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 ...

There are precious few humans who can say that they've moved over 1,000 pounds in any lift—and fewer who have done so with all that weight on their back for a squat, the discipline considered by some ...

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 ...

After years of caring for others, Dr. Shernan Holtan discovered strength training not only transformed her body — it changed ...

"I tell myself, don't be upset if I can't get a lift, just try to lift as much as I can," he said. Bider, a junior at The Woodlands High School, recently carried on his family legacy by taking a gold ...

Four Special Olympics athletes have defied the odds by qualifying for the Ohio powerlifting championship this weekend."Seeing these athletes, getting to see them every week. They have every excuse not ...

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 ...

I spend part of my life in the weight room coaching lifters, and the other part in a college classroom teaching care and prevention of athletic injury, fitness programming, and kinesiology. The same ...

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 ...

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 ...