How much time have you spent thinking about your Olympic lifts? These thoughts could involve your programming, current lifting status, where you want your lifts to be, and areas you may be lacking in. ... Continue Reading
Janis Finkelman PRs With 27 Pull-Ups, One Year After a Bicep Tear
Pull-ups are freaking awesome for becoming a better powerlifter. The lats are great for helping stabilize the spine — so they help contribute to better core stability for squats and deadlifts — they're ... Continue Reading
This Is Why You Should Only Do Bar Muscle-Ups On Straight Bars
Editor's Note: Before proceeding into this article, we want to give full disclosure that the video below isn't for the faint of heart. If injuries upset you, then we suggest not watching the video, or ... Continue Reading
Hafthor “The Mountain” Bjornsson Sets New Weight Over Bar World Record
Though it's technically the "Off Season" for many top strongman competitors, World's Strongest Man podium finisher Hafthor Bjornsson (known to many fans as "The Mountain" on HBO's Game of Thrones ... Continue Reading
Ian Wilson’s 285kg Squat PR Spells Big Things
Ian Wilson is a phenomenal weightlifter, and after taking some time off to recover from shoulder and knee surgeries, he has returned to PR city. Today we wanted to highlight his latest personal record, ... Continue Reading
5 Famous Games Athletes Before They Found CrossFit
Strength sports have a lot of carryover with each other, which means it's not impossible for an athlete to jump from sport to sport and excel. You're probably not going to see an elite soccer player make ... Continue Reading
Hylete Releases Workout Shoe With 3 “Interchangeable” Soles
It’s not quite as recognizable a name as Reebok or Nike, but Hylete have been making a name for themselves for functional workout gear since they were founded around five years ago. Perhaps best known for ... Continue Reading
Check Out Who’s Representing the USA at the World Weightlifting Championships
The IWF World Championships are quickly approaching, and if you didn't already know, this year the championships are being held on American soil at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The ... Continue Reading
World Anti-Doping Agency Clears 95 of the 96 Russian Athletes They Were Reviewing
Sports fans who demanded justice for Russia’s astonishing doping scandal may have to wait a little longer. The New York Times is reporting that the World Anti-Doping Agency has agreed to clear 95 of the ... Continue Reading
Is It Okay to “Bounce” Out of Your Squats?
To bounce, or not to bounce? Apparently, I've been squatting wrong all these years. I'm very ashamed to say it, but I have indeed been...bouncing! Wait a minute, do I not bounce ("rebound" or "catch the ... Continue Reading
Kickboxing Powerlifter Alex Simon Squats 425kg and Wins All His Fights by Knockout
Australian powerlifter Alex Simon is one of many top athletes around the world (including Eric Lilliebridge and Zahir Khudayarov) who are ramping up their training in preparation for Big Dogs 2, a meet ... Continue Reading
Clarence Kennedy Made an Ultimate Guide to the Snatch and Clean & Jerk
YouTube personality and weightlifter Clarence Kennedy has been generating a storm of content during his summer trip to North America, and while his squat battle with Nathan Damron was a lot of fun to ... Continue Reading
Australia Will Host 2017 Reebok CrossFit Invitational
CrossFit released some pretty big news yesterday about the 2017 Reebok CrossFit Invitational's location. This year the Invitational will take place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The official date of ... Continue Reading
Dennis Cornelius’ 900-Pound Squat Destroys the IPF World Record in Training
Dennis Cornelius is not messing around. The -120kg powerlifter has once again crushed his own world record in training with a barefoot squat. (This time while listening to the quintessential lifting ... Continue Reading
Check Out Zydrunas Savickas’ (Big Z) Latest Shredding Progress
Legendary strongman athlete Zydrunas Savickas (Big Z) appears to be continuing, or at least maintaining his recently acquired lean physique. Savickas has a very impressive list of accomplishments in the ... Continue Reading
Will Julius Maddox Be the Next Lifter to Join the 700 lb Bench Club?
Of the big three in powerlifting, one could argue that the bench is possibly the toughest lift to advance. At a certain point, technical proficiency, sheer size, and innate strength take over, and this ... Continue Reading
How to Wear and Use a Lever Belt
Belts are used by a variety of lifters and come in multiple styles. Some of the most popular belt styles include velcro, single-prong, double-prong, and lever. Each of these styles will benefit ... Continue Reading
This Is the Closest to a 4x Bodyweight Front Squat We’ve Ever Seen
This video isn't new, but we leapt out of our chairs when it surfaced again online this weekend. We’re talking about Ivan Ivanov, one of the greatest Bulgarian weightlifters of all time. When we first ... Continue Reading
Shi Zhiyong (69kg) Clean & Jerks 7Kg Over the World Record in Training
Meanwhile in China… That’s the 69kg weightlifter Shi Zhiyong hitting a clean and squat jerk of 205 kilograms (452 pounds). We don’t know what bodyweight Shi is training at here, but if he had hit ... Continue Reading
Kirill Sarychev Shows the Real Reason He Doesn’t Do Weightlifting
Kirill Sarychev is one of the most influential powerlifters of all time, but he’s no hybrid athlete. The man who holds the world record for the heaviest raw bench press ever (738.5 pounds, or 335 ... Continue Reading
Luis Mosquera (69kg) Block Snatches 165kg
Twenty-two-year-old weightlifting star Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano has shared with his Instagram followers a little insight into how he got so darn good at weightlifting. Take a look at this very, very ... Continue Reading
Annie Thorisdottir Breaks One-Minute Barbell Thruster World Record
Eight-time CrossFit® Games veteran Annie Thorisdottir made an appearance on NBC's Today Show on September 4th, 2017. She joined the show's hosts in New York City's iconic Rockefeller plaza to attempt the ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey Breaks Chin-Up World Record On Live TV
The 2017 Reebok CrossFit® Games champion Tia-Clair Toomey is adding another accolade to her impressive list of fitness accomplishments. She recently topped the Guinness World Record for the most chin-ups ... Continue Reading
How to Master the Clean Pull Under
The clean pull under is an exercise to help learn, strengthen, and develop speed pulling under the bar (as if that wasn't already obvious from the exercise name), as well as develop that feel and skill of ... Continue Reading