bedroom to the couch for the past six months, posture can take a big hit from sitting all day. It can cause hips to lock up and all kinds of weird ... Continue Reading
No Crowd, No Competitors: The Virtual CrossFit Games Is a Mental Challenge
When recalling the final nail-biting event of the 2017 CrossFit Games, Tia-Clair Toomey speaks of the crowd energy in Alliant Stadium and the stress of knowing competitor Kara Webb (Saunders) was right on ... Continue Reading
3 Overrated Lifts You Should Do Less Of
For a long time, I deadlifted Sumo and thought deadlifting with a trap bar was cheating. It didn’t matter to me about the benefits of pulling with a trap bar. Even when well-known coaches said it ... Continue Reading
5 Things Mentally Strong Lifters Avoid
Mental strength can be recognized in a lot of different ways. Sometimes, mental strength is grinding through that final rep, refusing to give up halfway. Other times, it is knowing when not to push ... Continue Reading
A How-To Guide for Assessing Personal Training Clients Remotely
If you have been coaching for a while, and especially if you have been doing any individual program design, you probably appreciate the importance of assessing your clients before you start building their ... Continue Reading
Why Ivan Makarov Will Break Thor Bjornsson’s Deadlift World Record
It’s fair to say that Thor Bjornsson’s 501kg deadlift this summer was the most famous deadlift of all time. We'd venture that it's more famous than Eddie Hall’s 500kg deadlift, given the fact that it's ... Continue Reading
4 Accessory Exercises To Improve Your Pull-Ups and Chin-Ups
In high school, my masochistic P.E. teacher liked to put students through a series of fitness tests every few months to determine our grades. One of these was an isometric chin-up hold in the top position ... Continue Reading