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 a sport that tests brute strength. Competitors vie to lift the heaviest possible loads for a single repetition on the squat, bench press, and deadlift exercises. The sport began ...

Background Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting are two sports that expose the body to great forces. Injury characteristics have not been systematically reviewed for these two growing sports.

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 ...