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 […]
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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 […]
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A/BPU SuperMasters & The Bomb Squad at the FitXpo, NEC, Birmingham – Masters do it better……
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There is life after 40! The past weekend A/BPU ran its first ever Masters-only competition at the NEC FitXpo. Granted, we had few young ones in the Bomb Squad equipped bench challenge, but apart from that it was strictly Masters age lifters only. The winners of each equipment class were decided on coefficient of age, […]
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The AWPC World Championships had a team of 151 British qualified, class placing top level lifters and the biggest team we have ever taken to an international championships. They had all either placed in their class at the A/BPU Single Lift or Full Power British Championships or been the previous year’s AWPC World Championships 2023 […]
Dr Emma Ylitalo-James, President and Founder It was an outstanding week at the A/BPU British Full Power Championships 2024. The way the federation is having to evolve changed the dynamics of the British. At first I thought it was for the worst…………… but read on. Last year we had 600 lifters over 8 days and […]
So here we are, the British Nationals is here again so damn fast. This year we are looking at 450+ competitors, 3 platforms and more staff in one place than I have ever had to deal with. More equipment, more logistics, lorries and vans and more AV equipment. Holding our nationals at Bodypower is something […]