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  • Stefi Cohen Deadlifts 525 Pounds At 123 Pounds Bodyweight
  • Ricky Garard Stripped of CrossFit Games Medal After Banned Substance Test
  • CrossFit Games Athlete Noah Ohlsen Shows Off Fitness Transformation
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  • 2017 CrossFit Games California Regional: Upsets & an Invite Declined
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  • Josh Bridges Pushes a 1,000 Pound Sled!
  • USA Weightlifting President Ursula Garza-Papandrea Elected First Female IWF Vice President
  • Eddie Hall Announces Retirement from World’s Strongest Man; Hafthor Bjornsson Questions Press Score
  • Dan Bailey Withdraws from 2017 CrossFit Games Central Regional
  • CrossFit Games Central Regional Day 1: Griffith & Castillo in First, Sigmundsdottir Sitting in 2nd
  • Pyrros Dimas on the Future of Weightlifting and IWF Elections
  • How Alyssa Ritchey Transitioned from CrossFit Regionals to International Weightlifter
  • CrossFit Games East Region Recap: Fraser & Reason-Thibault Win, Davidsdottir Finishes Second
  • CrossFit Games East Region Day 2: Fraser Still Ahead, and Another Big Name Withdraws
  • CrossFit Games East Region Day 1: Mat Fraser, Carol-Ann Reason-Thibault, and Injuries on the Ring Dips
  • USA Weightlifting Announces Senior Pan American Championships Squad
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  • IWF: Khadzhimurat Akkaev Tests Positive from 2012 Olympic Games
  • Charis Chan Receives Four Year Sanction from Weightlifting for Doping Violation
  • Jezza Uepa Squats 455kg/1,003lbs for a New RAW World Record!
  • 2-Time Olympic Weightlifting Medalist Szymon Kołecki Starts MMA Career
  • Here’s How (and Why) You Can Donate to USA Weightlifting on #GivingTuesday
  • Powerlifter Adrian Larsen Bench Presses Motorcycle With a Passenger on Top
  • Watch One of the Year’s Best Powerlifting Battles (Plus David Ricks’ Amazing Shoes)
  • Jason Khalipa Wins First Jiu Jitsu Competition, Announces Return to CrossFit Games Training
  • Harrison Maurus Wins Three Silver Medals at IWF Youth Weightlifting Championships
  • The Best Looks Yet at the Nike Metcon 3
  • President of Iranian Weightlifting Federation Apologizes for Rio Actions
  • Russian Weightlifter Apti Aukhadov Ordered to Return London Olympic Medal
  • All the Weightlifters Currently Suspended After Olympic Doping Retests
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  • IWF Public Disclosure: Norik Vardanian Tests Positive for Anabolic Agent
  • Canadian Weightlifter Boady Santavy Snatches 158kg in Training, Above National Record
  • U.S. Disctrict Judge: NSCA Published False CrossFit Injury Data; CrossFit Issues Response
  • Weightlifter Anatoli Ciricu Tests Positive from London; 9th Place Moves to Bronze
  • Three CrossFit Games Athletes Sanctioned for Violating Drug-Testing Policy
  • Phoenix Rise Defeat Boston Iron 21-14 in NPGL Finals
  • 4-Time Olympic Medalist, American Weightlifting Legend Norb Schemansky Dies at 92
  • Weightlifter Nathan Damron Squats 300kg (660lbs), Just 2.5kg Off Powerlifting World Record
  • NPGL’s DC Brawlers Suffer First-Ever Loss, Knocked Out of Playoffs by Boston Iron
  • ASICS Releases LIFT MASTER LITE Training Shoe. Would You Try Them for Lifting?
  • USA Weightlifting Releases Qualifying Totals for Anticipated New Weight Class
  • Report: Romania’s Gabriel Sincraian, Rio 85kg Bronze Medalist, Fails Doping Test
  • Jessica Phillips Sanctioned by USADA for Intravenous Infusion of Non-Prohibited Substances
  • Behdad Salimi’s Arbitration Application Denied by CAS
  • IWF: 15 More Lifters Test Positive from Beijing Olympics, Including Gold Medalists
  • IWF Website Hacked After 105+ Session, Warning Issued About Posting Authenticity
  • Report: Iranian Weightlifting to File CAS Application Over Behdad Salimi’s Overturned Lift
  • Izzat Artykov Stripped of Medal in Rio, Luis Mosquera Moves Into Bronze
  • Training During Her Suspension, Boyanka Kostova Is Just Insanely Strong
