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Watch 91-Year-Old Weightlifter Make History With Record-Setting Bench Press

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:10 +0000

If this doesn’t motivate you to get to the gym, nothing will. Ninety-one-year-old Sy Perlis, of Surprise, Arizona, recently set a world record in the 90-and-over category by lifting 187.5 pounds at the National Push-Pull Bench Press and Dead Lift Championships The World War Two veteran is relatively late to the lifting game, having first [...]

Hot Olympian Alert: Samantha Wright

Jo Pincushion — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:00:22 +0000

The Olympics are awesome, but whats even more awesome are the hot Olympians appearing on your HD TV. It’s easy to call volleyball team members eye candy, but one of our favorite hot Olympian comes from an unexpected event. Tewnty-two-year-old Samantha Wright stands at 5-foot-2 and weighs 115 pounds, but she could easily throw you across the room.