• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
The BarBend Logo in white.

BarBend

The Online Home for Strength Sports

  • Strength
    • Best Home Gym Machines
      • Best Functional Trainers
      • Best Squat Racks
      • Best Budget Home Gym Equipment
      • Best Cable Machines
      • Best Weight Benches
      • Best Smith Machines
      • Best Smart Home Gyms
    • Best Barbells
      • Best Budget Exercise Bikes
      • Best Budget Barbells
      • Best Powerlifting Barbells
      • Best Barbells For Women
    • Best Kettlebells
      • Best Adjustable Kettlebells
    • Best Dumbbells
      • Best Adjustable Dumbbells
    • More Strength Equipement
      • Best Resistance Bands
      • Best Weight Plates
      • Best Bumper Plates
      • Best Slam Balls
      • Best Weighted Vests
      • Best Weight Sleds
      • All Other Strength Equipment
    • Training
      • Exercise Guides
        • Deadlift
        • Bench Press
        • Back Squat
        • Overhead Press
        • Lat Pulldown
        • Shoulder Exercises
        • Chest Exercises
        • Ab Exercises
        • Quad Exercises
        • Biceps Exercises
      • Training Guides
        • Beginner’s Guide to the Gym
        • How to Build Muscle
        • Guide to Muscle Hypertrophy
        • How to Train on a Cut
      • Workouts
        • Back Workouts
        • At-Home Workouts
        • Chest & Back Workouts
        • Full-Body Workout
        • HIIT Workouts
        • Bodybuilding Workouts
        • Farmer’s Carry Workouts
      • Programs
        • 5×5 Program
        • Bodybuilding Programs
        • Push-Up Program
        • Pull-Up Program
        • 5/3/1 Program
        • Powerbuilding Program
        • German Volume Training
        • Build Your Own Program
    • News
      • CrossFit
      • Strongman
      • Bodybuilding
      • Powerlifting
      • Weightlifting
      • HYROX
    • Individual Strength Equipment Reviews
  • Nutrition
    • Best Pre-Workouts
      • Best Non-Stim Pre-Workouts
      • Best Pre-Workout for Women
      • Best Pre-Workouts for Men
      • Strongest Pre-Workouts
    • Best Protein
      • Best Protein Powder for Men
      • Best Whey Isolate Protein Powders
      • Best Protein Powder For Women
      • Best Tasting Protein Powders
      • Best Protein Bars
      • Protein by Goal
        • Best Mass Gainer
        • Best Protein Powder for Weight Loss
        • Best Protein Powder for Weight Gain
        • Best Protein Powder for Muscle Gain
      • Protein by Diet
        • Best Egg White Protein Powder
        • Best Keto Protein Powder
        • Best Organic Protein Powder
        • Best Vegan Protein Powders
    • Best Creatine
      • Best Creatine Gummies
      • Best Creatine For Women
      • Best Creatine for Men
    • Best BCAA’s
      • Best BCAA’s for Women
    • Best Fat Burners
      • Best Fat Burners For Women
      • Best Non-Stim Fat Burners
      • Best Fat Burners For Men
    • Other Nutrition Products
      • Best Meal Replacements
      • Best Nitric Oxide Supplements
      • Best Electrolyte Supplements
      • Best Greens Powder
        • Best Greens Powder for Pregnancy
      • Best Meal Delivery Services
        • Best Budget Meal Delivery Services
        • Best Vegan Meal Delivery Service
        • Best Healthy Meal Delivery Service
        • Best Meal Delivery Service for Weight Loss
        • Best Paleo Meal Delivery Services
        • Best Multivitamins for Women
