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 ...

Squats are the best exercise for building muscle, world champion powerlifter Blaine Sumner told Insider. They're compound movements that engage multiple muscle groups. Sumner strength trains six days ...

I never considered myself athletic growing up. I did tap, ballet, and acrobatics in elementary school, but I didn’t play any organized sports. As an adult, I got sucked into different exercise fads ...

Training shoulders should be a high priority for powerlifters. However, training shoulders like a bodybuilder won't improve your powerlifting performance. This is because powerlifters are more ...

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.

Sasha Stein’s exercise journey started a way many women can relate to: with an underused gym membership and a weight-loss goal. Now, the only number she focuses on is the amount she can powerlift. Now ...

When the coronavirus swept across the state in mid-March, people everywhere wondered how they could stay in shape as gyms and fitness centers were ordered to close to contain the outbreak. One family ...

“People get focused on the weight on the bar because of the term ‘load’ in progressive overload,” says Norton, but more reps ...