Meet undefeated Canadian welterweight Ryan Dickson, a rising Canadian star who's been on a tear of late. In this Strong-Athlete short film, we profile Ryan and witness his latest victory at the Score Fighting Series in front of his home crowd in Hamilton. With more performances like this, it won't [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| This fight preview is going to be a little bit different. There are a number of fantastic fights on this fight card, but I am going to focus on the one that this fight card is really all about: Mike Ricci vs. Colton Smith. More specifically, [...]
|By: Alex Carnall| Probably more common than any injury in my experience has been clients presenting with low-back pain. There are tons of “rules of thumb” expressed as common knowledge or coaching cues that hold no more than face validity and are actually hurting people instead of protecting them. Since [...]
Why did Manny Pacquiao get knocked out so badly against Marquez?? Listen here to Alex Ariza, Manny's strength and conditioning coach, talk about how Pacquiao is not putting in his time on the strength and conditioning for this fight. No matter how much skill you have or how many victories [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| The best UFC on Fox card goes down this Saturday in Seattle and there isn’t a bad fight on this card. I know that I have fallen victim to hype before, but there is no way this isn’t going to be a great card. We [...]
UFC Middleweight champ and pound-for-pound king Anderson Silva was recently showcased in a new kick-ass Nike commercial. The new ad is part of Nike's "Find Your Greatness" campaign and was shot in Silva's home country Brazil. The ad is significant for mixed martial arts on several levels. For years, Nike [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| Typically, my tone is humorous. This time is different. I will be touching on some fairly serious topics that effect a good chunk of our readership. Let’s be honest, cancer touches everyone – athlete or not. On our site, we have interviewed Joanne Williams who [...]
Bodybuilding fans and fitness enthusiasts of all levels will be pleased to hear that 2013 will be the debut of Generation Iron, a feature length documentary about modern day professional bodybuilding. This film is essentially a follow up to the cult classic Pumping Iron, which introduced the world to future [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| Tonight, the Strong-Athlete crew will be at the Score Fighting Series 7 in Hamilton, Ontario covering the action, jab by jab. Part of our commitment to our readership is to provide quality content. As such, we will be trying something new this weekend; we will be providing [...]
| By Nadine Shaban | It wasn’t too long ago that I was sitting in my advisors office and he was giving me a lecture about some sort of life event. His lectures about life still resonate with me after all this time. I remember one particular story about [...]
|By Big Jeff Pearce| If you think that the UFC is the only game in town, you’re wrong; the Score Fighting Series throws down this Friday, November 23rd, 2012 in Hamilton, Ontario at the Hamilton Place Theatre. The promotion is looking to sell out Hamilton Place for the third [...]
|By Alex Carnall| Before I dive into what my five best leg exercises let me make a bit of a disclaimer. Understand that this article is written from my own perspective. I work with athletes who need a holistic, more functional (vs. structural) approach to their training. That’s not [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce & Coach G| Dutiful and patriotic Canadian MMA fans have been waiting 18 months for GSP to return to the Octagon and that day is finally coming on Saturday November 17, 2012 in La Belle Province. There are a ton of questions being asked; is GSP [...]
|By Dr. Marco De Ciantis| Weight cutting is a common occurrence in many weight-classed competitive sports, such as boxing, martial arts and wrestling as a means for athletes to make a weight category. Tension, dizziness, headaches, and confusion have been associated with rapid weight loss (RWL) as a direct result [...]
We recently came across this absolutely insane feat of strength the other day. It features Dimitry Klovov, a former world champion weightlifter from Russia, who redefines strong with this 550 lb front squat with a 5 second pause in the bottom position. After taking silver at the Beijing Olympics in [...]
|By Big Jeff Pearce| The UFC has made it clear that they have the intention of expanding throughout the globe and penetrating markets everywhere. November 10th, 2012 in Macau, China at Cotai Arena will be an example of that expansion. UFC Macau (a.k.a. UFC on FUEL 6) will be available [...]
|By Anita Kus-Roberts| I recently joined a new gym. The salesman offered his standard rant about the benefits of personal training and their brand of selectorized weight equipment and why I should buy into their training packages. Tuning out his sales pitch, my glazed over and wandered to a box [...]
|By Alex Carnall| If I could master time travel and talk to the 18 year old version of me about training, I’d probably save myself the trip. Like any other young lifter, I was convinced I held the key to untold success under the bar. I watched others with a [...]
| By Vince Pe | Strong-Athlete proudly profile's Tina Goinarov. One of our industry's hardest working and most dedicated individuals, I had the pleasure of finding out more about Tina and how she got involved to the sport we all love. Regularly helping our industry's most predominant athletes such as Mboya [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| I was farting around on Facebook one day when I saw a status update that had found its way onto my Newsfeed. It was by a woman named Sara-Clare Lajeunesse and this is the update and picture I saw: “Never give up on yourself. [...]
Rising Figure star and Strong-Athlete.com contributor Anita Kus-Roberts gave us a sneak preview of her physique 10 days out from the Ontario Natural Championships in Hamilton. Anita has completely revamped her body and is looking to make a major statement on stage. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NaKYX2Lr0k&feature=share&list=UUhh4cGW0Hds-5dXElDciR2w
Canadian IFBB Pro Contender Jerome Bravo, and his new trainer IFBB Pro Mike Van Wyck train arms as part of their pre-contest prep for the Arnold Classic Amateur show in Madrid Spain. Jerome is more motivated than ever to earn his IFBB Pro Card and honor the great Darren Oliver, [...]
| By Samantha Gladish | Ingredients: 1 medium sized sweet potato 1 egg 4 egg whites 1/3 cup Gluten free all purpose flour (spelt, brown rice or coconut flour would also work) 3 tbsp unsweetened almond milk 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp cinnamon (or [...]
|By: Big Jeff Pearce| SARS Like Virus & Immune Boosters: Recently, I was doing some of what you youngsters affectionately call ‘surfing the internets’ and I happened upon some interesting stuff. One of the first things that I stumbled upon was that there was a small resurgence of a SARS [...]
| Big Jeff vs. PK Mills | Coming off the heels of UFC 153, some serious questions were raised. We saw the fulfilling of some promises and some careers seriously set back. This is a discussion among two Strong-Athlete editors about the implications of last weekend’s fight card. Q: Should Mario [...]
| By Coach JVB | I’m a huge advocate of Lemon Water in the morning! I believe it’s very important to ‘break-the-fast’ properly after a night sleep. Lemon water acts as a natural detox and gets your digestive juices going and ready to break down food. It’s also very alkalizing [...]
| By Big Jeff Pearce | As the week comes to a close and we draw closer to UFC 153, one question is dominating most UFC fan’s thoughts: When are we going to see a fight card that isn’t plagued with injuries? As of right now, the UFC is [...]
|By Big Jeff Pearce| I was sitting on a bench with the plates loaded up, looking around the gym for a spot. It was midday and the gym was practically empty except for a few dudes. The biggest of them all was a stuntman named Rob. I asked him over [...]
|By PK Mills| Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua wanted nothing to do with him. Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson conveniently got injured just before a fight with him. And former UFC light-heavyweight champion “Sugar” Rashad Evans said “no way” when offered the chance to fight him. [...]
|By Vince Pe | Richie Keirouz is one of the rising stars in the OPA. Fresh off competing at the 2012 Ontario Provincial Championships at the Toronto Pro Supershow, Richie is a top 5 finisher in what was the most competitive weight class in that show. With one of [...]
