Weightlifting

If you were to name the most intense weightlifting battle of all time, which would you pick? Dmitry Klokov Vs. Khadzhimurat Akkayev at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships? Maybe Matthias Steiner Vs. ... Continue Reading

China could miss this year's International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships, which will take place in Anaheim, California, this November. This news comes after two of their weightlifters ... Continue Reading

"Clean Dead Lift" does not just indicate clean grip and then you can deadlift however you want or feel you are the strongest at picking up weight from the floor (perhaps with back angle close to parallel ... Continue Reading

When it comes to running weightlifting meets, Pedro Meloni is arguably the world's best. After nearly a decade in the sport starting in the mid-2000s, Meloni built a reputation as a cool, calm, and ... Continue Reading

Hang cleans are more than just a clean and jerk variation seen in functional fitness competitions or barbell WODs. They are a vital part to the development and enhancement of the Olympic weightlifting ... Continue Reading

Jeison Lopez — the Junior 77kg lifter from Colombia — is at it again. Just a couple weeks after posting an incredibly impressive 170kg snatch to Instagram, Lopez crossed another lifting milestone in ... Continue Reading

If you love strength sports enough to appreciate both weightlifting and bodybuilding, there’s a chance you’ve fantasized about seeing Dmitry Klokov and Bradley Martyn train together. Now the powers that ... Continue Reading

If you missed it, earlier this week Taiwanese 58kg weightlifter Kuo Hsing-Chun had a commanding performance at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei. She claimed first in her weight class and set a new ... Continue Reading

We've seen Nathan Damron squat 700 pounds, block clean 212kg, and even do a one-legged backflip. Now, the 94kg weightlifter out of Mash Elite looks like he's tuning up for his next competition, American ... Continue Reading

A truly saddening news story broke this weekend on August 20th, as +105kg Bulgarian/Azerbaijani weightlifter Velichko Cholakov was confirmed to have passed away. The new's report from Sofia News Agency (an ... Continue Reading

Taiwanese athlete Kuo Hsing-Chun has just broken the world record in the clean & jerk for the 58 kilogram weight class at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei with an enormous lift of 142 kilograms ... Continue Reading

The 2017 Summer Universiade is in full swing, and that means some of the world's top young weightlifters — including a packed American squad — are competing this week in Taipei, Taiwan. The event is a ... Continue Reading

What happens when your feet are too close together in the receiving position of a clean? Well, let Dmitry Klokov show you. In a recent training seminar that took place on CrossFit Cimarron (that’s in ... Continue Reading

At just 18 years old, Colombian weightlifting Jeison Lopez has established himself as one of the Western Hemisphere's top strength athletes. Fresh off a victory at the 2017 Pan American Weightlifting ... Continue Reading

Estonian superheavyweight weightlifter and master of the heavy high-rep squats Mart Seim is training hard and giving his Instagram fans a glimpse into the kind of lifting he endures to keep himself in top ... Continue Reading

Very, very strong Chinese weightlifter Tian Tao just made a 310 kilogram squat look like a warmup. There’s no hype music, no cheering, and only a faint glimmer of a smile as the athlete unracks, walks out, ... Continue Reading

California Strength's Dave Spitz just put up an awesome video breaking down the jerk in weightlifting. He goes over all of the jerk variations, who they work best for, when to use them, and different ... Continue Reading

The 2018 Nike USA Weightlifting National Championships location and qualifying totals have been posted. In 2017, the National Championships took place in Chicago, Illinois, and the 2018 location will ... Continue Reading

Jon Call, or Jujimufu, is the self-proclaimed 'anabolic acrobat' that I can almost guarantee you've seen on Instagram at some point in your life. He's one of the few strength athletes who can pull off ... Continue Reading

We've known for a long time that CJ Cummings has some seriously strong legs. Between his world record clean & jerk and 222kg front squat double, it's clear he has some of the strongest legs in the ... Continue Reading

The 2017 Reebok CrossFit Games are in full swing, and beyond some serious functional fitness, that can only mean one thing: Ukrainian weightlifter and 2012 Olympic Champion Aleksey Torkhtiy is doing some ... Continue Reading

Olympic weightlifting personalities Clarence Kennedy and Spencer Moorman descended on 646 Weightlifting Gym in Toronto this week for a lift off, and the entire two-hour event was streamed on the ... Continue Reading