Yaroslav Radashkevich, 20, suffered a compound fracture of his tibia Sunday during the doomed lift at the Eurasian Weightlifting Championship in Khabarovsk ...

The setting for this horrifying video is the Eurasian Weightlifting Championship, held May 19 in Khabarovsk in southeastern Russia. The central figure is ...

How Olympic weightlifting helped one writer find joy in fitness again—even while wearing a singlet in front of strangers.

Most of the diet tips you hear for weightlifters have to do with building muscle. Makes sense: strength training is the number one way to build muscle, and.

On Friday, USA Weightlifting announced the qualifying totals for select 2020 National Events. Here's what you need to know: National University & Under 25 ...

SAN DIEGO -- A new machine combines resistance training with a screen displaying a personal trainer in the latest high tech gadget to keep you moving.

Weightlifting, which is one of the oldest sports known to mankind, was firmly rooted in Kandy with many of its exponents going on to represent Sri Lanka and win ...

This story contains *content* that may disturb some readers. Russian Yaroslav Radashkevich will be sidelined for a while - perhaps permanently - after suffering a ...

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has written to each of its 193 member federations with a stark warning that a repeat of the doping pr...

Local weightlifter Scottie Hubbard had a wake-up call in the fall of 2012. He wasn't active and didn't exercise. He hated most gyms and did not want to run.

Teenager Kate Diaz, the youngest member of the Philippine delegation to the 2019 Arafura Games, managed to win a silver medal in her weight class.

The 2019 Nike USA Weightlifting National Championships is officially rockin' and rollin' at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. The event runs from May 9th to ...

Transgender weightlifter Mary Gregory (Screenshot) A biological male competing as a female weightlifter has been stripped of four world records, the 100% Raw ...

Mary Gregory received the trophies, posed for photos and four days later was erased from the record books because organizers classified her as a man.

FARGO, N.D. — Two years ago, Jeremy Grinsteiner signed up for his first Crossfit meet. Little did he realize, lifting a barbell would do more than just get his ...

Strongman Martin Tye just made history by lifting an eye-watering 505kg in a seated deadlift, beating a previous record of 501kg, which he set at the Arnold ...

A weightlifting league has revoked awards to a transgender athlete who claimed to have broken several women's weightlifting records.

A trans weightlifter is receiving backlash after racking up multiple wins during the 100% Raw Weightlifting Federation competition in Virginia.

Sharie Mobley, 69, is standing proof that age is only a mindset. She's known as the Granny Hulk, deadlifting 305 pounds and setting records in her class and ...

Lara trains with her mother who is also a champion sportswoman.

A transgender weightlifter has been stripped of her controversial world records after a ruling from the RAW Powerlifting Federation. Mary Gregory sparked ...

Everyone in CJ Cummings' hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina, seems to know about his heroics as a weightlifter. It has become a major part of the ...

Most of the diet tips you hear for weightlifters have to do with building muscle. Makes sense: strength training is the number one way to build muscle, and.

In an unexpected instant, her minor hockey season was finished and it was only December. But she didn't know that until a couple of weeks later.

More than 10 Indian weightlifters have been asked to leave their national team's training camp after testing positive for performance enhancement drugs, The ...

Monday, May 13, 2019. Whether it's law enforcement or weightlifting, Rocky Mount's Cpl. Laurie Middleswarth is a stand out. Recognized as the strongest ...

A biological male who identifies as a transgender female is fighting for the right to compete in competitive weightlifting but is facing stiff opposition from the ...

A transgender U.S. weightlifter broke women's world records at a recent powerlifting competition but was stripped of her awards when organizers said they ...

USA Weightlifting (USAW) has approached hundreds of athletic directors of institutions affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Ath...

A fitness professional by day, Mrs. In Training Lauryn shares 5 tips for how to feel and look great leading up to your wedding day.

EBAY can be a great place to grab a bargain, but among the cheap deals there are pricier items that will leave bidders parting with a lot of cash. Recently, an ...

