Dr Emma Ylitalo-James is the founder and President of the British Powerlifting Union and started the federation in her spare time in 2012. She has the all time biggest female bench press at competition in history in the world across all age divisions in the 90kg class and is the biggest female bench presser of […]
Below is the PDF sent out to all competitors with the full information about coaches, entry, flights times, weigh in the warm up details. This was emailed out to everyone but we are aware that email filters can sometimes block emails with attachments.
We arrived on the Sunday later than expected due to a delayed flight and therefore missed connection. The team had already started to fly in and we had so many of the team who had nevr done an international before I was a bit “worried”. Those of you who have done internationals with us know […]
What a season this has been! Qualifiers are STILL running, 220+ people International team going to Poland, and we just ran the single lift championships at FitXpo. This was our third time hosting Bench and Deadlift Nationals within the FitXpo event, and even with the new venue, this was definitely the smoothest. Everything from weigh […]
SILA! Massive weekend of A/BPU powerlifting saw some utter pandemonium at Manchester’s premium training facility, Strength Therapy, also known as SILA. This venue has hosted almost two dozen meets for the federation. Even though their outward Polish stoicism sometimes doesn’t betray it, the enthusiasm of the facility owner’s towards the world of strength and fitness […]
The A/WPC World Cup in Egypt this year was in Cairo in no lesser place than Giza, in sight of the Great Pyramids! An intrepid team journeyed to Cairo to compete against and with over 600 lifters through a 6 day stretch. The competition was held at the Steigenberger Hotel and Conference Centre right at […]
RECAP OF 2024: A year of HUUUGE international teams, a substantial hike in the Qualifying Standards of British Championships, 26 Qualifiers, 2 EXPO meets and 4 national level championships. Two weeks ago A/BPU ran the last qualifiers of year 2024, and fittingly we saw three qualifiers being ran all across the country, from Devon and […]
Team GB recap at WPC World Championships 2024 TEAM GB IN THE WINDY CITY 2025 WPC Worlds were hosted by Amy Jackson and Eric Stone in Lisle, Illinois, in the greater Chicago area. GB Team arrived as 16-strong squad of lifters to the Sheraton hotel serving as the venue and were not disappointed. The venue […]
