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BarBend Podcast — 285 episodes
How to Build Muscle with Kettlebells (w/Joe Daniels)
Balancing Life As an Athlete and Coach (w/Zachary Huse)
BarBend Classic: Should CrossFitters Switch to Strongman? (w/Hanna Coldiron)
From Gymnastics to Kettlebells to Weightlifting (with Rebecca Rouse)
Secrets of Giants (with Alyssa Ages)
BarBend Classic: How Mini-Cuts Unlock Muscle-Building
From Walking with a Cane to Powerlifting Competitions (with Angelo Poli)
From Rookie to 5th Fittest Woman on Earth (with Alex Gazan)
How to Understand the Weightlifter's Mindset (with Dr. A'Naja Newsome)
The True Fitness OG (with Bobby Maximus)
BarBend Classic: Ice-T on His Lifetime of Fitness
Why Most Gyms Fail (w/ Zachary Bartell)
Weightlifter, CrossFit Games Athlete, Karate World Champ (w/Mona Pretorius de Lacey)
Fueling Strength and Marathons (with Dan Churchill)
Tough Science of Tracking Strength (with Chris Chapman)
Training with Arnold Schwarzenegger (w/Eb Samuel)
Pro Basketball to Fitness Philosopher (w/Luka Hocevar)
The Most Honest Man in Strongman (w/Evan Singleton)
You Can't Screw This Up (with Adam Bornstein)
Coaching the 2-Time Fittest Man on Earth® (w/Adam Neiffer)
The Secret History of Irish Stone Lifting (w/Dr. Conor Heffernan)
The NEW World's Strongest Man (w/Mitchell Hooper)
BarBend Classic: Treat Your Lifting Like a Stock Portfolio
The Hidden Secrets of Strongman Competition (w/Maxime Boudreault)
Heaviest Deadlifter in History (with Victoria Long)
Built to Move (w/Dr. Kelly Starrett)
It Took Seven Years to Become Rookie of the Year (w/Nick Mathew)
The Massive Weightlifting Story You Never Heard (w/ Seb Ostrowicz)
Hip Hop Wellness Explorer (w/stic from Dead Prez)
Deadlifting in the Wilderness (w/Clay Cooper)
Crazy True Story of Obstacle Course Racing (w/Matt B. Davis)
The Biomechanics Crash Course (w/Eoin Everard)
What It Takes to Be a Bodybuilding Pro (w/Clare Morrow)
BarBend Classic: Mat Fraser
Grammy-Nominated Fitness Fanatic (w/Kitt Wakeley)
Infiltrating a Fitness Cult (w/Alix Best)
Pro Strongman to Rock Bottom & Back Again (w/Travis Ortmayer)
BarBend Classic: Busting Strength Myths with Dr. Jim Stoppani
Social Power of Adaptive Athletics (w/Jedidiah Snelson)
The World's Most Unconventional Lifter? (w/Nathan Morris)
Is Bodybuilding Sport or Show? (w/Roger Lockridge)
BarBend Classic: Coss Marte on Prison Fitness
BarBend Classic: How Kris Gethin Thrives As a Multi-Sport Bodybuilder
Fitness As "Info-tainment" (with Tony Horton)
Should Strength Athletes Try Bobsled? (w/Paul Rabic)
Why Superheavy Lifters Must Train Differently (w/Alejandro Medina)
How to Build a Fitness Following (w/Andrew Coates)
BarBend Classic: Powerlifting Legend Jen Thompson's Training Routine
Is America Getting Less Fit? (w/Kenny Santucci)
Should CrossFitters Switch to Strongman? (w/Hanna Coldiron)
Pro Strongwoman in Under 3 Years (w/ Inez Carrasquillo)
BarBend Classic: Jordan Syatt on World Record Deadlifts and the Calorie Debate
Strength As An Artform (w/Steven Koontz)
The Best Fitness City in America? (w/Angela Gargano)
Are Lifters Funny? (With Tommy DeFea of Massenomics)
The World's Strongest People Aren't Role Models (w/Joe Sullivan)
BarBend Classic: How Your Metabolism Really Works (with Josh Clemente)
The Actual Secrets of Powerlifting Programs (w/Daniel DeBrocke)
What's the Future of Strength Content? (w/Andrew Gutman)
The World's Most Underrated Strength Sport (w/Juan Pellot)
BarBend Classic: Scott Stallings on Combining Pro Golf and CrossFit
How Mini-Cuts Unlock Muscle-Building Potential (w/ Tom MacCormick)
Put These Strength Myths to Rest (w/ Dr. Jim Stoppani)
From Quad Racing to the CrossFit Games (w/Emma McQuaid)
From Running Marathons to World's Strongest Man (w/Mitchell Hooper)
