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
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
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
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
Larry Wheels Hits a Massive 420kg/926lb Equipped Deadlift PR
Since the COVID-19 pandemic mandated stay-at-home orders, Larry Wheels found unique ways to train — like that time he overhead pressed a ladder with two human beings hanging from the outer rungs poolside ... 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