These are a couple videos of a man mounting a pole using only his legs while competing in Mallakhamba. Mallakhamba is a traditional Indian sport which “involves performing aerial yoga or gymnastic postures and wrestling grips with a vertical stationary or hanging wooden pole, cane, or rope.” That looks insane.

This is a video of some fitness nut running down the Red Rocks Amphitheater seating backwards as fast as he can, amazingly without tripping and braining himself. That is impressive. Impressive, and absolute lunacy. I can only assume he’s taken to working out at Red Rocks instead of local gyms

This is a video from a CrossFit gym in Hohhot City, China of the gym’s cat encouraging passing exercisers with high-fives. That’s nice, because if there’s one thing a CrossFitter needs, it’s somebody besides themselves to care about their workout. Also, if this was one of Hemingway’s polydactyl cats it

This is a video of strongwoman/She-Hulk Samantha Belliveau successfully performing a 183.4-pound circus dumbbell lift to set a new world record. For reference, that’s more than the average American adult weighs (181-lbs) lifted IN ONE HAND. Now I know what you’re thinking, and I agree — I assumed the average

These are a couple videos of athlete Dmitry Politov brutally reminding me just how out of shape I am and performing several human flags by jumping up and attaching himself to vertical poles with just his feet (aka toe-hooking). If you’re interested in badly injuring yourself, the second video is

This is a short video of a contortionist performing a series of moves and poses that almost made me forget his upper body is connected to his lower body. Or is it?! Dum dum dum! He begins with some flips where his feet and hands touch the ground simultaneously, and

Presumably training for breakdancing’s Olympic debut in the 2024 summer Olympics, this is a short highlight reel from a breakdancer, featuring some moves that can only be described as 50% dance, 50% contortionist act, and 110% making my whole body ache. I mean some of those moves were WILD. For

Because, according to my doctor, the benefits of a little exercise far outweigh my concern of my heart exploding mid-jog, this is a video of a hefty cat on a treadmill trying to stay on the machine after its owner turns it on. Does this also count for my workout