  • Lasha Talakhadze Wins Gold, Behdad Salimi Bombs Out After World Record Snatch
  • 5 Up and Coming USA Weightlifting Kids To Watch
  • With 5 More Days of Weightlifting in Rio, Here’s What You Need to Know
  • How to Watch the 2016 NPGL Season
  • Dave Castro’s Instagram Post Suggests Jacksonville Will Host 2017 CrossFit Games
  • Report: 94kg Weightlifter Tomasz Zielinski Tests Positive for Doping, Is Out of Rio
  • How To Work Out While Injured with Alethea Boon and Julie Foucher
  • Hsu Shu-Ching Wins Gold in 53kg Class As Li Yajun Fails to Total
  • The NPGL Is Still a Thing, and This Is What’s Going On With It
  • Court of Arbitration for Sports Upholds Ban, Rejects Russian Weightlifting Federation Appeal
  • Is the Fitness Industry About to Go Crazy Over Instagram Stories?
  • IWF Updates Rio Start List, Which Could Shake Up These Weight Classes
  • How (and When) to Watch Team USA’s Weightlifters at the 2016 Rio Olympics
  • IWF: All Russian Weightlifters and Weightlifting Officials Barred from Rio Olympics
  • International Weightlifting Federation Suspends 11 More Lifters After London Retests
  • Rogue to Sell Equipment Used By Your Favorite Athletes From The CrossFit Games
  • Russian Official: Tatiana Kashirina and Anastasia Romanova Out of Rio Olympics
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Cornrowed at the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games
  • Top Male, Female, & Team CrossFit Games Athletes to Receive Glock Pistols
  • Kazakhstan Announces Rio Olympic Weightlifting Team
  • Adidas’ Leistung Lifting Shoe Is 30% Off Until Midnight on Amazon
  • The Triple Unders Are Coming (We Think)
  • Would You Work Out at a “Weed Gym”?
  • Mart Seim Puts the Instagram Fitness World to Shame, Does 260kg Walk & Front Squat
  • Two More Beijing Weightlifting Medalists Suspended After Retests
  • Watch the Barbell Complex that Inspired a Thousand Klokov Imitators
  • Sohrab Moradi Unofficially Breaks Clean & Jerk World Record (234kg at 94kg Bodyweight)
  • Kenneth Leverich and Thrillist Pull Off “Old Man” Muscle Beach Prank
  • Sara Sigmundsdóttir Does 50 Clean & Jerks at 90 Kilos, Pushes the Envelope of Pain
  • Dmitry Klokov Announces Second Annual “Power Weekend” in Moscow
  • Dave Castro Announces “Murph” Will Begin 2016 CrossFit Games
  • The Glory of the Soviet Union Belonged to Weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev
  • Watch the 2016 Junior World Weightlifting Championships Live!
  • Apparently Choreographed Barbell “Dancing” Is a Thing Now
  • IWF Awards 2018 Junior Worlds to North Korea. Don’t Jump to Conclusions Just Yet
  • IWF Votes on Olympic Reallocation, Redistributes Spots to These Countries
  • IWF Moves to Suspend Three Federations, Keep Suspended Lifters Out of Rio Olympics
  • Every American Olympic Medalist in Weightlifting (Infographic)
  • Inspiring Masters Lifters from Powerlifting Worlds
  • NOBULL Project Announces Throwback Weightlifting Shoe
  • Ilya Ilyin Also Tests Positive from 2008 Olympics, 6 Other Lifters Suspended Following Beijing Retests
  • Did This Russian CrossFitter Break the Record for Pull-ups in One Minute?
  • IOC Vice President: Expect Russian Weightlifting to Receive Sanction
  • Suspended Lifters Respond on Social Media, While Others Claim a Win for Fair Competition
  • Here Are the New London Olympics Weightlifting Results (If Doping Suspensions Are Upheld)
  • US Olympic Committee Discontinues Resident Program for Weightlifting
  • Olympic Weightlifting Championships by Year and Country (Infographic)
  • Vladimir Sedov Takes to Instagram to Call Out Ilya Ilyin, Asks for Rio Consideration
  • Fifty Years Later, Norb Schemansky Is Still the King of American Weightlifting
  • “WEIGHT” Powerlifting Documentary Releasing July 12
  • Weightlifter Vladimir Sedov Goes Full Heel, Turns Kazakh Nationals into the WWE
  • Weightlifting’s Pioneers Used Techniques You’ll Never See Today
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  • BarBend and RVA Open Announce Media Partnership
  • Pyrros Dimas Returns to Weightlifting Platform After 12 Years
