'Powerlifting Transformed My Body—And Helped Me Gain 50 Pounds Of Muscle'

Despite growing up very active (I started dancing from a young age and played basketball and ran track in high school), I ...
Self

How I Went From Group Fitness Classes to Competitive Powerlifting

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 ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Powerlifting

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 ...
Lifehacker

What Is Powerlifting, and How Do You Get Into It?

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...
CNN

After years of food addiction, record-breaking strongwoman Tamara Walcott says powerlifting ‘saved me from myself’

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: ‘Godfather of Powerlifting’ who started internationally known gym was known more for his heart than his muscles

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 ...
KCCI Des Moines

Powerlifting world record holder to open new gym in Ankeny

WE’RE HERE AT IRON CHAPEL BARBELL. WE’RE BOTH POWERLIFTERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC ARE WELCOME. ASHLEY WILSON’S POWERLIFTING CAREER STARTED FROM BOREDOM DURING THE PANDEMIC. EVERYONE WAS LOCKED DOWN. WE ...