If you’ve ever picked up a barbell and hoisted it over your head, dreaming of greatness, you’ve probably fantasized — at least for a moment — about the Olympics. The pinnacle of any weightlifter’s career, ... Continue Reading
5 of the Best Weightlifting Moments in 2022
Weightlifting happens fast. Often, the most significant moments in the sport are measured in milliseconds rather than minutes. That said, a lot goes beyond the competition platform that shapes the ... Continue Reading
5 of the Best Weightlifting Athletes in 2022
Sports are only as good as the athletes that play them. With no one on the field, the ball doesn’t move; the same idea holds as true in weightlifting as in any other sport. After all, the barbell can’t ... Continue Reading
20 of the Best Photos From the 2022 Dubai Fitness Championship
The Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) may have concluded three weeks before this article was published, but there’s plenty to process from those four days of high-level competition. Over 20,000 pictures ... Continue Reading
7 of the Best CrossFit Athletes in 2022
It's hard enough to possess elite strength, speed, or endurance. CrossFitters need to build up to all of these traits and then maintain them for the duration of their entire careers — which can span over a ... Continue Reading
5 of the Best CrossFit Moments in 2022
In a sport where intensity and mystery are par for the course, it isn't easy to hone in on a handful of exciting moments. However, the sport of CrossFit in 2022 saw enough loaded barbells, organizational ... Continue Reading
Karin Freyová Is a DFC Legend. Can She See Similar Success at the 2023 CrossFit Games?
Karin Freyová's name is forever etched in the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC) history book. She placed fourth (2018), second (2019), and first (2022) in her last three appearances at the event — and in ... Continue Reading
Close Races and Questionable Calls Dominate Men’s Major CrossFit Off-Season Competitions
The CrossFit Games is the premier event that the entire competition calendar revolves around. It's an opportunity for newcomers to build their reputation in the sport and for veterans to cement their ... Continue Reading
The Fitness Influencer Arms Race: How Content Creators Push the Envelope for Clicks
If you happen to go to the same gym as Matthias McKinnon, you’re probably not used to your workouts going according to plan all the time. After all, when you stride into the weight room for leg day and ... Continue Reading
Paper-Thin Skin: The Legacy of Bodybuilder Andreas Münzer
"[Andreas Münzer] is a perfect example of having a good balance between tremendous definition and tremendous size…very rarely do you see that." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Classic, 1996. ... Continue Reading
Breaking Down the Dubai Fitness Championship’s Elimination Workout
Elimination-style workouts have become more common at higher-level CrossFit competitions in recent years. With the announcement of yet another elimination-style workout at the 2022 Dubai Fitness ... Continue Reading
6 of the Biggest Storylines Worth Following at the 2022 Olympia
The entire sport of bodybuilding revolves around Olympia Weekend. It's here that first-time winners become household names and multi-time champs become icons. While the Mr. Olympia competition is the ... Continue Reading
The Infamous Moon Pose Is Forbidden on Bodybuilding Stages
If you’re a bodybuilding competitor, don’t even think about it. The appropriately dubbed moon pose, named for its iconic rear hip hinge posture in which the athlete bends over to “moon” the audience, is ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Women’s Roster Preview
2022 marks the 10th year of the Dubai Fitness Championship (DFC), this time in a new venue, the Coca-Cola Arena, on Dec. 2-4, 2022. The competition reverted to its old model for selecting a field of ... Continue Reading
2022 Dubai Fitness Championship Men’s Roster Preview
The 10th edition of the Dubai Fitness Championships (DFC) — formerly known as the Dubai CrossFit Championship (DCC) from 2019-2021 — is fast approaching. With the decision not to extend a single invite for ... Continue Reading
Private MD Labs’ Bodybuilder Blood Test Could Take Your Training to the Next Level
Do you want to take your strength training to the next level? Are you trying to pack on muscle mass and eclipse the physique of your current self, morphing yourself into the aesthetic figure of your mind's ... Continue Reading
10 Facts About the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding Competition
On September 18, 1965, Larry Scott, Harold Poole, and Earl Maynard became the first men to step on stage at the Mr. Olympia competition. The brainchild of Joe and Ben Weider, the inaugural Mr. Olympia ... Continue Reading
2022 Zelos Games Invitational Results — Andrea Nisler and Tudor Magda Take Inaugural Titles
From Nov. 12-13, 2022, the Zelos Games Invitational served as the official kick-off of the Zelos Games, an online competition featuring 20 skill divisions. The Invitational consisted of 12 women and 11 men ... Continue Reading
9 Ways to Build Healthy Habits to Get Fit and Keep You Strong
Doing a workout is great for you — you’ll get your heart rate up, your blood pumping, and your muscles prepped to grow bigger and get stronger. But stringing a series of workouts together into a program ... Continue Reading
How Whey Protein Isolate Can Help Build and Maintain Muscle
Envision your future muscle-bound physique. Your clothes drape perfectly over your torso, your jeans cinch around your waist, and the compliments roll in. You feel better than you’ve ever felt: ... Continue Reading
A Preview of the 2022 Zelos Games CrossFit Competition
The second year of the Zelos Games will take place on two fronts. For most, it is an online competition running from November 11 to November 21. Additionally, 12 men and 12 women have been invited to a ... Continue Reading
Breaking Down Kara Saunders’ 10 Years of CrossFit Excellence
When Kara Saunders won the final event of the 2022 Rogue Invitational, there was plenty of history to take stock of. If this is indeed her last competitive season, and that is not confirmed, she would have ... Continue Reading
Lou Ferrigno’s Hulking Comeback at the 1992 Mr. Olympia
The familiar sounds of Bill Conti’s “Gonna Fly Now” reverberated through Finland’s Helsinki Ice Hall in September 1992 as 290 pounds of dense, well-defined muscle walked onto the stage. The massive frame ... Continue Reading
20 of the Best Photos From the 2022 Rogue Invitational
From Oct. 27-30, 50 of the planet's fittest and strongest athletes converged at Dell Diamond Stadium in Austin, TX, to partake in the 2022 Rogue Invitational, which hosts both competitive CrossFit and ... Continue Reading