powerlifting

Karenjeet Kaur Bains is the first Sikh female powerlifter to represent Britain in the World and European championships and lifted gold as a junior at the Commonwealth Championships in 2019. Now, with a Guinness World Record under her belt, the 26-year-old is trying to take the sport mainstream...

Tamara Walcott has only been powerlifting for around four years but in that time, she has made waves in a highly competitive community. “You know what? I think powerlifting kinda found me,” shared the lady from the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix, on her 2018 appearance on The Ellen Show. In...

Every time I step onto the powerlifting platform, I feel invincible! The world slows down, the crowd goes mute, and I am a heat-seeking missile that destroys any weight loaded on the barbell. That's why it's so easy to get caught up in competition after competition, always chasing the next PR...

M+F Magazine In the powerlifting community, there aren’t many athletes who have had to overcome the same obstacles as bench-pressing behemoth Julius Maddox. The Kentuckyian set two bench world records in 2019, including a 744-pound raw bench press—meaning he didn’t use any gear other than...

The 24-year-old, 165-pound powerlifter explains how he progressed from barely lifting the bar to recently bench-pressing 380 pounds in competition. Zak Wojnar If there's a secret to the bodybuilding lifestyle, it's that transforming one's body isn't actually as hard as it might seem. It...

Anna Berdnik via Shutterstock The USA Powerlifting's ban on transgender athletes from competing as their identifying gender will be discussed in a sit-down meeting between the organization and members of the LGBTQ community, the latest chapter in a yearlong controversy. The ban was...

Kent Webb Everyone has a favorite lift, and Shirley Webb’s is the deadlift. It came naturally to Webb when she joined a gym for the first time at 77 years young, and the now-82-year-old powerlifter boasts a 265-pound PR and is the world champ in the IPF Raw Masters 4 category. To date, she's...

Powerlifting/Weightlifting Fails!

Pavel Ythjall Powerlifters and bodybuilders are like quarreling brothers. Some differences they can never fully bridge and yet, for better or worse, they remain closely related. They do many of the same exercises. Bodybuilders squat, deadlift, and bench press, just as powerlifters may crank out...

Manuel Velasquez Recently, the issue of transgender inclusion in sports has made its way into the world of powerlifting, with both sides arguing over whether or not trans athletes should compete as the gender of their birth or the gender they identify as now. Everyone from athletes involved in...

Eric Nelson Advocacy group Gender Justice has lodged a formal discrimination complaint against USA Powerlifting with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, Outsports reports. The complaint is in protest of the USAPL’s January decision to ban transgender woman JayCee Cooper from competing in...

Joseph McNally / Getty USA Powerlifting announced last week that transgender women will not be allowed to compete as women, because a male transitioning to female poses a naturally high level of androgens, such as testosterone, which provide advantages, including “increased body and muscle...