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
The Mat Fraser Show Has Begun
Days after the final weekend of the 2016 CrossFit Regionals, we’re already looking ahead to the Games. The internet is abuzz with Games predictions, and like last year, Mat Fraser tops ... 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
“How Much Do You Think Baby Jesus Could Squat?” (Bonus Commentary from Chandler Smith)
The 2016 CrossFit Regionals season is over, and while we're sad to see it go, we're not going to miss the ridiculous commentary in the YouTube live chat. It's baffling to us that the same people, ... 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
These CrossFitters’ Dogs Steal the Spotlight from Their Famous Owners
CrossFit Regionals season is great, but it’s just so...much...fitness. Midway through the last weekend, I’m exhausted from watching all the fitness and looking forward to an AMRAP nap with a dog, ... Continue Reading
Attention Strongmen: (Split) Jerks Needed!
While weightlifting calls for highly specialized athletes who have narrowed their focus to just two lifts, a Strongman must be a jack of all trades, capable of a multitude of ever changing tasks. This ... 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
Trading Money for Abs: My Journey from Corporate Banker to CrossFit Trainer
Four o'clock in the morning is an interesting time. For some, it signals the end of an epic if not precarious night. For others, it marks the beginning of a long and grueling day. Six years ago, I was ... 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
Developing Pre-Weightlifters: How to Build a Foundation
What sports give us the biggest advantage for weightlifting? From 2010 to 2011 I was the coach of Innercity Weightlifting (ICW) in Boston. Our group’s mission was to help at-risk youth get away from ... 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
Zeke Grove Is Australia’s Next CrossFit Games Star
The 2016 CrossFit Regionals have included plenty of surprises, including sure-thing veterans missing out on qualification and fresh faces proving more than capable enough to take their spots. If you tuned ... 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
Not Qualifying Could Be Great for CrossFit Games Hopeful Chandler Smith
There’s always one breakout star of the CrossFit Regionals, and this year, it's Chandler Smith. Though we still have one weekend to go in this 2016 Regionals season, we doubt we’ll see anyone match ... 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