        • Best Multivitamins for Men
        • Best Supplement Stacks
        • Best Multivitamins
    • Guides
      • Diets
        • Carb Cycling
        • Vertical Diet
        • Reverse Dieting
        • Carnivore Diet
        • Ketogenic Diet
        • Intermittent Fasting
        • IIFYM Diet
      • Muscle Gain
        • How to Dirty Bulk
        • Go From Cutting to Bulking
        • Eat These Carbs
        • How to Eat for Muscle
      • Fat Loss
        • Macros for Fat Loss
        • Calorie Deficits
        • Natural Fat Burners
        • Cut 2 Pounds Weekly
      • Supplement Guides
        • Pre-Workout
        • Whey Protein
        • Mass Gainers
        • Greens Powders
        • Creatine
        • BCAAs
      • Daily Protein Needs
      • Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition
      • Foods With Creatine
      • Bulking Tips
    • Individual Supplement Reviews
  • Conditioning
    • Best Treadmills
      • Best Manual Treadmills
      • Best Compact Treadmills
      • Best Budget Treadmills
      • Best Treadmills Under $2000
      • Best Treadmills Under $1000
      • Best Treadmills For Tall People
      • Best Commercial Treadmills
      • Best Curved Treadmills
      • Best Under Desk Treadmills
    • Best Rowing Machines
      • Best Water Rowing Machines
      • Best Budget Rowing Machines
      • Best Compact Rowing Machines
      • Best Foldable Rowing Machines
      • Best Air Rowing Machines
    • Best Exercise Bikes
      • Best Recumbent Bikes
      • Best Folding Exercise Bikes
      • Best Exercise Bikes For Seniors
      • Best Air Bikes
    • Best Ellipticals
      • Best Budget Ellipticals
      • Best Compact Ellipticals
      • Best Rear Driving Ellipticals
      • Best Ellipticals For Seniors
      • Best Under Desk Ellipticals
      • Best Ellipticals Under $1000
    • Other Conditioning Products
      • Best Jump Ropes
      • Best Plyometric Boxes
      • Best Speed Sleds
      • Best Agility Ladders
      • Best Vertical Climbers
      • Best Commercial Stair Climbers
      • Best Affordable Stair Climbers
    • Individual Cardio Equipment Reviews
  • Recovery
    • Best Cold Plunges
    • Best Saunas
      • Best Infrared Sauna
    • Best Massage Guns
      • Best Mini-Massage Guns
    • Best Compression Boots
    • Best Back Massagers
    • Best Massage Chairs
    • Other Recovery Tools
      • Best Inversion Tables
      • Best Vibrating Massage Rollers
      • Best Massage Balls
      • Best Ice Wraps
      • Best Foam Rollers
    • Recovery Guides
  • Fitness Accessories
    • Fitness Tech
      • Best Fitness Apps
        • Best Weightlifting Apps
        • Best Workout Programs
        • Best Cycling Apps
        • Best Treadmills Apps
        • Best Workout Streaming Services
        • Best Workout Apps
        • Best Running Apps
    • Best Bluetooth Earbuds
    • Best Digital Scales
      • Best Smart Scales
    • Best Fitness Trackers
      • Best Heart Rate Monitors
      • Best Pedometers
      • Best Stopwatches
    • Apparel
      • Best Running Shoes
      • Best Weightlifting Shoes
      • Best Cross Training Shoes
      • Best Gym Shorts
      • Best Sports Bras
      • Best Trail Running Shoes
    • Support Gear
      • Best Lifting Straps
      • Best Gym Bags
      • Best Lifting Gloves
      • Best Wrist Wraps
      • Best Lifting Chalk
      • Best Dip Belts
      • Best Pull Up Assist Bands
      • Best Lifting Belts
  • Community Forum

