Lifting Women – the place where you belong to get strong.
The classes follow my plan of The Training Sessions; which is a weekly changing programme based on my core principles of fitness, but also my creativity and love of making fitness genuinely fun and interesting.
I write the sessions fresh every week. They are creative, challenging, interesting, and fundamentally based on science and research as to what methods make a genuine impact on transferable, real-life and life-long strength and fitness*.
*Most fitness aimed at women is patronising, temporary, and solely aesthetic.
These classes. and my style of training, is rooted in the question: “what do you want your body to be good at doing?”. That comes through the lens of us as women, who’s bodies change multiple times throughout our lives. So we want our bodies to be good at handling those changes without too much functional or metabolic drama. We want to be able to take part in playfulness in our daily life.
We want to enjoy our bodies!
There are three membership tiers based on how many in-person classes you want to attend (scroll down for timetable). All of the tiers still include access to the full Training Sessions via app, and open gym slots so you can train 3x a week with ALL of the tiers.
The tiers are as follows:
- 6 classes per month £69
- 9 classes per month £89
- 12 classes per month £109
Before joining, you’ll have at least two 1-1 induction sessions with me so that I can teach you the kettlebell skills that you need to make safe and sustainable progress, and so that I can get to know you and your body.
We have limited numbers and a booking system so that it’s semi-personal training in a group environment.
Lifting Women combines semi-personal training with a team ethos of community, enjoyment and the knowledge that you pursue an athletic endeavour – the sport and skill of strength training.
Women’s bodies respond – metabolically, physically and mentally – so extremely well to strength training, it’s almost as if we’re designed to be strong.
Oh, wait.. 😉
Timetable And Prices
Prices
- Six classes per month £69
- Nine classes per month £89
- Twelve classes per month £109
The supporting 3x a week app classes and a maximum of 6x open gym sessions per month is included in those prices.
NOTE: Classes and open gym sessions will need to be booked onto in advance via the Lifting Women WhatsApp group – if nobody is booked in then we may not be there to let you in!
Want to get fit with the help of a professional personal trainer in Coventry? I offer 1-1 and group fitness training online and in-person
“It’s not necessarily the weights you need to learn how to use, it’s how to use your body WITH weights. That’s what’s missing from mainstream fitness training and that’s what we focus on inside Lifting Women – how to use your body to do hard things inside the gym so that normal life feels easy. Like suddenly you can put your kids’ bikes on the roof of the car without ‘throwing your back out’ or asking a man to help you”
Me, Shell. I said that.
Why Kettlebells?
Kettlebell training was the gateway to transforming my fitness to a level I never imagined possible, and if you let it, it will be the same for you.
In addition to physically, the mental changes that came from kettlebell training far surpassed the impressiveness of any physical changes, and in fact were and are essential to be able to get the physical changes in the first place. You need to be prepared to be both humbled and amazed as you make the changes to incorporate real kettlebell training into your life.
Number one: Kettlebell training is a skill.
Kettlebell are used in gyms everywhere. 99% of the time they’re used badly and ineffectively, not dissimilar to how you see swimming pools in most gyms, but you can’t swim like a competitive athlete just by virtue of getting in it and having someone saying “go and swim”.
Kettlebell training is a skill that kettlebell athletes spend years practicing so that they can use weights heavy enough to cause ongoing adaptions to the body; strength, muscle, metabolism, cardiovascular capacity, carryover into every aspect of their physical lives.
These classes are led by one of the UK leaders of the hardest-to-pass kettlebell instructor certification in the world, and she happens to also be extremely friendly and dying to teach you everything she knows 🙂
You can know exactly what to do to train like a kettlebell athlete, safely, in your 3x weekly kettlebell classes.
As part of your signing-up, you’ll do at least 2x personal training sessions with me so that I can teach you safety and skills that you’ll benefit from immediately, and that will enable you to jump into the classes and start progressing class after class.
What’s The Group Like?
We are a group of women who have all found our way here from a desire to break from mainstream, gimmick-driven and punishment-focused fitness to connect with our bodies’ natural and innate athletic potential.
We all have slightly different aims, because we’re individual women, but what unites us is the desire to be stronger, and reap the physical and mental benefits that having a stronger body provides.
This isn’t a gym full of intimidating people; we’re down to earth, quirky, fun-loving and inspirational women who are here to escape the stresses of life, get out of our heads and into our bodies.
I’m creating a movement for women who want to be stronger, not because we think we’re not good enough as we are, but to make us realise our power, independence and freedom.
From a culture that seeks to make women less, we’re here to become more.