It is almost expected that when Jessica Buettner is making waves in the powerlifting world, it is because she just deadlifted some obscenely heavy weight or flawlessly crushed a competition. She ... Continue Reading
Katherine Nye Will No Longer Compete At the Arnold Sports Festival
Team USA weightlifter Katherine Nye has announced her withdrawal from the American Open Series 1, also known as the Arnold Weightlifting Championships. The event is scheduled to take place at the ... Continue Reading
Watch Strongman Luke Richardson Axle Bar Deadlift 380kg/838lb For a Triple
Luke Richardson is at it again. The youngest ever athlete to total 1000kg/2,204lb raw has been putting in really impressive work in the gym this past week and showing off a bit with some massive axle bar ... Continue Reading
BREAKING: There Will Be No Spectators or Expo At 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
With less than 48 hours until it was scheduled to begin — the Olympic weightlifting was set to start at 10am on Thursday, with powerlifting and bodybuilding events starting at noon — the convention ... Continue Reading
The Hype Is Real In Strongman Martins Licis’ “Road to the Arnold” Video
Strength fans, get ready! The Arnold Sports Festival is only two days away and Rogue Fitness is continuing to stagger out their "Road to the Arnold" videos. In Rogue Fitness' latest release on ... Continue Reading
Powerlifter Jesus Olivares Annihilates 302.5kg/667lb Squat for 8 Reps
Jesus Olivares is a 21 year old powerlifter who vaulted back into the competitive scene late last December with a huge win at the USA Powerlifting (USAPL) Winter Iron Open in the super heavyweight division ... Continue Reading
Paralympian Siamand Rahman Has Passed Away At Age 31
Paralympic powerlifter Siamand Rahman passed away on Sunday March 1st, 2020 in his hometown, Oshnavieh, Iran, after suffering a heart attack. He was 31 years old. Rahman made his powerlifting debut ... Continue Reading
2020 Arnold Pro Strongwoman Preview
The eyes of the fitness world will be focused on Columbus, Ohio during the first weekend of March for several reasons. Bodybuilding, powerlifting, and strongman are just a few of the strength sports that ... Continue Reading
The 2020 IWF Junior World Championships Have Been Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Two weeks before it was scheduled to take place, the 2020 International Weightlifting Federation Junior World Weightlifting Championships have been cancelled, with the outbreak and global spread of the ... Continue Reading
How to Watch Weightlifting at the 2020 Arnold Sports Festival
The Arnold Sports Festival, also just called “The Arnold,” is arguably the biggest event on the strength sports calendar. The Arnold holds big time competitions for many strength sports, bringing ... Continue Reading
Patrick Vellner Talks Winning Wodapalooza and His Future Competition Plans
Patrick Vellner is arguably having his best CrossFit season to date (and it's still very early on). He’s coming off of his first career Open worldwide victory and emerged victorious at Wodapalooza in a ... Continue Reading
Eddie Halls Performs “Isabel” and Claims New World Record (Update)
2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall was at the European Championships (CrossFit) in Colchester, England on February 23 to take part in a personal challenge. It may be strange to some that a strongman ... Continue Reading
Meet the Filipino National CrossFit Champion Robin Jaramillo
Robin Jaramillo has competed in the CrossFit Open every single year since 2013, always competing for the United States. This year, 29-year-old Jaramillo—a citizen of the Philippines, whose parents were ... Continue Reading
Obstacle Course Racer Hunter McIntyre Wins HYROX Dallas
Hunter McIntyre is an OCR (obstacle course racing) athlete who rose to fame as the host of the Travel+Escape Channel and Esquire Network series Boundless TV and for winning the 2018 Tough Mudder ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Bjornsson Will Attempt 501kg Deadlift in Bahrain
Hafthor Bjornsson is already one of the top strongmen in the world, having won the World’s Strongest Man title in 2018 and two consecutive Arnold Strongman Classic championships, along with several other ... Continue Reading
Wodapalooza 2020 Day 4 Recap: Results and Winners
The athletes in Miami have trained on land, in water, enjoying sunshine, and competing in the rain. All of it was for this day. The spotlights are the brightest on Sunday in Miami, Florida, even as night ... Continue Reading
Wodapalooza Day 3 Recap
We’re now into the second half of Wodapalooza, and this Sanctional has been entertaining, inspiring, and intense. Going into the day, there was a surprise on top of the men’s side while the favorites were ... Continue Reading
Julius Maddox Bench Presses a PR 765 Pounds (Raw)!
Julius Maddox has made it clear that he is currently on his own personal road to an 800 pound raw bench press. On February 22nd, the Kentucky resident's journey moved past another incredible mark. Maddox ... Continue Reading
Wodapalooza Day 2 Recap: Here’s the Action in Miami
Going into the second day of Wodapalooza, the fans in Miami, Florida knew that they were seeing some incredible feats of fitness being performed. It would be tough to follow the intensity and performances ... Continue Reading
Watch Powerlifter Taylor Atwood (-74kg) Make a Serious 205kg Bench Press PR
Taylor Atwood is a big name in the sport of powerlifting. He is the reigning back-to-back International Powerlifting (IPF) World Champion of the -74kg weight class, holding the IPF world records for ... Continue Reading
Hayden Willis Deadlifts Gigantic 350kg/771lb At 19 Years Old
We need to discuss the apparent trend of specifically 19-year-old powerlifters who are capable of deadlifting obscenely heavy weight. "Obscenely" in this case means at least 317.5kg/700lb. Recently, we ... Continue Reading
Meet Sana’a Mandar: The First Moroccan Woman to Compete at the CrossFit Games
In 2019, Sana'a Mandar became the first woman to represent Morocco at the CrossFit Games. “The feeling of accomplishment and pride to be the first woman to represent my country in such a prestigious ... Continue Reading
Katherine Nye Voted the IWF’s Female Lifter of the Year
The votes are in, democracy works, and the International Weightlifting Federation has announced 2019's Lifters of the Year, as chosen by you, the fans. This was not decided in a musty room of fusty ... Continue Reading
Watch Powerlifter Christine Castro Squat a Mammoth 195kg/430lb
Christine Castro burst onto the powerlifting scene at 22 years old in 2015 in the -63kg weight class. She competed in four events of which she won all four, before moving up to compete in ... Continue Reading