Three UK women have won six out of the last seven World’s Strongest Woman contests. They explain how they broke into the world of super strength
rowing up at a time when the number of television channels in most UK households could be counted on one hand often resulted in limited viewing experiences. Once a year, towering men with giant chests, bulging arms and legs like logs would burst on to the screen and start lifting very heavy things. They would run with big weights known as atlas stones, or pull lorries until they looked like they might explode, all in the hope of being declared “the world’s strongest man”.
Here they talk about their journeys to becoming the strongest women in the world and the huge impact they have made on the sport.Rebecca Roberts, World’s Strongest Woman 2021, 2023It was my partner Paul who got me into the sport. In May 2016, we met via the dating site Plenty of Fish. I was massively overweight and he was just helping me train at first, but things blossomed into a relationship. He thought I was really strong, and soon entered me into the UK’s Strongest Woman competition.
The sport takes over your life. I’m up at 5.30am and out for a walk. I start work as a quality assurance analyst at 7.30am and finish around 4pm. I train for two to four hours five times a week. Sometimes, I drive for an hour to a gym with specialist equipment. Some days, I don’t get home until 10pm. Thankfully, there’s a lot more money coming into the sport now. The 2023 Arnold Strongwoman competition had $80,000 prize money. That was unheard of two or three years ago.
I was young when I got married and had children. I was very unhappy and overweight. I wanted to lose weight so went to the leisure centre for classes. Working out on your own in the gym is a daunting prospect, so it took me a while to do that. I was then guided by a few people into deadlifting. One guy was like: “You’re kind of strong, why don’t you move to another gym and focus on being stronger?” So that’s what I did. I entered my first competition in 2012 and it just went from there.
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