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2024 HYROX Manchester Results
The 2024 HYROX Manchester races took place on Jan. 27-28, 2024, at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England. The competition includes HYROX Pro divisions for Individuals and Doubles. For the Individual Men, Graham Halliday emerged victorious with the lone sub-one-hour time. On the Individual Women’s podium, Kate Davey wore the gold on home turf, winning by…
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Haley Adams Will Compete in the 2024 CrossFit Season
The 2024 CrossFit season kicks off on Feb. 29, 2024, via workout 24.1, the first of three workouts comprising the 2024 CrossFit Open. Among those competing are the reigning Fittest on Earth® Laura Horvath and Jeffrey Adler, two-time Fittest Man on Earth® Justin Medeiros, and the return of the winningest Individual CrossFit athlete of all time, Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr….
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Amanda Lawrence (84KG) Raw Squats 11 Kilograms Over World Record in 2024 Sheffield Prep
With preparation nearly complete for the 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships (2024 Sheffield), Amanda Lawrence has been hitting record-breaking numbers in training. If she can do the same on competition day, she will score a huge cash payout at the UK’s big money meets at City Hall, Sheffield, UK, on Feb. 10, 2024. Lawrence has a long history of breaking records in…
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2024 Wellness International Bodybuilding Show Preview
The third Wellness International contest will be held as a part of the 2024 Arnold Classic Weekend in Columbus, OH, on Friday, March 1, 2024. Eleven IFBB Pro League competitors are in the lineup, hoping to have the winner’s trophy presented to them by promoter Arnold Schwarzenegger. The winner will also qualify to compete in the 2024 Wellness Olympia in Las Vegas,…
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2024 Britain’s Strongest Man Results — Tom Stoltman Triumphs
Tom Stoltman reclaims the crown in Britain. The 2024 Britain’s Strongest Man (BSM) contest occurred on Jan. 27, 2024, in Sheffield, England. It pitted 12 of the country’s elite strongmen against each other through five events: Deadlift, Axle Press, Carry & Hoist, Sandbag Toss, and Atlas Stones. Two-time World’s Strongest Man (WSM) champion Tom Stoltman emerged with the…
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Rogue Fitness Announces Limited-Edition 44-Pound “Artillery” Coffee Mug
The cold (brew) war of weighted coffee mugs is heating up. Last fall, strength training equipment manufacturer Eleiko Sport broke the minds of its customer base when its “Heavy Mug,” an April Fools’ gag-turned-real-product, went viral online. Several other companies were quick to capitalize on the mad demand for weighted mugs. On Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, American manufacturer…
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What Fergus Crawley’s Training for an Ultramarathon Looks Like
Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He’s run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound total in a powerlifting meet. Crawley intends to improve upon that feat by running a 250-kilometer ultramarathon while remaining capable of scoring a 600-kilogram powerlifting total. It’s not…
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What Training for an Ultramarathon Looks Like
Hybrid athlete Fergus Crawley is known for his strength and endurance quests. He’s run a sub-five-minute mile after squatting 500 pounds and completed a sub-12-hour Ironman after logging a 1,200-pound total in a powerlifting meet. Crawley intends to improve upon that feat by running a 250-kilometer ultramarathon while remaining capable of scoring a 600-kilogram powerlifting total. It’s not…
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“I’m So Excited” — Inside the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Season With WheelWOD’s Kevin Ogar
Kevin Ogar has been busy. After the Oct. 2023 announcement that CrossFit Adaptive divisions will no longer compete at the CrossFit Games, the owner of CrossFit WatchTower and the co-owner of WheelWOD is also serving as the Event Director of the 2024 Adaptive CrossFit Games. As the 2024 season unfolds, Adaptive athletes across 15 divisions will be competing…
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Tony Cliffe (120KG) Bench Presses 2.5 Kilograms Over the IPF World Record
UK powerlifter Tony Cliffe is a two-time International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Classic World Champion in the 120-kilogram class. He won in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 2019 and again in Malta in 2023. In between those championships, Cliffe switched focus to single-ply equipped lifting and bronzed at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to winning a second world title in Malta, Cliffe qualified for…
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