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Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People

With special events for minorities, as well, like a training session called Muslim Women Learn to Lift, Black Girls Lift, and Fuerza Latina.

Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People

Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People

With special events for minorities, as well, like a training session called Muslim Women Learn to Lift, Black Girls Lift, and Fuerza Latina.

Lift Like a Girl: A Bushwick Powerlifting Gym Centers Female and Non-Binary People
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 I was there I felt like I wasn’t actually doing anything…

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