Research on the sport suggests 60% of people who weight train get an average of 7 hours or more of sleep per night.

In 2020, Icelandic actor and strongman Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays Ser Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones, set the world record for the deadlift when he lifted 502kg.

Olympic weightlifting involves an athlete getting three attempts of a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.