Straight to the Bar

All Things Strength

HELPING YOU GET STRONGER SINCE 2004

Welcome to Straight to the Bar

If you’ve just joined us, welcome. Here you’ll find everything that grunts, groans and ticks in the world of strength training. In short, this site is the home of all things strength.

Incidentally, this site’s been helping people become fitter, healthier and stronger since January 2004. If you’ve just joined us, I highly recommend subscribing to the weekly Strength & Fitness Newsletter (part of the Strength Kit), which contains details of new posts on the site, freshly-minted video demonstrations & tutorials, details of upcoming Gymchats and a whole lot more.

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To help get you started, here are a few of our most recent posts. And if you want to dive in to a particular area. check out the ‘Start Here‘ page above. Enjoy.

CYBERSIGHT (Sports Glasses with Real-Time Display)

by Scott Bird | Jun 4, 2025 | video

The CYBERSIGHT Glasses are exactly what you’d expect from AR glasses for hiking/running/cycling – a stack of information overlaid on the world you see.

Perfect.

This Machine Made Me Younger (Insane Results) (Bryan Johnson – @bryan_johnson)

by Scott Bird | Jun 3, 2025 | Health, Research studies & clinical trials, video

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – fascinating area.

Looking At : Jun 1 2025

by Scott Bird | Jun 1, 2025 | Aging & Longevity, Research studies & clinical trials, Weekly summary

This Week On Straight To The Bar…

Fitness Reading/Listening For The Week : ‘Aging Brilliantly: How to Eat, Move, Rest, and Socialize Your Way to Long Life’ (by Dr Patricia Pimentel Selassie)

by Scott Bird | May 29, 2025 | Reading

Dr Patricia Pimentel Selassie’s ‘Aging Brilliantly: How to Eat, Move, Rest, and Socialize Your Way to Long Life‘ explores a fascinating area – the many health & fitness lessons from the ‘Blue Zones’, and how to integrate them into your own life.

Enjoy.