During a powerlifting competition, contestants get three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: the squat, the bench press, and the classic deadlift. In other words, you attempt to lift the ...

Competitive sports often require special spaces or equipment, and that’s true of most strength sports. Weightlifting (the kind they do in the Olympics) requires bouncy bumper plates and a gym that won ...

POWERLIFTING IS PRIMAL. Just the thought of loading a barbell with enough iron to make it bow and then, somehow, finding the strength to press it off your chest, drive it out of a squat, or deadlift ...

Steven Ridges, known professionally as Coach Steven, has spent over 16 years transforming lives through strength training and powerlifting. A certified Barbell Rehab Specialist with a biology degree ...

College strength coach and professor Joseph Lucero breaks down the safest back angles for squats and deadlifts, showing how ...

San Diego boys powerlifting coach Matthew Luna can already envision it. If all goes as planned, the Vaqueros will be the ones with gold medals around their neck at the state powerlifting meet this ...

When the furor over transgender athletes competing in women’s sports arrived at powerlifting’s doorstep, the sport’s leaders pitched what they said was a fair and simple solution: a new competition ...

If Kaiden Lang was a college or professional athlete, what he did would be called a “business decision.” Instead, the Central High School junior has been taking care of business as a powerlifter. Lang ...

Powerlifting is no longer a fringe sport, and more people are interested in picking up those weights and pumping iron as 2025 comes around. Today, you can find plenty of clubs and gyms where you can ...