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These Are (Some of) the Best Fitness Content Creators to Follow in 2024
The days of getting your fitness advice exclusively from magazines (or, worse yet, your high school gym coach) are dead and gone. Social media certainly comes with its own perils, but one of the best things about Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok is that there’s probably a creator or health coach out there who gets you — if you know…
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Dorian Yates Biography — Beginnings, Bodybuilding, and Workout
Every sport had its top superstar in the 1990s. It was Michael Jordan for the NBA, Ken Griffey Jr. for many baseball fans, and Hulk Hogan was the biggest name in the world of professional wrestling until Stone Cold Steve Austin came along. The top man in the world of bodybuilding was Dorian Yates. The British muscleman known…
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Andrea Shaw Biography — Early Life, Career, Training, and More
In the mid to late 2010s, many bodybuilding insiders and experts considered women’s bodybuilding to be a distant memory. This was thanks to the demise of the Ms. Olympia contest in 2014 and little exposure for the shows that were taking place. Then in 2020, Wings of Strength promoter Jake Wood bought the Olympia Weekend and revitalized the…
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“I’m So Excited” — Inside the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Season With WheelWOD’s Kevin Ogar
Kevin Ogar has been busy. After the Oct. 2023 announcement that CrossFit Adaptive divisions will no longer compete at the CrossFit Games, the owner of CrossFit WatchTower and the co-owner of WheelWOD is also serving as the Event Director of the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games. As the 2024 season unfolds, Adaptive athletes across 15 divisions will be competing…
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Jay Cutler — Background, Bodybuilding History, Training, and More
If you were to ask serious bodybuilding fans to rank the top ten competitors of all time, they wouldn’t all have the same answers. Still, some names are sure to be on the list — names like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronnie Coleman, and Phil Heath are sure locks. Another name that would very likely arise is Jay Cutler. Cutler…
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Sam Sulek — Workouts, Biography, Height, and More
When people think of the biggest names in bodybuilding in terms of competition, the most popular athletes to come up tend to be five-time Classic Physique Olympia champion Chris Bumstead and 2023 Mr. Olympia winner Derek Lunsford. But there could be a whole different conversation when it comes to bodybuilding away from the stage — and the first…
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Cydney Gillon — Early Life, Career, Training, and More
In the world of bodybuilding and physique sports, winning one Olympia championship puts you in rarified air. Winning multiple titles makes you a legend. You may need a different adjective to describe athletes who have won seven world titles, but whatever that word is, it must be associated with Ms. Figure Olympia Cydney Gillon. Gillon is the gold…
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The 10 Best Powerlifters of 2023
Powerlifting in 2023 was a year full of turnover for the record books and astounding gym PRs. Across every bodyweight category for both male and female athletes, the bar at the top was raised time and time again. As part of BarBend‘s top 10 series for each strength sport, we have somehow, someway, sifted the list of the best…
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The 10 Best CrossFit Athletes of 2023
Another action-packed CrossFit season is in the books. The 2023 year in CrossFit included many changes, from the first woman in six years not named Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr taking home the Games crown to the first woman ever to coach an athlete to Individual victory at the Games (spoiler: those women are Laura Horvath and Caroline Lambray, respectively). The…
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Thousands of Gym Rats Crashed a Website Trying to Buy This 20-Pound Coffee Mug
“Erick, If I were part of Eleiko’s board, I would vote to fire you,” begins one of over 700 comments on an apologetic Instagram post by Erik Blomberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Eleiko Sport. One would forgive the commenter for spelling Mr. Blomberg’s name incorrectly. They were, presumably, flush with rage. Sweden-based Eleiko has produced high-end weight-lifting…
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