MTNTOUGH, a Bozeman, Montana–based fitness company, just announced that it’s breaking ground on a new, bigger, and better facility — but no worries, they're staying in Bozeman. The company’s new space will ramp up productivity and meet several ...
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Bear Blood May Hold Key to Best Supplements for Muscle Growth — It’s Science
A study recently released by Japanese researchers reads like a superhero origin story: Scientists extract blood serum from a creature and use it to grow human cells like some kind of super brew of muscle-building supplements. Then, of course, Japan ...
Stamina vs Endurance: How To Run Farther and Longer
Running is a great way to improve your fitness. It’s also a pivotal skill for military personnel and first responders. But to improve your fitness and build your overall running ability, you must improve your running stamina. Some might argue over ...
Stay Fit in Preparation to Survive
If you grew up in the 1980s or the early part of the 1990s, you probably thought a chiseled, oiled, and likely chemically enhanced physique is what you needed to stay fit to survive. You can probably picture it now — a muscle-bound, larger than life, ...
Spiderman Pushups Throttle Your Core, Spandex Is Optional
Pushups are what they are, a very functional, boring-as-all-hell exercise. And they don’t get more interesting after doing thousands of reps during a training career. What’s more, the standard pushup’s narrow focus limits its positive effect. Pushups ...
Roman Chair Situps Are Bad for You – Don’t Do Them
Roman chair situps are a core exercise used by old-time strongmen. Picture singlet-clad guys named Bartleby and Xavier hoisting round dumbbells over their heads, their handlebar mustaches waxed to perfection. Since strength training’s antiquity, the ...
How Many Pushups Should I Do a Day?
You clicked on this article because you’re looking for an answer. Maybe you’ve been doing pushups in your training program for a while, but you’re not sure if you’re doing too many or too few. Your pushup motivation may be inspired by a PT test or ...
Goblet Squats: An Easy Way to Change Up Leg Day
Learning to squat is hard for a lot of folks. Most do some kind of ass drop that shoots them forward onto their toes. They follow that up with an ass pop like they should be covered in glitter and surrounded by the scent of lavender. “Everyone ...
Proper Pushup Form and Why You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong
“I bet you guys have never done pushups.” I get a chuckle out of guys every time I say it. And I say it every time I start with a new group of operators. These dudes have braved multiple selection courses while spending their careers in the ...
How to do Bulgarian Split Squats
Bulgarian split squats, also known as rear foot elevated split squats, were popularized in the 1980s by Bulgarian weightlifting coach Angel Spassov. This gnarly single-leg squat variation is revered by all who do them, and for dang good reasons. ...
Reader’s Choice: The 10 Biggest Free Range American Stories of 2021
This was a good year for Free Range American. We grew by hundreds of percentage points in every conceivable metric and covered a wide range of topics (and controversies) other outdoor media sites were afraid to touch. We broke the news on an ...
Alyssa Clark Runs 95 Marathons in 95 Days, Destroys World Record
Somewhere between commitment and obsessive compulsion is a sweet spot where your mind and body are actually in full-send agreement. If you’re looking for Alyssa Clark, the Vermont woman who ran a world-record 95 marathons in 95 days, that’s where ...
International Ass Kicking: Combat Sports By Country
There are a few things all cultures have in common: language, some type of bread, religion and fighting. Weapons made unarmed combat obsolete as a means of defending or expanding civilization long ago, but hand-to-hand fighting remains a celebrated ...
Ditch the Situps: Better Core Training for Hunters
Situps. Crunches. Russian Twists. These abdominal training dinosaurs still show up in hunting fitness programs even though they should have been left to fossilize long ago. While the burn they produce might feel productive, situps and their brethren ...
The Beer Mile: New World Record Set for Fastest Chug-and-Run
Canadian distance runner Corey Bellemore just beat his own world record by 5 seconds at the 2021 Beer Mile World Classic, held in Leigh, England. He finished in 4 minutes, 28 seconds, providing proof that elite athletes are just as human as the rest ...
