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Laurence Shahlaei Talks World’s Strongest Man (And Which Strongman Records Are Legit)

Laurence Shahlaei has held numerous titles in his career. Among his most famous is the 2016 Europe’s Strongest Man. Now the strongman has lent his voice as a member of the media. Specifically, he’s been ... Continue Reading

Larry Wheels incline press record

Larry Wheels Incline Presses 275-Pound Dumbbells for a New World Record

Larry Wheels keeps on collecting world records. Wheels, whose last name is Williams, posted a video on Oct. 1, 2020, to his YouTube channel of him performing the heaviest incline dumbbell bench press of ... Continue Reading

Mark Felix Hercules Hold

Mark Felix Sets New World Record for Hercules Hold (Again)

Mark Felix, competing in the 2020 Europe’s Strongest Man contest, has once again set a new world record for the Hercules Hold. Over the last few competitions, Felix and the Hercules Hold have become ... Continue Reading

Mark Boyd Deadlift

Mark Boyd Misses 400 KG Deadlift

The World’s Ultimate Strongman (WUS) Feats of Strength series had featured some of the elite athletes in the sports of strongman and powerlifting attempt to break records over the last two and a half ... Continue Reading

Andrea Thompson

Andrea Thompson Sets Log Lift World Record

Over the course of the World Ultimate Strongman “Feats of Strength” series, the log press had been featured on two different occasions. Luke Stoltman was unable to claim the world record while Rob Kearney ... Continue Reading

Eddie Hall Diet

Check Out Eddie Hall’s New 6,000 Calorie Boxing Diet

Eddie "The Beast" Hall has over a year until his boxing march against strongman rival Hafthor "The Mountain" Bjornsson. The fight is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas in September 2021 and is ... Continue Reading

Stoltman Stone Record

Strongman Tom Stoltman Lifts World Record 286kg/630lb Atlas Stone Over Bar

On Saturday, May 23rd, Scottish strongman Tom Stoltman lifted a world record 286kg/630lb Atlas Stone over a bar on a live stream to set the heaviest mark ever recorded in that lift. The event was one ... Continue Reading

The Mountain

Athletes Compete to Challenge Hafthor Bjornsson In New Series “Beat The Mountain”

Strongman Hafthor Bjornsson is launching a TV show where regular athletes will get to compete against him.  Bjornsson, who is six-foot-nine and weighs 450 pounds, has his name in the history ... Continue Reading

Brian Shaw Front Double Bicep

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

Mateusz Kieliszkowski

Mateusz Kieliszkowski Wins Timber Carry, Sets World Record

Strongman Mateusz Kieliszkowski of Poland seems to perform his best when faced with incredible adversity. After all, he is the man won the 2019 World's Ultimate Strongman in Dubai with a torn ... Continue Reading

Hafthor Bjornsson

Hafthor Bjornsson Wins Rogue Elephant Bar Deadlift Event

Hafthor Bjornsson pulled some epically large deadlifts in training heading into the Arnold Strongman Classic this weekend; the event he won the last two years in a row. He deadlifted 455kg/1,003lbs for a ... Continue Reading

Hafthor Bjornsson

Check Out Hafthor Bjornsson’s Training Diet, 10,000 Calories Per Day

Hafthor Bjornsson, the 2018 World's Strongest Man champion, is known for eating a lot of calories per day during training. He has shared his 8,000 calorie training diet which utilizes the vertical ... Continue Reading

Eddie Hall performs Grace

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

Eddie and Arnold

Eddie Hall Announces Arnold Sports UK Coming in 2021

In a YouTube video posted early on Monday, February 3, 2017 World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall announced that he was working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on plans to create a version of the Arnold Sports ... Continue Reading

stoltman brothers strongman diet

The Stoltman Brothers Explain Their Unusual Strongman Diet

Eight thousand calories a day, diarrhea medication, saltwater, and CBD are just part of the unusual dietary regimen of two of the World’s Strongest Man athletes Luke and Tom Stoltman.  (The ... Continue Reading

Franco Columbu

Franco Columbu, Bodybuilding and Strength Legend, Passes Away At 78

Two-time Mr. Olympia and inaugural World’s Strongest Man competitor Franco Columbu passed away on August 30th in Italy. According to VistaNet, Columbu died as a result of an accident at sea. As of this ... Continue Reading

thor bjornsson featured

How to Watch the 2019 World’s Strongest Man Competition

The most hotly anticipated strongman competition of the year is upon us: the 2019 World's Strongest Man event will take place in Bradenton, Florida from Thursday, June 13th until Sunday, June 16th. Every ... Continue Reading

First Women to Lift Husafell Stone

Sandra Bradley and Liefia Ingalls First Women In Recorded History to Lift Husafell Stone

History has officially been made and written in the sports of strongwoman and stone lifting. Over the weekend, professional strongwoman athletes Sandra Bradley and Liefia Ingalls took a trip to Húsafell, ... Continue Reading

Benedikt Magnusson Deadlift

Benedikt Magnusson Wants to Pull 528kg At the World Deadlift Championships

Professional srongman fans and deadlift lovers, get ready. Things are starting to heat up as athletes prepare for this year's Giant's Live World Deadlift Championships taking place in Wembley, England on ... Continue Reading

Hafthor Deadlift

The Greatest Strongman of All Time Vs. The Strongest Man Ever

To the uninitiated, the title of this article may lead you to believe that this is one in the same. I will make the argument in this article that they are not and it would be a mistake to confuse the ... Continue Reading

What Is An EMOM Workout? And Why Is It Effective?

EMOM (Every Minute on the Minute) workout programs are effective, time-efficient, and can be scaled to meet the needs of every level of lifter/athlete depending on their training goals and abilities. Most ... Continue Reading

Calf Raises: Are They Worth It?

The calf raise is an exercise that can be done primarily in two distinct ways. The first targets the soleus and is done with the knee flexed/bent. The other targets the gastrocnemius and is done with an ... Continue Reading

Mark Haydock Sets Dinnie Stones World Record.

Only a Handful of Men Have Ever Lifted the Incredibly Heavy Dinnie Stones

What truly defines a legendary strength athlete? Often times, it's the fact that these athletes were years beyond their time when it comes to lifting, competition, and fitness knowledge. And in my opinion, ... Continue Reading

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Foods Every Strongman Athlete Should Eat

In addition to being a strength and conditioning coach I hold a certification in Sports Nutrition as well. To help the athletes I work with, I combine my knowledge from both fields. Together they create ... Continue Reading

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