What's the Best Background for CrossFit? (w/Lucy Campbell)
Live from World's Strongest Man (with Phil Blechman)
Can Statistics Make CrossFit More Fair? (w/Tyler Watkins)
BarBend Classic: Weightlifting vs. CrossFit with Zack Telander
CrossFit's Next Super Team (w/Khan Porter)
How to Give Weightlifting Mass Appeal (w/ JP Nicoletta)
How to Break Into Fitness Journalism (w/Andrew Gutman)
Strongman's Inside Man (w/Matt Rhodes)
Fitness Memes As Full Time Work (w/Chalk Llamas)
BarBend Classic: Thoughts Before An 860 lb Squat (w/Kevin Oak)
Hard Work Pays Off (w/ Mat Fraser)
From World's Strongest Alternate to Podium Contender (w/Gabe Peña)
BarBend Classic: Busting Injury Myths with Dr. Bo Babenko
How to ACTUALLY Fuel Performance w/Dan Churchill
A Lifetime of Fitness with Special Guest Ice-T
Building UFC GYM (with Adam Sedlack)
Tackling 600Sixty with Fergus Crawley
How a Mouthpiece Can Change Your Recovery (w/Dr. Dena Garner)
Feeding the Frasers with Sammy Moniz
Bodybuilding Over 50 (with Kevin Malone)
America's Strongest Veteran (w/ Nicolai Myers)
4 Years from Weightlifting Newb to American Record Contender (w/Mary Theisen-Lappen)
How I Switched from Powerlifting to Bodybuilding (w/ Amanda Kohatsu)
BarBend Classic: CrossFit, Wine, & Long Drive Competitions w/ Margaux Alvarez
Bouncing Back from Tricep Rupture and Testicular Cancer (w/Rob Kearney)
2021's Biggest Strength Stories
17 Year-Old Weightlifting World Champion (with Hampton Morris)
BarBend Classic: Heather Connor and What We're Getting Wrong About Injuries
Treat Your Training Like a Stock Portfolio (w/Graciano Rubio)
The First Time He Deadlifted, He Pulled 500 Pounds (w/Andy Huang)
How Long It Takes to Become World's Strongest Woman (w/Donna Moore)
Why We Lie to Ourselves About Fitness (w/ James FitzGerald)
BarBend Classic: Jen Widerstrom on "American Gladiators" to Becoming a Go-To Trainer
The Secret to Strength Commentary (w/Big Loz)
Can Britain's Strongest Man Repeat? (w/ Adam Bishop)
CrossFit's Statistics Mastermind (w/ Chad Schroeder)
He's Strongman's T-Rex (with Evan Singleton)
At 71, He's Deadlifting Over 500 Pounds (w/Rudy Kadlub)
Bringing Back Old Timey Strength (w/Mike Aidala)
Sick Angles for the World’s Best Weightlifters (w/ Steve Galvan)
BarBend Classic: How to Optimize Your Sleep (with Kristen Holmes)
What You Probably Don't Know About Adaptive Fitness (w/ Alec Zirkenbach)
Metabolism and Muscle with Dr. Ben Bikman
BarBend Classic: Dan John on 10,000 Kettlebell Swings and Strength Origins
Heaviest Bench of All Time (w/Jimmy Kolb)
He's the Visegrip Viking (w/Odd Haugen)
It’s the Biggest Week in Strength History (w/Andrew Gutman)
From a Broken Neck to CrossFit Journalism (w/ Spenser Mestel)
Are You Fit Enough for the Marines? (w/Joel Del Rosario)
How to Train for Elite Explosiveness (w/Kelsey Kiel)
The Keys to Elite Overhead Strength (w/Nicolas Cambi)
BarBend Classic: Layne Norton on the Real Science of Building Muscle
The Massenomics Mafia (with Tommy DeFea)
Putting the Powerlifting World on Notice (w/Hunter Henderson)
To the Paris Olympics and Beyond (w/Meredith Alwine)
This City Could Be America's New Fitness Capital (w/Justin Cotler)
Are You Strong Enough for a Racing Pit Crew? (w/ Christmas Abbott)
Get This Strong to Build a Log Cabin (w/Brian Alsruhe)
These Are the World's Best Gyms (w/ Kris Gethin)
What New Events Should Strongman Try? (w/Martins Licis)
The Worst Part of Strength on the Internet (w/ Jessica Fithen)
Who's Stronger: Weightlifters or Powerlifters? (with Travis Mash)
The Toughest Strength Test? (w/ Kim Fox)
This Fitness Community Will Not Be Ignored (with Will Lanier)
The Fight to Save Weightlifting w/ Sarah Davies
The Fitness Professor with Michael Easter
When Fitness and Social Justice Clashed (with Alyssa Royse)
He's the Texas Titan (w/Gabriel Peña)
