Licis inhales a massively deep breath, puffs out his belly, then lowers into a squat, butt just inches from the floor, lower back rounded. Youre never supposed to round your back when you squat, ...

Now that the week of the competition is here, Licis is fine-tuning his final few concerns before the event. (The Arnold Sports Festival was recently cancelled for fans and vendors due to the spread of ...

Martins Licis, the 2019 World’s Strongest Man, is back in his garage, lifting hundreds of pounds and chasing another title at age 35, a stage in his career when he now considers himself one of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — At a gym in Vancouver, the World’s Strongest Man of 2019 is training to win the title for a second time — an event he says may be his last competition. Martins Licis, also ...

CAMAS — Martins Licis sat on a weight bench in the garage of his Camas home on a drizzly early April morning to take a break from lifting more than 900 pounds overhead. As he wiped sweat from his brow ...