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The 2025  Pittsburgh Pro  is scheduled to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, on the weekend of May 10-11, 2025.  This show is an annual event on the IFBB Professional League calendar and has been highlighted by a Men’s Open guest posing event featuring top Olympia contenders. The 2025 event is being billed as the biggest version yet, with the addition of an expo and an IFBB Pro League Men’s Open contest as the main event. They also promoted that more prize money would be given to all divisions featured at this event. On Jan. 3, 2025, IFBB Pro League Vice President Tyler Manion shared the most recent update on the prize money — awards for the Classic Physique division will total $50,000.  The breakdown of the prize money will be as follows: First Place — $25,0000 Second Place — $10,000 Third Place — $7,500 Fourth Place — $5,000 Fifth Place — $2,500 The Classic Physique announcement can be seen in the video below. The prize money for ...

Three-time Fitness Olympia champion  Missy Truscott  will compete in the Figure division in 2025.  This change comes less than three months after Truscott made her triumphant return to the Olympia stage in 2024 to  win her third Fitness Olympia title  after  suffering two torn menisci and a torn ACL  during her performance at the 2023 Olympia. I’m switching to the Figure division. —Missy Truscott Truscott announced the switch on her YouTube channel with her husband. Truscott shares her news at the 28:32 portion of the 49-minute video below. https://youtu.be/6FQahoHi65k?si=kSHXPw8jGLye9oXU&t=1712 Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Recap 2024 | BIG ANNOUNCEMENT (https://youtu.be/6FQahoHi65k?si=kSHXPw8jGLye9oXU&t=1712) Truscott shared her reason for the change: “Fitness wasn’t fun anymore.” She said she’s “Already done everything.” The Figure division calls for a combination of shape, symmetry, and conditioning b...

Zimbabwe’s Christina Livaditakis has been keeping busy during the offseason.  In October, Livaditakis finished third at the Down Under Championship (DUC) in Wollongong, Australia. Then, in November, she was elected as one of the six athlete board members for the Professional Fitness Athletes’ Association (PFAA).  The Morning Chalk Up sat down with the Zimbabwean to discuss living in Australia, competing in Africa, her role on the PFAA Board, and her goals for the 2025 season. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Down Under Championship (@downunderchampionship) [Related:  Best Cross-Training Shoes ] Discovering CrossFit Growing up in Zimbabwe, Livaditakis was an active kid who enjoyed all sports, from water polo to rugby. She first became interested in CrossFit in 2016. “I was in a gym training normally, and I was bored,” she said. “I’d heard of CrossFit through [a friend who said], ‘All those CrossFitter...

From a marathon runner to the 2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) and 2024 Strongest Man on Earth ,  Mitchell Hooper  knows how to get big and strong at the elite level. In early January 2024, the Canadian Strongman described his top five exercises for strength and hypertrophy . “You get strong through neuromuscular adaptations, how your brain communicates to your body,” Hooper explained. “[Muscle growth] is causing muscle damage, metabolic stress, and mechanical tension.” While this is our best explanation for strength and growth adaptations, the mechanisms still aren’t perfectly understood.  https://youtu.be/gjHmYdzZsUw?si=imVQXjWA3lh6368t Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Get The Best Of Both Worlds With These Top 5 Exercises For Strength And Size! (https://youtu.be/gjHmYdzZsUw?si=imVQXjWA3lh6368t) Each category includes five exercises that target a specific focus: legs, posterior chain, press, pull, and carry. We highlighted the key techn...

In his return to competitive strongman in 2024 after a three-year hiatus,  Hafthor Björnsson  claimed second place at the 2024 Strongest Man on Earth , 2024 Rogue Strongman Invitational , and 2024 Arnold Strongman Classic (ASC) UK, fourth at the 2024 ASC , won his 11th Iceland’s Strongest Man title, and claimed gold at the 2024 Strongman Champions League (SCL) Dubai contest. Björnsson performed the heaviest deadlift ever  of 501 kilograms (1,105 pounds). With a new regime prescribed by his coach, Sebastian Oreb , the 2018 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) hopes to further his personal best deadlift  to 505 kilograms (1,113 pounds). Björnsson revealed his workout split to achieve such a feat in late December 2024. Björnsson’s first competition in 2025 is the  ASC in early March. [Related: Tom Stoltman: “I’ll Be the First British To Win the Arnold” ] Pause Safety Bar Squats  “I love safety bar squats for strongman training....

“I want to show that I’m Mr. Olympia. God told me you must do the Arnold [Classic],” shared 2023 Mr. Olympia champion Derek Lunsford . After losing the Mr. Olympia crown to Samson Dauda in 2024, followed by his title-winning coach  Hany Rambod retiring , and his grandmother’s declining health, Lunsford found himself at a crossroads.  “I expected the rest of my career would be with Hany.” Lunsford became the first two-division Olympia champ under Rambod, winning the 2021 212 Olympia title before his Open victory two years later. Lunsford decided to compete at the Arnold Classic in Columbus, OH, in early March 2025 after hearing his grandma’s wish to see her grandson claim Olympia gold again. Lunsford was emotional when she told him, “Promise me that no matter what happens, you will do the [Arnold].” With Lunford’s new coach, whom he didn’t disclose, Lunsford vowed to reclaim the number one spot , “I want to do this for my midwest supporters. $500,000 check can go a lon...

Additional reporting by Joe Genetin-Pilawa Each season, we start with some key questions that we hope to answer in the coming year. Then, once the dust has settled and the calendar has turned over, we look back and take stock of how things turned out (and sometimes chuckle at our naïveté). Our original thoughts and caveats on each question from last January are below in italics, followed by our answer with the benefit of hindsight. Now that the 2024 season is officially over, let’s review. 1. What happens in the women’s division with Toomey-Orr (and others) returning in 2024? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Morning Chalk Up (@morningchalkup) [Related:  Best Whey Protein Powders ] The 2023 CrossFit Games were missing many top athletes from the previous season, including five of the top ten on the leaderboard:  Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr: First in 2022, not present in 2023. Mal O’Brien: Second in 2022, not pres...