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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Building Forearms: Arm Wrestling vs. Manual Labor
The forearm muscles grow indirectly from back training, but many struggle to target them beyond that. Is that due to improper exercise selection? Probably. Internet personality, powerlifter, and amateur bodybuilder Jujimufu teamed up with professional arm wrestler Michael Todd to critique popular forearm exercises and offer modifications. They ranked forearm exercises on a tier list — S-tier…
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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2025 World’s Strongest Man Flintstone Press Max Results
The 2025 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Finals begins its final day of competition with the Flintstone Press Max, not seen since the 2022 contest when 2020 WSM champion Oleksii Novikov set a WSM record of 246 kilograms. Rayno Nel held a seven-point lead atop the overall leaderboard over Mitchell Hooper and a nine-point lead over…
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Exclusive: Lucas Hatton to Guest Lift in the Flintstone Max Press
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Hercules Hold Results
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2025 World’s Strongest Man 18” Max Deadlift Results
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2025 World’s Strongest Man KNAACK Carry & Hoist Results
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Finals Roster
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2025 World’s Strongest Man Stone Medley Results
