Strength Sports
Sports built around raw strength or power: weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, Highland games and bodybuilding.
8 sports in strength sports.
CrossFit
Timed multi-discipline fitness sport blending weightlifting, gymnastics and metabolic conditioning.
Highland Games
Scottish heavy-event athletics — caber toss, stone put, weight over bar, hammer throw and Highland dance.
Kettlebell Sport
Russian competitive lifting sport — how many kettlebell jerks or snatches you can do in 10 minutes.
Mas-Wrestling
Sakha stick-pulling sport — two competitors sit sole-to-sole and pull a wooden stick toward themselves to win.
Powerlifting
Strength sport in which competitors attempt maximum single-repetition lifts in three movements — Back Squat, Bench Press, and Deadlift — with sum of best lifts (Total) determining the winner.
Strongman
Strength sport of moving huge unconventional weights — atlas stones, log press, deadlifts and yoke walks.
Tug of War
Team strength contest — two eight-a-side teams pull opposite ends of a rope until one is dragged over a central line.
Weightlifting
Olympic sport in which athletes lift a loaded barbell overhead in two competition lifts: the Snatch (single motion from floor to overhead) and Clean & Jerk (two-motion lift to shoulders then overhead).