Cheick "Iron Biby" Sanou is a soon to be 28-year-old strongman from Burkina Faso who weighs just shy of 400lbs, stands 6 foot 2 inches tall, and holds the world record for the most number of times a human ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall Apologizes for “Icelandics” Comments
2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall made headlines in recent days due to comments he made in reference to distrusting Icelandic athletes; these were made when objecting to the arrangements made by ... Continue Reading
Martins Licis On World’s Strongest Man Postponement: “I Like My Chances Better Now”
As with almost every other major sporting event scheduled for the next couple months of this year, the 2020 World’s Strongest Man contest has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally ... Continue Reading
Eddie Hall On Thor Breaking His Deadlift Record: “I Do Not Trust The Icelandics”
2017 World Strongman's Man champion Eddie Hall held a live Q&A from Stoke-on-Trent, England earlier this week. The questions ranged from asking about the health and safety of Hall and his family ... Continue Reading
Check Out Hafthor Bjornsson Train In His New Epic Garage Gym
Hafthor Bjornsson is not about to let his training routine slide just because the 2020 World's Strongest Man competition was officially postponed on April 7th. If you have not heard yet, it has been ... Continue Reading
Sherif Osman: 3-Time Paralympic Gold Medalist on Training and Games Postponement
The Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed until 2021. What hasn't received quite as much press is the postponement of the Paralympic Games, which will now also take place in Tokyo in 2021 between August ... Continue Reading
Watch 15 Year Old Joseph Wiedyk Deadlift Unofficial World Record 550lbs
You may have never heard of the 15-year-old powerlifter named Joseph Wiedyk because he has not yet made his competitive debut. However, the weight that he can move is certainly at the competitive ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Tian Tao Squats 310kg/683lb For a Double Beltless
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
Watch Julius Maddox Bench Press 600lbs For 9 Reps
Julius Maddox, the current world record holder for heaviest bench press — a 350kg/770lb lift on his second attempt at the Xtreme Powerlifting Coalition (XPC) Slingshot Showdown at the Arnold Sports ... 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
Heber Cannon: “The Fittest” CrossFit Games Documentary Gets Early Release
Heber Cannon is one of the fitness industry's most well know and prolific filmmakers. He spent nearly a decade at CrossFit HQ filming, directing, and producing some of competitive CrossFit's earliest and ... 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