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 ...

Before I joined a powerlifting gym, I thought I knew what it felt like to lift heavy weights. After all, I’m an avid exerciser. If a boot camp tells me to grab either medium or heavy weights I always ...

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 ...

Tamara Walcott can still remember the first time she set foot in a powerlifting gym: the chalked hands, the strapped wrists, the yells and screams as lifters heaved weights off the floor. As she took ...

Ernie Frantz certainly carried his weight in the world. Hundreds of pounds in fact. Enough to win him world powerlifting titles not once or twice but over 30 times. Revered by many as the “Godfather ...