Strength Weekly is the new show taking you in depth on all aspects of the barbell game and beyond! This week, we break down four of the biggest stories in strength. We're chatting about Derek Lunsford's ... Continue Reading
The Bulgarian Method Is Madness: A Look at the Hardest Weightlifting Routine Ever Created
In the dusty, beige, and completely silent training hall of the Bulgarian weightlifting federation, Zlatan Vanev approaches a barbell loaded with 210 kilograms, just a bit more than 460 pounds. Over the ... Continue Reading
Mary Theisen-Lappen (+87KG) Wins Gold Medal for USA at 2023 Pan American Games
The 2023 Pan American Games are a multi-sport event held every four years; think of it like a regional Olympics. American weightlifter Mary Theisen-Lappen closed out the weightlifting event at the Games in ... Continue Reading
Kaiser Witte (+109KG) Wins Silver Medal for USA at 2023 Pan American Games
Kaiser Witte is back on the scene after a four-year hiatus from international weightlifting. On Oct. 24, 2023 in Santiago, Chile as part of the closing weightlifting sessions at the 2023 Pan American ... Continue Reading
Olivia Reeves (81KG) Wins Gold Medal, Sets New Records at 2023 Pan American Games
With weightlifting officially confirmed for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, keen eyes are turning towards the sport's rising stars. And 20-year-old Olivia Reeves' star is absolutely soaring. At the ... Continue Reading
Meredith Alwine (71KG) Wins Bronze Medal for USA at 2023 Pan American Games
If you're a fan of Olympic lifting, you've been downright spoiled in the back half of 2023, as many of the most important weightlifting competitions of the year are being held between September and ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Cesar Flores Credits Beltless Squats for Helping Him Hit This 320KG (705LB) Paused 2-Rep Max
Despite not competing in the back squat like their powerlifting counterparts, Olympic lifters possess some of the strongest squats in the strength training game. Case in point: On Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, ... Continue Reading
Weightlifting Will Officially Be Held at 2028 Olympic Games
Californians will feel a very different earth-shattering sensation than they're used to in the summer of 2028; that of barbells hitting the platform in the Olympic stadium. On Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, news ... Continue Reading
USA Weightlifting Announces Roster for Upcoming 2023 Pan American Games
The 2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships may be over, but the best Olympic lifters in the United States still have their work cut out for them before the year comes to a close. On Friday, Oct. 6, ... Continue Reading
Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (73KG) Sets 201KG Clean & Jerk World Record at 19th Asian Games
Less than a month after his silver-medal performance at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships, 73-kilogram Rahmat Erwin Abdullah of Indonesia has set his latest world record. Abdullah, who competed at ... Continue Reading
2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships Highlights & Best Moments
When the final barbell hit the floor on Sep. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France were 313 days away. The heat is officially on for weightlifters aiming at the Olympic ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Ali Rubaiawi (+109, IRQ) Hits 198-Kilogram Junior World Record Snatch at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
As the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) 2023 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC) wound down, fans were still hoping to see at least one new world record. Most would expect it to come from ... Continue Reading
2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships Full Results
The clock ticks down: The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France begin in less than a year. With such little time remaining in the quad, the best weightlifters in the world have converged ... Continue Reading
How To Watch the 2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships
When the 2023 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships (WWC) kick off, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, will be less than a year away. About ten months, in ... Continue Reading
Liang Xiaomei (81KG) Sets 159-Kilogram Clean & Jerk World Record at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
Team China has inked itself into the weightlifting record books ... again. On Friday, Sep. 15, weightlifter Liang Xiaomei set the first Senior world record in the Women's 81-kilogram division. She lifted ... Continue Reading
Garik Karapetyan (102KG) Sets 183KG Snatch Junior World Record at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
The International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) 2023 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC) has been anything but unexciting. This year's WWC, which runs from Sep. 4 to 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is ... Continue Reading
USA’s Olivia Reeves Sets Junior World Records, Wins Bronze Medal at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
American weightlifting is on the rise. On Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023, Team USA scored big wins at the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) 2023 World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh, Saudi ... Continue Reading
Liao Guifang (71KG) Scores Clean & Jerk and Total World Records at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
Riyadh runs red. Halfway through the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) 2023 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC), Team China has amassed more gold medals than any other country — and it's ... Continue Reading
Iran’s Mir Mostafa Javadi Wins Men’s 89KG Division in Major Upset at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
As the Iranian flag was raised in the stadium, commentators at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships (WWC) remarked that they had just witnessed one of the most surprising upsets in years. In a move ... Continue Reading
Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (81KG) Sets 209-Kilogram Clean & Jerk World Record at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
Indonesia's Rahmat Erwin Abdullah is the dark horse of men's weightlifting. Since the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Abdullah has made a name for himself as a podium contender in both the 73 and 81-kilogram ... Continue Reading
How an Unexpected Phone Call Could Get 36-Year-Old Weightlifter Caine Wilkes Back to the Olympics
When a tendon snaps off the bone, it feels more like a dull pop than the crack of a whip. If you’re distracted at that moment, say by the cold kiss of a steel bar slamming into your clavicles, you might ... Continue Reading
Hampton Morris Wins First USA Men’s Gold Medal in Over 50 Years at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
Over five decades have passed since a male American weightlifter stood atop the podium at a World Weightlifting Championships (WWC). In 1972, athlete Rick Holbrook won gold in the clean & jerk — 51 ... Continue Reading
Weightlifter Jiang Huihua (49KG) Sets 120KG Clean & Jerk World Record at 2023 World Weightlifting Championships
Team China has set the tone. On the second day of competition, 49-kilogram weightlifter Jiang Huihua set the first new world records of the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) 2023 World ... Continue Reading
Athletes To Watch at the 2023 IWF World Weightlifting Championships
From Sept. 4-17, 2023, the International Weightlifting Federation's (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships begin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This competition is more than just another exhibition of ... Continue Reading