To be a champion CrossFitter, you have to eat like a champion CrossFitter. On March 21, 2022 — mere days before the 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals begin virtually on March 24 — five-time Fittest ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jamal Browner Pulls a Conventional Deadlift PR of 432.5 Kilograms (953.5 Pounds) in Training
Powerlifters dare not overlook the 110-kilogram Jamal Browner any time he gets under a barbell. On March 22, 2022, Browner again snapped more necks when he locked out a 432.5-kilogram (953.5-pound) raw ... Continue Reading
Dark Horses to Watch in the 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals
CrossFit fans are likely accustomed to a familiar winner's circle in the sport's short history. Since the CrossFit Games started in 2007, five athletes have won the Men's and Women's divisions multiple ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Prescillia Bavoil (69KG) Wins 2022 FFForce French Nationals, Scores Two Unofficial IPF Records
Accomplished powerlifter Prescillia "Lya" Bavoil continues to be one of the sport's premier competitors. The 2022 Fédération Française de Force (FFForce) French Nationals occurred in Albi, France, on March ... Continue Reading
A Look at Eddie Hall’s Boxing Performance Against Hafthor Björnsson
On March 19, 2022, former World's Strongest Man (WSM) champion Hafthor Björnsson defeated fellow former WSM winner Eddie Hall in the "Heaviest Boxing Match in History." After six action-packed rounds at ... Continue Reading
Strongwoman Inez Carrasquillo’s Overhead Pressing is On a Different Level
The sport of strongwoman can be not only incredibly demanding but also a difficult and competitive sport to make a name for one's self. Inez Carrasquillo, a rising star in the sport, doesn't have this ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jessica Buettner (76KG) Deadlifts 252.5 Kilograms in Training for New PR
Many of us make resolutions to improve ourselves and reach new goals every year, but life happens, and it doesn’t always go according to plan. That isn’t trouble for Jessica Buettner, who starts 2022 in a ... Continue Reading
Reducing High Blood Pressure With Isometric Resistance Training
A new study looks the specific mode of exercise for managing high blood pressure, isometric resistance training (IRT). So, let's start with what is IRT? It is a type of strength training. A new ... Continue Reading
Time Restricted Eating Is All About Age and Sex
Time-restricted eating (TRE) is the bright shiny toy everyone wants on their diet list these days. Yeah, you can call it intermittent fasting. Salk scientists studying TRE in mice, looked into how it ... Continue Reading
The Lifting Game: Weightlifters Versus CrossFit Athletes
Watching Seb Ostrowics over at Weightlifting House on YouTube is one of my guilty pleasures. A bowl of Frosted Flakes, ice cold milk, and the droopy, sonorous musings of a weightlifting nerd are all it ... Continue Reading
Do Genetics Make for Better Strength and Power Athletes?
Whether you are an athlete, are going to be king of your gym or show natural ability in certain types of physical fitness activities, genetics have been suggested as playing a role in the capacity for ... Continue Reading
Lose 250 Calories Because Exercise Alone is Not Enough
The aorta is our healthy blood highway, effectively transporting our bloody supply to our peripheral tissues. When we are young, most of our large arteries are termed, elastic, but they stiffen as we ... Continue Reading
The 505kg Deadlift Mark Remains Untouched
In December 2015, Eddie Hall achieved the then world record deadlift at the World Deadlift Championships 2015, with a 463 kg (1,021 lb) deadlift. In 2016, The Beast, as Eddie is known, set a new world ... Continue Reading
Frailty Is the Disease, Physical Exercise Is the Cure
An interesting study review article in Nature, The Degree of Frailty as a Translational Measure of Health in Aging, looks at the impact of the different levels of frailty and their effect on aging, ... Continue Reading
How Lifting Weights Burns Fat
Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to growing evidence that resistance exercise has unique benefits for fat loss. The Department ... Continue Reading
6 Weeks of Exercise Leads to Genome Changes Linked to Disease
It's like social media always says, regular physical exercise is awesome and it's your fault you don't look like an Instagram filter on steroids. However, real scientist also know that working out ... Continue Reading
1, 2, 3 World Records for Lasha Talakhadze and Olympic Gold Dominance
Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia is the most dominant weightlifter of his generation and he is well on his way to being the first man to break the 500 kg total in weightlifting. Lasha Talakhadze of ... Continue Reading
Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder, Breaks National Static Breath-Holding Record
Erwan Le Corre is a pioneer in natural movement and the founder of MovNat. He is also a US National Record Holder. Recently, Le Corre, a Breaking Muscle favorite contributor, held his breath for 6 minutes ... Continue Reading
Probiotics and the Gut-Muscle Axis
Research into the gut-muscle axis finds some interesting connections between the role of inflammation and gut microbiota in the development of muscle failure in older populations. The implications ... Continue Reading
Dancing to Better Health
Postmenopausal women deal with the struggles of managing their weight, their cholesterol, and many other health related issues. A new study in The Journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) ... Continue Reading
SoulCycle and Equinox Demand Vaccination Proof
The big boys of fashionable fitness, Equinox and SouldCycle, will be requiring proof of vaccination of all of their New York attendees starting early in September. In an internal survey of its members and ... Continue Reading
Erectile Dysfunction and COVID-19, a Relationship Made in Hell
ED is defined as “an inability to obtain or maintain an erection for satisfactory sexual intercourse”. Studies have indicated that there is a relationship between ED and the vascular system, due to the ... Continue Reading
Long Term, Low Carb Diets Not Superior to Other Diets
The researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, who are behind the recent review of the benefits of low carbohydrate diets found many issues with the benefits and ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey Keeps Getting Better and Better at CrossFit
Here's the thing about Tia-Claire Toomey, she hadn't been doing CrossFit for a long time when she made it to her first games in 2015. Her background was in track and field but she represented her country ... Continue Reading
