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62-Year-Old Former Marine Sets New Plank World Record https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

The abdominal plank is a staple in plenty of fitness regimens , but it's safe to say most people aren't exactly thrilled when a trainer calls for it during bootcamp class . Just a minute or two of planking will get the average gym goer's core feeling like it's on fire, so it's impossible to imagine how former marine George Hood felt after planking for 8 hours, 15 minutes, and 15 seconds to set a new Guinness World Record .  It would be an impressive feat at any age, but the fact that Hood set the record for " longest time in the plank position (male) " at 62 years old makes it all the more incredible and proves that age is truly just a number when you prioritize training. And this isn't the first time he's done it, either. Hood held the longest plank record back in 2011 after holding the position for an hour and 20 minutes, but he lost it in 2016 in a head-to-head battle with China's Mao Weidong, who managed to hold a plank for 8 hours an...
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Strongman Eddie Hall Sets CrossFit World Record https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Strongman Eddie Hall is no stranger to setting world records . He holds the all-time deadlift record at 500kg (1,102 lbs.); the axle press world record at 476 lbs.; and an unofficial silver dollar deadlift (a deadlift with a barbell double the height of an average one) world record at 1,182 lbs. And while he may be retired from Strongman competitions, Hall’s apparently not quite done setting world records. The 2017 World’s Strongest Man recently set the world record for the Isabel CrossFit workout , which consists of 30 snatches with 135 lbs. for time, at the CrossFit European Championships. Hall didn’t just break the old record of 1:20, previously held by CrossFit legend Rich Froning , he smashed it at 50.9 seconds. Watch him in action here:         View this post on Instagram                   I said I was gonna smash the crossfit world record for the GRACE/ISABEL workout...
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Julius Maddox Bench Pressed 765 Pounds for an Unofficial World Record https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Elite powerlifter Julius Maddox just keeps getting stronger , and he shows no signs of slowing down. For the fourth time in under a year, the Kentuckian has set a new raw bench press world record—this time at 765 pounds.  The lift is unofficial because it was done at his gym and not during competition, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. Furthermore, the lift looked insanely easy for Maddox, and there was even a slight pause at the bottom. Check out the lift here:          View this post on Instagram                   🚨PR ALERT 🚨 (347 kg) 765lbs X 1 “ROAD TO 800lb Raw Benchpress” ————————————————————— The people who tried to bury me didn’t know I was a seed “Be Irregular” ————————————————————— Handoff @fosjosh3 @official_iron_edge_gym @jailhousestrong @tuffwraps➡️Villain Wristwraps / promo Julius87 • @kalamazookeeper next meet / May 30th @mhpstrongu...
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After Losing 35 Pounds for Amazon's 'Hunters,' Zack Schor is Trying to Get Fit Again https://ift.tt/2SU3arN

Michael Buckner / Variety / Shutterstock When actor Zack Schor read the script for Hunters , an Amazon-produced show about Nazis living in 1970s New York, he didn't think about how the role could further his career—he thought about his grandparents, and how he wanted to tell the story as honestly as he could, even if it meant wrecking his muscular body to do it.   His grandparents were children in Europe during the rise of Nazism, and their lives were forever changed because of it. His French grandmother's family hid in the attic of a barn for years so they wouldn't get sent to a camp, while his Polish grandfather was sent to a concentration camp outside Budapest and recalls living in terror, every day, of being shot for not working hard enough.  Schor's character, played in later years by Al Pacino, is a Polish Jew sent to Auschwitz, and the actor's family connection to the Holocaust gave him strong motivation to look the part as much as possible. ...
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Henri-Pierre Ano Chest Building Workout https://ift.tt/37LdHd4

Chris Nicoll / M+F Magazine “It wasn’t the outcome I was hoping for,” Henri-Pierre Ano admits, after reflecting on his 14th-place finish in 2019’s Olympia Classic Physique . Ano, 38, had plenty of reasons for disappointment. The Canadian stepped onstage with high hopes of improving on his 2018 fourth-place finish. At 6'1", with a small waist and wide shoulder structure , he’s blessed with ample genetic gifts perfectly suited for the classic division. Combined with his meticulous tempo-focused training style , Ano’s switch from the open bodybuilding class seemed like a perfect match. That is, until disaster struck in Las Vegas. After having to hit the sauna at the last minute to make the required 230-pound limit during 2018 weigh-ins, Ano and his coach, Chris Aceto, had decided to come in lighter for 2019.  “[In 2018], five days before the show, I got off the plane at 247, and [in 2019], I was about 232 to 235 pounds,” Ano recounts. “But this time, my me...
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Dexter Jackson to Retire After 2020 Mr. Olympia https://ift.tt/2vT30rr

Per Bernal / M+F Magazine Dexter “The Blade” Jackson , the 2008 Mr. Olympia and the winningest IFBB Professional League competitor , has announced that the 2020 Mr. Olympia will be his final contest. News of the bodybuilding legend’s impending retirement was announced in a release issued by the National Physique Committee. “I’ve thought long and hard about how I want my career to end,” Jackson said in the release. “I want to go out on my own terms. I’m still capable of winning any show I enter and in September I’m taking one final shot at taking home a second Sandow. The Olympia is the greatest show in bodybuilding and I want my final posedown to be on that stage in Vegas against the best in the world.” You can see the full statement here:          View this post on Instagram                   DEXTER JACKSON: “THE 2020 OLYMPIA WILL BE MY FINAL CONTEST” In bodybu...
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