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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Johnson, a network administrator with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, benches during a weightlifting meet aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Sea of Japan, Sept. 4, 2022. The 1,000 Pound Club is a weightlifting event where participants must lift a cumulative one thousand pounds in squat, bench, and deadlift. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region.

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A U.S. service member deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bench presses during a three-day six-event U.S. Air Force versus U.S. Army spartan fitness competition, Sept. 30, 2022. During the Blue vs. Green competition, each side worked their cardio, core and muscle strength to win bragging rights and increase physical readiness. The Armys strong but the Air Force leads the way, winning five of the six events and tying one. The Airmen of the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing won the overall competition in a landslide victory.

A U.S. service member deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bench presses during a three-day six-event U.S. Air Force versus U.S. Army spartan fitness competition, Sept. 30, 2022. During the Blue vs. Green competition, each side worked their cardio, core and muscle strength to win bragging rights and increase physical readiness. The Armys strong but the Air Force leads the way, winning five of the six events and tying one. The Airmen of the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing won the overall competition in a landslide victory.

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U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Brooks Morgan with Officer Selection Team Pittsburgh, Recruiting Station Pittsburgh, 1st Marine Corps District, takes part in the power clean portion of the Raw Patriot CrossFit Competition in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, Sept. 17, 2022. OST Pittsburgh competed against some of the best athletes in the Pittsburgh area to test their strength and prepare for the rigors of Officer Candidate School.

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In celebration of the 61st Anniversary of 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Soldiers competed in a variety of fitness events during Reunion Week at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Sept. 24, 2022.

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Members of the 173rd Fighter Wing participate in the David R. Kingsley Workout of the Day in Klamath Falls, Ore., June 23, 2022. To remember his sacrifice 78 years ago, Team Kingsleys Health Education Awareness Team (HEAT), worked with the CrossFit Hogback gym in Klamath Falls, Ore. to create a Hero Workout of the Day to share the story of Lt. Kingsley and challenge the athletes mental and physical resiliency.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miguel Gutierrez, an infantry Marine with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares to squat during a weightlifting meet aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Sea of Japan, Sept. 4, 2022. The 1,000 Pound Club is a weightlifting event where participants must lift a cumulative one thousand pounds in squat, bench, and deadlift. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region.

An Ivy Soldier lifts over 365 pounds for a weightlifting competition during Ivy Week, May 24, 2022 at Fort Carson, Colorado. Competitors who participated in the weightlifting competition were tested on their strength, physical fitness and ability to motivate their other team members.

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Participants in the Maltz Challenge perform the knees to elbows exercise at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., March 15, 2019. The Maltz Challenge is a timed, team competition that consists of a 400-meter run, 50 pull-ups, 100 yard firemans carry, 50 dips, 100 push-ups, 50 knees-to-elbows, 100 sit-ups and another 400-meter run.

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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Austin Sondergard, 605th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, exercises at the Griffith Field House at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. on Oct. 10, 2022. Sondergard received brain surgery to remove an arteriovenous malformation, and later suffered losses to both memory, speech, and motor skills due to a stroke. Recovered, Sondergard returned to his duties as a Crew Chief and hobby as an avid powerlifter.

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U.S. Army Spc. Darnell Boynton lifts weights during the powerlifting event at the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, Aug. 23, 2022. Hosted by the U.S. Army at the Walt Disney World Resort, this years Warrior Games sees service members and veterans from across the DoD competing in a variety of adaptive sports alongside armed forces athletes from Canada and Ukraine.

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Soldiers and community members had an opportunity to test their mettle in a timed series of physical tasks during the Atkins Fitness Challenge on Jan. 27 at Atkins Functional Fitness Facility.

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Attendees and participants spectate U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Craft, 26th Special Tactics Squadron operator, as he performs a deadlift at the Worlds Strongest Operator competition in Allen, TX, Sep. 9, 2022. Craft and other operators competed in multiple events at the competition, testing their physical strength and skills among operators and tactical first responders.

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Retired U.S. Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Quarles, Team U.S., trains at rowing practice, during the Invictus Games Team U.S. Training Camp at Fort Belvoir, Virginia on April 10, 2022. Team U.S. is part of more than 500 participants from 20 countries who will take part in this multi-sport event featuring ten adaptive sports, including archery, field, indoor rowing, powerlifting, swimming, track, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, and a driving challenge.

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Soldiers in the 801st Field Hospital who are part of Joint Task Force Med 374 competed in the 500lb/1000lb weight lifting competition in Baghdad, Iraq. The rules are, you get three attempts to lift as much weight as you can at three stations; the bench press, deadlift and the squat. Females had to lift a combined weight of over 500lbs, men who weigh less than 165lbs must lift a combined weight of over 750lbs and men who weigh over 165lbs must lift a combined weight of over 1000lbs. Sgt. Justin McCurdy, a 68A Biomedical Equipment Specialist with the 801st Field Hospital, won the competition by lifting a total of 1640lbs. Sgt. McCurdy lifted 420lbs in the bench press, 535lbs with the deadlift and 585lbs with the squat. Sgt. McCurdy also started the Task Force Med 374 Barbell Club, where he teaches proper technique and form while lifting weights in the gym. Starting the club helped encourage other Soldiers to be more physically fit while avoiding injuries from improper form.

