It is almost expected that when Jessica Buettner is making waves in the powerlifting world, it is because she just deadlifted some obscenely heavy weight or flawlessly crushed a competition. She ... Continue Reading
Katherine Nye Will No Longer Compete At the Arnold Sports Festival
Team USA weightlifter Katherine Nye has announced her withdrawal from the American Open Series 1, also known as the Arnold Weightlifting Championships. The event is scheduled to take place at the ... Continue Reading
Long-Time IWF President Tamás Aján Resigns IOC Honorary Membership Amid Corruption Investigation
According to a press release shared on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)'s website, longstanding IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján is resigning his International Olympic Committee (IOC) honorary ... Continue Reading
Zeke Grove Announces Withdrawal From Australian CrossFit Championship
Earlier today, 4-time CrossFit Games athlete Zeke Grove announced on his Instagram page that he would not be attending the Australian CrossFit Championship this weekend. The Australian CrossFit ... Continue Reading
Watch Strongman Luke Richardson Axle Bar Deadlift 380kg/838lb For a Triple
Luke Richardson is at it again. The youngest ever athlete to total 1000kg/2,204lb raw has been putting in really impressive work in the gym this past week and showing off a bit with some massive axle bar ... Continue Reading
Interview: World’s Strongest Man Martins Licis on 2020 and Training with Thor
As we close in on the 2020 Arnold Strongman Classic, Martins Licis is approaching the contest in the middle of a long journey that has had its fair share of peaks and valleys. He shocked many people in the ... Continue Reading
BREAKING: There Will Be No Spectators or Expo At 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
With less than 48 hours until it was scheduled to begin — the Olympic weightlifting was set to start at 10am on Thursday, with powerlifting and bodybuilding events starting at noon — the convention ... Continue Reading
The Hype Is Real In Strongman Martins Licis’ “Road to the Arnold” Video
Strength fans, get ready! The Arnold Sports Festival is only two days away and Rogue Fitness is continuing to stagger out their "Road to the Arnold" videos. In Rogue Fitness' latest release on ... Continue Reading
The CrossFit Games Has Undeleted its Facebook Page
Ten months after loudly deleting their account, CrossFit is back on Facebook! In one of the more bizarre entries in CrossFit’s ling list of public beefs — which includes their feuds with Big Soda ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jesus Olivares Annihilates 302.5kg/667lb Squat for 8 Reps
Jesus Olivares is a 21 year old powerlifter who vaulted back into the competitive scene late last December with a huge win at the USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Winter Iron Open in the super heavyweight division ... Continue Reading
Why Is CrossFit Focusing On Senior Citizens?
If you’ve been following CrossFit for a while, there’s a chance you’ve noticed a significant change in the company’s focus in the last year or so. We’re not exactly talking about the changes made to the ... Continue Reading
Paralympian Siamand Rahman Has Passed Away At Age 31
Paralympic powerlifter Siamand Rahman passed away on Sunday March 1st, 2020 in his hometown, Oshnavieh, Iran, after suffering a heart attack. He was 31 years old. Rahman made his powerlifting debut ... Continue Reading
Reports: Arnold Sports Festival to Screen Athletes for Coronavirus
The Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio is expecting an estimated 22,000 athletes and over 200,000 people from over 80 different nations to attend their annual fitness festival, which is scheduled to ... Continue Reading
2020 Arnold Pro Strongwoman Preview
The eyes of the fitness world will be focused on Columbus, Ohio during the first weekend of March for several reasons. Bodybuilding, powerlifting, and strongman are just a few of the strength sports that ... Continue Reading
The 2020 IWF Junior World Championships Have Been Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Two weeks before it was scheduled to take place, the 2020 International Weightlifting Federation Junior World Weightlifting Championships have been cancelled, with the outbreak and global spread of the ... Continue Reading
How to Watch Weightlifting at the 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
The Arnold Sports Festival, also just called “The Arnold,” is arguably the biggest event on the strength sports calendar. The Arnold holds big time competitions for many strength sports, bringing ... Continue Reading
Tempo, A New Home Gym, Is Aiming to Replace Trainers and Coaches
Fitness and tech continue to collide and evolve. Tempo is the latest tech and artificial intelligence (AI) based home gym that plans to disrupt the fitness industry. Standing at roughly six-feet tall, ... Continue Reading
The Heaviest Women’s Snatch and Clean & Jerk Ever Made in Competition
In the world of weightlifting, all records are cool, but heaviest EVER is just so much fun to talk about. So who holds the marks for heaviest women's snatch and clean & jerk of all time? When ... Continue Reading
East Asian Weightlifting Championships Postponed Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Probably the strength sport most affected by the spread of the coronavirus is Olympic weightlifting. Given the highly regulated nature of the sport, the frequency of its competitions, the huge number of ... Continue Reading
Patrick Vellner Talks Winning Wodapalooza and His Future Competition Plans
Patrick Vellner is arguably having his best CrossFit season to date (and it's still very early on). He’s coming off of his first career Open worldwide victory and emerged victorious at Wodapalooza in a ... Continue Reading
Eddie Halls Performs “Isabel” and Claims New World Record (Update)
2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall was at the European Championships (CrossFit) in Colchester, England on February 23 to take part in a personal challenge. It may be strange to some that a strongman ... Continue Reading
Coronavirus Threatens Cancellation of 2020 Olympic Games
About two weeks ago, the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Inspection Team, John Coates, said at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan after meetings with organizers of the 2020 Olympic Games, ... Continue Reading
Meet the Couple in the Best Shape of Their Lives At 80
In 2017, at the age of 78, Shanti and Dinesh Tanna retired from their 55-year long careers as physicians and moved from Michigan to Alberta, Canada to be closer to their son Ravi Tanna. When they ... Continue Reading
Meet the Filipino National CrossFit Champion Robin Jaramillo
Robin Jaramillo has competed in the CrossFit Open every single year since 2013, always competing for the United States. This year, 29-year-old Jaramillo—a citizen of the Philippines, whose parents were ... Continue Reading