The squad, consisting of 16 students at George Rogers Clark High School and three from Robert D. Campbell Junior High, competed in the state meet in ...

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) have completed the second part of an agreement with the International Testing Agency (ITA) in a move effectively ...

On Sunday, a biological man who identifies as a woman took the Masters world records for women's squat, women's bench press, and women's deadlift.

Even though there is an aerobic aspect to dance music (it is about dancing after all), the industry that surrounds it hasn't always been in the best shape.

The new workout machine that's like having a personal trainer with you every step of the way. It's called Tonal and it's a high tech weight lifting machine that ...

Weightlifting events again headlined the sporting action on the second day of the Arafura Games in Darwin in Australia.

Kait Mendall's ranked with the top powerlifters in the world.

The oh-so-gorgeous Samantha Akkineni is among one of the most successful, fashionable and fittest actors down South. Samantha, who has been a part of ...

Headphones are always a tricky item for your fitness workout. And for weightlifting, you need to consider a few extra features: Sweat-proof, Secure-fitting, and ...

Cape Coral's Adrien Canty, LaBelle's Jaime Deras Jr. and Riverdale's Harrison Strohl are finalists for the Boys Weightlifter of the Year.

Fitness in golf is, and has been, the hot topic in terms of performance and the future of the game. Understanding how to train, when to train and how that relates ...

In a shocking development, several lifters, including a 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who competed in the National weightlifting championships at ...

It's been a heck of a week down in Guatemala. The 2019 Pan American Weightlifting Championships have come to a close and the United States finished with ...

Scottish band Trashcan Sinatras will tour this fall, playing 1996's A Happy Pocket and 2004's Weightlifting in full, acoustically. The One Night, Two Albums tour ...

Laurel Hubbard has a quick exit from the Arafura Games in Darwin with three failed lifts.

With the national championships right around the corner, four local athletes have carved out spots for themselves as some of the nation's top weightlifters.

USA Weightlifting has named their Pan American Games Team to compete in Lima, Peru. The Pan American Games are set to run from July 26th through August ...

Paris 2024 has welcomed the certainty of weightlifting's place on the programme for the Olympic Games, after its conditional status was lifted.

Fiji Weightlifting Coach Henry Elder says Fiji has the potential to do extremely well in the World Junior Weightlifting Championship which starts next month.

She can lift more than double her own body weight above her head but Zoe Smith has a confession to make:

Elena says that weight lifting is helping her gain her independence and a new outlook on life.

China's unstoppable weightlifters racked up another nine world records, the United States had by far its best continental results, Japan and Korea con...

A WEIGHTLIFTER'S attempted squat went horrifically wrong when his leg broke in several places.

The members of the Arnold girls weightlifting team are now sporting their title rings!

Nick Shaw, a 2005 Bronson High School graduate, was back in town roaming the halls of his high school, talking to former teachers and friends on Thursday.

Laurel Hubbard's return to the international competitive stage hasn't gone to plan with the Kiwi weightlifter failing all three of her attempts at the Arafura Games ...

APIA, 21 MAY 2019 (SAMOA GOVT) – Weightlifters from around the world will be in Samoa to compete during the XVI Pacific Games, as the event also doubles ...

India's Pardeep Singh won a bronze medal in clean and jerk in the 102kg category at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Ningbo on Friday. Pradeep lifted ...

Officials of the 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation said they were duped when a biological male registered for the recent women's competition in Charlottesville.

She's a cheerleader at school and an Olympic weightlifter at home. Emma Nye is undefeated in every age group she competes in and yet she could be the best ...

Bulldogs use huge spring season to keep the huge trophy.

You need to lift weights to maintain your muscles as you age. A system called blood flow restriction training (BFR) makes that easier.

A man claiming to be female has been criticised for breaking four women's weightlifting world records. Known as Mary Gregory, the US transgender powerlifter ...

69-year-old weightlifter Sharie Mobley is standing proof that age is only a mindset.

The dispute is only the second of its kind to reach court in the former Soviet republic, where sex is a largely taboo subject.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS (KARK) — Off the beaten path, inside a warehouse building in North Little Rock, Arkansas a world-record deadlifter rocks ...

