Stefi Cohen has been around the fitness world for a little bit of time now. She first gained attention through the powerlifting world – capturing 25 world records while competing. She is the definition of strong with numbers like a 545 lb deadlift (at 120lbs), 507 lb squat, and 242 lb bench press. If …
If you’ve heard the name, James Newbury, you probably associate him with the Crossfit Games. Not only is he a 4-time Crossfit Games athlete and 4-time Australia’s Fittest Man, he also was a semi-professional rugby player and regularly competes in triathlons, Ironmans, powerlifting meets, and many other modalities of training. He is the definition …
It’s not everyday you meet the trainer who works with one of the greatest athletes of all time. As if that’s not impressive enough,he too has a long history of impressive athletic feats. Roc Shabazz is a former professional bodybuilder, certified fitness coach, and owner of Roc Fitness, a studio in Atlanta, Georgia that …
Poway, California Nestled in the town of Poway sits a home that one may call a California dream. It’s surrounded by thriving plants and greenery, trees plump with ready-to-pick citrus fruits, and comes equipped with horse stables and chicken coops. For a 10-year resident of New York City, this place was, in the least …
Gabe Snow is a NYC-based elite personal trainer, former collegiate-athlete (D2 football at Bloomsburg University), and a 4X nationally qualified NPC competitor in Men’s Physique and Classic Physique. He’s also a performance nutrition coach and focuses on new ways to gain strength, speed, and durability through movement that supports control, stability, and pliability. His …
Aaron Reed came from a family of athletes, although he didn’t get off to a very smooth start. His dad and brothers were all big and muscular, but as a child, Reed battled leukemia and spent most of his time in and out of hospitals. When he was finally strong enough to go to …
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | Olympic Lifting and Bodybuilding | How to Master the Olympic Lifts | How to Prep for a Weightlifting Meet You can do the snatch and the clean and jerk at your CrossFit class, and you can watch it during the Olympics, but at some point, there’s no better way to learn the …
What is Olympic Lifting | Learn the Olympic Lifts | Olympic Lift Variations | | How to Master the Olympic Lifts | USA Weightlifting Nationals The eight incredible lifters representing Team USA at this year’s Olympics in Tokyo, are just like the rest of us in some ways. They’ve spent the last year or …
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 …
During his late teen years, Joar Fällmar fell out of love with sitting around playing video games, and in love with moving the heaviest iron possible. But when a back injury put the sport of powerlifting out of reach, he switched gears and became a heavy-and-hard bodybuilder in the mold of his heroes Branch Warren […]
Our apologies (well, not really) if you’re one of the nearly seven million people who have already watched Meg Squats star in the video “Meet the Powerlifting Grandma” on the Gym2k.com YouTube Channel. But the way we see it, this strength spoof has become one of the most-watched videos in the history of our site—right […]
Two hardworking people just got a lot richer, thanks to gym2k.com’s global search for its 2018 $ 250K Transformation Challenge winners, sponsored this year by Optimum Nutrition.Every April, a team of gym2k.com employees and executives select one woman and one man in recognition of the changes they have made to their physiques—and inevitably, their lives—over […]
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]