At just 12 years old, Saxon Panchik and his twin brother, Spencer, both fell from a slippery 75-foot cliff while hiking with friends. The resulting injuries left him sidelined from his beloved sport of football, and doctors told him that contact sports would never be an option again; any trauma to the head could be deadly.
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What is CrossFit? | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements | How to Prep for a Crossfit Competition Rich Froning is a four-time CrossFit Games champion and the owner of CrossFit Mayhem in Tennessee. Although he has never competed as a bodybuilder, Froning credits training like one with giving him an extra advantage when he first started his CrossFit career. “I’ve never competed
The Meaning of Murph | How to Train for Murph On May 24, 2020, Lee Davis walked into Rhapsody CrossFit in Charleston, South Carolina. He was there to perform ”Murph,” a popular CrossFit ”Hero WOD” that many gyms offer as a Memorial Day ritual. It was 6 p.m. on Sunday evening, so Davis was a little early for the traditional Monday
What is CrossFit | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements | How to Prep for a Crossfit Competition In case you hadn’t noticed, CrossFit competitors are getting fitter, faster, and stronger. And I’m not just talking about the top-tier athletes. Boxes worldwide are packed with some of the strongest and most jacked lifters out there, and a
Muscle-Growth Mistakes | Chest Mistakes | Shoulder Mistakes | Biceps Mistakes | Triceps Mistakes | Back Mistakes | Leg Mistakes | Calf Mistakes Mirror-muscle lifters may look good from the front, but we all know what happens when they turn around. Everything disappears! It’s an unfortunate case of “out of sight, out of mind”—and their overall development, posture, and shoulder health usually suffer from it over the long term.
KC Mitchell Chest Workout | KC Mitchell Back Workout | KC Mitchell Podcast “Two Strong Guys Pulling Some Unbelievably Heavy Iron.” If this video was a feature-length film, that might be its title, as record-setting powerlifter Jesse Norris and Afghan War vet and powerlifter KC Mitchell, founder of Rising Labs, hit the gym and place their back muscles under
Military life demands—and instills—a special blend of patience, discipline, and tireless problem-solving. So does balancing the training, nutrition, and scheduling of an athletic life. It should come as no surprise that many veterans and military spouses have worked at Bodybuilding.com over its 20-year history. We benefit from their contributions daily and take every opportunity to recognize and thank them
As long as I can remember, my week was defined by the wide range of sports and activities I threw myself into. One day, I was running or biking. Then next, rock climbing and gymnastics. As a kid, I was attending ballet classes five days a week. As an adult, I was completing triathlons or marathons, then
Muscle-Growth Mistakes | Chest Mistakes | Shoulder Mistakes | Triceps Mistakes | Back Mistakes | Leg Mistakes | Calf Mistakes No muscle group is as stubborn to grow as calves. Years of little-to-no progress compels plenty of lifters to neglect their lower legs entirely and basically put their calves out to pasture. They become the ”my calves don’t grow” type of person.
