Latest Strongman News
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Use Pause Squats to Evolve Your Training
2018 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Hafþór Björnsson’s coach, Sebastian Oreb, recently talked about a game-changing movement in his strength training journey: pause squats. This came in the midst of Oreb shifting from chasing heavy back squat numbers to improving his deadlifts. The Case for Pause Squats Oreb said that pause squats “are a great stimulus, but force…
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Mitchell Hooper Explains How To Adjust Training Frequency
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Graham Hicks Withdraws From 2025 Britain’s Strongest Man Contest
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Strongman Legend Bill Kazmaier Provides Health Update, GoFundMe Established to Pay for Medical Expenses
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2025 Shaw Classic Schedule and Strongest Man On Earth Competitor Invites Revealed
Strongman Guides
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Getting a Grip on Deadlift Strength Standards, With Insight From a Competitive Weightlifter
We love the deadlift, and you should, too. Pulling weight from the floor strengthens your posterior chain (hips, glutes, hamstrings, and back), increases bone density, and reinforces one of the most fundamental movement patterns we engage in daily — the hip hinge. (1) Get your mitts around one of the best barbells and read on…
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How Often to Train Strongman Events
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How to Fix Your Weakest Strongman Movements
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How Strongman Jerry Pritchett Trains the Log Press
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Strongman Training Over 40 Years Old
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Three Hour Strongman: How to Stay Strong and Competitive on Limited Training Time
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How to Increase Your Strongman Game Without Lifting a Single Weight
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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Graham Hicks Withdraws From 2025 Britain’s Strongest Man Contest
British strongman Graham Hicks has announced he will not compete in the 2025 Giants Live Britain’s Strongest Man contest. Hicks withdrew from the contest, set for Feb. 1, 2025, at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England, due to a bicep injury he suffered in training. “I sustained a biceps tear when my deadlift strap snapped, and unfortunately,…
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Strongman Legend Bill Kazmaier Provides Health Update, GoFundMe Established to Pay for Medical Expenses
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2025 Shaw Classic Schedule and Strongest Man On Earth Competitor Invites Revealed
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2024 Clash of the Titans Strongman Results
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Rogue Fitness Offers $101K Bounty To Any Strongman Who Elephant Bar Deadlifts 501 Kilograms or More at 2025 Arnold Strongman Classic
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Get To Know Tom Stoltman’s New Coach, Aaron Caseley
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The Top 5 Exercises To Build Strength AND Hypertrophy
