How's this to start your day: Some of the top female athletes in strength sports are giving their own takes on "strong is beautiful" — several of whom give very personal insights into what the movement has ... Continue Reading
Why You Shouldn’t Train Clean Pulls Like Deadlifts
The clean pull, while similar looking, is a very different exercise than the conventional barbell/powerlifting deadlift. Often, lifters attack clean pulls with the same patterning, focus, and end goal as a ... Continue Reading
The Insane Rise of Mas Wrestling, the Best Strength Sport You Haven’t Tried Yet
Short of beating a person into unconsciousness, it’s hard to think of a more primal battle of wills than Mas wrestling. Sure, flinging kegs, flipping tires, and hauling Atlas Stones all come with their own ... Continue Reading
This Week in Powerlifting Spotters: Spotting Squats in a Towel and Flip Flops
Strength aficionados tend to form close bonds, and it's tough to get closer than your powerlifting crew; after all, we need spotters for those heavy squats and bench presses, right? And when you go ... Continue Reading
Behdad Salimi Snatches 220kg (484 Pounds) in Training
After a Rio Games that saw him set a new World Record snatch but finish with a disappointing bomb out in the clean & jerk, 2012 Olympic Champion Behdad Salimi is hardly done with competing — and a ... Continue Reading
Dialing in Nutrition and Putting an End to “Bro Science”: Chatting with Nick Shaw of RP Strength
If you were to track my nutrition through my athletic career, you'd likely see a pretty big series of peaks and valleys. I was a college soccer player, downing everything that could roughly be classified ... Continue Reading
Donna Moore Wins the 2016 World’s Strongest Woman Contest
British strongwoman Donna Moore has emerged victorious in the first (officially of that title) World's Strongest Woman contest since 2003. Though American Kristin Rhodes won the first two events, but ... Continue Reading
Nathan Damron: 156kg Snatch, 200kg Clean & Jerk, 307kg Back Squat at 20 Years Old
Yesterday, Mash Elite Performance held their annual "Barbell Picnic," featuring a combination of weightlifting and powerlifting competitions — along with what looked like solid food, festivities, and a ... Continue Reading
Tokyo Olympic Medals Could Be Made from Recycled Cell Phones, Other Electronics
The majority of people may never come close to earning an Olympic medal, but in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Games, Japanese residents may play a unique part in the medal process: Their recycled ... Continue Reading
Old Guys Are Outlifting You: 64 Year Old Snatches 100 Kilos Off the Blocks
Update: We've identified the lifter with help from our awesome readers! And it turns out he's actually 64 years young, not 62 as originally stated in this Instagram post embedded below. His name ... Continue Reading
Russian Weightlifting Federation President Resigns Amid Doping Bans
Inside the Games is reporting that Sergey Syrtsov has resigned as head of the Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) after numerous positive doping tests came to light this summer and a subsequent ban ... Continue Reading
No Shoes, No Problem. These Bulgarian Lifters Trained Barefoot When Their Luggage Got Lost
Though it's certainly nothing official, summer is as close to barefoot weightlifting season as it gets. And while we've highlighted some of the heaviest (and funniest) barefoot Olympic lifts in a ... Continue Reading
Black Tape by OLIFT Review – A Better Solution for Weightlifting?
In the world of strength sports, grip is an issue. Holding on to a bar, axle, stone, or other implement can sometimes be the biggest obstacle standing between you and another rep or a new PR. And even if ... Continue Reading
Siamand Rahman Sets World Record at 310kg, Benches More Than Any Paralympian In History
Update: We have the best video yet of Rahman's 305kg lift (his heaviest that counted for the competition), embedded below! He would go on to lift 310kg on a granted 4th attempt. Iranian powerlifter ... Continue Reading
USA Powerlifting President: USAPL at Risk for Suspension, Out of Meet Testing to Increase
In an email sent to the membership of USA Powerlifting earlier this week, USAPL President Dr. L.J. Maile announced that the organization had received notification of a third drug test failure this ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Anatoli Ciricu Tests Positive from London; 9th Place Moves to Bronze
In the latest announcement after a series of doping retests from both the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic Games, Moldovan weightlifter Anatoli Ciricu has tested positive for the anabolic agent ... Continue Reading
Onnit Announces Iron Man Kettlebell in Collaboration With Marvel
Earlier this summer, equipment/supplement/apparel company Onnit and Marvel teamed up to announce a series of Captain America bumper plates — and the results took the internet by storm. While those plates ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw Didn’t Break the 100 Meter Rowing Record, But He Came Darn Close
Still fresh off his victory at the 2016 World's Strongest Man (his 4th overall), American strongman Brian Shaw seems to be having some fun with training, hanging out with 2015 CrossFit Games ... Continue Reading
America’s Strongest Artist: Blending Weightlifting & Art with Caine Wilkes
If you follow American weightlifting, you probably know Caine "The Dragon" Wilkes for his string of National Championships, appearances in international competition, 500+ pound clean & jerks, ... Continue Reading
Monday Motivation: Ali Ludwig’s (Hilarious) Squat Jerk PR
Weightlifting is hard, so it's good when lifters can laugh off training mishaps – because otherwise, that sh!t will drag your whole day down. So when Ali Ludwig (a +75kg lifter out of Waxman's Gym) ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Profiles: Anthony Pomponio (85kg) From Juggernaut Strength
On Saturday, September 3rd I had the chance to catch up with Anthony Pomponio at the Hassle Free Invitational in Sacramento, CA before he won the grand prize of $3,000. Since leaving the US Olympic ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Nathan Damron Sets Milestone PR with 200kg Clean & Jerk
Last week, 20-year-old American weightlifter Nathan Damron hit a big 300kg PR squat, and the internet (well, at least the American weightlifting community) went wild. Damron, who has waffled back and forth ... Continue Reading
2020 Olympic Games: Weightlifting Venue, New Spectator Access Announced for Tokyo
In an information release published on their website, the International Weightlifting Federation outlined some news regarding weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Among the updates was ... Continue Reading
Check Out This Old School Reebok “Pump” Weightlifting Belt
File this under awesome things we wish we'd bought back in the 1990s (then kept around to show off today). Russian weightlifter Timur Ovchinnikov recently posted on Instagram about a Reebok "Instapump" ... Continue Reading