Viv says she is keen to “grow the visibility” of women in the sport, with the aim of making it “as big as the men’s side”.<\/p>\n
Raising the sport’s profile also helps encourage others, including her eight-year-old daughter, to consider their own strength as a positive attribute, according to her.<\/p>\n
“At the gym there’s so many strong women, and it’s really important she sees not only me, but other women as well,” Viv says.<\/p>\n
“She gets to see strong people doing strong things all the time. <\/p>\n
“I don’t think she has the notion that she couldn’t do things, which is amazing.”<\/p>\n
As a trainer, her particular passion is on coaching perimenopausal women “to become strong and learn what they can really do,” she adds.<\/p>\n
However, it is equally as vital her daughter sees her, and others, fail, she continues.<\/p>\n
“Otherwise kids just get the idea that if they can’t do something the first time, they’re never going to be able to do it. <\/p>\n
“I think that’s a really important lesson as well, that we have to try for the things we want.”<\/p>\n
In September, Viv won the women’s masters 40+\/75+ kg category at the WHEA Strongman World Championships in Canada.<\/p>\n
The trials of strength included a log lift, lifting a weighted barrel over a bar, raising a monster dumbbell above the head, and completing both a deadlift and a yoke walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viv says she is keen to “grow the visibility” of women in the sport, with the aim of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}