It was a freak accident. Logan Aldridge was just 13 years old. He loved extreme sports and wanted to be a professional wakeboarder. One day, after wakeboarding at his family’s lake house, he was ... Continue Reading
Julius Maddox Bounces Back With a 740lb Bench Press Double (Almost)
Julius Maddox was on the "Road to the 800lb Bench Press" for much of the last year. That all came to a head when that would-be heaviest raw bench press of all-time was scheduled for Saturday, June 20th in ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jamal Browner Deadlifts Humongous 455kg/1,003lb
Jamal Browner is absurdly strong. The 25-year-old powerlifter has proved his prowess for the deadlift back in February when he pulled an all-time world record 971lb 440.5kg/971lb in the -110kg weight ... Continue Reading
International Weightlifting Returns with 2020 Online Pan Am Cup
Over this past weekend history was made, as the 2020 Pan American Cup became the first-ever International level Weightlifting Competition held exclusively via the internet. Athletes had cameras setup in ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall Does Pull-ups At Over 360 Pounds Bodyweight, Shares Physique Update
2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall has regularly been keeping his fans updated on the shape he is in while training for his September 2021 fight with 2018 WSM Hafthor Bjornsson. On July 19, Hall posted ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall Predicts 2020 World’s Strongest Man Top 4 in Q&A
The 2017 World's Strongest Man (WSM) Eddie Hall answered some of his followers questions during a Q&A mid training session yesterday. One of the questions posed was who Hall believed was going to win ... Continue Reading
Reebok Set to Release Rich Froning Inspired NANO X Cross Trainer
It has been an exciting few months for new Reebok shoe releases, and functional fitness fans everywhere can rejoice once again with the news about the latest Rick Froning inspired ... Continue Reading
Adam Klink Ran a Sub 5 Minute Mile and Back Squatted 500lb In the Same Day
Adam Klink had a pretty eventful outing yesterday. As a member of team CrossFit Krypton, who finished 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games with a runner-up finish to Rich Froning's team Mayhem Freedom, there is ... Continue Reading
Yoshihiro Higa (-74kg) Squats 9.5kg/21lb Above World Record
Yoshihiro Higa performed a successful 292.5kg/644.9lb squat at the Japanese Powerlifting Association (JPA) Okinawa Prefecture Powerlifting Championship — a full 9.5kg/21lb above the IPF world ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Antonio Krastev Passes Away In Car Crash
Antonio Krastev of Bulgaria was a weightlifter who competed in the super heavyweight class (110+kg). He had was a 5-time medalist at the World Weightlifting Championships, including golds in 1985 ... Continue Reading
10 Time Ms. Olympia Iris Kyle to Return to Olympia Stage in 2020
The 2020 Olympia Weekend has already had multiple champions announce their returns to competition. Now the most decorated female bodybuilder of all-time has added herself to the list of competitors that ... Continue Reading
Professional Fitness Athletes’ Association To Give Competitors a Unified Voice
The Professional Fitness Athletes' Association (PFAA) has been established. As reported by Morning Chalk Up, 3-time Fittest Woman on Earth Tia-Clair Toomey, 2020 Rogue Invitational champion Patrick ... Continue Reading
How To Watch World’s Strongest Man: Home Edition Finale
Since early May, World's Strongest Man (WSM): Home Edition — an episodic series on Snapchat — has seen strongmen from all over the globe vying for votes from an audience watching them perform ... Continue Reading
2020 Mayhem Madness Preview: New Dates for Rich Froning and Crew’s Team Competition
Update: In a post from July 7th, the CrossFit Mayhem team announced the event would be postponed until late August at the earliest. From their post: "Travel bans have eliminated our ability to host the ... Continue Reading
How To Watch Adam Bishop Vs J.F. Caron Deadlift For Reps World Record
This coming Saturday, July 11th, the 2020 Britain's Strongest Man champion Adam Bishop will take on 7-time Canada's Strongest Man Jean-François (J.F.) Caron in a one-on-one deadlift for reps ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall Integrates HIIT Into His Boxing Prep
Eddie Hall recently shared what a full day of eating looks like for him on his adapted 6,000 boxing diet. Normally, that kind of eating was paired with multiple training sessions at the gym that focused on ... Continue Reading
“The Last of Us 2” Lead Character’s Body Modeled After Colleen Fotsch
In the world of gaming, many female characters are often portrayed with a particular body type — delicate features, narrow waist, hourglass figure, etc. According to Polygon, that design, when paired ... Continue Reading
Andrea Thompson Sets Log Lift World Record
Over the course of the World Ultimate Strongman “Feats of Strength” series, the log press had been featured on two different occasions. Luke Stoltman was unable to claim the world record while Rob Kearney ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw and Robert Oberst Perform the NFL Combine Bench Press Test
Two of the stars of “The Strongest Men in History,” Brian Shaw and Robert Oberst, have collaborated in a different test of strength than those that were featured on The History Channel. A new video on ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson: Iceland’s Strongest Man “Likely My Last Strongman Show”
The 2020 Arnold Strongman Classic victory and setting the world record deadlift at 501kg/1,104lb hasn’t been enough for Hafthor Bjornsson. As he shared recently, he is preparing for the 2020 Iceland’s ... Continue Reading
How To Watch Andrea Thompson’s Women’s Log Lift World Record Attempt
The next episode in the "Feats of Strength" series by World's Ultimate Strongman will take place this Saturday, July 4th. It will feature the 2018 World's Strongest Woman champion and 4-time Britain's ... Continue Reading
NBC’s The Titan Games Episode 6 Recap: Alvarez Retains
On last week's episode, 6-time CrossFit Games individual competitor Margaux Alvarez bested fellow CrossFit Games competitor Kelly Stone and former Titan Kelly Valdez to become the new reigning Titan of the ... Continue Reading
NBC’s The Titan Games Episode 5 Recap: Alvarez Ascends Mt. Olympus
Last week, The Titan Games saw a powerful display by Kelly Valdez and a gutsy performance by Noah Palicia over his brother Eric. Both rose to the occasion on Mount Olympus and became Titans in the premiere ... Continue Reading
Tia-Clair Toomey Discusses Whether or Not She’ll Compete at 2020 CrossFit Games
Tia-Clair Toomey is the first ever three-time Fittest Woman on Earth™ — she's won the last three consecutive CrossFit Games and is arguably the most influential female athlete in the sport. So a lot of ... Continue Reading