British Strength Radio

Chloe Brennan is a 24 year old lightweight strongwoman. She recently won England's Strongest Woman and placed fourth at the Arnolds. Chloe is a drug-free athlete.

Markos Markopoulos is the founder of ProRaw, GPC Australia and PTC Gyms. With his business partner, Emad, he puts on competitions such as ProRaw, Big Dogs and Wild Cats.

Delroy McQueen is a powerlifter who has competed in strength sports for thirty years. He has won Commonwealth gold in Olympic weightlifting and has won multiple titles in powerlifting. He has deadlifted 385kg raw, and squatted 365kg in wraps and 445kg in multi ply equipment.

Richard Foster is the owner of Strom Nutrition where he runs the Hench Project, a harm reduction project in Shrewsbury targeted at performance enhancing drug users in order to help them make better, healthier decisions when using PEDs.

Andy Smith is a hybrid athlete powerlifter who also partakes in rugby and endurance events such as triathlons. He owns LIFT Gyms in Edinburgh and coaches clients for powerlifting, body composition and strength and conditioning for sports, both in person and online. His best total at 82.5kg is 702.5kg.

Reece Fullwood is a 125kg powerlifter who broke the UK all-federation total record in his first ever powerlifting meet with 965kg, raw with wraps. His 402.5kg squat still stands as the all-federation 125kg squat record in the UK. Richard Foster is the owner of Strom Sports Nutrition, a British brand with a big eye on health that caters to the hardcore bodybuilding, strongman and powerlifting commu...

Alexander Clarke is a raw powerlifter in the 125kg class who has totaled 920kg raw with bare knees and deadlifted 385kg in competition. He is also the owner of British Strength Magazine and host of British Strength Radio.

Naomi Sheppard is a 67.5kg powerlifter who has squatted 200kg bare knee and has squatted 220kg in wraps. She has also totaled 502.5kg in wraps and won the WPC Worlds Raw Overall. Tom Sheppard is a powerlifter, powerlifting coach and owns Phoenix Performance Training with Naomi.

A nutrition seminar given by Alexander Clarke (powerlifter, former competitive bodybuilder and nutrition coach) to the members of University of Manchester Powerlifting Club.

Bobbie Butters is a 57kg IPF powerlifter who has totaled 450kg at only 24 years old. She competed in the 2019 IPF Classic World Championships, in Sweden, where she took bronze. She is also a strength and conditioning coach with a speciality in powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting. Bobbie has recently completed her Master's By Research in biomechanics in Olympic weightlifting. Helena Humphries is...

Reece Fullwood is a 125kg powerlifter who broke the UK all federation total record in his first ever powerlifting meet with 965kg, raw with wraps. His 402.5kg squat still stands as the all-federation record in the UK.

Graham Hicks is the 2019 Britain's Strongest Man winner and recently placed second at Big Dogs 4 to Odell Manuel, totaling 1100kg which gave him the best total in the UK by a full 89 kilos. Sam Bollands is a 125kg powerlifter who recently totaled 1000kg at the Irish Pro. He also placed 2nd at ProRaw in 2019 and is currently preparing to compete at ProPaw in 2020.

Shane Jerman is a powerlifter and strongman who has totalled 860kg at 90kg bodyweight, raw with wraps. He is also an online coach who helps strength athletes from various different disciplines.

Andy Bolton is the first man ever to deadlift 1000lbs. He is one of the greatest powerlifters in the history of the sport and has also squatted 1200lbs in competition.

Andy Smith is a hybrid athlete powerlifter who also partakes in rugby and endurance events such as triathlons. He owns LIFT Gyms in Edinburgh and coaches clients for powerlifting, body composition and strength and conditioning for sports, both in person and online. His best total at 82.5kg is 702.5kg.

Paul George is a masters powerlifter who holds an all time world record squat with 276kg in the 82.5kg class, and an all time world record total with 676kg. Before getting into powerlifting, Paul competed as an IFBB professional bodybuilder, having won the 2004 EFBB overall British title. He owns Olympic Gym in Eccles with his wife, Tania George.

Tom Martin is a 100kg and 110kg powerlifter who has totaled 1000kg raw with wraps in competition. Tom has deadlifted 410kg/900lbs raw, the heaviest raw deadlift in the UK, in any weight class. He also won the 110kg class at Pro Raw 2018.

Tony Cliffe is the current -120kg IPF classic world champion. Tony has been competing in powerlifting for twenty years and competes in both classic (raw) and single ply (equipped). He has totaled 920kg raw in sleeves and 1100kg single ply.

In 2015, Tania George became the first female powerlifter in the UK to total 500kg raw with wraps. She also co-owns Olympic Gym in Eccles with her husband, Paul George, and coaches powerlifting clients online.

Sam Bollands is one of the UK's best powerlifters, having totalled 1000kg raw w/wraps recently at the Irish Pro IV. In this episode, we discuss judging standards in UK powerlifting, our views on nutrition, Sam's experience of being coached by Sebastian Oreb, his next meet, sleep apnea and CPAPs, mistakes lifters make in the warm up room, terrible coaches, and much more!

Steve MacNeil is a multi-ply powerlifter who has squatted 450kg in competition, benched 377.5kg and totalled 1047.5kg. Steph Taylor is also a multi-ply lifter. She has squatted 230kg, benched 130kg and deadlifted 202.5kg. Steve and Steph are a powerlifting couple and are both competing at the upcoming Irish Pro Invitational.

Bobbie Butters is the 2019 senior British -57kg champion at just 24 years old. She also took bronze in the IPF Worlds. She is a Masters by Research student studying Olympic Weightlifting.

Jack Lovett is a 2x Britain's Natural Strongest Man winner, a 5th place finisher at World's Natural Strongest Man, owner of Spartan Performance in Consett, County Durham, and author of Spartan Strength.

Markus Kay is a 22 year old powerlifter and gym owner who recently placed third in the open class at Pro Raw as a junior.

Luke Richardson is an IPF world champion powerlifter, the youngest man ever to total 1000kg raw, and owner of LR Strength Shed. Mark Macqueen is an IPF world champion powerlifter and is the holder of the biggest raw total in Scotland.