Strenght – Amanda Lawrence

At 22 years old, she holds three world powerlifting record and is just getting warmed up.

- By Rose McNulty

AMANDA LAWRENCE not only took first at the women’s -84kg open class at this year’s IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships—she did it in style, breaking three world records with a 536-pound squat, 556-pound deadlift, and 1,352-pound total. Not bad for a 22-year-old with only three and a half years of training. She’d go on to tie that total to win the 84kg weight class at the USA Powerlifting’s Raw Nationals in October. Here’s her take on training, mindset, and social media.

NATURAL TALENT I had never trained the squat, bench, or deadlift before my first meet in June 2016. Then I started training the January before. I squatted every day for four months, and I ended up breaking the American junior squat record.