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I am a 40 odd year old female. I specialise in women’s strength and conditioning. I’m an accredited Australian Weightlifting coach and I run a niche free weights and weightlifting club for women to help fund my Masters in Sports Science (Strength & Conditioning).
Pistol squat with 8k
You may consider that weight training is primarily a physical fitness activity but its movement patterns are embodied in motor learning and biomechanics. You learn to train with correct form and technique and certain exercises will develop and reinforce these motor patterns. Due to the full range of motion and the flexibility required to lift correctly, I am a lover of yoga or anything that increases mobility and flexibility.
These flexibility and mobility movements encompass and form the foundations of my programs. They have to, there is no other way to lift free weight or move your own body weight in 3 planes without joint mobility and flexibility.
I have existing clients who have undergone mastectomies and other women-related surgeries. These women are in rehab and over weeks and months gain functional strength within that area. I also have a lot of women who are coming back from child-birth and want to regain their posture, their body but most importantly core stability.
We are constantly misrepresented by images of women in passive or submissive poses in the gym holding the 1k dumb-bell pose. My first lesson to all of you, is that we physically have natural strength – its just that you haven’t been shown how to harness it and apply it. Do I look like a Bulgarian woman’s weightlifter to you? I am not bulky, I am drug-free, I am healthy and I am injury and pain free. I achieve all this through lifting free weights and manoeuvring my body through the 3 dimensional planes of movement.
Don’t use machines, become one.
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