He currently holds seven national records in weightlifting, but Jayden Pretorius is not *content* with that and is aiming to add a few more to his name in June.

Check out who made the team for the 2019 season.

A look at whether exercise really can make a difference with anxiety and depression, or similar mental illness diagnoses that affect one in five Americans.

A Woodlands weightlifter has earned gold from the Arnold Classic weightlifting competition. Martin Venter competed in the 102-kilogram division for youth this ...

The New Zealand weightlifting team rewrote the record books at the Arafura Games, an Olympic qualifying event held in Australia over the weekend. 17-year...

Codi Armstrong breaks four more records at 2019 Canadian Masters Weightlifting Championships.

Football coach Brad Swanson will conduct a weightlifting clinic for any of Kewanee High School's incoming freshman, sophomore, junior or senior football ...

There are two things we really want you to do every time you work out: warm up and cool down. You may be tempted to head straight to the weights as soon as ...

Five sports reflected changes in their list of events as the Southeast Asian Games Federation continued to tweak the agenda of competitions in the 30th edition ...

Middle Tennessee is home to some amazing people doing extraordinary things. Meet Wade Johnson, who at an age when most would start to slow down a little, ...

More than 10 top weightlifters, including a 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, have been recalled from the Indian national training camp in Patia...

The National Weightlifting Team, Black Cranes picked three medals at the just ended 2019 Africa Seniors Weightlifting Championship in Cairo, Egypt. Athletes ...

You can build more strength during low rep, heavy weight strength training by using back-off sets, which consist of a high rep, low weight burnout set ...

Weightlifting Fiji has been part of the commission's community programmes around the country. ...

Last month, USA weightlifter Kate Nye went six-for-six in the -71kg weight class to win the 2019 Pan American Championships and bring home three gold ...

Mike Tyson, Jake Plummer, Ricky Williams and Floyd Landis are among more than 150 current and former athletes who support a petition to remove marijuana ...

AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — In high school, Crystal Pittman set local weightlifting records, but it wasn't until years later in the Army that she began competing in ...

The high school freshman from Union County, Florida, has otherworldly power that has gone viral, and it's growing almost as fast as her desire to do good.

Charles Barkley was famously arrested in 1991 for getting in a fight after a game with the Milwaukee Bucks.

Start lifting barbells with these beginner-friendly lifts, including the back squat, bent-over row, bench press, and a modified deadlift.

Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than ...

RESPONSE from WF on October 2018; Weightlifting Fiji did not initiate or ask Eileen or the athletes to withdraw. It is obvious that they now realise the enormity ...

There's a new five-star contender out of the state of Florida as part of an active Four-Star Friday.

The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 run July 24-Aug. 9, 2020, and while they may be nearly 20 months away there's a lot to learn on your quest to becoming the ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Thailand has volunteered to ban itself from Tokyo Olympic Games weightlifting next year because of doping, another blow to a sport ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thailand's weightlifters face a ban from the Tokyo 2020 Games after six positive tests, two of them from reigning Olympic champions, at last ...

Thailand has voluntarily banned itself from all weightlifting, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, because of its recent doping record but will still host the ...

Warning: Graphic *content*. A female weightlifter's arm snapped in several places during a competition. The French athlete, Gaelle Ketchanke, was attempting to ...

A professor of orthopedic surgery and pediatrics explains the risks and benefits for children and adolescents—and when it's OK to add weights.

Resistance exercise, such as weightlifting, benefits cognitive abilities like attention, reasoning and memory, according to a new study from the University of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian weightlifter Tatia Lortkipanidze is suing the coach of the national team for sexual harassment. Lortkipanidze, who won a bronze ...

Small amounts of “resistance exercise – including weightlifting and pushups -- has definite health benefits and seems to have a direct effect on the heart, new ...

We asked a handful of experts to break down the benefits of the most common weight-lifting accessories, when to use (or not use) them. Gear up and get lifting.