The Maroscher Powerlifting Team (MPT) is a competitive powerlifting team, which over the years, has been the training team for over twenty-six competitive powerlifters.  These powerlifters have ranged in diversity from the 123 pound weight class up to the 308 pound weight class, the Teen category to Master IV, the novice lifter to multi-time world champions.  MPT has both female and male competitors as well to round out the team.

MPT trains in pods of the larger team.  The training pods are located in Aurora, Crete, Willowbrook, Gurnee and Joliet, Illinois.  The MPT's ultimate home is found in Aurora, Illinois with its sister team the Frantz Power Team.

Throughout the year, members of the larger Maroscher Team train in their separate pods with other MPT members, ultimately converging in Aurora to train at Frantz Gym (home of the legendary Ernie Frantz) when meets are about 12 weeks out.

Loyal to Ernie Frantz, the MPT members primarily competed in World Powerlifting Congress (WPC) and American Powerlifting Federation (APF) meets.  The APF was created by Ernie as a "for the lifter" federation that has a rich history and tradition steeped in the tutelage of coach and founder, Ernie Frantz.  As the sport of powerlifting continues to grow and evolve, so do its federations.  Currently, the AFPF and AAFPF are emerging as a new organization with Ernie Frantz at the helm.  The MPT has always been a Frantz based team, and has also made life long connections in the APF and WPC.  In the world of all or none, some lifters are staying APF while others are going strictly AFPF.  The MPT is respecting its mentor Ernie Frantz by competing with the AFPF, while also keeping its APF friendships alive, thus also competing with the APF.

MPT members utilize a four day training schedule.  The training pod in Gurnee follows this training schedule:  Monday - Max Effort bench work with assistance training.  Wednesday - Dynamic/Speed Day with chain/band box squats and chain/band deadlift work with assistance training.  Thursday - Speed bench day with chains/bands and assistance work.   Saturday - Frantz style heavy squat and deadlift day with assistance work.

The MPT web site has an array of areas to peruse that you might find useful such as training programs, powerlifting articles, powerlifting links to other powerlifting sites, kilo conversion charts, powerlifting records, rules for various federations, videos, the MPT store, rep calculator, meet results, etc.