Fix Exercise, Improve Society (w/ Dr. Daniel Lieberman)
Fitness World's Racing Mastermind (with Mo Fürste)
Adult Fitness Summer Camp w/ Dave Durante
Asking Congress for Gym Relief (w/CrossFit's Brett Ewer)
How Your Metabolism Really Works (with Josh Clemente)
Inside the CrossFit Games Bubble (w/ Adam Neiffer)
From Bodybuilding to 'Ramy' and 'Ms. Marvel' (with Laith Nakli)
What You Don't Know About the CrossFit Games Grind (with Amanda Barnhart)
Throwing Down the Hammer (with Steph Hammerman)
What Changed About Women and Strength (with Liz Plosser)
How to Breathe Fire (with Bill Grundler)
From A Stopped Heart to Weightlifting Rebirth (Jon North)
History's Strongest Women (with Haley Shapley)
Doughnuts to Power Your Deadlifts (with Amanda Kohatsu)
Can You Graduate from Squat University? (with Dr. Aaron Horschig)
Bear Crawled a Marathon (with Devon Lévesque)
You're Warming Up Wrong (with Dr. Jordan Shallow)
Fittest One Arm Man on Earth (with Logan Aldridge)
A Gym That Fits In Your Suitcase
The 2nd Fittest Man On Earth (Samuel Kwant)
Doing the Impossible in Powerlifting (With Taylor Atwood)
Why It's Harder to Fight Doping in Paralympic Sport (with Ali Jawad)
First Woman to Clean & Jerk 300 Pounds (with Karyn Marshall)
61 Year Old Squats 700 Pounds for Three (with David Ricks)
The Army's Strongest Man (with Anthony Fuhrman)
He's Called CrossFit Thor
CrossFit's Next Superstar In Waiting
He's the "Original" Korean Hulk
Dr. Bo Babenko: Injury Myths and Misconceptions
Coss Marte: From Solitary Confinement to CONBODY Empire
Sebastian Oreb: Inside the Mind of Australian Strength Coach
Fergus Crawley: Lifting and Mental Health
James Newbury: CrossFit Elite on Virtual Competition
Andrea Thompson: Strongman Evolution and the World's Strongest Woman
Cheryl Haworth: Olympic Bronze At Age 17
Jourdan Delacruz: Weightlifting's Next Wave
Conor Heffernan: Strength History's Biggest Moments
Pedro Meloni: Weightlifting Events During a Pandemic
Steph Chung: Community, CrossFit, and Competition Goals
Danny Lehr: The Story Behind Caffeine and Kilos
Marcus Martinez: What Kettlebells Can and Can't Do For You
Jen Thompson: A Powerlifting Legend's Training Routine
Goodbye, Jake Boly: BarBend's Fitness Editor Takes A Bow
Ryan Dorris: The Issue of Inclusivity In Strength Sports
Zack George: The UK's Fittest Man
Joe Vennare: These Companies Are the Future of Fitness
Blaine McConnell: World's Strongest Bobsledder
JamaRR Royster: Find Your "Why" for Endless Motivation
Meg Squats: Getting a Barbell Into Every Woman’s Hands
Kristin Hedstrom: How Olympic Rowers Train for Strength
Jonathan Goodman: Uniting Trainers Online
Garrison Redd: Para Powerlifting's Next Big Thing?
Ashley Svendbye: Can Powerlifters and Weightlifters Get Along?
Teddy Willsey: Move Better for Life
Scott Stallings: Combining Pro Golf and CrossFit
Bethany Shadburne: Training for the CrossFit Games At Home
Scott Herman: The OG Fitness Influencer?
Armen Hammer: What Comes Next for CrossFit?
Syn Martinez: Race, CrossFit, and Inclusivity in Fitness
Eb Samuel: Superheroes & Men's Health Fitness Director
Phil Andrews: International Weightlifting and the McLaren Report
Bill Esch: America's Kettlebell Warrior
Jay Maryniak: What Trainers Don't Tell You
Charlie Dickson: The Next Wave for Powerlifting
Justin LoFranco: The Mind Behind Morning Chalk Up
Jen Widerstrom: From "American Gladiators" to Go-To Trainer
Dan John: 10,000 Kettlebell Swings and Strength Origins
Layne Norton: Real Science of Building Muscle
Jason Khalipa: Fitness Beyond COVID-19
Angela Gargano: Real Life Ninjas and the Pull-up Revolution
Kyle Traynor: Find Your Zen to Build a Fitness Empire
David Meltzer: Pro Sports Recovery & Fitness on the Road
Meg Reardon: Training for the CrossFit Games (While Injured!)
