Athletes who were gearing up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games this summer have had to adjust to it being officially postponed for a full year until July 2021. Although this historic change in schedule may ... Continue Reading
2020 World’s Strongest Man Officially Postponed
Just a little over a month before the 2020 World's Strongest Man was set to take place, the biggest and most widely televised event on the strongman calendar has been postponed until November 11 to 15 due ... Continue Reading
Olympian Lolo Jones Makes Easy Work of the “Handstand Shirt Challenge”
During these times of mass quarantine, boredom can be ever-present. To combat that boredom, many people, including athletes and celebrities, challenge each other online to a feat of strength like a ... Continue Reading
Former Strongman Adam Scherr, a.k.a. “Braun Strowman,” Becomes WWE Universal Champion
If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, then you know that this past weekend, WWE held their biggest event of their year, WrestleMania, over the course of two days. The first night of matches featured ... Continue Reading
Check Out Powerlifter Jesus Olivares Deadlift a Colossal 388.5kg/857lbs
Jesus Olivares is a 21-year-old powerlifter who stayed away from the competitive scene in his later teenage years. However in 2019, Olivares made his comeback into the junior division in dominant ... Continue Reading
Watch Powerlifter Brandon Striegel Deadlift 700lbs For a Set Of 6
You might not have heard of Brandon Striegel yet as he only hit the competitive powerlifting scene last year when he debuted at the Revolution Powerlifting Syndicate (RPS) Kentucky Open Powerlifting ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Li Fabin (61kg) Clean & Jerks 180kg/397lb, Sets Unofficial World Record
Li Fabin, the 27 year old weightlifter from China, competes in the -61kg weight class and was expected to post some huge numbers at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games before they were postponed until 2021 due to ... Continue Reading
Olympic Postponement and Training with Weightlifter Fernando Reis
Fernando Reis is the strongest weightlifter in the Americas. He's won three Pan American Games and holds all three Pan American records in weightlifting with a 201kg snatch, 240kg clean & jerk, and ... Continue Reading
Larry Wheels Overhead Presses a Couch, a Ladder, and Two People
Larry Wheels is one of the most well-known powerlifters in the game and for good reason. The man spends his time hanging out and eating sushi with some of the strongest men on the planet, Eddie Hall and ... Continue Reading
The New Dates for the Tokyo Olympics Have Been Confirmed
The 2020 Olympics, for those who have been living under a rock, were finally postponed last week due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new date wasn’t set. The communiqué published by the International ... Continue Reading
Julius Maddox Performs 400 Reps of the Bench Press in One Workout
Julius Maddox is on a quest to be the first man to bench press 800 pounds raw and as of this writing, he is still scheduled to make that attempt on May 30 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. However, the COVID-19 ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson’s 501 kg Deadlift Attempt Rescheduled, Set to Live Stream
While Hafthor Bjornsson was training to defend his Arnold Strongman Classic title earlier this year, he had announced that he had set another goal: break Eddie Hall’s world record of 500 kg in the ... Continue Reading
Katherine Nye and Mattie Rogers Open Up On Olympic Postponement
The pandemic was a slow creep for months, then it felt like it all hit at once. The government position went from "wash your hands regularly and stay home if you feel sick" to "we're banning all planes ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw Wants to Bench 701 Pounds
While many people are waiting to be able to return to their gyms to train, they can turn to YouTube for inspiration or entertainment. Four-time World’s Strongest Man Brian Shaw is apparently going to start ... Continue Reading
The Tokyo Olympics Have Officially Been Postponed Until 2021
When longstanding International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound revealed in an interview yesterday that the Tokyo Games were being postponed, there wasn’t much of a reason to question the truth of the ... Continue Reading
Watch Rhianon Lovelace’s Amazing 5.7x Bodyweight Partial Deadlift
For those not in the know, Rhiannon Lovelace won the 2018 World’s Strongest Woman in the -64kg class. She’s strong. Her best known feat may be the 600-pound deadlift she made earlier this year, which she ... Continue Reading
BREAKING: The Tokyo Olympics Will Be Postponed, Says IOC Official
After months of speculation, International Olympic Committee official Dick Pound has told USA Today that the Tokyo Olympics will be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pound is a former ... Continue Reading
Canada Pulls Their Athletes From the Summer Olympic Games
While event after event is canceled as the coronavirus pandemic spreads worldwide, the “rising clamor” to cancel or postpone the Summer Olympics is reaching a fever pitch. Now, the Summer Olympics has ... Continue Reading
Interview: Steve Kuclo Talks Bodybuilding, Business, and Training At Home
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still being felt around the world and the procedures to protect ourselves and others have impacted all sports including bodybuilding competitions. Many competitors ... Continue Reading
Brian Shaw and Eddie Hall May Face Off Bodybuilding Style
You’ve seen Brian Shaw and Eddie Hall are very familiar with each other when it comes to competitions. They’ve competed at the elite level of strongman. Shaw won the 2016 World’s Strongest Man for his ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Bryce Lewis Deadlifts 804lb PR, Cracks Instagram Analytics
Bryce Lewis has been competing in the 105kg weight class since 2015 and has been on an absolute tear. He has not yet competed in 2020, but since 2019 he has appeared in twelve meets and did not miss ... Continue Reading
17 Year Old Powerlifter Jackson Powell Squats a Huge 885lb PR
Jackson Powell is a name everyone in the powerlifting community is going to have to become more familiar with very very quickly. When he was just 16 years old, he was squatting 297kg/655lb triples and ... Continue Reading
8-Time Fitness Olympia Champion Adela Garcia Will Return
While the early portion of the 2020 IFBB Pro League season has been placed on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the news and developments of the 2020 Olympia is still happening and another announcement ... Continue Reading
Krzysztof Wierzbicki (-100kg) Deadlifts All-Time World Record 433.5kg/955.7lb
The 28 year old Polish powerlifter, Krzysztof Wierzbicki, has done it again. Known as "Mr. Deadlift", Wierzbicki is notorious for pulling some of the heaviest weight around. He has a tendency to not only ... Continue Reading