  • “How Much Do You Think Baby Jesus Could Squat?” (Bonus Commentary from Chandler Smith)
  • CrossFit Bans Laura Phelps-Sweatt, Disqualifies Westside Conjugate from Competition
  • Can Eddie Hall Become the First Man to Deadlift 500 kg (1,100 pounds)?
  • How to Watch the 2016 Russian Weightlifting Championships
  • Report: Nadezhda Evstyukhina Tests Positive from Beijing Olympics, Banned from Rio
  • Will the IWF Announce an 8th Women’s Weight Class in 2016?
  • Kianoush Rostami Breaks 85kg Clean & Jerk Record in Training
  • Are the Andersons CrossFit’s First Games Dynasty?
  • USA Powerlifting Nationals Results and Winners (and a 1,014 lb Squat)
  • “CrossFit Games Need More Chest Hair” (And Other Week 2 Gems)
  • NPGL’s Phoenix Rise Sign Natalie Newhart for 2016 GRID Season
  • “Dan Bailey Under Investigation for Performance Enhancing Hugs” (And Other Week 1 Gems)
  • NPGL Announces Season 3 Dates, Abbreviated Schedule
  • Did Dmitry Klokov Just Invent the (Harder) Successor to “King Kong”?
  • Are These The First Images of the Nike Metcon 3?
  • When Will We See the Nike Romaleos III?
  • How to Watch the 2016 CrossFit Games Regionals
  • Who’s Competing? The Big Names at This Weekend’s CrossFit Regionals
  • Donna Moore Breaks Women’s Atlas Stone Record with 148.9 Kilo Lift
  • National Strength & Conditioning Association Sues CrossFit, Claiming Defamation
  • Is This the Heaviest Front Squat of All Time?
  • Muscle-Friendly Dress Clothes: Entrepeneurship and Growth with Mizzen+Main’s Kevin Lavelle
  • “School of Champions” Documents Ivan Abadjiev’s 1987 Bulgarian Weightlifting Team
  • Caffeine and Kilos’ Danny Lehr Accepts Doping Sanction, Warns Against Mystery Supps
  • NPGL Eliminates Age 40+ Athlete Requirement
  • Laura Phelps-Sweatt Blows Us Away with 1:07 ‘Isabel’
  • Athletes to Watch on CrossFit Regionals Day 1
  • Strongman World Records Are Insane (Infographic)
  • Caitlin Yuhas on Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Take Up Strongman
  • Powerlifting Weight Classes Across Federations (Infographic)
  • Should Athletes Use GoFundMe for Competitions?
  • Fight the Couch Potato Within: Mid-Week Lifting Motivation
  • Need More Strongman? 3 Arnold Classic Festivals to Come in 2016
  • Olympic Weightlifting Weight Classes Throughout History
  • Meet the Powerlifter Who Formulates Your Supplements
  • EBOOST Founder Josh Taekman Discusses NYC’s Changing Fitness Scene
  • Julie Foucher Accepts Her Individual Invite to Regionals
  • How to Follow the NPGL Draft on April 19th
  • Men’s Records (Unofficially) Fall at Chinese Weightlifting Nationals
  • Strongwoman Donna Moore Makes Light Work of 140 kg Stone
  • Norik Vardanian Clean & Jerks 212 in Training, Looks Strong for Pan Am Trials
  • 2016 European Weightlifting Championships Full Results
  • Is Becca Swanson’s 672 lb Deadlift the Heaviest Ever by a Woman?
  • Leanna Carr Has Powerful Message on Fitness, Periods, and Reproductive Health
  • Could Boyanka Kostova Power Snatch Her Way to Olympic Victory?
  • Andrei Chemerkin Was Crazy, Stupid Strong
  • Princesses Rapunzel and Elsa Deadlift for a Great Cause
  • Dmitry Klokov Is the World’s Favorite Weightlifting Ham
  • Olga Zubova Jerks 180 Kilos, Reminds Us All How It’s Done
  • The 6 Most Creative Warm-Ups To Try At Your Box
  • Didn’t Make It to Regionals? Mid-Week Fitness Motivation for the Rest of Us
  • BarBend Presents: Adams Strong, Episode 1
  • Hafthor Bjornsson Wins Arnold Classic Strongman Brazil
  • Charis Chan Suspended from Competition by CrossFit Games
  • Your Favorite CrossFit Games Athletes Were Once Mere Mortals
  • All The Current Olympic Weightlifting World Records (Infographics)
  • Ilya Ilyin Does Bodyweight Training, So Should You
  • Don’t Miss These Important Powerlifting Dates in 2016
  • Here Are the Must-Know Dates for Olympic Weightlifting in 2016
  • Julie Abilgaard Wins Open Workout 16.4, Is Probably Still Going Team
  • The Ultimate Guide to Weightlifting at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Nutrition

