Powerlifting

In addition to the numerous, invaluable benefits of the box squat, it's one of the easier movements to teach if you know how. Use this process to get your athletes box squatting correctly and you'll see their weight room and sport performance skyrocket.

In under three years of competing, he already has a 2210-pound raw without wraps total and has even bigger goals for the future.

Many lifters begin the pull with a good arch, approach lockout, and then exaggerate the finish position with overextension of the lumbar spine. This is a good way to become injured and weaker.

Thinking back to these two activities and my time in college, I find myself wondering if the concept of working in with strangers is a concept lost on today’s youth.

You will need a tape measure.

The world of powerlifting and Voronin's life both look very different today than when he was competing at the highest level of the sport, but his knowledge and accomplishments are timeless.

Something doesn’t feel right as the bar descends, like your left pec is cramping or something. You touch, hear "press," and then POP! It all goes black.

It isn't the number of competitions they've won or what degrees they have that can tip you off to who's good and who's not. There are three types of coaches in this industry and you need to be able to tell them apart.

There is no reason in the world you can't give up sucking at bench press. No one gets joy from incompetence in the greatest lift ever. No one. That's something I can help you with.

It was a 10-hour drive to Portland, but everything that went into the trip was well worth it for the training knowledge I gained and the experience I had with other lifters. Here are my highlights from the weekend.

Due to time constraints or an inability to recover optimally, many lifters seek an alternative to the traditional template. The question isn't whether or not you can use a modified split, but whether or not your results will be optimal.

I was 417 at my biggest, and very ill-informed about my strength. Powerlifting seems to have a general acceptance of "bigger" meaning "stronger," but bigger isn't always better.