{"id":22398,"date":"2026-06-15T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=22398"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:30:00","slug":"powerhouse-prodigy-small-wonder-10-year-old-powerlifter-pulls-massive-weights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=22398","title":{"rendered":"Powerhouse prodigy: Small wonder: 10-year-old powerlifter pulls massive weights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000\" data-test-id=\"text\">\n<p>She is also the star of Instagram and TikTok accounts run by her parents, which together have 232,000 followers. An Instagram video in which she dead-lifted 180 pounds at a powerlifting meet, a personal record, has been viewed more than 67 million times and has 3.7 million likes.<\/p>\n<p>She said she became interested in powerlifting after watching her parents work out. She asked her father, a lawyer and a wrestling coach, to train her.<\/p>\n<p>He has never had to push her to train or to attempt heavier lifts, he said. \u201cLucy just has always naturally been the type of kid that, when she says I\u2019m going to do something, you better step aside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy is one of a small but growing crop of kid fitness influencers attracting big followings on social media. Parents of these elementary schoolers and even toddlers share videos of their children hoisting barbells, pushing weighted sleds, doing dead hangs and otherwise flexing their muscles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dtnext.in\/edit\/powerhouse-prodigy-small-wonder-10-year-old-powerlifter-pulls-massive-weights\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is also the star of Instagram and TikTok accounts run by her parents, which together have 232,000 followers. An Instagram video in which she dead-lifted 180 pounds at a powerlifting meet, a personal record, has been viewed more than 67 million times and has 3.7 million likes. 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