If you suffer from poor range of motion in your wrists, you likely long for the day that you can get into a better front rack position, pain-free. Or if you’ve ever had an acute wrist injury, you know ... Continue Reading
13 Single Kettlebell Exercises to Improve Your Deadlift
If you’re having nightly dreams about deadlifting while you’re missing your barbells, it’s easy to get demoralized. When all you have is a single kettlebell — and even a heavy one doesn’t hold a candle to ... Continue Reading
10 Lower Body Exercises for When You Only Have a Light Kettlebell
Congratulations — you were able to snag one of the last kettlebells from your favorite fitness outlet before they all sold out. The only problem is, you had no choice but to get a bell that’s pretty light. ... Continue Reading
The Big 3: How Strong Are You Across These Key Bodyweight Movements?
In an ideal world, we’d all have access to the gym of our dreams, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. The reality, however, is often very different, as travel, work and life in general all can conspire ... 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
3 Efficient and Time Saving Shoulder Warm-Ups
The shoulder is one of the most mobile joints on the body, which makes it an important area to warm-up or least provide some attention to before lifting heavy. Fortunately, a great shoulder warm-up ... Continue Reading
The 8 Best Home Exercises for More Muscle and Strength
If you’re not fortunate enough to have a sweet home gym set up where you can squat, bench press, and deadlift while your gym access is limited, all is not lost. With a little creativity, you can still ... Continue Reading
Upper Body Isometrics: Why and What You Can Do At Home
What are isometrics? They’re movements where your joints don’t move, and there isn’t a noticeable change in the length of your musculature. Generally, when we think about isometric movements, we ... Continue Reading
Stop Making These 4 Common Lunge Mistakes (Plus How to Fix Them!)
If we had to line up every lower body exercise in a row and pick them out from best to worst based on usefulness and effectiveness, the lunge would easily make it in the top three if not place number ... Continue Reading
The Most Versatile Piece of Equipment You Might Be Forgetting to Use
Like many gyms who closed their doors in recent days, my gym rented out various pieces of equipment to our clients. The kettlebells were swooped up in no time, as were the dumbbells and resistance ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Increase Intensity With At-Home Workouts
Well, for most of us, quarantine measures are still in effect, which means gym time is probably limited or non-existent. That sucks – especially if you’re wasting that time completely off rather than ... Continue Reading
How to Develop Explosive Power Without a Barbell
So you’re stuck working out in your one car garage that you cleaned out and turned into a makeshift gym two weeks ago. You have a couple heavy dumbbells and kettlebells, you installed a homemade pull-up ... Continue Reading
14 Unexpected Kettlebell Moves You Haven’t Tried Yet
If you’re one of those lucky humans who had a kettlebell before social distancing or you ordered one before they all sold out (seriously, the online rush for home workout equipment is intense), you have ... Continue Reading
Keep Pulling Without a Pull-Up Bar
When it comes to training with minimal or no equipment, there are undoubtedly more pushing than pulling options: push-ups, handstand push-ups, burpees, bench or chair dips, dumbbell bench press or floor ... Continue Reading
How to Start Training Kettlebell Sport from Home
There is no time like the present to get started on your Kettlebell Sport journey, when most gyms are temporarily closed, and many of us are being asked to shelter in place. As a power endurance ... Continue Reading
7 Tips For Maintaining Muscle Mass Without the Gym
If you heard “shelter in place” and immediately translated it into “no gym,” you’re not alone. Strength athletes of all kinds are trying to adapt to being socially distanced from lifting communities and ... Continue Reading
Best At Home Foam Roller Workouts
There is a lot of content out there about foam rollers and the best ways to use them for almost to aid every part of the body. Be it upper or lower, from glutes to calves, for active and sedentary people ... Continue Reading
How to Strength Train for Your 5K (and Why You Should)
To get better at running, you need to run. And to get stronger, you need to lift weights and when you combine the two, you’ll get even better at both. (Especially at running. Strength makes you ... Continue Reading
Single Kettlebell and Bodyweight At Home Workout Program
Here’s a fun and dynamic conditioning workout that you can complete at home with just a single kettlebell and your own bodyweight. If you are new to circuit training, be sure to take your time to get the ... Continue Reading
5 At Home Exercises to Strengthen Adductors
Gyms are closed for many of us around the world and we're limited to training within our own homes. Some have equipment and others do not, which means creativity is a must to continue progressing toward ... Continue Reading
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Is Very Jacked and Has Been Posting His Quarantine Workouts
Something very important has escaped our attention for too long: Chris Cuomo, CNN anchor and presenter of Cuomo Prime Time, is jacked. It came to the attention of a lot of people the ... Continue Reading
7 Barbell Back Exercises That Are NOT the Deadlift
The barbell is an excellent training tool. You can load it up with a lot of weight, control it with two hands, and perform a myriad of moves with it. Yet, when when it comes to heavy barbell lifting, most ... Continue Reading
Tired of Air Squats, Burpees, and Lunges on Repeat?
In the post-barbell world of home workouts, clients, friends and family members keep coming to me with the same concerns. “I’m getting bored of air squats and lunges. My hips are sore from doing 100 ... Continue Reading
Op-Ed: Running is Futile. Why You Shouldn’t Start Running Just Because Gyms Are Closed
Editor’s note: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed herein and in the video are the author’s and don’t necessarily reflect the views of BarBend. Claims, assertions, opinions, and quotes have been ... Continue Reading