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
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
Strongman Rob Kearney Performs First CrossFit WOD In a Decade
Strongman Rob Kearney recently set a new American log lift record of 215.8kg/475.75lb on World's Ultimate Strongman's "Feats of Strength" series. His training in the gym since has involved what one might ... Continue Reading
Brandon Breitenbach Sets “Murph” World Record in 24 Hours
It was just three months ago when Lee Davis of Charleston, South Carolina set an unofficial world record for the most number of hero WOD (workout of the day) "Murph" performed in a single day. He completed ... Continue Reading
Phil Heath Announces Return To Mr. Olympia
From 2011 to 2017, Mr. Olympia was a title that belonged to one man: Phil Heath. His seven consecutive wins tied him for the second most ever with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2018, when Heath was competing ... Continue Reading
Fergus Crawley: A Hybrid Athlete For a Greater Cause
Fergus Crawley of Scotland is a former powerlifter turned hybrid athlete (specializing in both strength and endurance), who performs endurance challenges for charity. Recently, he did a 227kg/501lb back ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Rebeka Koha of Latvia Retires at Age 22
Rebeka Koha of Latvia has decided to retire from the sport of weightlifting at the age of 22. Koha competed in the -53kg, -58kg, and -59kg weight classes during her career, as well as one appearance at ... Continue Reading
Watch Katherine Nye Judge “Today Show” Hosts on Their Weightlifting
Team USA weightlifter Katherine Nye is easily one of the most prominent weightlifters in the country and in the world, given she won the title of the International Weightlifting Federation’s 2019 Lifter of ... Continue Reading
Para Powerlifter Rehab Ahmed Trains to Defy Expectations
Rehab Ahmed is a Para powerlifter representing Egypt with an extensive resume of competitive success. Her biggest accomplishment to date is her silver medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games in the -50kg ... Continue Reading
Strongman Anthony Pernice Sets Silver Dollar Deadlift World Record of 550kg/1212.5lb
Anthony Pernice is a strongman who just set a new silver dollar deadlift world record of an absolutely colossal 550kg/1212.5lb. The lift took place on July 25th as part of the United States Strongman ... Continue Reading
Hunter Labrada Wins Pro Bodybuilding Debut in Tampa
For the first time since March’s Arnold Classic, the IFBB Pro League held a professional bodybuilding show. The 2020 Tampa Pro took place and featured ten divisions. The main event was the men’s Open ... Continue Reading
19 Year Old Keydomar Vallenilla Front Squats 280kg
You may not yet know much about Keydomar Vallenilla, but you probably should. The 19-year-old weightlifter from Venezuela, who competes in the -89kg weight class, holds the Junior clean & jerk ... Continue Reading
Daniel Bell Gets 2,667 Total in His First Multi-Ply Powerlifting Meet
The American Powerlifting Federation (APF) held their “Showdown at the Storm” meet this past weekend at the Perfect Storm Hardcore Gym in Holly Hill, Florida. This gym was a home meet for Daniel Bell who ... Continue Reading
Larry Wheels and James Harrison Want to Do a Strict Curl Contest
Many powerlifting fans don’t know that in the early days of the sport, there used to be a fourth lift. It was the strict curl. Your head, back, and glutes must stay against a wall while you perform a ... Continue Reading
Petr Asayonok Snatches 7kg Over World Record
Petr Asayonok of Belarus began his professional weightlifting career in 2010 at the age of of 17 in the -69kg class when he placed second at a Youth Olympic Qualifying Event. He has since competed in the ... Continue Reading
Logan Aldridge: Well Armed with One-Arm in Fitness, Sports, and CrossFit
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
Dexter Jackson Guest Poses At NPC Body Be 1 Classic
2008 Mr. Olympia and 5-time Arnold Classic Champion Dexter Jackson won’t be competing again until the 2020 edition of the Olympia this December, but he is still active in the sport of bodybuilding and ... Continue Reading
Rongo Keene Interview: Sharing the Lighter Side of Strongman
Rongo "The Warrior" Keene of New Zealand competed in his first ever professional strongman event in 2015. Since then he has made quite the name for himself in the sport. He won the 2015 Singapore's ... Continue Reading
260 Kilos – Did Iron Biby Just Make the Heaviest Push Press Ever?
Cheick Al-Hassan Sanou has made what might be the heaviest push press ever performed, at least on camera. The Burkinese strongman, better known as Iron Biby, weighs almost 200 kilos, stands 1.9 meters ... Continue Reading
Prescillia Bavoil Lifts 41kg Over Her World Record Total In Training
2019 European Powerlifting Federation (EPF) European Classic Championships -63kg winner Prescillia "Lya" Bavoil of France had an incredible training session this past weekend where she totaled ... 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