The analysis of available scientific knowledge shows that the practice of sports requires finding ways to improve the physical fitness of athletes in classical powerlifting at the stage of maximum realization of individual capabilities. Scientific research by a number of specialists clearly demonstrates that the reserves for improving the physical fitness of athletes in powerlifting are limited. One of the most popular ways, which consists in systematically increasing the volume and intensity of the load, currently allows improving the physical fit ness of only qualified powerlifters.The aim of research is to reveal the problematic field of physical training of athletes in powerlifting and ways of its improvement. In order to solve the set goal, we used the following research methods: analogy, analysis, synthesis, abstraction, induction, extrapolation, generalization of practical experience, pedagogical methods (observation). As a result of the study, it was established that the physical training of athletes in powerlifting is one of the most important factors influencing the effectiveness of the competitive activity of athletes, which justifies the need to find new effective ways to improve it. One of these ways, according to scientists, can be the use of training effects with a variable amount of resistance in classic powerlifting. In the scientific and methodological literature, the effectiveness of using tools with a variable amount of resistance is substantiated on the example of one competitive exercise. It remains relevant to determine the effectiveness and features of the use of means with a variable amount of resistance on the strength indicators of athletes in other competitive exercises of classical powerlifting. Physical training of athletes in powerlifting as a factor of the highest effective significance today requires improvement by substantiating the structure and content of the program of physical training of highly qualified athletes using training effects with a variable amount of resistance in classical powerlifting and identifying the degree of influence of the author's program on the physical preparedness of athletes in classical powerlifting on stage of maximum realization of individual capabilities.