Amazon! They’re the biggest online retailer in the world (take that, Alibaba) and the third most valuable publicly traded company after Apple and Microsoft. They can make anything they want! They could ... Continue Reading
Masks May Only Work for 15 Minutes of Exercise, According to New Research
A new article published in The German Journal of Sports Medicine has taken an exhaustive look at how to go about exercising during the pandemic. Titled “Sport, Exercise and COVID-19, the Disease Caused by ... Continue Reading
Study: Various Intensities of Exercise Help Reduce Headaches
Nothing is worse than dealing with a headache. Whether it's a migraine, tension headache, or just a general headache, it's incredibly tough to get things done when dealing with any of these. Headaches are ... Continue Reading
Study: How Do Men and Women Respond Differently to Strength Training?
Men and women both have incredible potential when it comes to increasing their strength, hypertrophy, and power with resistance training. Over the last few decades, multiple studies have explored potential ... Continue Reading
To Use Reps to Failure Or Not for Beginners, New Study Explores the Topic
More than likely, you've performed a burnout set or set to failure at least once in your lifting career. The sets to failure that you performed could have been programmed in your training cycle, or maybe ... Continue Reading
Study: Low Vs High Training Frequency for Strength and Mass
In the day and age of more, more, more, frequency is often a training variable that is taken to the extremes, but does it need to be? A better question to answer is, "how much does frequency really ... Continue Reading
Study: Which Rep Range Is Best for Strength and Hypertrophy?
An interesting new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research has provided some insights into efficiently programming different training volumes and intensities. Titled Effects ... Continue Reading
Study: Muscle Memory Will Help Us Bounce Back Faster In the Gym
Gym are closed indefinitely and a lot of questions have stirred about loss of gains and the rate in which they'll come back when gyms re-open. Unfortunately, there's not really a golden "all the time" rule ... Continue Reading
Study: Fitness in Young Adults Improves Memory, Reasoning, and Problem Solving
A new study published in Scientific Reports and presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, has concluded that physical fitness leads to better brain functioning among young ... Continue Reading
Study: Fruits and Vegetables May Help Switch Off Genes Responsible for Obesity
A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is giving some weight to the old adage that “Nobody got fat eating too much broccoli.” OK, fruits and vegetables contain calories and ... Continue Reading
Study: Working Out At Consistent Times Increases the Odds You Lose Weight
They say starting a workout program is the hardest part, but consistency — keeping at it day after day, month after month, year after year — is a huge stumbling block for the average person. Of course, ... Continue Reading
Study: Red Spinach Is the New King of Pre Workouts
Move over beets, there’s a new nitrate-rich food that looks like it might be better for workout performance. A new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research is asserting that ... Continue Reading
Huge New Study Links Certain Foods With Lower Depression Risk
(Editor’s note: The content on BarBend is meant to be informative in nature, but it shouldn’t take the place of advice and/or supervision from a medical professional. The opinions and articles on this site ... Continue Reading
Study: Elite Weightlifters Have Absurd Amounts of Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers
We have known for quite some time that the Olympic lifts are fantastic exercises for developing power. Athletes from all walks of life practice power cleans, clean & jerks, and snatches on a regular ... Continue Reading
Study: Individualize Training Frequency for Better Strength and Hypertrophy
Another interesting study is highlighting the idea that "more is not always more" when it comes to hypertrophy and strength training. There are multiple variables that should be considered when ... Continue Reading
New Study Suggests the Keto Diet May Not Be Ideal for Women
The very high fat ketogenic diet is all the rage, but a new study from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, presented at the ENDO 2019 conference in New Orleans, is one of the few to look at how it may ... Continue Reading
Study: Do Low Carb Diets Actually Increase Risk of Heart Disease?
A new meta-analysis of eight high quality, randomized controlled trials published in Nutrition Reviews aims to help answer the question of whether or now low carb diets increase the risk of heart ... Continue Reading
Study: How Much Training Volume Do Women Need to Get Stronger?
I don't know about you, but I'm often a huge fan of lifting studies that highlight the idea that "less is more" when it comes to improvement in strength gains. After all, when life gets busy, isn't it nice ... Continue Reading
These Are the Top Ten Fitness Trends for 2019
Every year since 2006, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) have conducted a survey to predict future health and fitness trends for the following year. In the November and December edition of the ... Continue Reading
This Is the Best Study on Fasting and Strength Training to Date
When it comes to the benefits of fasting there are a lot of studies on overweight individuals and people with chronic illnesses, but there aren't actually all that many on strength athletes. This is one ... Continue Reading
Study Looks At Screen Time Effects On Diet and Activity After Exercise
You wake up, groggily put on some gym clothes, and head to the gym for some light exercise to start the day. In the car, you listen to the latest podcast from Joe Rogan and sip some coffee. Then at the ... Continue Reading
Study: How Long Should Weightlifters Rest Between Sets?
There are a lot of controversial areas of fitness. We’re not just talking about the big, easy-to-bust myths like deep squats are bad for the knees or lifting will make women bulky (no and no) but even ... Continue Reading
Could Your Memories From PE Class Impact Exercise Habits?
Believe it or not, your daily exercise habits are influenced by a lot more than what we tend to believe. For example, every day our exercise habits can be related to our current physical, mental, and ... Continue Reading
This Study Tried to See If CrossFit Endurance Stacks Up to Traditional Training
A new study published in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance has pit a form of CrossFit® training against a beloved running protocol to see which is best at improving ... Continue Reading