Latest Strongman News
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World’s Strongest Man Makes Significant Changes
Last week, 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) champion Mitchell Hooper voiced several concerns about the competition, including: Hooper’s candid remarks sparked a range of positive and negative reactions. The following day, he released a video announcing a fundraiser to support the families and friends of competitors traveling to Sacramento, CA, for the WSM, scheduled for May 15-18, 2025. The effort has…
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How to Do the Log Press for Massive Overhead Strength and Power
When you want to build head-to-toe strength — and you want to look awesome doing it — there are few lifts that can compete with the hardcore nature of the log press. The unstable, unwieldy log bar will have your entire body working in overdrive to clean it off the ground, up your belly and…
Strongman Basics
What Is Strongman?
Strongman is a weight-classed strength sport. In competitive strongman and strongwoman, an athlete’s success is based on their ability to conquer a multitude of events. Unlike the other strength sports, strongman/strongwoman athletes have to incredibly rounded in every aspect, as opposed to only training a few lifts. Check out a few of the more well-known events below.
- Log Press
- Atlas Stones
- Weighted Carries
- Squats
- Truck Pulls
- Deadlift
These are only a few of the events you could see at any given strongman contest. To be successful in strongman and strongwoman, you have to be adaptive and excel in pull, carry, press, and squat focused events.
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Mitchell Hooper Will Attempt All-Time World Record at 2025 World Deadlift Championships
The 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM), 2024 Strongest Man on Earth (SMoE), 2024 Rogue Strongman Invitational (RSI) champion, and three-time reigning Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) champion, Mitchell Hooper, has set the date: on Sept. 6, he will attempt to deadlift an all-time world record of 505 kilograms at the 2025 World Deadlift Championships (WDC) in…
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Events and Roster
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2025 Siberian Power Show Strongman Results
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Building Forearms: Arm Wrestling vs. Manual Labor
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Mitchell Hooper Reveals His Peptide Stack
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Mitchell Hooper Airs World’s Strongest Man Grievances
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A Step-by-Step Bench Press Guide From One of Strongman’s Top Coaches
