March Client of the month is Toni, I am proud and humbled by her dedication to training over the last few months and it has all paid off.
But instead of me rambling on why not read what Toni has to say about her recent foray into the world of Strong Woman competitions to take on East Midlands finest.
Toni says:
“After discovering my path to fitness would be through strength training, I signed up to my first strong woman comp.
With Lizzie I began preparing for the six events I would take part it in.
Not having strong man equipment available to us, Lizzie created a plan of attack utilizing what we did have available, working the muscle groups in the same way I would need them for the competition, and in some cases almost over compensating for in our training for the equipment we did not have.
The Result… Smashing my 1st competition!
Ignoring the nerves that where pretty predominant through the 1st half of the day, it started well by weighing in 2kg lighter than my last weigh in. I nominated my 1st weight for the dead lift at 110kg and waited for the first event to start. Lizzie arrived like a shining beacon of light in a sea of butterflies, and we headed to the axle bar to warm up, after pulling an easy 130kg I changed my opening weight to 130. Buy the end of the first 2 events I had achieved a PB of 160kg on the dead lift (see vid) and completing 13 ground to overhead lifts on a 40kg axle in the 75 second time limit, which put me in 1ST place! I have never felt so pleased or accomplished.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CxBAtxliYo&w=420&h=315]Lizzie was by my side the whole day helping me to relax, encouraging me to eat and cheering my name as loudly as my family. The competition was awesome the sense of camaraderie amongst the competitors was inspiring. At the end of the day I finished 7th and could not be more pleased with myself. I’m looking into what strong woman competitions are around and can’t wait for my next one.
With my training, I am going from strength to strength, physically mentally and competitively.”
What a great experience…Well done Toni. If anyone would like to learn more about training like Toni get in touch we are always looking for new challenges.
To watch all the videos of her competition see below
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