RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (KTHV) - Armenian weightlifter, Andranik Karapetyan, suffered a terrible arm injury trying to clean and jerk 429 lbs. (195kg). 20-year-old Karapetyan was in second place in the ...

"Rory can do weightlifting as long as she wants," said the young athlete's mother, Lindsay Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Two-time U.S. weightlifting Youth National Champion Rory van Ulft can lift more ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

This week in Large Men Lifting Ungodly Amounts of Weight (as we mortals stare, legs, arms, backs, creaking just from watching): the heaviest clean and jerk ever recorded on film. The Large Man, ...

To get the most out of your strength training, try progressive overload. By Hilary Achauer Hilary Achauer started weight lifting 14 years ago, at 37. Using progressive overload she’s been able to ...

The United States’ long wait for an Olympic men’s weightlifting medalist is over after four decades, as Marietta, Georgia’s Hampton Morris lifted his way to bronze in the men’s 61kg (134 lbs.) final.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Girls weightlifting State Championship meet took place today over in Lakeland and we have some champions. Kayla Maddox from Marianna, lifting in the 154 weight ...

PARIS -- Former champion Lu Xiao-jun won the men's 169-pound division at the weightlifting world championships on Thursday when Chinese teammate Su Da-jin failed on his last attempt in the clean and ...