2015: That was the last time 55-year-old Jody Clements qualified to the CrossFit Games. He placed 18th in the men’s 50-54-year-old division. The following year, he had one bad event in the qualifier ... Continue Reading
Amazon Is Releasing Their Own Fitness Tracker
Amazon! They’re the biggest online retailer in the world (take that, Alibaba) and the third most valuable publicly traded company after Apple and Microsoft. They can make anything they want! They could ... Continue Reading
Kristine Best: First-Time CrossFit Games Competitor Talks Breaking Through and Training for the Unknown
Kristine Best’s quest to qualify for the CrossFit Games started in 2014 when she placed 21st at the North East Regional competition. Every year since then, she has contended, but has never quite broken ... Continue Reading
Multi-Time Paralympian Ali Jawad Talks Training and Anti-Doping Efforts in Paralympic Powerlifting
Ali Jawad set his sights on the Paralympic Games when he was just a young boy growing up in the UK. “When I was 6, I watched (sprinter) Michael Johnson win his double gold medals in Atlanta. I didn’t ... Continue Reading
4 Members of CrossFit’s Athlete Advisory Council Announced
Earlier today, CrossFitHQ announced that four members of the CrossFit Athlete Advisory Council (CAAC) first alluded to last week during the first CrossFit community town hall with new owner and CEO ... Continue Reading
Rob Kearney Crushes 8,000 Calorie Ice Cream Challenge
We have seen many a strongman eat an absurdly large number of calories in a day. Whether it be a routine day of eating as part of their training regimen, a cheat meal, or a literal challenge of gluttony, ... Continue Reading
Jonathan Cayco Bench Presses 38.6lb Over World Record at -93kg
At the 2019 USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Raw Nationals, Jonathan Cayco became the champion of the -93kg weight class with an 868.5kg/1,914.7lb total — an American record, an unofficial world record, and ... Continue Reading
Vilma Olsson Squats 14lb Over IPF World Record at 21 Years Old
At just 21-year-old, Vilma Olsson of Sweden has already made a name for herself in competitive powerlifting in the -72kg weight class. She made her debut with a win at the 2017 at the Svenska Styrkelyft ... Continue Reading
How CrossFit Athlete Games Athlete Jacob Heppner Recovers
While the CrossFit Games are altering their form this year, 4x Games athlete Jacob Heppner is staying on schedule this offseason. In a recent video shared on his YouTube channel, Heppner lets viewers in on ... Continue Reading
CrossFit Games Athlete Mike Fournier Dies Fighting California Wildfires
Mike Fournier began competing in CrossFit in 2012. He competed at the 2013 CrossFit Games in the 45-49 Masters division where he scaled the podium with a third place finish. On August 19th, while piloting ... Continue Reading
No On-Site Fans Allowed At the 2020 SBD World’s Strongest Man
A spokesperson for the 2020 SBD World’s Strongest Man competition revealed there will be no on-site spectators for the November championship event due to concerns surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ... Continue Reading
John Haack Bench Presses Nearly 30lb Over Current World Record
At the United States Powerlifting (USPA) The Tribute event on August 3rd, 2019, John Haack bench pressed 232.5kg/512.5lb at a bodyweight of 181.6lb on his way to setting an all-time world record ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Mary Theisen-Lappen Hits Unbelievable 182kg/400lb Block Jerk
If you have never heard of Mary Theisen-Lappen, then prepare to be introduced to a major potential player in the women's 87+kg weight class in the near future. Yesterday, the former track and field athlete ... Continue Reading
Martins Licis Adds Zombie Squats to His World’s Strongest Man Plan
The 2019 World’s Strongest Man winner Martins Licis is now in full prep mode to defend his title. He also has been going through rehabilitation to recover from a variety of injuries. Those injuries ... Continue Reading
2021 CrossFit Open Rescheduled to February
The athletes and supporters of CrossFit have seen their sport go through a summer of turbulence. A global pandemic, controversies that resulted in a change in ownership, and numerous events on their ... Continue Reading
The Fourth Generation Iron Movie Is Now Available to Stream
"Everybody's on steroids. Everybody." It's kind of the elephant in the room when it comes to professional sports and bodybuilding. It's more or less common knowledge that, well, there are untested ... Continue Reading
Charlie Yeng Deadlifts Unofficial World Record 275.5kg/607lbs
At just 22 years old, Charlie Yeng has already risen to the highest tier of competition in the -59kg weight class, where he has spent his entire 4 year career thus far. He has competed in eleven sanctioned ... Continue Reading
Check Out Mattie Rogers Hit a Huge 110kg/242.5lb Snatch
Over the weekend, Team USA member Mattie Rogers competed at Camargo Oly Concepts' The Praelium — a local meet in Altamonte Springs, Florida. At the event, she went 5 for 6 including a successful ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw Announces His Own Strongman Competition’s Epic Lineup
4-Time World’s Strongest Man Brian Shaw took to his YouTube page on Thursday to announce a name, date, and lineup for the strongman contest he’s holding at his home gym in Colorado. Name: The Shaw ... Continue Reading
Strongman Robert Oberst Crushes 12,000 Calorie Cheat Meal
It is no secret that strongmen diets are very calorically dense. From 2018 World's Strongest Man (WSM) champion Hafthor Bjornsson's 10,000 calorie vertical diet to 4-time WSM champion Brian ... Continue Reading
USAPL Announces Hometown Showdown, Over $30k In Prizes
USA Powerlifting recently announced the launch of the 2020 USA Powerlifting Hometown Showdown, a national powerlifting competition that will be administered on a local level. USAPL cancelled all Youth, ... Continue Reading
How CrossFit Games Masters Athlete Jarka Giangiulio Got Her First Muscle-Up At 60
While many women wind down in their 60s, presuming their best athletic days are over, Jarka Giangiulio is proof this doesn’t need to be the case. “I just got my first ring muscle-up last February, just ... Continue Reading
Watch Sebastian Oreb Squat a Titanic 400kg/882lb
Sebastian Oreb of Australia is a powerlifter and strength coach whose most well known client is likely 2018 World's Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson. Before Bjornsson announced his official retirement from ... Continue Reading
Rauno Heinla Deadlifts Unofficial World Record 400kg/882lb For 6 Reps
Strongman Rauno Heinla of Estonia recently went head-to-head in a deadlift showdown against the United States' Jerry Pritchett for World's Ultimate Strongman's (WUS) "Feats of Strength" series. Each ... Continue Reading