Latest Strongman News
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Mitchell Hooper Ranks the Best Exercises to Test Your Strength
If you had to trust one person to rank the best exercises to test your strength, there’s no one more qualified than the reigning Strongest Man on Earth. In addition to being an elite performer, Mitchell Hooper is a well-educated athlete with a kinesiology degree and plenty of practical experience pushing, pulling, and moving ridiculously…
Top Strongmen
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How Sam Belliveau Trained Her Back For the 2024 Rogue Strongwoman Invitational
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Bodybuilder Phil Heath and Strongman Brian Shaw Inducted Into International Sports Hall of Fame
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Strongman Robert Oberst Returns After Extended Absence, Shares Training Plan & Diet
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Former World’s Strongest Man Geoff Capes Passed Away at Age 75
Strongman Guides
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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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How Sam Belliveau Trained Her Back For the 2024 Rogue Strongwoman Invitational
At the 2024 Rogue Strongwoman Invitational, Sam Belliveau, four-time Canada’s Strongest Women (2021-24) and world record holder for the circus dumbbell clean and press (185 pounds at the 2024 Arnold Strongwoman Classic), ranked eighth overall in the contest’s debut in Aberdeen, Scotland. She scored a win in the fifth of six events. To achieve that standout event performance,…
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Brian Shaw Has a New Arm Wrestling Diet
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2024 Strongman Champions League World Finals Results
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Mitchell Hooper Wins 2024 Rogue Strongman Invitational
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Inez Carrasquillo Wins 2024 Rogue Strongwoman Invitational
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2024 Rogue Strongman Invitational Event 6 Results
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2024 Rogue Strongwoman Invitational Event 6 Results
