In the long awaited follow-up to last week’s McLaren Report, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that due to the urgency of the matter, Russian athletes will be allowed to compete ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Torokhtiy Hits 255kg Power Jerk in CrossFit Games Vendor Village
Call him a perfectionist, because 245kg was simple not enough. Just a couple weeks after hitting well over 500 pounds on the power jerk in training, 2012 Olympic gold medalist (105kg) Aleksey ... Continue Reading
The Last Pair of Grips You’ll Ever Try: Victory Grips Review
Generally, I really hate grips. I want to love them because my dainty little hands rip all the time (which is why I was particularly excited to try Victory Grips.) Despite all the callus shavers ... Continue Reading
Olympic Weightlifting Entry List Released, But Who Will Win in Rio?
This morning the IWF released the preliminary start list for Weightlifting at the 2016 Olympic Games. As is customary for international competitions, I say preliminary simply because something always ... Continue Reading
Sinclair Coefficient – Formula and What It Means
For a sport that seems like it should be super simple, weightlifting sure has made itself pretty complicated. In theory, weightlifting is nothing more than lifting as much weight as you can in both the ... Continue Reading
World Anti-Doping Agency Wants Russian Athletes (Including Lifters) Banned from Rio
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has already moved to ban Russia's weightlifters from international competition, a sanction many assumed would take effect following the 2016 Rio Olympic ... Continue Reading
Olympic Legend Pyrros Dimas to Join USA Weightlifting As Technical Director
In a new announcement from USA Weightlifting, it's been confirmed that three-time Olympic gold medalist (and one-time Olympic bronze medalist) Pyrros Dimas will be joining the organization as ... Continue Reading
Sam Briggs Solves Visa Issues, Will Compete at the 2016 CrossFit Games
The 2013 CrossFit Games Winner will not be forgotten in 2016. Sam Briggs has arrived. After reaching out to the CrossFit community via her Instagram for some help with ongoing visa issues, Briggs ... Continue Reading
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The Big Man with the Bigger Spirit: Powerlifter Anthony Clark
We don’t know what you were doing when you were 16 years old, but Anthony Clark was bench pressing 600 pounds. Six years later, in 1992, he benched pressed 700lbs. One year after that, he broke his own ... Continue Reading
Aleksey Lovchev’s Suspension Appeal Denied, Responds with 215kg Snatch
After setting a new world record clean & jerk at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, Russian superheavyweight Aleksey Lovchev was suspended for a positive doping test. Lovchev ... Continue Reading
Why Weightlifting Is Good for Kids (and Why It Won’t Stunt Their Growth)
Stereotypes have a way of creeping into many different areas of sport. It's seems that grade school never ends, because jealousy and the need to degrade one sport in order to lift up another comes through ... Continue Reading
Kazakhstan Announces Rio Olympic Weightlifting Team
Doping retests have dramatically altered the weightlifting field heading into Rio, and with several Olympic champions testing positive from Beijing and London retests, Kazakhstan was among the nations most ... Continue Reading
Adidas’ Leistung Lifting Shoe Is 30% Off Until Midnight on Amazon
It's only available in Men's sizes, and the offer expires at midnight (of July 12th). But if you act now, you can get a pair of Adidas' Leistung weightlifting shoes for 30% off through Amazon as a Prime ... Continue Reading
The 6 Most Creative and Ridiculous Pool Exercises We’ve Ever Seen
Summer is here, and that means ample opportunities to get fit by the pool. Swimming laps may be the go to exercise to get in your cardio, but they're just so....boring. Also, laps require a decent sized ... Continue Reading
Watch the RVA Open & Invitational, Live Streaming for FREE July 16-17th
Now in its 5th year, the RVA Open has become one of the nation's top weightlifting competitions. And this year, you can watch the entire thing LIVE — and for FREE — through our new partnership with the ... Continue Reading
BREAKING: Eddie Hall Makes History, Becomes First Man to Deadlift 500kg
We thought it couldn't be done, Brian Shaw thought it couldn't be done, but now, Englishman Eddie Hall has proved us all wrong by becoming the first man to deadlift 500kg (1,102.3 pounds). Lifting ... Continue Reading
Kendrick Farris Goes Vegan in Prep for Rio Olympics
Louisiana outlet KTBS recently put up a short profile on three-time Olympian Kendrick Farris. While Farris' accomplishments are impressive — he competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and will be ... Continue Reading
Raw vs Equipped Powerlifting
Let’s get one thing out of the way, right away: This article is not a debate over Raw vs. Equipped powerlifting. We’re not taking sides, and we don’t think one is better than the other. Lift in the nude or ... Continue Reading
Mart Seim Puts the Instagram Fitness World to Shame, Does 260kg Walk & Front Squat
Mart Seim — the Estonian superheavyweight lifter with crazy hops and a 400kg back squat — put a new twist on a popular Instagram fitness trope. In the video, Seim front rack-walks and then pause squats ... Continue Reading
Two More Beijing Weightlifting Medalists Suspended After Retests
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has announced three additional weightlifting competitors at the 2008 Beijing Olympics — including one silver medalist and one bronze medalist — have tested ... Continue Reading
How to Plan Group Training for Strongman (and Why It’s Important for Your Progress)
While not a team sport, every strongman benefits greatly from a group training day. Weekday training is often done under the supervision of a coach or with a committed training partner and Sundays are ... Continue Reading
Watch the Barbell Complex that Inspired a Thousand Klokov Imitators
It's been more than four years since Dmitry Klokov unleashed this beast of a barbell complex on the world, and it's still showing up in gym workouts and on the Instagram accounts of aspiring lifters ... Continue Reading
The 1977 World’s Strongest Man Is the Greatest Thing Since Sliced SPAM
When things are decidedly a little FUBAR in my life, like when there's 25 days before I blindly travel around the world for a year with a bunch of strangers and yet I still haven't packed, I find that the ... Continue Reading