Tag Archives: weightlifting
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Watch a Texas High School Senior Bench Press 700 Pounds (Video)
If an NFL player had bench-pressed 700-pounds, we’d probably tell you about it—seeing as how Larry Allen‘s 705-pound lift is still considered to be an unofficial NFL record. So it goes without saying that a Texas High School football player bench-pressing 700-pounds is certainly newsworthy. The feat was accomplished by Pilot Point High senior, Matt Poursoltani, [...]
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Check Out IFBB Pro Figure Competitor Larissa Reis’s Sexy Workout Routine (Video)
Brazil’s Larissa Reis isn’t a bodybuilder. Not technically, anyway. She’s competes in IFBB Pro Figure competitions, which is basically a step below true bodybuilding in terms of extreme muscle mass. However, to the layman, yeah, she’s kind of a bodybuilder. Of course, the 27-year-old Larissa Reis is also a model for the “Vitrix Model Team,” whatever [...]
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Weightlifting Fail: Blonde Girl Drops the Bar on Her Neck (Video)
Remember those videos about how to pick up a chick at the gym? Well, here is a very important piece of follow-up advice: if that chick has a broken neck, do not pick her up. In fact, don’t move her at all. Just get her to lie perfectly still until the paramedics arrive. Why do [...]
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This 17-Year-Old Female Crossfit Enthusiast From Norway Is Amazing (Video)
The CrossFit conditioning program was founded by Greg Glassman in 2000. In 2005 there were 13 certified CrossFit gyms. Today there are over 4,000 all around the globe. So, needless to say, people are crazy about this high-intensity conditioning regimen. And, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable CrossFit enthusiasts out there is Suzanne [...]
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How to Pick Up a Girl at the Gym: The Sequel (Video)
Hey, remember that story we brought you last week about the “How To Pick Up a Girl at the Gym” instructional video? Well, at the time, it had over a million views on YouTube. However, in the week since we told you about it, the video has gotten a lot more views. Currently it’s sitting [...]
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Instruction Video: How To Pick Up A Chick At The Gym
If you’re like me, one of the reasons you chose the gym you hardly ever go to was because it seemed like a great way to pick up good-looking chicks. Then, once you got there, you realized that picking up chicks at the gym is actually not as easy as it seems. Well, luckily, you [...]
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German Weightlifter Matthias Steiner Drops 432 Pounds On His Head At Olympics (GIF)
Weightlifting is supposed to be one of the many non-contact sports taking place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but today it was anything but a non-contact sport for German weightlifter Matthias Steiner. You see, Steiner entered the men’s over 105kg weightlifting event as the defending Olympic champion, but during his second lift of [...]
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Weightlifter Sa Jae-Hyouk’s Dislocated Elbow Is The 2012 London Olympics’ Most Gruesome Injury (Photos & Video)
With so many athletes taking part in so many different events, the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England are bound to deliver at least a few gruesome injuries throughout the course of the two week event. We were reminded of that fact during the men’s 77kg weightlifting event on Wednesday. The injured party in this [...]
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29 Amazing Workout Gifs
Nobody works out as much as they should. Or at least, most people don’t. And it’s not just because we’re too lazy to go to the gym. There are tons of unique and innovative home workout products available—like the Shake Weight or the Fitness Ace Power—but those just end up collecting dust. So what, then, [...]
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11 Incredibly Muscular Female Competitive Bodybuilders
Yesterday, we brought you a list of the top 11 men from the world of pro bodybuilding. Today, we bring you the ladies. And while women’s bodybuilding is not quite as advanced as men’s bodybuilding as measured by the number of high-level competitors, like almost all women’s sports, this one is definitely growing. While there [...]
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11 Extremely Ripped Competitive Bodybuilders
Bust out the speedos and body grease, folks. It’s time to get pumped about bodybuilding, because the 2011 Mr. Olympia competition is coming up in about a month. Mr. Olympia, of course, is the premier event in the world of pro bodybuilding—the event that made 7-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name back in the [...]
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Deadlift Like A Boss (GIF)
Talk about getting pumped up! Here is an idea. How about we get this kid in the ring with 8-year-old Stevo Poulin. Now that would be a match-up of epic proportions. A big and bad as this kid may look, I think my money is on Stevo. Who ya got?
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Weight Training In Mother Russia Is Strange, To Say The Least (Video)
What was that saying again from the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story? “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”? Well I guess weightlifters in Russia have a similar motto: “If you can lift a human, you can lift a weight.” This guy can clearly lift a human. In fact, he [...]
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Weightlifter Faceplant (Video)
What is the best way to celebrate a weightlifting victory? How about by letting out a load roar as you set the bar down before faceplanting directly into the audience! I guess this would have been a lot more embarrassing had he failed to lift the required weight before falling face first into the cheering [...]
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Chick Projectile Vomits During 424-Pound Deadlift (Video)
I just don’t get it. If lifting a certain amount of weight is going to force you to projectile vomit all over the spectators in attendance, perhaps you should consider lifting a little less weight. It must already be tough enough to get people to come out and watch weightlifting events, and seeing competitors vomit [...]