Adee Cazayoux: What Athletes Get Wrong About Nutrition
Kalle Beck: Strongman Training from Home
Justin Bergh: The Future of The CrossFit Games
Kevin Oak: Thoughts You Have Before An 860 lb Squat
Matt O'Keefe: A CrossFit Community Playmaker
Dr. Andy Galpin: The Art of Training Muscle Fibers
Joe Yoon: Better Stretching and Mobility
Chad Vaughn: At-Home Training for Weightlifters
Chad Wesley Smith: How Powerlifters Can Stay Strong At Home
Jake Boly: Building Muscle and Strength At Home
Phil Andrews: USA Weightlifting's Response to COVID-19
Eugen Loki: Blending Art and Fitness to Educate
Heather Connor: What We're Getting Wrong About Injuries
Brian Alsruhe: Lifting Through Rock Bottom
Kristen Holmes: How to Optimize Your Sleep
Margaux Alvarez: The CrossFit Games, Wine, and Long Drive Competitions
Alex Uslar: Overcoming Addiction and Creating Opportunity
Joey Szatmary Podcast: Building a Home for Strongmen and Powerlifters
Chris Duffin: Squatting 1,000 Pounds and More Impossible Feats
Rowan Minnion: Dealing with Influencers PLUS How to Recover Better for Strength
Ian Kaplan: The Complexity of Pain
Eric Leija: How the Primal Swoledier Makes His Workouts
Hayden Bowe: Youth Athletes in Powerlifting and Weightlifting
Don Saladino: How to Get Hollywood Ready
Alan Thrall: Where Can Powerlifting & Strongman Grow?
Kari Pearce: America's Fittest Woman
Rich Froning: CrossFit Games Changes and How Long He'll Compete
Jordan Shallow and Pat Davidson: How Are These STILL Questions?
Stefi Cohen: What It Takes to Build a Fitness Empire
Zack Telander: Weightlifting Vs. CrossFit (and Lifting in America)
Joe Sullivan: Bending Bars & What Powerlifters Won't Tell You
Kris Gethin: How to Thrive As a Multi-Sport Bodybuilder
JC Deen: Why It's Easy to Get Fed Up With Fitness
Zack Bartell: What No One Tells You About Opening A Gym
Dr. Mike T. Nelson: The Truth About Changing Your Metabolism
Josh Bridges: Mental Toughness, Dave Castro, and His Competition Future
Rob Kearney: Competing Against Giants and Being An Openly Gay Strongman
Eric Helms: Understanding RPE and Hypertrophy
Mike Matthews: What You Don't Know About Supplements
Kenny Santucci: How to Learn Forever and Strong New York
James FitzGerald: 1st Men's CrossFit Games Champ Talks Optimal Performance
Jordan Syatt: World Record Deadlifts and the Great Calorie Debate
Dr. Jordan Shallow: Your Warmup Is Broken
Chad Wesley Smith: 900 Pound Squats and the Ultimate Strength Debate
Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum: What We Get Wrong About Pain
Sarah Furman: Finding Unconventional Strength
Russel Orhii: Powerlifting's Next Big Thing
Adam Bornstein: The Mastermind Behind Lebron & Arnold's Supplements
Nick Shaw: Building a Nutrition Empire
Heber Cannon: Fitness Life with a Buttery Bro
Craig Lindell: Can We Fix Physical Therapy?
Jake Boly: The Ultimate Guide to Powerbuilding
Phil Andrews: What's Next for USA Weightlifting
The Life and Times of Silent Mike
Sean Waxman: Where Does Weightlifting Go From Here?
Cole Sager: Can He Change Your Life?
Steve Cotter: Kettlebell Culture and Upping Your Mental Game
Tom Boyden: Tricking, Jujimufu, and the New Age of Fitness Media
Greg Nuckols: A Better Way to Approach Strength Research
Emily Abbate: What We Need in Fitness Journalism
From NASA to Fitness with Brandon Heavey
James Newbury: What It Takes to Succeed in CrossFit
Tony Gentilcore: What's Really Important in Strength
Fitness, Change, and Sacrifice with FITAID's Aaron Hinde
Alexandra LaChance: From the CrossFit Games to Weightlifting National Champion
Athlete Driven Success with Danny Camargo
Mental Strength with Liz Adams
Strength Trolls and Social Media with Jake Boly
CrossFit's Past, Present, and Future with Pat Barber
The Pinnacle of Cal Strength with Dave Spitz
Powerlifting Fact and Fiction with Bryce Krawczyk
Lasting Strength and Mas Wrestling with Tom Sroka
What You're Missing About Recovery with WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed
The Evolution of Strongman with Kalle Beck
From Olympian to Coach with Chad Vaughn
World Records and Game Show TV with Emily Hu
Building a Fitness Brand with Sean Pastuch
Weightlifting's Future with Olympic Medalist Cheryl Haworth
How the CrossFit Games Are Changing with Tim Paulson