Hi. My name is Lisa Weis and I am a 40 something 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).
You may consider that weight-lifting is primarily reserved for 95k women lifting huge weights. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Have you ever seen the 53k women perform? No, you have not. You are immersed in a culture that nefariously manipulates women to create images so passive and submissive OR images of women who are at the other end of the spectrum willing you into thinking that if you lifted heavy, you to will look like them. Pure myth. I’d love to say the word Bullshit here, but my Internet marketer would have a fit.
The Olympic lifts are physical fitness activities used to condition and strengthen athletes. So why not us – us ladies.
I use these lifts to make women very strong (without the bulk) and more importantly functional.
The derivative lifts are represented by movement patterns that embody motor learning and biomechanics. This is what makes you build strength. It is the skill and the technique, not the weight added to the bar that makes you functional. Learn to train with correct form and technique and these exercises develop and reinforce primitive human movements, which are unfortunately lost on today’s women’s health and fitness crowd.
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.
We are constantly misrepresented by images of women in passive or submissive poses in the gym holding the 1k dumb-bell. 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, build upon it and apply it during our everyday activities. 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.
My friend John bought me some T-shirts that says that I have a huge snatch.
Some people get it – some people don’t.