For the second year, Resilient Fitness (RF) is proud to send several of our athletes to the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA) Ultra Nationals! This is a nation-wide competition that all competing athletes have had to qualify for. Our four athletes have each competed in local and regional meets and earned weight totals that qualified them to compete at Nationals. For months, our athletes have been committed to training and next week all that training pays off! Let us introduce...

MYTH 1: POWERLIFTING IS FOR YOUNG, ELITE ATHLETES ONLY Powerlifting looks like an elite-only sport because the most visible version of it is people moving absurd amounts of weight on platforms. But that’s just the top 5-10% of athletes—the structure of the sport is actually built to include almost anyone who’s willing to train. The United States Powerlifting Association (USPA) has age classes that start at 10-years-old and goes up to 80+. As mentioned previously, more important than age is...

Powerlifting, as we’ve mentioned previously, is a sport that can be practiced both recreationally and competitively. Like all sports, powerlifting requires athletes to commit to strength training regularly and consistently while also taking care to protect the body from breakdown as much as possible. So, for a sport that has athletes lifting hundreds of pounds at a time, how is powerlifting considered safe? Why do people participate in a sport that is so brutal on the body? Powerlifting...