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3-Time Fitness Olympia Champion Missy Truscott To Switch Figure Division in 2025
Three-time Fitness Olympia champion Missy Truscott will compete in the Figure division in 2025. This change comes less than three months after Truscott made her triumphant return to the Olympia stage in 2024 to win her third Fitness Olympia title after suffering two torn menisci and a torn ACL during her performance at the 2023 Olympia. I’m switching to the Figure division.…
Crossfit
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Interview: Zimbabwe’s Christina Livaditakis on Election to PFAA Board and Why She’ll Be Competing in the 2025 CrossFit Season
Zimbabwe’s Christina Livaditakis has been keeping busy during the offseason. In October, Livaditakis finished third at the Down Under Championship (DUC) in Wollongong, Australia. Then, in November, she was elected as one of the six athlete board members for the Professional Fitness Athletes’ Association (PFAA). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Down…
Strongman
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The Top 5 Exercises To Build Strength AND Hypertrophy
From a marathon runner to the 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) and 2024 Strongest Man on Earth, Mitchell Hooper knows how to get big and strong at the elite level. In early January 2024, the Canadian Strongman described his top five exercises for strength and hypertrophy. “You get strong through neuromuscular adaptations, how your brain communicates to…
Weightlifting
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Won Ju Ri (67KG) Scores Clean & Jerk Record at 2024 IWF World Championships
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, ended on Dec. 15, 2024. The competition of the world’s best weightlifters showcased their immense strength and was landmarked by a bevy of world record performances across the men’s and women’s fields, with only six months until new weight categories take hold in June 2025. Among those elite…
Powerlifting
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Sonita Muluh (+84KG) Raw Squats 7 Kilograms Over All-Time Drug Tested World Record
The 2025 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships set for Jan. 26, 2025, in Sheffield, England, features Sonita Muluh on its women’s roster. While that is significant, as Muluh holds the all-time world record raw squat at 311 kilograms from the 2024 World Classic Powerlifting Championships, her presence in Sheffield is even more highlighted now. On Dec. 5,…
Bodybuilding
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Nick Walker’s Leg Training Updates Heading Into The 2025 Season
Men’s Open bodybuilder Nick Walker is working meticulously with his new coach, Kyle Wilkes, and trainer, Jared Feather, to improve upon his 2022 third-place Mr. Olympia finish. He needs to enter and win a pro-show during the 2025 IFBB season to get there. His target is winning the 2025 Pittsburgh Pro in early May and skipping the…
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29-Year-Old CrossFit Coach Who Suffered Two Strokes Is Recovering — But His Medical Bills Are Growing
On December 9, 2024, Anna Gray came home after doing a class at CrossFit Lynchburg in Lynchburg, VA, to find her 29-year-old husband with a facial droop, unable to use the right side of his body. Her husband, TJ Vaught, a CrossFit coach at CrossFit Lynchburg, had suffered two strokes and underwent emergency surgery on…
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Men Can Gain More Muscle Mass Than Women But Lean Mass Is What Matters
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2x Olympia Champ Erin Stern’s Quick 3-Step Pull-Up Improvement Tips
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What Is “MainGaining” and How Is It Different From Bulking?
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Soluble Vs. Insoluble: The Fiber Debate
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