Two-time America’s Strongest Man Lucas Hatton continues to impress on the elite strongman scene, securing a second-place finish at the 2025 Arnold Classic and a third-place ... Continue Reading
Watch Brian Shaw Use Custom Training Equipment to Fit His Massive Frame
Imagine going through a transformation where you lose 40 pounds but are still too big to fit in traditional fitness equipment or machines. That is life for Brian Shaw. The four-time World’s ... Continue Reading
Top Fuel CrossFit Owner Battles Skin Cancer, Community Raises $35,000, Hopes to Hit $50,000
When Top Fuel CrossFit members found out their coach and leader of their community — gym owner Dustin Shurlow — was battling squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, they acted immediately to do ... Continue Reading
10 Big Takeaways From the 2025 CrossFit Open Women’s Division
With tens of thousands of CrossFit Open registrants — more than 90,000 women this year — it’s always a bit of a challenge to nail down the biggest takeaways from the worldwide leaderboard. Now that ... Continue Reading
Divisions Collide — Keone Pearson Teaches Regan Grimes a Back Exercise He’d Never Done Before
Two-time 212 Olympia champion Keone Pearson had a training partner for a recent back session: Men’s Open pro Regan Grimes. The two bodybuilders gathered for a back training session at Strength Culture gym ... Continue Reading
Mitchell Hooper’s Speech at the University of Texas: “Strength is Not Just Lifting Weights”
Three-time reigning Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) champ, Strongest Man on Earth (SMoE), and 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Mitchell Hooper recently spoke at the University of Texas in Austin. He also ... Continue Reading
Shawn Ray Believes Pro Bodybuilding Lacks Artists
Times have changed in bodybuilding. Some, like champion bodybuilder Shawn Ray, believe the art of the sport is being overshadowed. Architects like Frank Zane and Lee Labrada crafted seamless routines to ... Continue Reading
What the Home Gym of a World Champion Powerlifter Looks Like
Home gyms are popular for their convenience and long-term cost-effectiveness. Some athletes and fitness enthusiasts have built home gyms that rival commercial facilities. UK powerlifter Tony Cliffe, ... Continue Reading
World Fitness Project Seeks ‘Founding Fifty’ for New Affiliate Program
The creation of the World Fitness Project has been driven by a passion to give athletes, everyday gym-goers, and fans a new way to come together as a community, support one another, compete in, and enjoy ... Continue Reading
2025 CrossFit Open Results — Mirjam von Rohr and Colten Mertens Top the Leaderboard From Start to Finish
The battle for the top spot in the 2025 CrossFit Open was a close one on the women’s side, with only one point separating first and second place. The men saw one of the most dominant performances ... Continue Reading
How Astronauts Use Resistance Training to Fight Bone Loss and Muscle Atrophy in Space
Ever wonder how an astronaut stays in shape out in space? It's not as easy as following a clean diet and heading to the intergalactic gym with cosmic weights and hypertrophic sci-fi machines. That's ... Continue Reading
Jeff Nippard Uses Science to Rank the Best Glute Exercises
When deciding which exercises to include in one's programming, getting the best stimulus-to-effort ratio is important. If your goal is developing stronger, juicier glutes, wasting time on less-than-optimal ... Continue Reading
World’s Strongest Men Doing Strong Things: Martins Licis Floor-to-Shoulders Mitchell Hooper
The most powerful athletes on the planet are arguably the behemoth-sized professional strongmen who load 400-plus-pound Atlas Stones, deadlift 1,000 pounds on obscure apparatuses, and pull literal trucks, ... Continue Reading
John Haack Bench Presses 501 Pounds 6 Weeks out From the 2025 Ghost Clash III
John Haack is in the final weeks of his prep for his return to the platform at the 2025 ABS Clash of Titans III event in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Based on the highlights of his prep, ... Continue Reading
World Record Weightlifter Karlos Nasar Trains Like a Bodybuilder
Bodybuilding and Olympic weightlifting are two distinct disciplines, each with unique training methods and goals. Bodybuilding prioritizes aesthetics, focusing on muscle ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Joanna Wietrzyk Win HYROX Pro Doubles in Houston, Break World Record
Seven-time CrossFit Games champion Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and HYROX elite athlete Joanna Wietrzyk put on an impressive show at the HYROX race held in Houston, TX, last weekend. The pair won the Pro ... Continue Reading
Does Ozempic Negatively Affect Muscle Mass?
GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are making headlines, but are they stripping away muscle and fat? That question was recently posed to Dr. Layne Norton, PhD in Nutritional ... Continue Reading
The 2025 CrossFit Games Season Will Have the Smallest Prize Purse Since 2016
The 2025 CrossFit Open has ended — and now, the total prize pool comes into focus. In total, 235,524 athletes registered for this year’s CrossFit Open, based on reporting pulled just after the close of ... Continue Reading
Why Pro Bodybuilder Mike Sommerfeld Takes These 10 Supplements for Recovery
Pro bodybuilding contest preparation can cause extreme physical and mental stress. Classic Physique bodybuilder Mike Sommerfeld detailed the supplement stack that helped him recover from his 2025 Arnold ... Continue Reading
2025 Ireland’s Strongest Woman Results
The 2025 Ireland's Strongest Woman (ISW) contest occurred on March 16, 2025, in Galway, Ireland. A trio of Ireland's elite athletes competed in the Open contest, two in the Masters division, six in the ... Continue Reading
Bodybuilding Coach Hany Rambod Says Urs Kalecinski Needs to Fix These Issues Before the 2025 Olympia
In a recent podcast episode, Olympia-winning coach Hany Rambod reviewed the physique that Urs Kalecinski brought to the 2024 Classic Physique Olympia contest, where he came in third. “[Kalecinski] may ... Continue Reading
“How to Save CrossFit”: Chris Cooper Outlines the Problems and Offers a Solution
Although rumors had circulated for some time, CrossFit LLC confirmed last week that it’s for sale. Beyond the obvious recent controversies, Two-Brain Business founder Chris Cooper — who has mentored ... Continue Reading
2025 Musclecontest Campinas Pro Bikini Division Show Results
Nivea Campos is the 2025 Musclecontest Campina Pro champion. The Bikini division contest was held on Saturday, March 15, in Campinas, Brazil, and it served as a 2025 Olympia qualifying event. Campos ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Open Workout 25.2: I Failed. And Nobody Cared.
Editor’s Note: In this three-part series, Morning Chalk Up Senior Writer Emily Beers documents her journey completing the Open workouts for the first time in eight years. I have always had a major ... Continue Reading