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Weightlifting

ReThink Review: Pain & Gain - Meatheads and Mayhem

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.02.2013 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

With a $25 million budget that's probably less than what a Transformers sequel spends on fake sweat for Shia LaBeouf, Pain & Gain tells the true story of a trio of Miami weightlifters whose dreams of quick money turned into a crime spree.

3 Surprising Reasons Why Everyone Should Lift Weights

James Clear | Posted 05.06.2013 | Healthy Living
James Clear

You are on this planet to do amazing things, and I honestly believe that lifting weights can help you do those things better. Happy and healthy people have a better chance to live with confidence and contribute value to the world than anyone else. Don't take that for granted.

The Crushing Truth on How to Lose Weight and Get Healthy

Jeff Sorensen | Posted 04.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Jeff Sorensen

A beginning rock climber doesn't list Mount Everest as the first mountain they're going to start rock climbing. It has to come in steps. If you have to lose 20 pounds, make your first goal five pounds, then the next goal five pounds, and so on.

Curls for Your... Core?

Jeff Halevy | Posted 03.25.2013 | Healthy Living
Jeff Halevy

Biceps curls are a staple in many men's workout routines. They also happen to be a staple of ridicule in the training world. But I think we might be rushing to judgment by convicting the curl -- which, as it turns out, might be a great core exercise!

'Evan, You're Fat Because You Hate You'

Evan Ross Katz | Posted 10.27.2012 | Gay Voices
Evan Ross Katz

The other day I looked in the mirror, and without flexing, I actually saw a muscle. Alarmed, I called my roommate into the bathroom for a second opinion. Sure enough, it was a baby muscle. With a little help from my very own chiseled Mr. Miyagi, I had said "no" to Miranda's glazed doughnut.

Challenging Impossibility: Challenging the Oscars

Mark Juddery | Posted 08.17.2012 | Entertainment
Mark Juddery

Recent documentary Challenging Impossibility has been well-received since it premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York, and has has even been tipped for an Oscar nomination. There's only one problem: It hasn't been released yet.

China's Female Super Heavyweight Breaks Weightlifting World Record

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 10.05.2012 | Sports

LONDON — The world's strongest woman is quite the weightlifter. She's just not much of a farmer. China's Zhou Lulu won a record-smashing super-...

Let's Just Stop Commenting On Olympians' Weight

Salon | Posted 07.31.2012 | Women

Holley Mangold is a 22-year-old American Olympian. She’s our country’s best hope of winning a medal in her field — a sport the U.S. has not achi...

Teen Girls With A 'Need For Speed' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.26.2012 | Teen

"Ever since I was little, I had a need for speed," said 15-year-old Ashley Weber told the New Jersey Star-Ledger. The New Jersey teen, along with ...

Teen Olympic Weightlifter Responds To Twitter Bullies

The | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 07.25.2012 | Teen

Eighteen-year-old Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith is one of the strongest young women in the world. But the British athlete is emotionally tough, too, ...

Raising A 10-Year-Old World Record Holder

Posted 07.11.2012 | Parents

Ten-year-old Naomi Kutin is part of an elite group. Like tween skateboard master Tom Schaar, she's joined a tiny contingent of kids whose short biogra...

David Moye

323-Pound Female Weightlifter Dreams Of Olympic Gold

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 09.15.2011 | Weird News

If you only met Holley Mangold on the phone and based your perceptions of her just on a conversation, you'd think she was like any other 21-year-old g...

Weightlifting Helps Breast Cancer Survivors: Study

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painfu...