Mass-Lift Powerlifting

April Mass-Lift Featured Lifter: Allen Zou

04/07/2017 Roy Apostle 0

Editors note: Allen Zou is a Boston native who helped found the Boston Latin School Powerlifting team while a student there. Without athletes like Allen, the High School program in Massachusetts cannot succeed. We at mass-lift are extremely grateful for his activity in this area of USAPL and his promotion of drug free powerlifting throughout Massachusetts. Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from, where you are now, what you do Read More

2017 USA Powerlifting Northeast Regional

03/16/2017 Mass-Lift 0

Hello and welcome to the Northeast Regional of USA Powerlifting. The 2017 USA Powerlifting Regional will take place in Marlborough, MA on August 19-20 (If the meet is over 240 lifters we will run the event from Friday 18 through Sunday 20). The event venue will be the Holiday Inn and Suites 265 Lakeside Ave, Marlborough, MA. Located 40 minutes from downtown Boston and 20 minutes from downtown Worcester. Both cities are easily accessible from Read More

Upcoming Competitions – Spring/Summer 2017 in New England

03/14/2017 Roy Apostle 0

So many meets, so little time. USA Powerlifting has grown exponentially in the Northeast, mainly due to the hard work of the meet directors and their army of volunteers. As a result, if you are a powerlifter in the Northeast, there numerous opportunities to get onto the platform and smash PRs. Meet directors have loaded up the schedule so far this year, with more meets for the fall in the works. Here is a brief Read More

New Mexico News: Shuttleworth Smashes State Records at the Titan Pro Bench Bash

03/12/2017 Mass-Lift 0

Maura Shuttleworth of Santa Fe represented both New Mexico and the United States on Sunday, March 5th at the Titan Pro Bench Bash as part of the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. The Santa Fe resident placed 5th overall in the women’s portion of the international invite only event and also smashed two New Mexico State Records in the process. Maura went 2 for 3 in the competition just narrowly missing her third attempt Read More

Update – 7th Annual Ryan Moore New England States High School Championship (MA-2017-02)

03/08/2017 Mass-Lift 0

Athletes and Coaches, All athletes must have a current USA Powerlifting Membership before arriving. We won’t have forms available at the meet to register as a member. Please do so now at https://www.usapowerlifting.com/member-tools/membership.php Also please remember all lifter must have underwear without legs (no compression shorts or boxers of any kind), and all lifter must have socks that cover their shins for the deadlift. The revised schedule for this weekend will be: Session 1 – 7:00 am Read More

March Mass-Lift Featured Lifter: Monet Bland

03/01/2017 Roy Apostle 0

Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from, how you ended up in MA, what you do for a living, etc. Well, I’m a Taurus so I like long walks on the beach and eating artisan doughnuts. Seriously. But really. I was actually born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent the first seven years of my life here. Then I moved to Maryland, which is where I grew up. I came back Read More

5th Annual Winter Classic – Update

02/21/2017 Mass-Lift 0

Athletes, First, let me apologize for the timing of this update, I wanted to get this out to everyone at least two weeks out. This competition reached the cap a couple of months ago with dozens of people asking to be added to a waitlist. We tried to accommodate as many as possible as we learned of withdrawals. This meet will be right at our capacity to run a one platform meet over two days, so we had to Read More

Benefits to Lifting with a Program

02/21/2017 Mass-Lift 0

Following a training program is crucial to success in powerlifting. Some programs are better-suited to certain individuals than others. Additionally, certain general principles are almost always universally better than others. But any structured and systematic training plan will yield significantly greater results than simply going to the gym and “playing it by ear.” There are many reasons for this. I will focus however on three benefits that highlight the necessity of following a program; confidence, Read More

February Mass-Lift Featured Lifter: Joe Cappellino

02/01/2017 Roy Apostle 0

If you have been around USA Powerliting in Massachusetts at all in the past decade you will have experienced the Joe Cappellino phenomenon.  Big Joe, aka the Girth God aka the Sultan of Squat (C. Respect) aka the Italian Stallion, is as strong as he is controversial. Raw with wraps and suit or just plain raw he tends to out-squat everyone in the room, and makes sure that we all know it. From founding a powerhouse Collegiate Read More

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