[1] Janice Todd is perhaps best known outside the powerlifting community for being the first woman ever to successfully lift the Dinnie Stones in 1979 (which she did assisted with straps).

During her powerlifting career, many publications, including Sports Illustrated magazine,[4] considered her to be the strongest woman in the world.

[10] She also received the 2008 Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award[11] for her contributions in the field of physical fitness.

In addition, she has written numerous articles on topics such as sport and exercise history, anabolic steroids, and strength training as well as two books: Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women (Mercer University Press, 1998), and Lift Your Way to Youthful Fitness (Little-Brown, 1985).

The Stark Center, which opened in a new facility in the fall of 2009, contains museum exhibits as well as a research library and the largest archive in the world devoted to the study of physical fitness, resistance training, and alternative medicine.