Glenn Pendlay was a renowned strength and conditioning coach who, unfortunately, passed away in 2019 at the young age of 48 losing his battle against cancer. Glenn Pendlay was a renowned strength and ... Continue Reading
Hidilyn Diaz’s Weightlifting Gold Comes with a $660,000 Prize
The Philippines have been sending athletes to the Olympic Games since 1924. On the 3rd day of the Tokyo Olympics, on a last gasp lift that held everything in the balance, 30-year-old weightlifter Hidilyn ... Continue Reading
Lasha Talakhadze Owns the Olympic Weightlifting Platform in Tokyo
Giorgi Tchintcharauli, the doctor of the Georgian national weightlifting team, has posted video of Lasha Talakhadze's practice sessions at the Tokyo Olympics and it should be enough to send every one of ... Continue Reading
CrossFit and MMA Should Be Olympic Events
Let's be honest, CrossFit and MMA are more popular than sport climbing and boxing these days. So, why are we looking at the latter at the Olympics in Tokyo and not the former? It could be that the ... Continue Reading
Body Composition More Important Than BMI
A study that came out this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the relation of body fat mass and fat-free mass to total mortality, is freely available for all to read and the findings ... Continue Reading
World Record for Axle Press Broken by Iron Biby
Iron Biby, the Burkino Faso-born strongman born Cheick Sanou, has broken the world record for the axle press held by World's Strongest Man champion, Eddie Hall since 2017. Iron Biby broke the record by ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Founder, Greg Glassman, Will Roar Back
A new article in the New Yorker, Does CrossFit Have a Future, sounds like a comeback tour of sorts for Greg Glassman, CrossFit's controversial founder. Glassman tells the article's author, Matt Horn, ... Continue Reading
Just How Amazing is Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike
Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, at the 2021 US Classic, landed the Yurchenko Double Pike on the vault exercise. The first woman to ever perform the "impossible" move in competition just did a pretty good ... Continue Reading
Fitfluencers Should Be Celebrating National Junk Food Day
Today is a glorious day for fitfluencers because it's National Junk Food Day. That's right, a whole day devoted to celebrating burgers and fries, fried Snickers bars, Cheetos, Mountain Dew, the oeuvre of ... Continue Reading
Billionaires in Space: World Deadlift Record at Stake
Billionaires in space is a thing. But, let's be frank, they didn't do anything when they go up there other than just look out the window and take selfies. Which seems like a wasted opportunity. ... Continue Reading
IOC Confirms First Transgender Olympian Will Be Laurel Hubbard
43-year-old Laurel Hubbard will be the first transgender competitor at an Olympics this summer in Tokyo. The New Zealander will get to compete in the superheavyweight category in weightlifting despite the ... Continue Reading
Glute Activation in Your 70s Is a Thing
Glute activation is waking up your glutes. It makes the connection from your brain to your muscle and gets the muscle fired up and ready to do some work. Glute activation should be done prior to ... Continue Reading
Frozen Shoulders: They Have Their Own Society
The British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) is our find of the day, or maybe week, or even year (my life is not that exciting). The society's exercises for frozen shoulder couldn't have come at a better ... Continue Reading
Hip Hop Star Method Man is the Real Deal in the Gym
If you have been benching 100-lb dumbbells like it was no big deal, obviously you are not a celebrity or a potential goldmine of search engine optimized websites. But, snark aside, we salute ... Continue Reading
Not Swimming and Paddling, CrossFit?!
Since Greg Glassman left CrossFit, the company has moved to Colorado, it has signed on executives who have actually exec'd, and it has got its community all a flutter about competing again. Of ... Continue Reading
Tokyo 2020 Doesn’t Want Weightlifting Doping Headaches
Turkey, Columbia, Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, Malaysia, and weightlifting powerhouse Romannia have already felt the sting of bans for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The International Testing ... Continue Reading
Aerial Fitness Gyms Might Go to Dizzying Heights
Paula Van Kuren opened Fitness By Paula in June, as the post-pandemic era of a rush to gyms began. We think it might just be a refreshing starting point for all those people breaking out of quarantine and ... Continue Reading