Training Guides

You are here: Home
A person performs a dumbbell reverse flye on an incline bench.

The 9 Best Reverse Flye Variations to Boost Your Back Training

If you’ve been trying to develop a strong and muscular upper back, finally getting your wings is a thing of beauty. Barbell rows, chin-ups, and lat pulldowns are great exercises to craft a thicker, wider ... Continue Reading

Most Underrated Bodybuilders

12 of the Most Underrated Bodybuilders of All Time

Big names define bodybuilding. Physique champions who excel in the sport tend to remain in those positions for years — several Mr. (and Ms.) Olympia champions have established their own multi-year reigns, ... Continue Reading

A shirtless person performs a side plank with their upper arm extended in the gym.

The 10 Best Sit-Up Alternatives for a Stronger, More Powerful Core

From military physical fitness assessments in the 1940s to your sixth-grade gym class, sit-ups have been a mainstay part of workout culture for quite some time. (1) They're a timeless classic, and for good ... Continue Reading

First Weightlifting Meet Mistakes

Five Common Mistakes to Avoid at Your First Weightlifting Meet

If you’re new to weightlifting and enjoy it, that’s a good sign. As you train for a while, it gets tempting to push to your limits and find out what your best snatch and clean & jerk really are. When ... Continue Reading

How to Combine Powerlifting and Bodybuilding

How to (Properly) Combine Powerlifting and Bodybuilding Training

Conventional wisdom suggests that your pathway to success in the gym is narrow and linear. If you want to get strong, you have to train for strength. Want to build muscle? Hypertrophy has to be your only ... Continue Reading

A person prepares to deadlift a loaded barbell.

The 10 Best Deadlift Variations for Beginners to Improve Your Pulls Today

The deadlift is a fantastic exercise that improves total body strength, hypertrophy, and improves athletic capacity. Beginners and experienced lifters alike often dream of pulling hefty weight from the ... Continue Reading

Person with a leg amputation wearing colorful shorts and no shirt deadlifting a loaded barbell

How Dead-Stop Training Improves Strength, Power, and Lifting Technique

In the struggle against gravity, dead-stop training will bring your sets to a grinding halt. That may sound counter-productive to your goals, but pausing between reps (popular in movements like the Pendlay ... Continue Reading

Train Strength Sports in Commercial Gyms

How to Train Your Strength Sport in a Commercial Gym

Everyone comes to strength sports in their own way. Whether you saw a video online of a weightlifter snatching 400 pounds in the blink of an eye, or witnessed firsthand a powerlifter sinking a back squat ... Continue Reading

A person with a ponytail performs a box jump while their trainer looks on.

14 Best Box Jump Variations to Bring Your Leg Power to New Heights

Increasing your lower body power has huge carryover into everything from Olympic lifts and squats to success on the football field or basketball court. And while training for your favorite strength sport ... Continue Reading

A person performs a prone hamstring curl while wearing neon yellow shoes.

7 Hamstring Curl Variations to Spice Up Your Next Leg Day

It’s leg day, and you’ve decided to give the backs of your legs the love they deserve. Unfortunately for your hammies, everyone else in the gym has had the same idea. You have a training schedule to stick ... Continue Reading

10 of the Strongest Wrestlers

These Are 10 of the Strongest Wrestlers of All Time

Wrestling has a long lineage of relying on famous celebrities to boost viewership numbers. Boxers Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather both appeared in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Dennis Rodman and ... Continue Reading

A person wearing a neon yellow bra and matching sneakers performs an L-sit pull-up.

7 Benefits of the L-Sit Pull-Up to Pull Your Core Training Up a Notch

You’ve labored for years to be able to do a solid strict pull-up, and — finally — one of the toughest bodyweight moves is coming easily to you. You’re ready to up the ante, but you’re not quite sure how. ... Continue Reading

A person wears a black tank top, black shorts, and black headphones while stretching their leg leg in a lateral lunge.

The Only Full-Body Warm-Up You Need to Lift Your Best Weights

You want to lift heavier. Or you want to build more muscle mass. You might even just want to improve your endurance so that flight of stairs heading up to your apartment isn’t quite as devastating. ... Continue Reading

force_usa_myrack_feature_v1

3 Things to Consider Before Building a Home Gym (Brought to You by Force USA)

There are many reasons to want a home gym: They never close, they're private, they're cost-efficient (in the long run), and you can customize it to fit your specific training needs. But before you commit — ... Continue Reading

A shirtless person performs an overhead squat in a wood- and brick-walled gym.

How to Build Your Own CrossFit WOD, Regardless of Your Experience Level

In the wide world of CrossFit, it’s easy to get lost in the excellence on display at elite levels. Legends like Tia-Clair Toomey and Mat Fraser can inspire you to work harder. But if you're not quite on ... Continue Reading

A person wears a black t-shirt while sinking into a warrior II pose.

