Just like you have lifting data, you also have life data. As the New Year has begun, let’s review 2016.

All the success in your lifting that stems from work you put in at the gym can be compromised, often significantly, by your failures outside of the gym.

One of the most impactful statements in debate history can teach you a thing or two about deadlifting.

Prepping to become a pro-card carrying competitor? These tips from professional strongwoman Kristin Johnson will help you reach your strength and power goals.

Without that experience in their back pocket, they simply get eaten up and spit out by the industry.

This is a time when your mind will start to play tricks on you. Are you mentally committing to the time off?

Now is the time to assess the technology that’s at our fingertips. It’s also the time to become picky with what type of and when to use technology with regard to our powerlifting success.

Getting outside of your comfort zone, and literally getting uncomfortable can be a key to get you past plateaus and sticking points.

Technology moves forward, but we are the same. Physically, we are all made of the same DNA as the humans who came before us. Let’s train like it.

If your training partner’s technique is poor it will take a lot more than empty encouragement to make him better.

You’ve put 8-16 weeks of hard work into your meet prep. Why ruin it 24 hours before the competition?

This list and the included video give you what you need to know before, during, and after the meet to help your lifter reach their competitive goals.

Nobody wants to waste hard earned money on equipment they’re not sure about. Use this overview of the SS Yoke Bar and the Rackable Cambered Bar to make your next purchasing decision is an educated one.

If flashy labeling or fancy bottles are what draw you to a supplement, these are not for you. If a ton of research and statistically measured results are how you determine your supplement regimen, you need Mg and D3.

Team elitefts did more than just compete this year at the Arnold. Everything we did is compiled here in one super-sized article.

This secret to success? It starts with you.

Your time in the gym is precious. If you don’t summon the iron will to shut off the outside world, get out.

When meet day arrives, you’ll be faced with variables you don’t see in the gym. At Monster Garage Gym, we’ve developed a way to control the most stressful of these variables: the clock.

You’ve tracked the timing of rest between your sets, precisely selected your weight jumps, and perfected the fit of your gear. So why are you squatting to the same box height as everyone else?

Thirteen months into my time as a member of CPAP Nation, I’ve made several ground-breaking discoveries for optimizing the use of your CPAP.

One doesn’t need to look that hard to see glimpses of this rebirth of powerlifting because they are all around us. I caught a glimpse (one of many) of the resurgence at the 2015 APF Chicagoland Summer Bash.

It takes courage to lift under the scrutiny of the world’s greatest lifters. On one particular weekend, this courage produced 164 PRs.

Most lifters are vague when it comes to pounds of band tension or chain weight. Here’s how to measure accurately.

Longevity in the sport often reveals which competitors are driven by false confidence.

My top-10 components for what I feel can contribute to the success of a real powerlifting gym.

A look back at competitors, experts, and officials that participated in the World Championship.

What does it take to crank your training intensity? Team elitefts goes all Siskel & Ebert on that.

When your elders say “eat your veggies,” you young'uns better listen.

No matter how long you've been around, there's sure to be one or two on this list you've never heard.

As Strom prepares for Worlds, his coach reflects on what it took to get there.

You think you know about female powerlifters? You don't know the first thing that is going on in their heads.

As a powerlifter, you’ve heard the saying “Rip it off the floor!” probably a thousand times.

Has powerlifting continued to progress or have the advances of the past few decades kept us from being accepted by the mainsteam?

It is pretty much true, you are what you eat…or you will be.

You have the power through your positive thoughts to take your powerlifting to another level of success and achievement just like Dorothy, who had the power all along to go where she needed to go.

If you are new to gear, respect not only the gear but the inordinately heavier weights that you will attempt.

If there is a will, there is a way.

It’s not always the strongest lifter who wins…it is the most prepared.

Driggers sure does love spreadsheets!

The meet was everything that is right with powerlifting.

One size does not fit all. Not every guy is going wear the same tuxedo to the prom.

Time is the most precious thing a lifter has in the gym.

Phil wanted to go back where he came from.

Our team operates like a family.

What you eat makes a giant difference on the platform.

When you rip, you are at the mercy of wherever the bar goes with the rip.

Seek the bigger pond and be the little fish.

Are you ready when it counts?

Who is Johnny, and why in the heck is he in a bag?

The competition is like a period at the end of a sentence.

If you build it he will come.

There is a saying in the world of powerlifting amongst the more veteran lifters: foundation, foundation, foundation.

You will love the pulling power you get with it; however, you will hate how unpleasant it is.

At some point in your career as a powerlifter, you will be injured. How will you respond?

Fads and trends ebb and flow, but there are a few things that will always remain constant.