Powerlifting is squat, bench and deadlifts and they're both competing to get
the biggest total
Deadlift I think for me is forprobably the simplest one. Get out of your mid foot.
Get nice and tight off the floor,
big brace into your stomach and then yep
just pull.
I feel like with bench every
single person has a different set up for
me, I feel like the slide helps me
engage my back more it come forward in
the bench to make sure my triceps and my
lats and my back is fully engage and
it's really tight.
I usually go middle finger onto the ring
over here. So I lean back.
A lot of people think that it will
damage your back but actually it's
better for shoulder health doing the arch.
Get your bum on the bench if it comes off
the bench you don't get the lift.
It's really nice that we all train
together. So that in itself provides an
opportunity to socialize with everyone
but outside of the outside of training,
eating is a big thing that we will do.
Since becoming a powerlifter, my
experience as a female lifter has been
probably a lot better whereas maybe when
I was in commercial gyms and things,
that's where I started to notice people
kind of ask me if I need help. And it's
not necessarily in in a kind of negative
way but once I was doing a funny
variation or something and someone just
took the bar off me because they thought
I was doing it wrong or failing or
struggling or something and I was like,
no I actually really do know what I'm
doing. So yeah I think, if you're in a
sport it's much easier being a woman
than just kind of, on your own in a gym.
So, recently there has been a big
increase in women in the club. I think
the nature of the sport is focusing more
on what your body can do and I think
that's something that appeals to
everybody. But also there's been an
active movement within the sport to try
and encourage more women and in the club
as well. And yeah it makes me really
happy to see the the big increase. The
university worlds, it was the first
competition to have more women than men
enter in powerlifting so yeah big steps
forward
