For the next eleven weeks, World's Strongest Man (WSM) will air a competition show on Snapchat called "World's Strongest Man: Home Edition." Episodes will take place every Monday and consist of eight well ... Continue Reading
IPF Will Not Recognize World Records From The 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
The International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) shared a letter that was sent to USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Executive Director Priscilla Ribic with regard to consideration of world records secured in ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall Accepts Hafthor Bjornsson’s Fight Challenge
In the interview following Hafthor Bjornsson’s world record deadlift of 501 kg, the 2018 World’s Strongest Man issued a challenge to 2017 champion (and fellow 500 kg deadlift club member) Eddie Hall for a ... Continue Reading
BREAKING: Hafthor Bjornsson Just Performed The Heaviest Deadlift Ever
He did it. Hafthor Bjornsson successfully pulled the heaviest deadlift ever — 501kg/1,104lb. The historic lift was televised throughout the United States by ESPN and the rest of the globe via ... Continue Reading
CJ Cummings Just Did a 3.5x Bodyweight Front Squat In His Driveway
CJ Cummings is a 4-time junior world weightlifting champion — he won them consecutively in 2016, 2017, 2018 in the -69kg weight class, and 2019 in the -73kg weight class where he currently competes. The ... Continue Reading
There Will Not Be Age Group Competition at the 2020 CrossFit Games
It was announced on Thursday, April 30th that the 2020 CrossFit season for age group athletes has come to a close earlier than expected: the "Online Qualifier marks the end of the 2020 season for age group ... Continue Reading
Chris Spealler: What Happens Next for CrossFit, Fitness, and Gyms?
Chris Spealler is a legend in the sport of CrossFit, having multiple podium finishes at the CrossFit Games. Now largely retired from competition, he's focused on building his coaching business and ... Continue Reading
Keith Correa Deadlifts Over Four Times His Bodyweight
Keith Correa bounces back and forth between the -67.5kg and -75kg weight classes and even spent his most recent competition — the World Raw Powerlifting Federation (WRPF) 2019 Apeman Elite Open, where he ... Continue Reading
Mattie Rogers Talks Quarantine, Recovery, And Q&A From Her Ice Bath
Member of Team USA Weightlifting and two-time World Weightlifting Championships silver medalist Mattie Rogers has been posting much more regularly to her YouTube channel since lockdown started, and in her ... Continue Reading
How To Watch Hafthor Bjornsson’s 501kg Deadlift Attempt
Hype surrounding the 2018 World's Strongest Man (WSM) champion and 3-time Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) champion Hafthor Bjornsson 501kg/1,104lb deadlift attempt continues to build as the internet debates ... Continue Reading
Arnold Sports Festival Announces New Dates for Two 2020 Contests
It’s hard for many people to believe that it’s already been almost two months since the shocking announcement was made by the Arnold Sports Festival that the 2020 Arnold Expo was cancelled and that ... Continue Reading
Kristof De Coninck Deadlifts 18kg Over His Competition Best — Without a Belt
Kristof De Coninck is an accomplished powerlifter from Belgium who competes in deadlift-only events in the -125kg weight class. The 34-year-old made his competitive debut at the Global Powerlifting ... Continue Reading
Check Out Noémie Allabert (-52kg) Squat a 155kg/342lb PR
Noémie Allabert is a powerlifter from France who, like her fellow countrymen, has been putting up extremely heavy lifts recently. Since she entered the competitive powerlifting scene in 2017 at the age of ... Continue Reading
Amanda Lawrence Squats a Gigantic 255kg/562lb
At only 22 years of age, Amanda Lawrence has already ascended to the highest level of competition on the world stage. In 2019 alone while competing in the -84kg weight class, she took gold at the USA ... Continue Reading
Rostislav Petkov Deadlifts 350kg/770lb at 79kg Bodyweight
It is not often a powerlifting world record holder asks his followers on social media if they would like to see a change in weight class that offers new world records to chase, but that is exactly what ... Continue Reading
Study: Low Vs High Training Frequency for Strength and Mass
In the day and age of more, more, more, frequency is often a training variable that is taken to the extremes, but does it need to be? A better question to answer is, "how much does frequency really ... Continue Reading
Check Out Caroline Suné Deadlift An Epic 185kg/407lb PR
French powerlifters have been consistently pumping out head spinning PRs lately. Recently Yanis Bouchou deadlifted an unofficial junior world record of 332.5kg/733lb and Prescillia ... Continue Reading
Watch Julio Mayora (-73kg) Hit a 165kg/364lb Snatch
Julio Mayora of Venezuela competes in the -73kg weight class and in a recent training session, he got very close to tying China's Shi Zhiyong's world record snatch. The 23-year-old Mayora started his ... Continue Reading
USA Powerlifting To Forego Qualifying Totals For 2020 Nationals
According to an announcement by USA Powerlifting (USAPL) on April 21st, Open, Youth, Bench and Raw athletes will no longer be required to secure a qualifying total in order to register for 2020 ... Continue Reading
IWF To Move Operations From Hungary To Switzerland
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be relocating their offices from Budapest, Hungary to Lausanne, Switzerland. Editor's note: This article has been amended to clarify that ... Continue Reading
Julius Maddox 800lb Bench Press World Record Attempt Date Announced
If there is any athlete on the planet capable of being the first person to ever bench press 363kg/800lb raw, it is Julius Maddox. World's Ultimate Strongman (WUS) announced on Thursday, April 23rd that ... Continue Reading
CrossFit WOD Named After Canadian Mounty Murdered in Nova Scotia Shooting
Canada has experienced the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. On Sunday April 19th, 2020, a mass shooting took place in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia where, according ... Continue Reading
Check Out USATF Shot Putter Joe Kovacs Squat 320kg/705lb For 10
Joe Kovacs is a member of USA Track and Field (USATF) and competes in the shot put. His professional career began in 2012 and his competitive resume since has been exceptional — a silver medal at the 2016 ... Continue Reading
Rich Yun Cruises To A New Paused Deadlift Rep PR
Rich Yun, also known as "The Korean Hulk", shared a post on his Instagram page of a video that showed him flying through a paused deadlift set with 265kg/585lb on the bar for six. The 23-year-old Yun ... Continue Reading