Bushwick has a new gym and barbell club called Strength for All that’s specifically geared towards teaching women and non-binary folks how to powerlift and strength train. Strength for All is the first gym that founder Shannon Kim Wagner opened after she founded the Women’s Strength Coalition, a nonprofit organization that holds fundraising powerlifting competitions around the country. Wagner wanted to use her own life-changing experience with weight training as a response to the 2016 presidential election, which left her feeling like she needed to take action.

“I first got the idea to start the coalition when I was at the Women’s March because [when] I was there I felt like I wasn’t actually doing anything. I was like ‘Cool, I’ve traveled by bus to be here and now we’re just sort of standing around but I’m not literally helping anybody right now,’” Wagner said.

The first competition of the Women’s Strength Coalition took place in April 2017 and it was called Lift for Planned Parenthood, which raised nearly $15,000 and was written about by The New York Times. Now, two years later and thousands of dollars raised by the Women’s Strength Coalition later, Wagner has opened her first gym that’s located at 1111 Dekalb Avenue.