Pandemic Fitness Trends Have Reached New Heights

Pandemic Fitness Trends Have Reached New Heights

The far right appears to have taken advantage of widespread at-home exercise trends to further radicalize the physical mixed martial arts (MMA) and combat sports areas, which has been going on for more than a decade. Researchers discovered earlier this month that a network of online “fascist fitness” chat groups on the encrypted Telegram platform … Read more

Nijat Rahimov, The 2016 Olympic Weightlifting Champion, Has Been Banned For Eight Years.

Nijat Rahimov, The 2016 Olympic Weightlifting Champion, Has Been Banned For Eight Years.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Swiss-based international athletic regulatory authority, released a press release on March 22, 2022, declaring that Kazakh weightlifter and 2016 Olympic Champion Nijat Rahimov will serve an eight-year suspension for doping. According to the press release, the CAS reached a decision after the International Weightlifting Federation filed an … Read more

Ukrainian Athletes Oppose Russian Invasion By Posting Protest Videos for CrossFit Open Workouts

Ukranian athletes

As the entire community grapples with a significant geopolitical crisis not seen in decades, Ukrainian CrossFitters took to CrossFit‘s Open leaderboard to record a protest film decrying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After workout 22.1, five Ukrainian athletes dominated the male Open leaderboard, and Svetlana Pushkareva, a 17-year-old from Ukraine, briefly led the women’s leaderboard, however, … Read more

Which Athlete Will Win The Arnold Classic Trophy In 2022?

Arnold classic competitors

Nine men hope to win one of bodybuilding’s most prestigious contests, but who will win? Ohio’s capital city of Columbus has been chosen as the location for the 2022 Arnold Sports Festival. The iconic bodybuilding competition will celebrate its 34th year in 2022 when the Arnold Classic returns. Second only to Mr. Olympia, it’s regarded … Read more

Japan’s most famous writer Yukio Mishima, Bodybuilding And A failed Coup Attempt Which Led To Suicide

Yukio Mishima

The foreign press has long adored Yukio Mishima, a writer from Japan. To describe him as “Japan’s Hemingway,” Life magazine labeled him “Japan’s Dynamo of the Letters.” In 1970, he was named “Japan’s Renaissance Man” after appearing on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. The New York Times cover featured him in a … Read more

Women In Fitness – How Things Have Changed

fit woman sitting at gym

Women were not included into the fitness culture until the early 20th century. Women with no-nonsense attitudes and a desire to reconcile the sexes in terms of gender standards were ushered in by the roar of the twenties. From that point on, no woman would be turned away from a gym or other male-dominated setting. … Read more

Another Reason To Stay Fit – Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Lesser In Physically Fit People

Another Reason To Stay Fit - Alzheimer's Disease Risk Lesser In Physically Fit People

More physically fit individuals have lower rates of Alzheimer’s disease development than physically unfit individuals. This finding will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 74th Annual Meeting, to be held in Seattle, Washington, from April 2 to 7, 2022, in person and virtually from April 24 to 26, 2022. A preliminary study was … Read more