In the mid-twentieth century, Jack LaLanne trained women, older adults, and people with disabilities in weightlifting

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Ottley Coulter's archival materials documented late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century professional strongwomen, including performers named Sandwina, Volcana, and Minerva

In the late 1970s, Jan Todd and Terry Todd purchased a 380-box historical physical culture collection compiled by former circus performer Ottley Coulter

The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports houses the archives of Scottish strength historian David Webster

Ottley Coulter performed as a circus weightlifter during the 1910s and collected strength-related photographs, magazines, and correspondence dating from the late nineteenth century onward

Grip strength is utilized as a clinical biomarker to evaluate physical frailty and health outcomes in aging populations

In 1926, a French woman set a women's deadlift record of 392 pounds

Jan Todd and Terry Todd founded the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas at Austin

Kayla Barnes performs strength training four to five times per week utilizing progressive overload principles

Jan Todd coined the term 'majestic womanhood' to describe historic strongwomen who celebrated physical strength and vitality

Following Jan Todd's 1979 lift, no other woman successfully lifted the Scottish Dinnie Stones for 39 years

Competitive powerlifting consists of three contested lifts: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift

In the summer of 1979, Jan Todd attempted to lift the Dinnie Stones outside an inn in northeast Scotland

In May 1975, Jan Todd set a women's world record at a powerlifting meet in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by deadlifting nearly 395 pounds

Jan Todd achieved combined powerlifting totals of 1,100 pounds and 1,200 pounds across the squat, bench press, and deadlift

Scottish strength historian David Webster arranged for Jan Todd to travel to Scotland to lift the Dinnie Stones in 1979

Jan Todd appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to demonstrate deadlifting

In the early 1950s, Jack LaLanne launched a daytime television fitness program specifically targeted at homemakers

Beginning in the 1930s and 1940s, fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne opened an early modern public health club in Oakland, California

Sports Illustrated designated Jan Todd as the strongest woman in the world

Jan Todd helped establish official competition rules for women's powerlifting and campaigned for women's divisions in powerlifting competitions