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Iron Skull Power Bar - Breakdown
One of our favorite barbells is the Iron Skull Power Bar. This bar is an aggressor in the hands and one for PRs. This bar is our current top power bar, with many of the excellent features you look for on many bars.
Hammer Away 🔨 at Your Arms with This Attachment
There’s nothing worse than when the lifting gets heavy, the grip gets slippery. A weak knurling (or worse, no knurling) on any type of critical cable attachment can make it seem like those gains are at a never-ending reach
Can Strength Training Benefit Older Adults?
For many adults, growing with age is a time for relaxation, less work, and time with family. With that growing age comes declining strength. This decline in strength is a huge factor into many of the health issues the elderly see.
Changing Your Exercises Will Help Your Strength Gains
When is the last time you changed your routine up? Have you performed an exercise other than standard back squat, bench press, or deadlift? Have you found that your strength is at a plateau? It could be the fact you aren’t making enough changes to your exercises when you are lifting.
Discipline Equals Freedom: 15 of the Best Jocko Willink Quotes to Keep You Pushing On
Jocko Willink is a former Navy SEAL and current podcaster and author. During his military service, he saw combat action during the war in Iraq and commanded the SEAL Team 3 Task Unit Bruiser. He retired from the military as...
Heavy Chains for Your Workouts
Chains can provide a great impact your training and the benefits of them offer progressive resistance. They can be effective from draping them over your body when performing bodyweight exercises, use with squats/bench/deadlift, or even on cable selectorized machines with the Stacked Weight Pin.
Stacked Selector Pin - Breakdown
Here is a great complimentary product to the Stacked Weight Pin - the Stacked Selector Pin. This is a great complimentary product to any stacked machine. They have much of the same features of the Stacked Weight Pin, especially within the front...
Arthur Jones and the Colorado Experiment
Resistance training wouldn’t be what it is today, in many ways, without Arthur Jones. He pioneered the weight resistance machine with the Nautilus line, which made him extremely wealthy. Those machines, especially the ones built in the 1970s, are still being used today and are like tanks.
Knurled PowerBlock Handles For Your Perfect Upgrade
While our knurled handles have been out for some time now, we still wanted to showcase the importance and why it’s something you really need for your PowerBlock Dumbbells.