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A bodybuilder, powerlifter, and vegan walk into a bar
A Diverse Audience Means Opportunities and success leaves clues. Pay attention to the best in every area, not just your own.

Sanjiv Gupta
When we first started the Garage Gym Competition, the ideas was centered around trying to make an event that anyone with the basics could participate in. Whether you were a powerlifter, or not. In some ways that worked, because we got guys and gals who train grip, olympic lifts, CrossFit, and more… all tossing in […]

RPE – The Most Confusing Scale, Simplified – 2025
RPE is the buzzword of lifting coaches. You should RPE your breakfast! But what does it mean? And how do you do that? Check this out!

Trae Hobby
Trae Hobby has won TWICE in the GGC, and he isn’t even a powerlifter. He just refuses to NOT show up. Check him out.

Christina Leonatti
Christina Leonatti is the founder and president of Pull Your Heart Out, an active GGC athlete, and contributor.

POWERLIFTING AINT PRETTY
The first GGC article by Christina Leonatti is on point, POWERLIFTING AIN’T PRETTY. She digs into misconceptions and reality.

Josh Maxwell, MD, CPT
Josh Maxwell – Pediatrician, NASM certified personal trainer, and home gym design specialist, dad, and proud member of the 999lb club.

Goal Setting For Powerlifters – Be A Better Lifter In 2025
If you are trying to accomplish something a little extraordinary, you need to be goal setting and monitoring those goals every year.