Most powerlifters have to, at least occassionally, put a deload week into their training schedule. However unwanted these are, they do serve an important purpose. Power and Bulk examines deloading. A good general summary by John Henry Brown:

This can be pretty open ended depending on the person. Some might do this very structured. I tend to take a deload week or two before a meet and any other time I think I need one... sometimes your body or your results just tell you it's time for a week off or at least a light week. For me a deload week can mean a lot of things. Sometimes it can be just a whole week off doing no lifting. It might just mean skipping one or two sessions that week. It might mean just doing an easier verison of an exercise. I usually just jump right back in after a deload week.

A poster at Testosterone Nation asks what lift people who choose if powerlifting decided to add a fourth lift.

Some of the lifts proposed are the overhead press, chinup, pullup, clean and jerk, snatch, good morning and bent row. My vote would be for some version of an overhead press.

Steve Goggins calls out Big Iron Gym lifters in this Go Heavy thread. As you may know, Goggins is a North Georgia Barbell guy. It looks as though at least part of the issue Goggins has with Big Iron Gym is the lifts at the APF meet they just hosted where Jim Grandick set a new record total at 275. In the thread, he references holding his own meet:

Hey we can call it the Westside/NGBB open. Count me in, then we can become joke lifters also.

And:

Can any of you squat below parallel? Do you really think I care what you or any of you think.

A poster at Bolex asks when someone is considered strong. Answers include:

i would say double body weight bench and triple bdywgt squat and Dl all raw. works for up to about 250lbs

The truth is strength is what a person themself thinks it is.

If you are stronger than me, then I consider you strong.

An Elite Fitness poll asks whether lifters return their weights to the racks after they're done with them. Some of the responses:

I workout at home so I would only screw myself if I did not clean up afterward.

If you are strong enough to take them off the rack, then you are definately strong enough to put them back!

Tiny Meeker has taken the 308 pound weight class in the WABDL Worlds being held in Reno, Nevada. Meeker ended up with an 870 pound bench. He then gave a couple attempts at 900 with no luck. Steve Wong hit his 815 opener but missed his next two attemps at 870 and 881.

The 242 class saw Jason Jackson nail a 793 bench.

In the 220's, Gunny Green broke the submaster World Record, first benching 606 pounds then 618 pounds.

More to follow.

Thanks to the folks at Iron Gladiator and

Results have been posted for last weekends IPA West Coast Nationals.

In the Amateur division, Brent Mikesell set World Records for the superheavyweight class in the squat and total. He squatted 1,008.6 and totalled 2358.9 pounds. Lifter of the meet honors also went to Brent.

Gibson Powerlifting and APF Outlaws are discussing the same posting about powerlifting not evolving but rather changing into a new sport altogether. The original poster points out that world records in a number of Olympic events have increased up to 4% over the past 25 years. Olympic lifting records have increased an average of 5%. However, powerlifting records have increased much more dramatically:

Squat: Coan (1020) '99 to Lewis (1201) '05 - 18% - 6 YEARS Bench: Mendelson (825) '03 to Rychlak (1005) - 22% - 1 YEAR!!!!!! Total - Coan (2463) '98 to Frank (2805) '04 - 13% - 7 years