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The first woman to land the impossible move just repeated it in training at the Tokyo Olympics. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles landed the Yurchenko Double Pike in the jumping exercise at the US Classic 2021. The first woman to ever perform the “impossible” move in competition mastered the exact same move on the training podium […]

You can make athletes optimally faster, better conditioned, and even tougher in the same program if you understand a few simple principles. A new school year is just around the corner. There will be coaches everywhere during the season trying to prepare their athletes for game time and off-season coaches trying to make their athletes […]

The Philippines’ first gold medalist gets a new house and $ 660,000, plus the gratitude of a nation that has been waiting for this moment since 1924. The Philippines has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1924. On the 3rd day of the Tokyo Olympics, on one last breath that kept everything in the […]

You can make athletes optimally faster, better conditioned, and even tougher in the same program if you understand a few simple principles. A new school year is just around the corner. Everywhere there will be coaches during the season trying to prepare their athletes for game time and off-season coaches trying to make their athletes […]

On the exercise platform, the world’s best weightlifter pulls 220 kg, cleanly and jerks 255 kg with ease. Giorgi Tchintcharauli, the dOct. The Georgian National Weightlifting Team posted a video of Lasha Talakhadse’s training sessions at the Tokyo Olympics and it should be enough to send any of his competitors home. Continue reading

Strongman Cheick “Iron Biby” Sanou breaks Eddie Hall’s world record with a 477.4 lb (217 kg) axle press. Iron Biby, the strongman born in Burkino Faso, née Cheick Sanou, broke the world record for axle baling held by the world’s strongest man, Eddie Hall, since 2017. Iron Biby broke the record by dropping 478.4 lbs […]

The BMI can give a false impression of the nature of health. There are more important metrics. A study on the ratio of body fat mass and lean mass to total mortality, published earlier in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is freely available to all, and the results confirm what most Breaking Muscle readers […]

You have sport climbing and boxing so why not? Let’s face it, CrossFit and MMA are more popular than sport climbing and boxing these days. So why are we looking at the latter rather than the former at the Tokyo Olympics? It could be that the process of reporting to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) […]

Greg Glassman is promoting, supposedly for an upcoming book, but it sounds a lot like he still has some bills to settle. A new article in the New Yorker, Does CrossFit Have a Future, sounds like some sort of comeback tour for Greg Glassman, the controversial founder of CrossFit. Glassman tells the author of the […]

The first woman to land the impossible move just repeated it in training at the Tokyo Olympics. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles landed the Yurchenko Double Pike in the jumping exercise at the US Classic 2021. The first woman to ever perform the “impossible” move in competition mastered the exact same move on the training podium […]