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Nutrition

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Nutrition

  • Wilde Boldr Review: Better Protein, or Same Old Bar?

Op-Ed

  • Opinion: Why the 2017 World’s Strongest Man Controversies Are Overblown

Podcast

  • Strength As An Artform (w/Steven Koontz)
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Powerlifting

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  • Best Booty Shorts
  • Jezza Uepa Squats 455kg/1,003lbs for a New RAW World Record!
  • Powerlifter Adrian Larsen Bench Presses Motorcycle With a Passenger on Top
  • Watch One of the Year’s Best Powerlifting Battles (Plus David Ricks’ Amazing Shoes)
  • BarBend Black Snapbacks Now Available!
  • Weightlifter Nathan Damron Squats 300kg (660lbs), Just 2.5kg Off Powerlifting World Record
  • Is the Fitness Industry About to Go Crazy Over Instagram Stories?
  • Inspiring Masters Lifters from Powerlifting Worlds
  • “WEIGHT” Powerlifting Documentary Releasing July 12
  • Win a Pair of Custom Nike Romaleos from BarBend and StrengthToSpare!
  • CrossFit Bans Laura Phelps-Sweatt, Disqualifies Westside Conjugate from Competition
  • Can Eddie Hall Become the First Man to Deadlift 500 kg (1,100 pounds)?
  • USA Powerlifting Nationals Results and Winners (and a 1,014 lb Squat)
  • Did Dmitry Klokov Just Invent the (Harder) Successor to “King Kong”?
  • Is This the Heaviest Front Squat of All Time?
  • Powerlifting Weight Classes Across Federations (Infographic)
  • Should Athletes Use GoFundMe for Competitions?
  • Fight the Couch Potato Within: Mid-Week Lifting Motivation
  • Meet the Powerlifter Who Formulates Your Supplements
  • Is Becca Swanson’s 672 lb Deadlift the Heaviest Ever by a Woman?
  • Leanna Carr Has Powerful Message on Fitness, Periods, and Reproductive Health
  • Princesses Rapunzel and Elsa Deadlift for a Great Cause
  • Don’t Miss These Important Powerlifting Dates in 2016

Reviews

  • Wilde Boldr Review: Better Protein, or Same Old Bar?