How Strength Athletes Can Add Yoga to Their Program

You’re a strength athlete, but you secretly aspire to be able to maneuver your own body weight the way your yoga-loving friends do. You may be at home under a barbell but doubt that you, too, can one day ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting Shoe Heel Height

How to Find the Right Weightlifting Shoe Heel Height

When a pair of weightlifting shoes hit the platform in the gym, you take notice. The signature call of a strength athlete who dons lifting shoes for their workout is the thunderous crack of the soles ... Continue Reading

ohp

Optimize Your Overhead Pressing by Avoiding These 5 Common Mistakes

The overhead press sometimes flies under the radar and its reputation is eclipsed by lifts like the bench press. However, a big overhead press can turn as many (if not more) heads in your gym. Your ... Continue Reading

Strength Training Benefits for Bodybuilders

10 Benefits of Strength Training for Bodybuilders That You Need to Know Before Your Next Workout

When a bodybuilder steps out under the lights of the competition stage, they aren’t judged on how much they can squat or deadlift. In fact, what they can do with their physique isn’t relevant in any ... Continue Reading

A person wears a black t-shirt and grey knee sleeves while squatting a loaded barbell.

Do Knee Sleeves Actually Boost Your Squat?

Whether you’re a competitive athlete or a recreational lifter looking for a boost in your squat, you’ve probably seen someone roll up to the squat rack with compression sleeves on their knees. For most, ... Continue Reading

Hypertrophy for Olympic Lifters

The Weightlifter’s Guide to Hypertrophy — How Bigger Muscles Make Better Lifts

Weightlifting is a performance sport, but it’s not performative. The charm of Olympic lifting is in its simplicity — either you can lift the barbell over your head, or you can’t. How you look while you set ... Continue Reading

A person performs a front squat in a home gym.

14 Benefits of Owning a Home Gym to Convince You to Build Your Iron Oasis

It’s okay, you can say it: going to the gym can be a nightmare. Between the drive and navigating the locker room to just not having the social energy to see another human being, the obstacles can pile up. ... Continue Reading

A person wearing a grey tank top prepares to lift a loaded barbell off the ground.

5 Common Strength Training Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Something feels off in your program. You’re not exactly plateauing, but you’re not leaving the gym feeling good, either. Sometimes that nagging sense of something being not quite right about your gains has ... Continue Reading

How to Train Overlooked Muscles in Bodybuilding

Want to Build a Complete Physique? Don’t Forget to Train These Overlooked Muscles

What do you notice when you look at a bodybuilder on stage? Most people are drawn to the big, glamorous muscles.  A pair of pecs you could balance a beer can on. Legs that absolutely do not, under ... Continue Reading

Primary Sidebar

Latest Reviews

Featured image for the Ironmaster Super Bench Pro V2 Review

Ironmaster Super Bench Pro V2 Review (2025): Our Expert’s New Favorite FID Bench

Titan T3 Power Rack Review

Titan T3 Power Rack Review (2025): An Expert-Approved Rig Beckoning to Budget-Minded Athletes

Our tester works out at the beach in preparation for the Rogue Resistance Bands Review

Rogue Resistance Bands Review (2025): Tested by a Certified Personal Trainer

Barbend tester Jake Herod works out on a Force USA Trainer

Force USA G3 Review (2025): Our Experts Tested This Compact All-In-One Rack for Small Home Gyms

  • « Back
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 10
  • Go to page 11
  • Go to page 12
  • Go to page 13
  • Go to page 14
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 41
  • Next »
BarBend

BarBend is an independent website. The views expressed on this site may come from individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the view of BarBend or any other organization. BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting.

  • About Us
  • Advertise With Us
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest

Sections

  • CrossFit
  • Strongman
  • Bodybuilding
  • Powerlifting
  • Weightlifting
  • Reviews
  • Nutrition
  • Training

More

  • BarBend Newsletter
  • BarBend Podcast
  • The Ripped Report
  • 1RM Calculator
  • BMR Calculator
  • Macros Calculator
  • Protein Calculator
  • Squat Calculator

Policies

  • Accessibility
  • Advice Disclaimer
  • Cookies Policy
  • Disclaimers
  • Disclosures
  • Editorial Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Copyright © 2025 · BarBend Inc · Sitemap