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U.S. Marine Corps Col. Rob Rice, the Officer in Charge of the Marine Corps Training Mission at Al Dhafra Air Base, performs a push-up during The Murph challenge on Memorial Day, May 30, ADAB, United Arab Emirates. The Murph is a workout consisting of a 1-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 air squats and finishes with an additional one-mile run. (U.S. Air Force photo / Tech Sgt. Jeffrey Grossi)

Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 2nd Class Devon Warren, from Georgetown, Texas, participates in an Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) deadlift party in the hangar bay of the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), March 24, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy's capacity to project power on a global scale.

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Soldiers in the 801st Field Hospital who are part of Joint Task Force Med 374 competed in the 500lb/1000lb weight lifting competition in Baghdad, Iraq. The rules are, you get three attempts to lift as much weight as you can at three stations; the bench press, deadlift and the squat. Females had to lift a combined weight of over 500lbs, men who weigh less than 165lbs must lift a combined weight of over 750lbs and men who weigh over 165lbs must lift a combined weight of over 1000lbs. Sgt. Justin McCurdy, a 68A Biomedical Equipment Specialist with the 801st Field Hospital, won the competition by lifting a total of 1640lbs. Sgt. McCurdy lifted 420lbs in the bench press, 535lbs with the deadlift and 585lbs with the squat. Sgt. McCurdy also started the Task Force Med 374 Barbell Club, where he teaches proper technique and form while lifting weights in the gym. Starting the club helped encourage other Soldiers to be more physically fit while avoiding injuries from improper form.

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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Austin Sondergard, 605th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, exercises at the Griffith Field House at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. on Oct. 10, 2022. Sondergard received brain surgery to remove an arteriovenous malformation, and later suffered losses to both memory, speech, and motor skills due to a stroke. Recovered, Sondergard returned to his duties as a Crew Chief and hobby as an avid powerlifter.

SGT Jason Oliver walking the Yoke Walk for the WRAIR Strongman and Strongwoman competition on May 20th 2022 at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to promote comradery and physical fitness. This is WRAIRs second annual Strongman and Strongwomen competition hosted by WRAIR's HHC and the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) network.

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Lorraine Currow, an adaptive reconditioning program specialist at Brooke Army Medical Centers Soldier Recovery Unit, trains for an upcoming powerlifting event at Jimmy Brought Gym, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 11, 2022. Currow is also a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and member of Team Navy, training to participate in the powerlifting event at the DoD Warrior Games, Aug. 19-28. The games are hosted by the U.S. Army at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Men and women from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and U.S. Special Operations Command will be joined in competition by athletes from the Canadian Soldier On organization in a variety of adaptive sports ranging from archery to wheelchair rugby.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos, veteran, competes in indoor cycling during the 2022 DoD Warrior Games in Orlando, Fla. on Aug. 23, 2022. The annual event celebrates the resiliency and dedication of wounded, ill, and injured U.S. Service Members and veterans.

120822-N-UH865-083SAN DIEGO (Aug. 21, 2012) Senior Chief Master-at-Arms Sam Robinson performs a lift at Naval Station San Diego's Admiral Prout Field House. Seven Sailors from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) participated in a weight lifting contest for Surface Line Week 2012. Sailors from various commands showed up to participate in the bench press dead lift and squat contests.

Tech. Sgt. Joseph Anthony, 911th Aeromedical Staging Squadron aeromedical technician, performs a pull-up as part of the Murph Challenge at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, May 18, 2022. The Murph Challenge is a workout challenge honoring Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action, June 28, 2005.

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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. (Ret.) Olajide Shasanya, a Team Air Force Warrior Games athlete, practices powerlifting during a training session at the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games, August 18th, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. Each year, athletes representing the U.S. Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and five international teams compete in the DoD Warrior Games.

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U.S. Marines with Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command, participate in a morning WARR (Warrior Athlete Readiness and Resilience) physical training session aboard Camp Elmore, Norfolk, Virginia, Jan 25. Launched in 2023, the WARR program focuses on strengthening Marines fitness in their physical, mental, social, and spiritual domains. Headquarters Marine Corps is working with subject matter experts to provide WARR Centers for Marines at multiple installations. These facilities, operated by Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS), will serve as a collaborative, holistic program that will enhance combat readiness in conjunction with warfighter resiliency.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Andrew Hairston, a recovering service member at Wounded Warrior Battalion East, exercises at his hometown gym in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Aug. 12, 2022. Hairston founded a nonprofit organization named Salvage Life, which aims to help people with disabilities through adaptive sports.

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Participants run through a series of drills and exercises at the Nash Training and Testing Facility at Fort Drum during a Pose Method class. Mike Tribble, a certified Pose Method specialist with the 10th Combat Aviation Brigades Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program, instructs a five-week Pose Method course for Soldiers across the 10th Mountain Division that helps them to run faster, more efficiently and with less risk of injury. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)

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Sgt. Justin McCurdy, with the 801st Field Hospital, started the Barbell Club in Baghdad, Iraq to help improve form and technique in Soldiers that are new to weight lifting. Sgt. McCurdy started his journey into powerlifting nine years ago and never looked back. The club gathers once a week, where Sgt. McCurdy demonstrates different exercises with weights, as well as bodyweight exercises for those that want a lean physique.

Joey Beltran, competitor for the Federal Way Thunder Lifters, lets out a victory yell as he lifts 175 pounds at the 2022 Spring Olympics Competition at Carey Theater June 18 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Athletes learn new swimming techniques during the Invictus Games Team U.S. Training Camp at Fort Belvoir, Va.

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