Why I strength train.

I don’t train to be the strongest person I know I’m not. Nor am I learning olympic weightlifting to win anything, it’s likely I won’t. I train in order to stay as independent as I can for as long as I can. To protect my muscle mass and bone density.

It’s also a big f**K you to all the kids who called me a spastic, spakka legs and bandy. Who made me mistrust and hate my body for having femoral anteversion and a hypermobility spectrum disorder. Nearly 15 years of bullying with not a single adult who intervened, to the point where as a kid I often hoped I wouldn’t wake up.

Over the years since then I’ve learned to love the body I’m in and how to work with it effectively. To take back who I am regardless, and yes I still occasionally get snide comments due to being disabled.

You don’t have to be perfect to enjoy movement and you don’t have to be the best at it to benefit from it!

Just move!