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 ...

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 ...

Weight training is a cornerstone of powerlifting and bodybuilding. For someone who is new to strength training, both the forms of exercise might sound remarkably similar. While both involve lifting ...

Blaine Sumner was destined to be a powerlifter—his parents instilled a respect for training and fitness in childhood. His mother worked as a gym teacher, and his father made it a priority to find gyms ...

Despite growing up very active (I started dancing from a young age and played basketball and ran track in high school), I reached a point of having pretty much zero movement in my life by the time I ...

Aaron Carlile and Andre Mojica came the closest to qualifying for regionals last year with top-30 regional rankings in the 275-pound division. Carlile’s highest lifts of the 2025 season put him at a 1 ...