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Onnit and Marvel Launch Captain America Themed Weight Plates

Shut up and take our money. Marvel and Onnit have teamed up to produce a line of superhero-themed fitness equipment — they bill it as "functional fitness equipment," because obviously — and the first ... Continue Reading

Yuriy Belkin Deadlifts 921 Pounds Weighing Just 223 — and Does It Beltless!

In a year filled with big pulls, this is one of the most ridiculous. Russian powerlifter Yuriy Belkin deadlifted 418 kilos/921 pounds at roughly 223 pounds bodyweight, which easily beats Konstantine ... Continue Reading

Where Should They Hold The CrossFit Games?

In an April letter to the CrossFit community, Games GM Justin Bergh opened up about a potential move away from the StubHub center in Carson, California, maybe as early as next season (2017). The CrossFit ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting’s Pioneers Used Techniques You’ll Never See Today

Weightlifting has come a long way since its Olympic debut in 1896. A quick scroll on Instagram will show athletes from around the world trying to perfect just two movements, the snatch and clean & ... Continue Reading

Sarah Robles On Bombing Out, Staying Focused, and Preparing for Her 2nd Olympics

Over the past four years, few American weightlifters have been surrounded by as many controversial topics as Sarah Robles. Following a 7th place finish at the 2012 London Olympics in the +75kg category, ... Continue Reading

Behdad Salimi Returns to Competition, Goes 205/225 at Fajr Cup

There's been speculation around the weightlifting world whether 2012 Olympic Champion Behdad Salimi could return from knee surgery in time for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Salimi — who injured his knee on a ... Continue Reading

CJ Cummings Just Wants to Break Records and Take A Nap

Just a few days after 2016 Weightlifting Nationals, Mike Graber and I got 15 year old weightlifting phenom CJ Cummings on the phone and chatted about his life, his goals, and training. Just to note ... Continue Reading

Win a Pair of Custom Nike Romaleos from BarBend and StrengthToSpare!

BarBend and artist Josh Peters (@strengthtospare) are teaming up to give away a pair of customized Nike Romaleos to one lucky winner. And anyone age 18 and up can enter to win — for free! Entering to win ... Continue Reading

Mohamed Ihab

Mohamed Ihab Takes Weightlifting to a Whole New Level

Mohamed Ihab Youssef is certainly a weightlifter to watch closely heading into the Rio Olympics. The 25 year old Egyptian lifter placed second in the 69kg category at the 2014 World Weightlifting ... Continue Reading

BarBend and RVA Open Announce Media Partnership

BarBend and the RVA Open — one of the nation's premiere weightlifting competitions — are pleased to announce a new partnership that will bring top-level weightlifting to more fans than ever. And on July ... Continue Reading

Kianoush Rostami Sets New World Record in Clean & Jerk, Total

The oldest World Record in international weightlifting (among senior competitors) has finally fallen. At the Fajr Cup IWF Grand Prix in Iran, 85kg lifter Kianoush Rostami clean & jerked 220 kilograms — ... Continue Reading

Mark Wood Deadlifts 792 Pounds for a Double (with a Hook Grip)

Mark Wood is relatively new in powerlifting circles, but he's making waves on Instagram with a series of ridiculous training lifts while hovering around (or under) 190 lbs. The most recent entry in his ... Continue Reading

5 Olympic Weightlifting Champions Test Positive from London & Beijing

Update: The IWF has released a statement regarding the positive tests from London and Beijing, reiterating that there were 20 total (10 from each iteration of the Games) and that these included some ... Continue Reading

After 255kg Clean & Jerk, Ruslan Albegov Looks Strong for Rio Superheavies

International weightlifting's superheavyweight category has been packed with news the last couple years, from Behdad Salimi's knee injury to Aleksey Lovchev's clean & jerk World Record (and subsequent ... Continue Reading

High Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Event 7 During 2016 CrossFit Regionals

If you're looking for evidence that CrossFit HQ and Dave Castro are programing with drama and entertainment in mind, look no further than individual Event 7 from the 2016 CrossFit Regionals. Since ... Continue Reading

Anthropology 101: A Cultural Anthropologist Walks into a Gym

Editors note: Katie Hejtmanek, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist conducting research on the culture of strength sports in the United States. This is the first of an in-depth series introducing ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Regionals Week 3: Experts Predict Top Women (& James Hobart’s Games Picks)

This is it, the last Regional weekend of the season, and our last chance to play our little Regionals speculation game. If you’ve been following along, you may have noticed that some of us are much better ... Continue Reading

Some Guy Just Created an Ultimate Database for WODs

We may be a little bit biased, but there seems to be a higher percentage of awesome people in the fitness community than in everyday life. Someone is always coming out with some new piece of equipment or ... Continue Reading

Strike Movement Chill Pill 2 Review: A New Athletic Standard?

Attention around movement has been growing as more people become interested in understanding the human body, health, performance, and physical expression. Many influencers of this culture — like Ido ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Bans Laura Phelps-Sweatt, Disqualifies Westside Conjugate from Competition

In a post published on the Games website, CrossFit has announced that Laura Phelps-Sweatt is banned from sanctioned competition for one year. Her team — Westside Conjugate, which was scheduled to ... Continue Reading

How to Watch the 2016 Russian Weightlifting Championships

If you want to watch one of the world's top weightlifting federations hold a stacked national championships, you're in luck: The Russian Weightlifting Championships are streaming for free on YouTube. The ... Continue Reading

Report: Nadezhda Evstyukhina Tests Positive from Beijing Olympics, Banned from Rio

On May 17th, news broke that several Russian weightlifters — including reigning World Champion and clean & jerk World Record holder Aleksey Lovchev — had received competition bans between four and ... Continue Reading

3 Practical Tips for Busy Weightlifters

Odds are that most of you reading this article have a job, career, family, or other responsibilities that interfere with training. Weightlifting is a very demanding sport, and mixing it together with other ... Continue Reading

Kianoush Rostami Breaks 85kg Clean & Jerk Record in Training

Iran's Kianoush Rostami has won two World Championships as an 85kg lifter, and he finished second at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston (oh, and we won Bronze at the 2012 London Olympics ... Continue Reading

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