Abington Heights’ Domenic Peters, Mallory Knott, and Ava Lawless, and Riverside’s Tavian Branch earned titles at the Pennsylvania High School Powerlifting Championships on Saturday at Jim Thorpe High ...

Maine Sports Hall of Fame Member James “Chico “Hernandez, 72, of Washburn repeated his performance from last year, winning ...

Bethel native Natalie Hanson has set a new American record in women’s powerlifting. On Saturday (Jan. 28) in Milwaukee, Hanson squatted 578.7 pounds, more than three times her body weight, and more ...

Powerlifter Natalie Hanson has broken a world record. Friday morning, the former Bethel resident squatted 603 pounds in the women’s 185 pound weight class at the World Open Powerlifting Championship ...

Competitive powerlifters work hard to increase the maximum amount of weight they can lift for each of these movements. In competitions, they have three tries to successfully lift a pre-chosen amount ...

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 ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Competitive sports ...

Even more research has just confirmed that squat lifting (knees bent and back straight) techniques are no safer than stoop lifting (knees straight and back bent) techniques when picking up heavy ...

Salmen super heavyweight Dwayne Coleman set a Louisiana high school powerlifting state record when he squatted 900 pounds Saturday at the LHSAA state championships Saturday at the Cajundome in ...

When the words “women” and “fitness” come into play in the same sentence, you normally envision girls slaving away on the elliptical for hours reading the latest issue of Cosmopolitan, or a group of ...