Roundups

  • Best Green Superfood Powders for Athletes

Strongman

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  • Eddie Hall Announces Retirement from World’s Strongest Man; Hafthor Bjornsson Questions Press Score
  • Best Booty Shorts
  • BarBend Black Snapbacks Now Available!
  • Is the Fitness Industry About to Go Crazy Over Instagram Stories?
  • Win a Pair of Custom Nike Romaleos from BarBend and StrengthToSpare!
  • Can Eddie Hall Become the First Man to Deadlift 500 kg (1,100 pounds)?
  • Did Dmitry Klokov Just Invent the (Harder) Successor to “King Kong”?
  • Donna Moore Breaks Women’s Atlas Stone Record with 148.9 Kilo Lift
  • Strongman World Records Are Insane (Infographic)
  • Caitlin Yuhas on Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Take Up Strongman
  • Should Athletes Use GoFundMe for Competitions?
  • Need More Strongman? 3 Arnold Classic Festivals to Come in 2016
  • Strongwoman Donna Moore Makes Light Work of 140 kg Stone
  • Hafthor Bjornsson Wins Arnold Classic Strongman Brazil

Top Athletes

  • Josh Bridges Pushes a 1,000 Pound Sled!
  • CrossFit Games Central Regional Day 1: Griffith & Castillo in First, Sigmundsdottir Sitting in 2nd
  • CrossFit Games East Region Recap: Fraser & Reason-Thibault Win, Davidsdottir Finishes Second
  • CrossFit Games East Region Day 1: Mat Fraser, Carol-Ann Reason-Thibault, and Injuries on the Ring Dips
  • Jason Khalipa Wins First Jiu Jitsu Competition, Announces Return to CrossFit Games Training
  • How To Work Out While Injured with Alethea Boon and Julie Foucher
  • Top Male, Female, & Team CrossFit Games Athletes to Receive Glock Pistols

Training

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  • Kinesiology Taping for Ankle Stability and Sprain
  • 4 Grip Strengthening Exercises Borrowed From Rock Climbers
  • 4 Resistance Band Exercises to Get You Strong Without Using Big Weights
  • The One Question to Ask to Figure Out How to Scale Your WOD
  • 4 Lessons Learned from CrossFit Games Athlete Mistakes
  • Make This One Change to Immediately Improve Your Handstand Walk
  • The 6 Most Creative and Ridiculous Pool Exercises We’ve Ever Seen
  • Humping, Pumping, and Peanuts: Mid-Week Fitness Motivation
  • Being Weak Is Dangerous: Mid-Week Fitness Motivation
  • Building “Go” Muscles: Power Athlete HQ and the F%ck Thigh Gaps Movement

Weightlifting

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  • USA Weightlifting President Ursula Garza-Papandrea Elected First Female IWF Vice President
  • Pyrros Dimas on the Future of Weightlifting and IWF Elections
  • How Alyssa Ritchey Transitioned from CrossFit Regionals to International Weightlifter
  • USA Weightlifting Announces Senior Pan American Championships Squad
  • Best Booty Shorts
  • IWF: Khadzhimurat Akkaev Tests Positive from 2012 Olympic Games
  • Charis Chan Receives Four Year Sanction from Weightlifting for Doping Violation
  • 2-Time Olympic Weightlifting Medalist Szymon Kołecki Starts MMA Career
  • Here’s How (and Why) You Can Donate to USA Weightlifting on #GivingTuesday
  • Harrison Maurus Wins Three Silver Medals at IWF Youth Weightlifting Championships
  • President of Iranian Weightlifting Federation Apologizes for Rio Actions
  • Russian Weightlifter Apti Aukhadov Ordered to Return London Olympic Medal
  • All the Weightlifters Currently Suspended After Olympic Doping Retests
  • BarBend Black Snapbacks Now Available!
  • IWF Public Disclosure: Norik Vardanian Tests Positive for Anabolic Agent
  • Canadian Weightlifter Boady Santavy Snatches 158kg in Training, Above National Record
  • Weightlifter Anatoli Ciricu Tests Positive from London; 9th Place Moves to Bronze
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