This year Final Form brought a new athlete to Bench Nats: Lawa Dowdell. We only had about 5 weeks to prep for this meet, but Lawa absolutely crushed it in training and we knew going in that we had a shot at the podium. Unfortunately the seemingly way-too-common flight delays struck again as he tried to make his way up to Wisconsin. Lawa's flight ended up getting canceled due to weather issues, and he had to spend the night in the airport and wait for an early AM flight to De

Strong day for the team back in May at the SC Southwest Regionals in Garland, TX. We had 3 competing: Caleb, Derin, and Stephanie. Caleb and Derin both competed in the 120kg weight class, and Stephanie represented for the 57kg open women. Stephanie did great for it only being her first show. She came in 2nd, out of 2, but she was able to improve on all of her performances in training. Excited to watch her continue to grow in the sport. Derin tweaked his low back in the firs

Congratulations to Final Form athlete Charles for placing 2nd in the Men's Open HW division at NE Regionals and earning his place at SC Nationals. Charles on the right The day started off with his toughest event which was log clean & press for reps at 300lbs. He ended up with 2 reps which set him behind. It was on after that. Next event was a deadlift AMRAP at 675lbs. Back at The Arnold Charles had an RPE 10 grind for 1 @ 675. During this event, just several months later, he

On the untested side of the sport we had Chris representing the team at the 2026 Powerlifting United Nationals down in San Antonio. Chris was going up against some absolute monsters in the 140kg class, and ended up placing second to the legend Zac Meyers. He went 7/9, 345/185/332.5, 862.5kg total. The meet was going flawlessly until his elbow decided to flare up at the worst time, but he powered through and finished strong.

This year we brought two lifters to Nationals: Todd, 90kg, and Malik, 125kg. They had some stiff competition but were up for the challenge. First up was Todd. Todd ended up having the best meet of his career, going 7/9, 272.5/215/322.5, 810kg total (5kg total PR), and placing 5th in the Nation. He was just 7.5kg from 3rd place which is incredible because this might've been one of the most stacked classes at Nationals (top 8 all had 500+ DOTS). Next up we had Malik in a HUGE

This was Todd's 2nd full power meet post injury, and he had really set the bar high in his comeback meet. The man showed up in a big way going 600/474/661, 1736 total, and a 512 DOTS. Our primary goal here was to not get hurt and get his qualifying total for Nationals. This man went ahead and won the 90kg weight class, Best Overall Lifter, and gott his full power pro card! Squat - 3/3 - 272.5 / 600 best. This was a nice 7.5kg PR for Todd. He's been gunning for that 600 squat

Massive congratulations to Final Form athlete, Brian Hennes, for winning the 2025 Men's Open Heavyweight division at Strongman Corp Nationals in Las Vegas back in September. That win also earned him his pro card. It was an absolute battle until the very last event where Brian put on an insane performance with kegs and won overall by just 1 point. Huge shoutout to teammate Yony Bustos (who placed 6th overall in the 120s!) and handler/gameday coach/girlfriend Emma Welker. They