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2023 Musclecontest International Masters Brazil Pro Preview
Campinas, Brazil, will host the 2023 Musclecontest International Masters Brazil Pro on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The show features an IFBB Pro League Bikini division event. The winner will earn qualification to the 2024 Olympia Weekend in Las Vegas, NV, on Oct. 10-13, 2024. Six athletes are set to compete in Brazil as of Nov. 21, 2023. The…
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2023 Japan Pro Bodybuilding Show Preview
The 2023 Japan Pro is set to take place on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. It features three IFBB Pro League divisions: Men’s Open, Men’s Physique, and Bikini. The Men’s Open contest is one of the final shows of 2023 for the division. All three divisions will award 2024 Olympia qualifications to their respective winners if…
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2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships Full Results
Fans of weightlifting have been spoiled rotten in 2023. The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) event calendar has featured prominent competitions on a near-monthly basis from January to November. The IWF’s Junior World Weightlifting Championships (JWWC), which ran in Guadalajara, Mexico from Nov. 15 to 23, was a sneak peek at some of the brightest young stars in the…
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Strongest Mr. Olympia and New IPF Record: Strength Weekly
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. This week, we discuss Jamal Browner’s deadlift quad for 1,003 pounds, BarBend’s acquisition of Morning Chalk Up, a new IPF world record, and the STRONGEST Mr. Olympia…
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New Research Says You’ll Likely Gain Weight During the Holidays; Here Are 7 Tips to Avoid It at Thanksgiving
The holiday season is good for spending quality time with loved ones, taking a much-needed reprieve after a long year of work, and — perhaps most of all — indulging in festive foods that warm the soul. However, those fuzzy feelings can come with a cost to your waistline, as a recent study illustrates. A systematic review published…
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Rudy Kadlub (100KG) Sets Masters Raw (w/Wraps) World Record Total of 590 Kilograms
74-year-old powerlifter Rudy Kadlub has multiple Masters world records to his name. At the Lane Event Center in Eugene, OR, on Nov. 19-23, 2023, at the International Powerlifting League (IPL) World Championships, Kadlub competed in the 100-kilogram raw (w/wraps) class and added more strength accolades to his mantle. Kadlub scored two IPL Masters world records — squatting 217.5 kilograms (479.5…
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IPF Squat World Record Broken Thrice in the 120KG Class at IPF Equipped World Championships
The 120-kilogram class at the 2023 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Equipped World Championships (WEC) from Nov. 13-18, 2023, in Druskininkai, Lithuania, saw an intense battle for the IPF squat world record. It was broken three times in a clash between Sen Yang (TPE) and Danylo Kovalov (UKR), who met on the lifting platform for the first time. Sen Yang…
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Are Long-Length Partial Reps the Secret to Hypertrophy?
Natural bodybuilder, powerlifter, and BSc-qualified biochemist Jeff Nippard released a YouTube video on Nov. 11, 2023, hailing long-length partial reps as “The World’s Smartest Intensity Technique for Muscle Growth.” That’s a bold claim, but he presented evidence to back it up. Traditional reps typically require the lifter to move the weight through their full range of motion (ROM)….
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From Golden Idols to Mass Monsters: Every Bodybuilding Era, Explained
Bodybuilding has a long and varied history, which, in the past few decades, fans have begun to group into “eras.” The best-known example of this — the so-called “Golden Era” — lasted from the 1960s to the early 1980s and was a time when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Zane, Serge Nubret, Franco Columbu, and countless other legends were in…
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Daria Rusanenko (84KG) Squats IPF Equipped World Record of 278 Kilograms (613 Pounds)
Ukraine’s Daria Rusanenko lifts in equipped International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) competition. She moved up in the 84-kilogram class in 2021 but has yet to fill it out, routinely weighing in well under 80 kilograms (176 pounds). Rusanenko has a year left in the Junior (ages 20-23) category but is already one of the world’s top lifters in the…
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