Latest Strongman News
-
“Opportunity To Be One of the Greatest of All-Time” — Mitchell Hooper Withdraws from 2025 Strongest Man on Earth
Mitchell Hooper has been a dominant force in strongman for over three years. Competing in 26 international events, he claimed victory in 15 and reached the podium 24 times. His list of accolades includes winning the 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM), the 2023 and 2024 Rogue Strongman Invitational, the Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) three times, and the 2024 Strongest Man…
Top Strongmen
Strongman Guides
-
Building Forearms: Arm Wrestling vs. Manual Labor
The forearm muscles grow indirectly from back training, but many struggle to target them beyond that. Is that due to improper exercise selection? Probably. Internet personality, powerlifter, and amateur bodybuilder Jujimufu teamed up with professional arm wrestler Michael Todd to critique popular forearm exercises and offer modifications. They ranked forearm exercises on a tier list — S-tier…
Strongman Basics
What Is Strongman?
Strongman is a weight-classed strength sport. In competitive strongman and strongwoman, an athlete’s success is based on their ability to conquer a multitude of events. Unlike the other strength sports, strongman/strongwoman athletes have to incredibly rounded in every aspect, as opposed to only training a few lifts. Check out a few of the more well-known events below.
- Log Press
- Atlas Stones
- Weighted Carries
- Squats
- Truck Pulls
- Deadlift
These are only a few of the events you could see at any given strongman contest. To be successful in strongman and strongwoman, you have to be adaptive and excel in pull, carry, press, and squat focused events.
More Strongman
-
Brian Shaw Battles a Lion in a Tug-of-War
Four-time World’s Strongest Man (WSM) Brian Shaw has taken on some unique challenges throughout his athletic career, but his most recent one might top them all. Jimmy Donaldson, also known as “Mr. Beast,” recently recruited the Strongest Man on Earth (SMoE) promoter to take on a tug-of-war challenge against a lion. Shaw traveled to South Africa for the tug-of-war…
