How to Wreck Your Training with Pre-workout Supplements
Highly caffeinated pre-workout supplements are robbing people of their strength potential. You read that right.
17 Triggers to Induce Flow
These 17 triggers may serve as a checklist to ensure optimal flow states and encourage proper performance — ultimately what’s standing between you and your next world record.
Flow, The Void, and You
Your psych-up, intended to prepare you for a new PR, could actually be costing you precious pounds on the platform.
Your Guide to a Mountain Dog Back
This five-principle compilation walks you through the ins and outs of Mountain Dog Back Training.
Music As A Performance Enhancer
Could your favorite (or least favorite) songs work as psychophysiological performance enhancers? Let’s turn to research for the answer.
Inspiration and Motivation: 6 Articles to Help You Find Your Inner Drive
Being truly great means finding a way to help others the same way you seek to improve yourself.
Narcolepsy Drug Makes People Smarter
A real life Limitless pill? Researchers are getting promising results.
50-Year-Old Crushes World Record: Most Pushups In One Hour
"I didn't really feel that much pain...after a while you just get used to it."
Phosphatidic Acid: Inhibiting Muscle Gain?
Some supplements need a little more research before being brought to market.
Schizophrenia Fought With Fish Oil
This simple supplement could reduce brain inflammation and extend your mental health.
Exercise Hormone Irisin Proven To Exist
We are one step further along in explaining the effect of exercise on the human body.
Car Squat Simulator
Constructing this simulator could give you the experience needed for the car squat event!
Love Caffeine? Now You Can Vape It
My heart is pounding with excitement... or maybe that's just the caffeine.
John Meadows Takes 3rd At Tampa!
The Mountain Dog is climbing the pro show mountain.. next stop: Texas?
Strongmen Hate Laundry: New World Record Washing Machine Throw
Clothes were becoming too large to be reasonably washed.
Cambered Bar Box Front Squat
The Rackable Cambered Squat Bar is an incredibly valuable piece of equipment to have in any gym. Check out this killer movement and take your squats and deadlifts to new limits!
Upset Biker Reminds Us Why We Started Training
"There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift!" - Jón Páll Sigmarsson
Antoine Vaillant's "Play The Tape To The End" Preview
IFBB Pro Antoine Vaillant and his sponsor Universal Nutrition uploaded a preview for a full length video about Antoine's substance abuse set to release on August 4th, 2015. Having previously spoken out about his issues with drugs and a negative lifestyle and committing to change, Antoine shows that Universal Nutrition stands behind its athletes when […]
Overeating Linked to Brain Hormone Deficiency
Not hungry but still want cake? It might be hormone related...
New Depression Drug Works in a Day
A new medication still in testing stages proves to be a promising cure for those suffering from depression.
Bent Over Rope Rows for Lower Lat Destruction
This movement will destroy your lower lats. Only for those who are DRIVEN.
Killing Pain with Salmon
Salmon blood proteins are proving to be an effective painkiller- acute and chronic.
Cambered Bar Shrugs For Mountainous Traps
Traptimus Prime. Trapsquatch. Triceratraps. Trapasaurus Flex. Trap Lord. Trappleberry Finn. Traptain America. Whoever you want to be, this will get those muscle mounds growing like a Chia-pet.
The Chemistry of Grilling a Steak
"We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots." ~Charles F. Browne
4 Tips for the New Professional Athlete
“I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” - Shaquille O’Neal
Childhood Activity Yields Long Term Benefits
"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security." - John F. Kennedy
Ghrelin Agonist Acts as Alzheimer's Armor
"Our longitudinal studies are starting to yield exciting findings in multiple species." - David B. Allison, Ph.D.
Mind Altering Fitness Food Labels
Kale chips supersetted with grass-fed beef jerkey followed by a 10 minute AMRAP coconut oil chug.
Antoine Vaillant Backing It Up
"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
No Atlas Stones? No problem!
Most would agree that the limiting factor in training for strongman is the equipment. Let’s be honest… there is no substitute for a log press, a husafell stone, or an atlas stone… Wait. Hold that thought. Atlas stones: They’re big. They’re heavy. They are hard to transport unless you’re a strongman. They aren’t cheap and […]
You vs We — What Kind of Coach Are You?
Your success as a coach may depend on which group you belong to.