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 ...

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 ...

John Haack doesn’t turn 30 for another year, but he’s already the top pound-for-pound powerlifter in the world—and perhaps the greatest of all time, at least since the similarly-indomitable Ed Coan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...