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2024 HYROX Icheon Results — Heck, Cheung Win
The 2024 HYROX Icheon was a Pro division race in South Korea that featured Indiviual and Doubles races for both male and female athletes. The HYROX Pro men’s race saw Gabe Heck of the USA lock in one of only two sub-60-minute times to stand atop the podium. Claire Cheung of Hong Kong claimed gold in the HYROX…
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2024 HYROX Dubai Results — Mrabet, Skillen Crowned Champions
The 2024 HYROX Dubai race took place on Feb. 11, 2024. The contest featured the HYROX Pro and HYROX Pro Doubles divisions in the standard HYROX race comprised of eight functional fitness stations interspersed with one-kilometer runs. At the conclusion of the race, Mohamed Ali Mrabet of Qatar and Jade Skillen of the UK won in the HYROX…
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How 7-Time Figure Olympia Champion Cydney Gillon Trains Legs During Her Off-Season
With seven consecutive Figure Olympia championships, Cydney Gillon is arguably the most dominant bodybuilder currently in the IFBB Pro League. Her graceful stage presence, flowing symmetry, balance, and shape set her apart from the field on the judges’ scorecards. On Feb. 12, 2024, Gillon published a video on her YouTube channel wherein she shared her off-season, high-volume, hypertrophy-focused…
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Taylor Atwood Will Not Compete at the 2024 Powerlifting America Raw Nationals
Elite powerlifter Taylor Atwood holds the top spot in the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) rankings on GL points. A three time world champion, Atwood has dominated the 74-kilogram class for years. Atwood holds eight national powerlifting titles. He has competed in Raw Nationals every year from 2014 to 2022 and remains unbeaten at that level. However, he missed that meet…
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World Record 1,053 Pound Squat (and What If Tom Haviland Did Strongman)? — Strength Weekly 2/16
Strength weekly is bringing you everything you need to know from around the barbell game! This week, we’re covering: Here’s the episode breakdown: 00:00 Intro00:41 Run of Show02:30 The BIGGEST powerlifting show of all time09:27 Jesus Olivares’ big time squat12:16 Tom Haviland’s strongman potential18:30 HYROX expands to Canada Follow David Thomas Tao and Phil Blechman on Instagram.
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The 7 Best Treadmills for Apartments for 2024, Chosen by Experts
Trying to fit one of the market’s best treadmills in your apartment can be as tough as convincing your neighbors it won’t be too loud. Sure, motorized gym equipment is bound to take up some space (and make a bit of noise), but there are plenty of approachable options out there for apartment dwellers in search of cardio…
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What is Separation Value?: Training Smarter With Training Think Tank’s Kyle Ruth and Brannen Dorman
How do you create separation in a CrossFit workout? You work harder, right? You don’t put the bar down. You drop and do your next burpee. You embrace the pain and just…go…faster. Sure, that’s part of it, but Kyle Ruth and Brannen Dorman from Training Think Tank and the Corpus Animus podcast believe there are ways to increase performance…
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These Are (Some of) the Best Fitness Content Creators to Follow in 2024
The days of getting your fitness advice exclusively from magazines (or, worse yet, your high school gym coach) are dead and gone. Social media certainly comes with its own perils, but one of the best things about Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok is that there’s probably a creator or health coach out there who gets you — if you know…
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Echelon Connect EX-5 Bike Review (2024): To Screen or Not To Screen?
After Peloton helped kickstart a surge in popularity for connected home fitness equipment, Echelon has emerged as one of its true competitors, having created some of the best exercise bikes on the market. As the entry-level model in Echelon’s Connect series, the Echelon Connect EX-5 Bike is the most affordable — but also the most limited in its…
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NordicTrack EXP 10i Treadmill Review: A NordicTrack for Newbies (2024)
NordicTrack has consistently made some of the best treadmills on the market, so of course we got our hands on the EXP 10i, one of the most compact treadmills NordicTrack offers. Updated from the EXP 7i, this treadmill provides a 2.75 CHP motor which powers up to 12 percent incline and 10 miles per hour max speed. We’ve…
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