Remember the ‘functional training’ craze when people were squatting and pressing on all kinds of unstable surfaces? Barbell squats on Swiss balls? The thought was they achieved better muscle activation and ... Continue Reading
Strongman Contests and Safety: How the Sport Can Adapt to Social Distancing
With every state setting it’s own recommendations for Social Distancing, traveling from other places, and what businesses can operate, holding an athletic event can be a nightmare. COVID has canceled ... Continue Reading
3 Tips for Picking the Best Weightlifting Accessory Exercises
Olympic weightlifting is a sport, like many others, that requires a ton of repetition. Repeating the same movements over and over again with the goal of chasing perfection. Over time, due to unique ... Continue Reading
Macro Counting Might Bring Results, But At What Cost?
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
How To Maintain Workout Motivation In an Endless Quarantine
Quarantine is dragging, and not just on the economy and your emotions. It makes sense if you’re having a tough time maintaining your motivation to work out during a pandemic, when your favorite coping ... Continue Reading
Relearning How to Brace for Heavy Lifting
Have you ever squeezed every muscle in your body to keep six hundred pounds from falling on your chest? I have. It means nothing now, though. This was back when equipped powerlifting was normal and the ... Continue Reading
How To Maximize Your Workout With Light Dumbbells
If you’ve scoured the entire internet for heavy weights and come up empty, don’t despair. You can craft an effective lifting routine even with light dumbbells — you just have to get a little creative about ... Continue Reading
3 Steps To Rebuild Your Barbell Confidence
If you miss lifting and have a hole in your heart shaped like a 45-pound plate, it's totally understandable. But daydreaming about squats in an actual rack doesn’t mean you’ll feel ready to do so once ... Continue Reading
Pros and Cons of the Safety Squat Bar for Front Squats
In recent years, the front squat has gained a resurgence as a major training lift for strength sports other than competitive weightlifting. Along with this rise in popularity came a variation with a safety ... Continue Reading
What to Do When Your Gym Closes (Again)
Nearly every state in the country closed fitness centers during the recent first wave of the Covid outbreak. Gym goers everywhere were stuck holding their gallon water jugs in their hand while businesses ... Continue Reading
5 Tips to Fix Your Funky “Good Morning Squats” From Home
You don’t have to be back in the gym and reunited with your favorite squat rack to get rid of your good morning squat. Don’t get me wrong — good mornings are great. Squats are delightful. But you never ... Continue Reading
8 Strength Training Mistakes I See Way More Than I Should
You’ve been lifting for a while and you still enjoy training, but there are times when your gains have slowed and you become frustrated by your lack of results. You think there is something wrong with your ... Continue Reading
How To Go Back To The Gym The Wrong Way
Figuring out when to go back to the gym isn’t about you — it’s about everyone around you. But as gyms reopen in states across the country, getting back to the gym is probably on your mind. When you do ... Continue Reading
When Someone Tests Positive at Your Gym: Two Owners Share Their Thoughts
On Thursday, June 18, it happened: Rudy Trevino, the owner of the Fit Stop in San Antonio, Texas found out one of his members had tested positive for Covid-19. “We didn’t know what to do,” he ... Continue Reading
3 Exercises You Can Do On the Floor to Become a Better Powerlifter
Being on the floor is how you learnt to move as a baby and returning to the floor can help you work around injuries and get you stronger for the Big 3. (That's the squat, bench, and deadlift — the ... Continue Reading
Why Yoga Is Necessary For Strength Athletes
So you’re a strength athlete, but you secretly think it’s super badass when your yogi friends just flip themselves into headstands that look as natural as a barbell-only warmup set. If you’re a lifter ... Continue Reading
Train Easier in the Gym to Get Stronger
Firstly, I plead guilty to doing something I now understand is a hindrance to progress in the gym. I would hit a many max singles during the year that sucked every last bit of energy from my body and one ... Continue Reading
The Importance of LGBTQ+ Visibility in Professional Strength Sports
My name is Rob Kearney. I am a 3 time World's Strongest Man competitor, Arnold Strongman Classic competitor, Arnold Australia Strongman Champion and American Log Lift Record Holder. I am also happily ... Continue Reading
7 Tips For Working Out At Home When You Have No Motivation
Even if you have a kettlebell or a couple of dumbbells lying around, it can be hard to muster up the motivation to use them. When you’re used to being able to load up a barbell and lift way more than ... Continue Reading
OpEd: The “CrossFit” Community Is Going to be Okay
My gym was the first CrossFit affiliate in Canada—CrossFit Vancouver. We affiliated in 2005. Our owner Craig Patterson was mentored directly by Greg Glassman in the early 2000s, and then Patty became my ... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: The Myth of “Natural Talent” As a Cover for Racism in (Strength) Sports
Growing up, I wanted to be a geneticist. I also wanted to be a ballerina, a boxer, and an astronaut — but up until my sophomore year in college, I thought I was going to be a geneticist. I don’t know about ... Continue Reading
Coaching in the Time of COVID: What It’s Like to Instruct In a Mask
Over the years I’ve purchased bandanas solely as a fashion statement—to be tied around my neck, in my hair, or on a handbag. Now that gyms are reopening after mandated closures amid the coronavirus, all ... Continue Reading
3 Misconceptions CrossFit® Athletes Have About Nutrition
As the sport of CrossFit has evolved on the performance side of things, so too have the community’s ideas about how to best fuel for performance. The Zone Diet dominated the community in the early ... Continue Reading
Finding Body Acceptance Through Strength: Four Women Share Their Journeys
I remember the first time I became self-conscious about my body. It was in the sixth grade and I was at the local swimming pool. I was about to exit the pool when I told my “boyfriend” at the time to turn ... Continue Reading