The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships have just concluded in Sofia, Bulgaria, and among the world’s strongest athletes in the competition was none other than 2023’s Fittest Woman on Earth, Laura Horvath. Just four months ago, Horvath won the 2023 Hungarian Weightlifting National Championship in the 76kg weight category with a total of 215 kilograms: 95-kilogram snatch 120-kilogram clean and jerk (Hungarian National Record) At the 2024 Europeans, Horvath once again competed in the 76kg weight category and finished with a total of 205 kilos, good enough for seventh place overall. Vie ..read more

Strength Weekly is the show taking you in depth on all aspects of the barbell game and beyond. This week, we break down the four biggest stories in strength. We’ve got Official Strongman Games Results for 2023, CrossFit Champ Laura Horvath wins the Hungarian Weightlifting Championship, powerlifter Russel Orhii squats 22 kilograms OVER the world record for a DOUBLE, and our Strength Tip of the Week is allll about tempo! Watch the full episode below! https://youtu.be/vnWSR9G5bToVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Official Strongman Games and CrossFitter Dominates Weightlifting ..read more

The 2023 Fittest Woman on Earth® and 2023 Rogue Invitational champion, Laura Horvath, was dominant throughout the 2023 season. In addition to claiming her first CrossFit Games title and successfully defending her Rogue Invitational throne, Horvath took her Olympic weightlifting talents to her home country of Hungary to compete in the 2023 Hungarian Weightlifting National Championships (HWNC) on Nov. 19, 2023, in the 76-kilogram weight class. 2023 Hungarian Weightlifting National Championships Results — Laura Horvath, 76KG En route to winning gold, Horvath scored the following lifts in her ..read more

Mat Fraser is building a coalition. On Nov. 7, 2022, his organization Hard Work Pays Off (HWPO) Training will launch a new branch of its coaching service called “HWPO Lift.” Lift is an Olympic lifting-based strength training cycle, with each cycle taking 12 weeks, and is supervised by Team USA Senior International weightlifting coach Aimee Anaya Everett of Catalyst Athletics.  Anaya Everett has stated that a primary goal of Lift is to “take the guesswork out of programming” so participants can sharpen their Olympic lifting skills while still keeping up with the varied challenges pres ..read more

Loading 200 kilograms (440.9 pounds) on a barbell would be a respectable deadlift for seasoned gymgoers, but what about as a press to a squat? On Jun. 30, 2022, U105KG strongman and CrossFit coach Graciano Rubio posted a (very) heavy overhead squat to his social media — a whopping 440.9-pound, or 200-kilogram lift. Rubio loaded the 200-kilogram barbell onto his shoulders and stepped out of the squat rack while wearing wrist wraps and a lifting belt. He proceeded to behind-the-neck press the barbell overhead and then deep squat the weight in a controlled fashion, ultimately locking it out ..read more

Craig Richey of TeamRICHEY YouTube fame — a channel that covers the current events, athletes, and news in the CrossFit® space — competed at the 2022 British Senior Weightlifting Championships at the Derby Arena in Derby, England, on Jan. 29, 2022. Richey weighed into the 89-kilogram weight class and his prowess with a barbell earned him the gold medal with a 291-kilogram total. Here were the results of that weight class, including Richey’s full performance: 2022 British Senior Weightlifting Championships | 89KG Craig Richey Snatch — 131 | 135 | 135 Clean & Jerk — 156 | 160 | 160 Total ..read more

There are an endless number of variables that can potentially improve or hinder your training at home or in the gym. Some are environmental, such as the size of the space or the availability of the equipment, some are learnable, such as improved form or increasing consistency, and some affect the quality of training. Of course, proper nutrition and sufficient rest can improve your workouts, but so can proper gear. (1) Specifically, a custom-fitted mouthpiece. Research suggests that using a mouthpiece during training can increase muscle strength and endurance, particularly for lower-body power ..read more

Reaching the pinnacle of one strength sport — powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, CrossFit, strongman, bodybuilding — is a monumental feat. Becoming the top dog in more than one strength sport is a legendary display of strength, discipline, and ability to push the human body to limits only a few handfuls of people can relate to. Best Multi-Sport Strength Athletes To recognize and pay homage to the athletes who have climbed to the top of now one but two (or even three) strength sports, BarBend has compiled a list of the athletes that have claimed the most hardware across the elite competitive ..read more

On March 29, 2021, weightlifter Dmitry Klokov shared his results for CrossFit Open workouts 21.3 and 21.4. The workouts test different aspects of participants’ fitness. 21.3 was an intense conditioning workout involving muscle-ups, thrusters, front squats, pull-ups, and toes-to-bar, while 21.4 stresses an athletes’ capacity to lift a four-part barbell complex of a deadlift, a clean, a hang clean, and a jerk. It should come as no surprise that the 38-year old Olympic silver-medalist crushed 21.4 with a max weight of 150 kilograms (330.7 pounds) to rank 12th in the event (at the time this a ..read more

China’s Liu Huanhua is a frontiersman — literally. On Monday, Apr. 8, 2024, Huanhua made modern weightlifting history as the first 102-kilogram athlete to set world records in his category. Huanhua’s 232-kilogram (511.4-pound) clean & jerk and 413-kilogram (910.5-pound) Total are both the inaugural world records a lifetime best international performance for China’s gold-medal bet at the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games. This landmark occurred at the 2024 IWF World Cup, the last-chance qualifier for Paris, which runs from Mar. 31 to Apr. 11 in Phuket, Thailand. Huanhua had already wedged himself ..read more