What is CrossFit? | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements CrossFit has been around in one form or another for over 20 years. But ask anyone who does it what, exactly, CrossFit ”is,” and you’ll still usually get a ”Well…” This intense and occasionally controversial training style has always been tough to pin down or define. But that’s
Trying to dial in your nutrition for your physique or athletic goals? Then you need to know your current total daily energy expenditure (TDEE), or the number of calories you burn each day. Eat more than this amount and you can expect to gain weight. Eat less than this amount and you’ll set yourself up
KC Mitchell Chest Workout | KC Mitchell Back Workout | KC Mitchell Podcast When you put a world-class powerlifter and a fearless Afghan war vet in a gym and give them some time to come up with a plan, you’re going to end up with one hell of a workout. Last time, KC Mitchell (the
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Learning the Olympic lifts is a game-changer for a lot of lifters. Yes, the clean and jerk and the snatch require coordination, timing, mobility, and explosiveness. But here’s the thing: the full Olympic-grade snatch and clean and
What is CrossFit | CrossFit for Bodybuilders | Bodybuilding for CrossFitters | Best CrossFit Supplements In certain bodybuilding circles, there are some words you simply don’t use. And CrossFit is one of them—right? Actually, a large and growing number of bodybuilders are more exhausted with beefing with CrossFit than they are with CrossFit itself. And honestly, it’s very
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding Lifters tend to shy away from the Olympic lifts, the barbell snatch and the clean and jerk, because they look complicated and require a great deal of technique. But in those two challenges lie their biggest benefits. With time and practice,
Best Proteins | Best Mass Gainers | Best Pre-Workouts | Best Creatine | Best Fat Burners | Best Multivitamins | Best Test Boosters | Best Weight-Loss Creatine has become a must for lifters and a wide range of other athletes to improve muscle gains, performance, and recovery. It’s one of the most researched supplements out there and has a long list
Muscle-Growth Mistakes | Chest Mistakes | Shoulder Mistakes | Biceps Mistakes You might think that all that stands between you and the body of your dreams is drive, guts, focus, or determination. That’s what the influencers might tell you. But something else might be blocking you: All those training mistakes that leave you disappointed and injured rather than pumped and
Back Pain | Shoulder Pain | Knee Pain | Upper-Body Workout | Lower-Body Workout Some people have been experiencing shoulder pain for so long, they stop believing anything better is in the cards for them. Maybe it’s just a few machines at best from here on out. This workout could be the one that changes your
Your browser does not support the video tag. The world of bodybuilding is one of the few arenas where it’s perfectly acceptable to pull up (or down) your pants to show off your legs. One scroll through Julian Smith’s IG feed, and you’ll quickly learn how “The Quad Guy” earned his nickname. And Abel Albonetti
Muscle-Growth Mistakes | Chest Mistakes | Shoulder Mistakes | Biceps Mistakes Google ”shoulder training mistakes,” and the search engine will spit out articles featuring advise like ”Don’t use bad form,” ”Move a full range of motion,” and ”Never go too heavy.” Well…duh! You won’t find that kind of overgeneralized silliness here. This is advice by lifters, for lifters, learned the hard way so you don’t have
My first Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Of course, it’s not really my first, but it feels like it since this is the first time the holiday is about, well, me! My daughter was born in late February, and I’m just now feeling settled enough to reflect on my experience and take some new perspective
Moms rock our world. Growing up, when they’re not reading us stories or kissing our boo-boos, they’re driving us to sports practices and making sure our sandwiches have the ideal ratio of peanut butter to jelly. Moms make so many sacrifices that we only appreciate years later, so this Mother’s Day, we wanted to reflect
Meaningful rituals are few and far between in the strength and fitness world. But there’s one that has been catching on in the last few years during the last three-day weekend of spring, and we couldn’t think of anything better. This Memorial Day, thousands of athletes across the country—many of them CrossFit devotees, but an
Not every gym selfie involves someone flexing their biceps anymore! Plenty of our favorite fitspo focuses squarely on the lower body—you know, that half of your being that you’re supposed to train sometime between chest on Monday and arms on Friday. To show off your leg muscles, you need a combination of the best leg exercises, heavy
Back Pain | Shoulder Pain | Knee Pain | Upper-Body Workout | Lower-Body Workout In recent years, the shoulder has begun to rival the lower back as the top pain point for active people. Why? Partly due to how the shoulder is constructed, but plenty more is just about us—how we train, how we take care of
Back Pain | Shoulder Pain | Knee Pain | Upper-Body Workout | Lower-Body Workout Experts can talk all day about the right way to train through back and knee pain, but until you have a workout in front of you—or more specifically, a great pain-free workout behind you—it’s just talk. This workout is all about training
The amount of protein you need depends on a number of factors, including your weight, age, goals, and activity level. The daily minimum recommended by the National Institutes of Health is 0.36 grams per pound of body weight for a sedentary person. However, if you do intense workouts, have a physically demanding job, or both,
Back | Main | Next Kris’ final week before race day starts off with a bang, in the form of an exploding shaker bottle full of supplements and apple cider vinegar. But despite this inauspicious start, his final week was one of triumphs. On “judgement day” in the lab, he discovers that his body composition
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