Upper Body Strength: Presses That Will Get You In Hunting Shape
Upper-body strength isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about getting fit for hunting season. Prepping to traverse rough country and haul a heavy pack tends to make hunters focus on their legs and core the most, but a strong upper ...
Backcountry Hunting Self Care: Stretches to Keep You Healthy
Backcountry hunting beats the hell out of your body. Long hours are spent hiking with heavy loads, followed by long hours spent glassing. After that, the backcountry hunter catches some Z's on uneven ground, doing their best to avoid the rocks, ...
Proper Deadlift Technique: 4 Steps to Dial in the Correct Form
Many deadlift attempts are DOA before the plates ever leave the ground because most folks don’t know how to lock in their setup. But with a basic understanding of position, leverage, and tension, you can dial in your deadlift technique and rip heavy ...
How to Master Proper Squat Technique: It’s All About Your Form
The squat should be easy to manage. Grab some weight, sit down, stand back up. No rocket surgery is required. Then why do so many folks struggle with squats? It’s because they’re missing form tweaks that dial in the proper technique. Each ...
The Importance of Mental and Physical Fitness Prep – Adventure 101
Tending to mental and physical fitness before leaving for an adventure is equally as important as planning, preparing food, and packing the gear, but it's something many people often overlook. One of the things I did this summer on the 30-day ...
Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ And Hollywood Stuntman Shannon Ritch
Ask yourself this question: “What do you see yourself doing when you’re 50?” I am sure most people would come up with predictable answers that might include “Working toward retirement,” “Taking leisurely bike rides to stay fit,” “Friday night Yahtzee ...
How to Crush Pushups: A Simple, Effective Training Plan
Chances are you've been doing pushups since the Presidential Physical Fitness Test challenged your mettle back in elementary school. But have you been butchering them? Do you know how to effectively increase your max reps? It turns out there's a lot ...
Improve Your Pullups: A Simple, Effective Training Plan
Pullups are the premier test of upper body and relative strength, but most people struggle to eke out even a few reps. The reason isn’t just weakness. Most people who are bad at pullups have either poor shoulder and upper back mobility, are ...
This Is the Nationwide Firefighters’ 9-11 Remembrance Ritual
If you’re at the gym on any anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and you see fully dressed firefighters walking toward the cardio area, don’t be alarmed. After all, the sight of firemen usually means you’re about to be rescued or a big problem is ...
Mobility Drills: Training for Hip and Back Health to Keep Pain at Bay
Here’s a bright and shiny newsflash for you: there’s an 80% chance that you’re going to experience back pain at some point in your life. There’s a 50% chance you'll feel that pain within the next year. It’s the number one pain complaint every year ...
Building Muscle Mass: How to Convert Heavy Fall Foods Into Strength
Summer is ending, and fall is creeping in on us with its usual guarantees: shorter days and calorie-dense foods. With stick-to-your-ribs family dinners, fall festivals, and holiday parties coming one after another, calorie intake typically skyrockets ...
Kettlebell Carries That Test and Build Strength and Endurance
Picking up something heavy and walking with it is a very human thing to do. With our relatively short torsos and long limbs, it’s what we’re built to do. So it’s not a shocker that carrying shit is one of the most effective ways to train the human ...
Explosive Exercise: Build Power and Endurance at the Same Time
The explosive exercise training method comes from the Russians: Yuri Verkhoshansky, to be specific. (I know, I know, but the bastards know how to train.) It's a form of interval training that improves the aerobic abilities of your fast-twitch muscles ...
Half Marathon Playlist: 13.1 Good Reasons To Run With Music
I ran my first, full half-marathon out of sheer spite. I specify “full” because I ran what I thought was 13.1 miles two days earlier, just to show myself I could, only to realize as I came down from my dopamine high that I'd only covered 12.1 ...
Feeling Like Crap? Here Are 5 Simple Ways To Improve Your Mood
We all deal with periodic bouts of depression and anxiety of varying severity and duration. It's a fact. According to the Anxiety & Depression Association of America, roughly 40 million adults in the US are dealing with some form of anxiety ...
